The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-03-23
Never shun your duty through


Never shun your duty through
fear of contagion. Do not court it,
put stand at your post.
Disease sweeps into every ave-
nue. of human existence, from the
lowest howell to the grandest man.
sion, and leaves its poison upon
each sleeping innocent brow.
Thus is disease our common
enemy, the foe against whom all
medical science raises her thousand
weapons, and with whom your war
fare now begins.
Go, then, young men, to the
worlds great nursery, and call back
health to the pale cheek of child
hood; calm the anxious fears of the
G ief-stricken mother, and comfort
the disconsolate father.
Go to the blooming maiden, the
hectic flush dancing in sunny sport
upon the rounded cheek, and bid
the destroyer halt.
Go. young men, TO wealth's paint
ed halls and get your gold for one
sip from health's great fountain.
Go kneel at the bedside of the
bloated, drunken wrech, and catch
the feeble heart-pulses of poverty's.
sinful reign; snatch from the grave
for the faithful wife this being she
loves as husband.
Go, and with soft and gentle tread,
bend over ages PROSTATE form and
wipe away the dews of failing NOR
tally.
Go to the lowly and make them
well 60 to the rich and set them
free.
Go to the blind and through the
sightless orbs send again the beauty
of a flower-laden world.
Go make the deaf to hear, the
lame to walk, the blind to see.
This, this is your mission.
And now, young gentlemen, my
task is nearly done. A few more
words and we say goodbye, never
to meet again as here tonight. All
that we remember of you shall be
pleasant; and of your Alma Mater
sweet memories will como when
our paths diverge. .er escutcheon
is bright, and no blur must come
upon it from your conduct in after
years. Your success will be her
glory; her glory your honor. Pre-
serve both as sacred trust. Our
best wishes and our prayers are
with you wherever you go.
There are many joys and pleas
ant places in the pathway of life,
but never forget that all the ] y,
and all the happiness, and all the
love of man, are but the reflection
of womanly virtue and affection
There is not a woe that is not less
ened by her sympathy; not heart
that is not touched by her love; and
DER the couch of pain and anguish
will ever hover and bend the angel
form of mother, wife, sister or
friend.
Like the life-giving, golden sun.
beam that steals into the chamber
of the sick, so is the presence of
woman exhilerating, comforting
and holy. Gentle in step, soft in
touch, loving in word, and prayer
full in spirit, sne brings to your aid
a host of influences more potent
than medicine, more inspiring than
hope.
From Eden's rosy bowers, from
Ruth cleaning in the fields of Moab
from Vashti at the royal court of
the naughty Hebrew, from Mary
clinging to the foot of the cross, and
from Mary at the tomb of our Lord
comes through all the ages this
shining pearl of woman'S devotion
and wOman's love, linking earth to
heaven, binding heart to heart and
life tolife, until the grand voice o
Nature, singing birds, ripping
streams, trembling leaves, and
blooming flowers seem to chant in
glorious unison praises TO her name
All! then you must trust her il
your noble calling, bind her to yor
in holy thought, and, placing YOU
destiny in her pure, white hands
you need not fear to launch YOU
bark. The tempestu0us sea of lif,
will roll its pillows in vain. Tht
clouds will blacken the sky only tt
make br ghter the land that lies be
You'd.
Grid on your armcl, young men
nerve yourselves for the conflict
and when it Is over, the shadows
: and jutjing rocks, the whirlpool
and sandbars of life are past, ant
the bright, bright morn of life i
breaking, in the midst will he re
veaied Him, who went about doing
good. and was both the Rpdeemer
ant the great Physicia,."