Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-02-18
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dress, nof A. p. Edgerton, President of
the Board of Trustees Of the Fort Wayne
Public Schools, delivered to the gradual.
ing class of that institution, June ., 1882
II ia really an interesting production,
aside from the curiosity of It, and will !
amply pay perusal:
ssTo-day we close for the year the Fort |
Wayne Free Schools, and we now part |
with you, the girls and boys we are no |
more to teach.
~ say girls and boys, for whom three
score and ten years have come to you,
You will be glad to have your friends say,
that health and peace of mind have kept
your hearts warm; that you wear no brow
of gloom are not borne down with age
but still, in heart, are ''girls and boys"
When these years come, and hope
they will come to all, the tide of time
will roll back and tell you Of your school
time days, when the fair, the kind and
the true, found love, but the false of heart
found no friends, no tongues to praise.
These days bring rich gifts to age, and
when you cease TO think of them your
FIRE has burnt low, and your light has
gone out. You have here been taught in
in the hope that the free schools of Fort
Wayne would help to make you of use to
your friends and to the world would
give you faith in allthat is good and true,
and lead you to seek work; for this you
must seek, tand do, if you would have
good name, wealth, u home, o charge to
keep, or o trust to serve.
go not to sleep to night till you ask
your heart, What is due from me to the
world Where shall / go2 What shall
do? What is to be my life And what is
TO be its end2 To what home will bring
| Joy and peace Or shall bring to itgrief
| and woe ? To what good cause can give
aid What wrong can crush out ? Shall
cling to the true and riseP Or will be
| bound with the false and fall Shall q
child rise up and ourseme for the wrongs
have taught him, or will he bless me for
| the good have done TO all
'eTalk to your hearts of these things
this night then make your VOWS, andsay
to your heart, good night, good rest, and
take your sleep made sweet with hope,
| and rise with the SUMS first smile as a
new day dawns, and vow once more.
Then go forth with bold, true heart TO
| seek for the work for you TO do.
| Keep in your mind that the hours to
work run through each day; and that
Gods great law of life is, 'In the sweat
thy face shalt thou eat bread.
IF those we try to teach Ia our schools
have no brains in their skulls no warm
red blood in their veins no truth intheir
hearts, not much good will they do. But
you have skulls with brains in them, and
good and true hearts or you would not
be here. So we hope you will have high
aims in all your work to come.
"To You, too, young girls, must say
a word, not to chide, nor to praise. The
first you need not fear from me the last
you should fear from the world for you
will learn that vice, in its worst forms,
is hid in the garb of praise. You can
plant the rose which shall bloom and
give its sweets to all or you can grow
the thorn, which shall pierce and tear
the hearts of those who love yon, hope
your minds now take will fix your life 70
come. If you are led in just way Of
pure thought and deed, You will be sure
to find joy and peace and health in all you
do. But there is dark path, in which
1 1Ou tuih " VIVA Will ilull iO lpNts III
place of rest, no home of peace -naught
but woes to your LIES end
''That road you will find if you ure
foolswife, II is your work to dIlyefooli
out of the world and to mike them GO, {
and wise. The earth is full of woes froil
those who know not how to wed. YoI
all hope, some day, to be a good mani
wife. 1t is well to be thus, but take care
that you are not FOOLS drudge, A wife
J who is slave to fool, has no hope bu
in his death.
mean by fool man who does no
know how to treat good wife, and who
will not work.
There are girls who are fools as wei
i as boys. Shun both if you do not wisl
to drive in the dark to where want nnt
, vice are found, and death soon comes.
: What should you bring to a good ant
J true man to make his, and yours, HON,
( of joy and piece / can tell you Coco
J health; a mind rich in stores of thought
, a pure heart, full OF love and truth, ant
! trust in God.
, at is not curl, nor a bang, nor
. smile, nor dress, nor art in sigh, or
tear, that can win the worth you need /,
: bless you; but il is the right sense to know
N1S why w u BoOh lutth uthtb W huON
/ how to be true to your ownself to be il
} your own home and in all you do, tn,
} gil that pure and good men seek th,
girl who knows such men when sh,
! meets them, and does not drive then
r from her to hear the praise of fools-ant
: thus to make all her life dream, or woe
In all the walks of life good men ar
l found. They own the world and do al
7 its best york,
. The ~ with the hard hand of tot
! can prs Az heart as true--can lift tn
: babe htlA&es in way as soft-and at it
t smile will kiss it's cheek, and at its pail
. will wet it with tear-can sing the som
8 that doth please as well-and can strils
$ with his strong arm as quick and sur
5 the blow that makes men free-as Judge
t or priest, or king.
, The right choice at first, in all things
is all there is to well done at last
s Our words of 'well-done,' here, W
r now give you, with the hope that the,
i may help to guard your way to the en'
a nf wall anant life