Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-06-15

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of the age have their bearing on modern
activity. Their practical value cannot be
estimated but they have higher value.
Man IS a creature of the physical world and
genius. by bringing the forces of matter
under his control, performs 4 great work.
Inventors have an educating power and
appeal to our sense of infinite and cult
vate our instincts. Science calls out the
best feelings in man. In the development
of our resources the useful and beautiful
should go together, and refinement should
follow industry. Let beautiful tastes fol-
low wholesome utilities. God has given
America great gifts when these are de-
velOped and their real, not money value
recognized we shall be the best nation on
the globe.
Oration-''WOman's Influence upon So
ciety,' c. Il. Ferncr, Jenncr Y Roads,
Pa. WOman's influence upon society has
ever been felt, but it is only within COM
paratively recent times that she has been
awarded her true position. and placed upon
an equality with man. From the earliest
times down to the present, she has ever
been considered to q certain degree infer
iOr to man, and incapable of attaining to
the high social and intellectual position
which man has held. Women, who in one
age was made mans drudge. and in another
his toy, is now sharing with him the high
est fruits of learning and knowledge, and
in her own home with loving voice she in
stills the first truths of religion into the
opening mind. That it should have taken
ages before her real merits and her equality
with man were acknowledged. seems al
most astounding, when we consider how
| ready and willing she has ever been to
lend an assisting hand, or give word of
sympathy, when the cloud Of adversity
CHANGED to cross mans pathway. The first
foundations of human society were the
mothers of families. 1t was in their
bosom that nature nursed successive gencr-
atiOns, and thence also flowed the first
| affections that caused them to glow and
develop into true manhood. WOman's
quickness of comprehension, her suscepti-
bility of everything that is pure and noble
in man, constantly stimulates him to new
excrtion, and fills his heart with energy
and genuine greatness. Take from the
youth of our country the principles of
truth and culture which were instillcd by
their mothers, and you strike death blow
| at the very foundation of our social and
moral republic. 1t iS the principle Of cul-
| turc and honor, which is implanted in the
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intelligent mother, that sends forth great
and noble men, inspired with deep sense
| of their cOuntry's welfare, and prepared to
meet all her wants and trials etc.
Poem" Daily Songs '-Wllliam Z.
| Hoy, Williamsburg, Pa. This composition
was in a spirited flowing measure, and
| showed its author to DO the possessOr of
poetical ability of 5. very high order. 1t
| was delivered in full resonant voice,
which was skillfully managed so as to
bring out the fine points of his production.
The young poet received his full need OF
applause from tho pleased audience.
Music-Waltz, "Schcidcn "-Wcisscn-
| born.
OratiOn-''Moncy rs Factor of Civili-
zation," John II. Geiscl, StOystown. Pa.
Money has been a factor of civilization
from the very rudest ages of society. 1t
| ever has and docs yet attract and repel,
actuate and coerce the human family. 1t
is this factor that has graced our galleries
of art, that has raised the human race from
| a state of barbarism to a state of civiliZa-
ton and culture, that inquiries into the
mysteries of the Almighty and brings us
into closer communion with Him who
holds heaven and earth, space and time, all
things, as it were, in the hollow of his
hand. 1t is this power that has caused
men to decree violence and oppression, and
is at the same time one of powers that has
silently and irresistibly swept them and
their works away. 1t is this power that
speaks to us from the ruins of the past,
from the humiliation of the proud, from
| the PROSTATE thrones of the conquerOrs,
from the baiiled schemes of statesmen, and
from the rcprObatiOn with which the pre-
| sent age looks back upon the unrightcous
policy of the past.
Oration-"Thc Romantic City WIN.
L. Hoffheins, York, Pa. The worlds
great cities, next to its great men, inter-
over been an engaging theme to the his
torian. There is city, unique in human
history ard, rs the harbingcr of tho mod
crn age, aptly named the Romantic
Venice, the city Of the sea. Her citizens,
protiting by the past and mindful of the
demands of tho new age, enacted laws Of
freedom and equality under whose sway
the city grew powerful and wealth law
ished its fast accumulatins stores
most profusely. Europe was most
prosperous when it most nearly imi-
tatcd free institutions. through which
tho greatest impetus was given to COM
mercc and industry, by which the comforts
of life were cbeaperetl and the burdens of
labor lcsscncd. In Europe the path of
progress has been blocked by intolerance
and oppression, in America it is unopposcd
by barbarism, tyranny Or anarchy.
Oration--" Mans Subjective L:fc.'
jonathan W. Miller, MercersburG, Ps.
To endeavoE, by argument, to establish 4
truth which is already accepted by all
men is not wholly unnecessary. but might
be regarded Us a reflection upon the intel
ligencc. OF such I nature is tho truth
that in the human body there is vital
principle by which all tho actions of the
which VIC call soul. The difficulty is not
so much in the problem as to whether
there is 4 central source from which flow
the powers of memory, reason aud will,
as from the various metaphysical or psy-
Geological theories that are advanced to
explain the souls nature. When man was
created and his destiny committed
to his own keeping, we find in
him 4 two fold tendency; one toward
tho actualization of the good the
other toward tho destroying of the true
end of his being. Anyone who has made
man study knows that there is no more
formidable power than conscience. How
affectiOnately it deals with him SO long as
he hecds it's admonitiOns But let him
pass them by unhecdcd and he las no rest
day nor night, but in agony cries out
''Canst thou not minister to a mini dis
cas'd." But it is a comfortin. and soul
inspiring thought that there is lodged
within mans bosom power to give him