Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-09-05
TAZEWELL G. III. VA, FRIDAY SEPT s 1890

voice of the people controlling bal
lot, Office, corporation; marking out
our lines OF progress and develop
ment in keen "hard cash" utilitarlan
maxims, and as a people we have yet
to learn that If we would come into
true and lasting greatness we must
look to wider diffusion of knowl.
edge, culture and the fine arts, to
the things that endure sthe life that
is more than meat" We have vet
to learn that an art gallery may bo
worth more in tho political economy
of people than bank; that q book
may be worth more than gold mino,
a song than an invention or u noun.
tain scene than a coal bank. We
have yet to learn that tho table lands
and towering peaks of Southwest
Virginia embossed by peaceful Wales
aud dotted over with Christian
homes and Institutions, are our rich
est inheritance, and that rich noun.
tain scenes with splendid sunsets
heightened by tho beauty Of our
changing and varying seasons; pure,
transparent, life giving mir, catching
and reilecting inexhaustiblo fresh.
ness and wealth Of beauty with sub.
Unity. That these things are enti.
tlod to n greater admiration, enlist
more tho thoughts and affections Of
the soul, live longer ard 60 further
in tho refining and educating of n
people and do moro to expand and
awaken the intellect than the putting
of engines on the rails, revolving
spindlos in factories, noisy hammers
OF foundries and roaring blasts of
the forge. Proud then have you n
right to be of this ''lund of the sky
in which you are dwelling and in
which every son and daughter OF
yours may lie born and educated.
We are in the midst of the groat.
ost industrial revolution tho world
has ever soon. Tho old anti bellum
fniths of plido, race and war preju.
dices aro dend and dying End new
principles of "brotherly love" are
taking deep root. The old sectional
organizations aro crumbling to pieces
and newer and broader arc founding.
The outlook for the regeneration OF
the once blightcd and bonghted
South was never so bright, 30 hope.
full, 80 full of promise MS today.-
Giant barriers which stood in tho
way have been removed. Doors That
were closed have been opened. The
people that sat in darkness, smoke
and ruin of battle are seeing great
lights. God is evidently preparing
to give tho South to His Son for an
inheritance and the uttormost part of
hor domain His possession.
Tho worlds sceptre passed from
Persia to Greece, from Glooco to
Italy, from Italy to Great Britain
and from Great Britain she is pass
ing toa creator Britain, America,
tho land of the free and tho brave.
Westward tho course of empire has
always taken its flight rs if driven
by the almighty hand of God" From
New England and the East to the
shores of the Pacific, populations
have gone and are going-These pop.
ulations can 60 no further west for
beyond is the Orient; no further
North, the North is uninviting; no
further East, she cnme from the East,
and God is evidently preparing to
pass the worlds sceptre over to tho
Sammy South;" and in all honor, in
terest aud patriotism, we are bound
to do all that lies in our power to
hasten it's coming and to prove our
selves worthy of what shall then be
our common Inheritance, and as old
DIR. Lyman Beecher used to soy on
Eastern platforms "Now is the nick
of time. One man now is worth q
hundred fifty years hence. One dollar
now is worth thousand then. Let
us be up and doing before it is too
late"
What Josiah Strong said of the
"Great West" q few years ago, may
now, with prophetic certainty, be
said of the Great South:" "The
South today is an infant, but shall
one day be giant, in each of whose