The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1883-06-13

moor another aid yet another To
lwnlel re pres IT his journey
lends, 50 as ma SIS up the diff.
cult steps of. ri progress and
nears the goal towards which
he has 50 long BEN pressing !;
there comes froI 0uk the. infinite
heights one pure and loftier still
some new stat IF Bethlehem to.
guide him on q the perfect man
hood. I pity the man who has
4 passed and lea behind him no goal
of other yea and who feels no.
dissatisfaction with his present At
tainments. He is cursed with the
deepest and bitterest of all curses,
/ to lick the dust and ash no higher
food. ! He IS All modern Rip Van
| Wrinkle, sleeping amid scenes that
stir the. blood and fire the heart
and rouse the energies of all capa-
BE of thought and progress, and
| from this + slurnber; there is no
awaking. J. He has drank so deep.
ly Of the bethian waters Of stupidi+.
lty that you might as soon hope to.
tickle to laughter the crocodile
with the feather Of hurnming bird
or expect an owl to look through:
a telescope at the MONDAY sun as
to rouse such a man by anything
short Of the crash and thunder Of
1.-the day Of doom. He is a mum
my wrapped: round in the cere-
ments of inanition and counting
one only in the census Of the tax
| gatheran inthe vocabulary offools.
He is dead. Go bury him out of
sight. Build for him a monument
Of mud, and amid the dashing rain
that shall level it again. to the
earth, go write upon its slippery
slopes the epitaph, "Died.for want
of brains. n % :,..4 Il. y
I Man, then, is a triune being,
possessed of physical, intellec-.
tual and a moral and religious ma
ture. = Manhood means the devel-
opment ofaalI The. faculties and
powers. Eaclt ISL sacred. Each
should be ITS So the subject of
thought ana and the perfec-
ton Of each IS indispensable to the
the highest manhood. Intending
tonight to be Kry practical, Twill
begin with the bwsstnof our pow
ers and lay this as my first
propositions re ftsk conditionaof
Emaiho6d % healtl, g
1 nshs, hsnting =. alsles si Il
Hing great trials. The road to It
lies up hill. None of your lacka-
daisicat valetudenarians are capable
Of grasping. the meaning or Of do
ing the work of life. Life is real.
The first time you hear a senti-.
montalist,. complain that life is a
dream, tread on his corns and
wake him up. Life a dream! Yes,
when the rock ribbed mountains
are shown to be myth when the
war and rush and majesty. of ocean
are proved to be the creatures of
fancy; when the light and glory of
the sunis shown to be the product
Of darkness, then may you ho pe:
to prove that life, the sternest,
re- lest thing Of earth is a dream.
Life, l repeat, is real. In its giant
struggle, you have seen many a
nj an with keen eye and deft hand
and cultured brain go down for
want of health, while the bright
prize falls into the lap Of the dull
lard simply because he possesses.
the physical ability Of holding on.
A man may have genius and fail as
he may have application and fail Z
he may be a saint and fail he may
combine in himself all three and
without health failure is inevitable.
You could as soon build a pyramid
On its apex; arrest the waters Of.
Niagara half way down the awful
chasm. or make the .corlis monster
engine do its mightiest work on
bed of sand, as to have a man
weighed down by disease to per,
form the HIGHEST work II would