Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-06-21
THE JUNIOR'PKlZE CONTEST.

problem for our statesmen to solve,
THE JUNIORPKIZE CONTEST.
An Intsrestins Trial OF OratorIcaI Ability.
The junior OratOrical contest was held
in the chapel of Franklin and Marshall
college last evening and an audience com
fOrtably filling the room was in attend
ance. At eight o'clock the contestants,
numbering five, for the gold medal, the
prize offered for the best oration, filed
into the chapel with the officers of the
college. The college orchestra which
excellent musical organization rendered
the music for the evening. opened the
programme by a march, Jubelklange, :"
Reichert, after which tho first orator was
introduced.
" Liberal Culture Necessity to All
Men III. z. Wauner, Reading. Mans
thoughts are vain and his pride is great.
In all that he does, or sees, OR thinks, he
sees the results Of his own applications
and industry ; and in these he puts his
trust-on these he sometimes fixes all his
hopes. But his accumulations, glorious
as they may bs, are but the manifold ways
in which the powers OF his original en-
dOwments arc asserting themselves in his
life. Every person has not tho same ell
dOwments, but to every one it belongs to
develop to their utmost the faculties with
which God has blessed him. All meu 1T
first lin2er in state of uncOnsciOusness,
but when their minds have been disciplined,
when they have come to look upon things
in their particular and not only in their
general relations. they feel and speak and
act like different beings. Pleasant and
beneficial are the results of such training.
Self conquest is the first condition of our
lives for full enjoyment. We must bear
the remembrance, insciiba i: upon tho
recording tablets OF our hearts, that We
are more highly favored for the acquisition
of knowledge than tho men of former
times. We have institutions in our midst
whose doors arc thrown wide opeu to all
who may wish to enter wherein We may
drink deep Of the fountain of knowledge !;
wherein we may obtain that which is
"mOre to be desirad than gold yea. than
much fine gold ;" wherein we may fit our
selves to become useful members of soci-
ETY. and at last prove an honor to our
friends, our country, and to our God
The Triumph Of Peace w. r
BrintOn, Lancaster. The victories of
war are won by IN armed few the vlcto-
ries of peace by all mankind. Peace
enables man to work out his own saliva
tiOn. With wondering admiration do Wa
look upon the workings Of peace. In this
age of peace we behold its grand attain
ments and enjoy it's quiet. Perhaps it is
tho calm before the storm Yet how
great are her triumphs ! They tell us Of
tho powers of man in other ages they
toll us of the triumphs OF to-day. Tho
speaker then cited the invention of Watt
and showed with what prodigious strength
his achievement has marched through the
world and exerted great influence
making distance short and the acquisition
of intelligence easy. The farmers, the
teachers, the clergymen, are all doing
their works by the agency of peace, aud
we plainly SEQ that the triumphs of life do
not come by war, but by peace. The
true glory of our national life does not
consist in hardfought battles, but in
peace. Franklin and Washington greatly
moulded the character Of the nation by
peaceful means, and the influence of
Christianity, the handmade of peace, has
moulded the character of tho world, and
will stand ont as one bright
quality of peace until time shall be no
more.
Music-Polka Mazurka-Gartner.
"Day, Night and Morning. ."-E. Sassa-
man, Reading. The orator began by
saying that from the earliest geologic
ages down to the present day OF mans
being, all time resolves itself into distinct
periods. These ages have all their pecu
liar characteristics. In these Kingdoms
and empires have fallen and have left their
imprint upon the present aud the ages to
come. The darkness of the human mind |
1t tho earliest periods Of the worlds his
tory was then shown, and contrasaed with |
tho present. But now day has come aud !
he heavy drapery shrouding tho heavens
1as been removed, and the light of tie
gospel of truth flashes everywhere. Since |
me voice of tho Babe was heard the infu
,nce and the achievements of Christianity |
,ave been noted. From the first churches |
we're established in Greece and even in |
Rome. The day is coming when |
he wars shall be no more when social |
distractions shall be no more, and when
ectarian divisions shall fall and crumble
nto dust, and with that time shall come
,rander, q purer holier day than has
eigned, and which shall reign forever.