The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1892-04-21
President TayIor's Lecture.

According to announcement made
through THE DEMOCRAT, Rev. G f.
| Taylor. D. D., President Of Wake Forest
| College lectured before the Military
School last Friday night. A good audi
ence greeted the lecturer, who was IN
:roduced by W. A. Damn, ESQ.
| MIR. Dunn said: 1T is always pleasure
TO hear wise, an intellectual and a good
| man speak. Such man we have to
speak to US tonight, Rev. Chas. E. Tay.
| lor, President of Wake Forest College,
Mr.. Dunn referred in a few well-timed
and pleasing remarks to the work Dr..
Taylor is doing as President OF Wake
| Forest College, one of the leading educa>
| tIonal institutions of the South.
| The self-made man" vas the subject
Of the lecture, and 1t was addressed par.
t'cularly to boys and young men.
| All men are self-made. 1t matters not
what opportunities and advantages q
| young man may have. he has to make
himself, after all. His parents and his
Ilrect and he himsclf must do the making.
| Men are progressive and are therefore
called upon to be active. The dove that
| brought the twig to Noah's ark made her
| nest in all respects like the dove OF to-day
| The bees whose honey Samson ate from
| the carcass of the lion made their tiny
cells Just like bees make cells to>day.
1t is different with man->he is al the
while progressing. The scientists OF
every age have improved upon the dis.
coveries and inventions of every forme:
age, and there are yet things in store for
the future the widest dreams Of scientists
and inventors have never touched.
| Making ones self means character
| building Character is every thing. Here
the speaker urged the boys to build
grand characters. He urged them to
think high and holy thoughts, tc speak
pretty things and to say nothing to and
amongst their associates which they
/ would not say to their mothers and Sis
ters.
| To be self-made in every way one must
make the most of his body. The speaker
| SAID that the body is machine through
which the best intellectual and physical
| powers of men must work, and so he
needs the best machine he can possibly
| have of his body.
| Choice of work was emphasized. The
| bent of mind beng very decided and pre-
| ference for certain work very clear, a
| young man is less liable to make MIS-
| take in following what he most prefers.
To meet all the obligations of life a
| young man needs to be well informed,
need to be educated
| There are grave problems ahead OF
the boys and young men of to-day Iiti-
cal, social, and financial.
| There is force enough in tho rise and fall
of the tide on the coast of North Carolina
to do the work of all the engines and
| locomotives if we only knew how to
utilize 1t.
| To be well-rouuded self>made man.
| one must do something and be something
and not merely seem to be something.
Apt illustrations we've used all through
| the lecture to enforce the truth
expressed. 1t was plain, practical talk
to boys ard young men, with no attempt
at oIatory or flights of rhetoric-just such
a lecture as all appreciated and all will
remem Der. 1t was said by one Young
man afterw ards that the lecture seemed
to have been delivered especially for him,
which was a high compliment, indeed.
DR.. Taylor spoke about fifty minutes
and the audience was perfectly attentive
to the close. 1t was sound and philos.
optical lecture which will help all the
young men who heard it solve the
problems of life. Men of mature years
were unstmted in their compliments Of
the lecture.
Superintendent Allen has placed the
town under obligations to HIN for having
them served with such an intellectual
feast.
DR.. Taylor, who was by no means q
stranger here, and was quite popular be-
fore, has made new friends among the
boys and young men IN whose interes
he spoke and for whom he feels grea
concern.
Death of John K. ssnt~n.