The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-06-01
Continued from 9Th page.

Of the guiding hand behind the scene,
in the home, the business, the social
and political life. Of the guiding
hand behind the scene in the State,
the Nation, the Church, and finally
eftod being ever the hand behind
the scenes directing the great play
Of the worlds history. She closed
her excellent essay as follows; We
sometimes wonder what can be the
reason for the dark scenes of earth,
then, when we shall join our friends
within the veil-behind the scenes
shall we understand the mysteries,
for in that glad day we shall know
as we are known.
Oration-"Supremacy of the Nor
al Element" by Ambrose Jones.
Man is "A timidity. He has pow
ers physical, intellectual, and moral.
His tendency is to make the physi-
cal and the Intellectual supreme
leaving out of account the moral ell
ement.
These three elements, do react
on one another and are intimately
associated.
But God made the moral element
supreme.
1t is supreme in man, as an indi-
vidual, and is first in importance be-
cuse it involves mans three-fold
nature, intellect, sensibility and
will and dominates it.
That the intellect is lower than the
moral power appears in the fact that
it is condition for that powers ac-
tivity. The sensibilitics, are also
ruled by this great power. In as
much as moral excellence introduces
order and symmetry into, the
inner activities it is as spiritual
beauty, virtue is beauty, vice is de-
formity. The moral element rules
the third great division on mans ma
ture, the will. The only proper
freedom af the will is it's moral free.
dom.
The moral element is supreme moi
only in man as an individual but il
is supreme in man as race. AL
languages declare it to be supreme.
1t is with regard to morals that al
law is made. All internationaI
dealings presuppose its supremacy
The moral element is also supreme
IN God himself. God is the person
ifcadon Of the moral element.
Thus do we see that the moral ell
ement is supreme in humanity ant
is homogeneous in God, angels ant
men. 1t is the bond that connect
God and man. 1t develops in earl,
childhood on through manhood anc
is strongest when the other powers
are weakest and are Fsucumbing to
the paralysis of death. 1t triumph'
in time and eternity. tits supreme
Oration-"Design in the Element
AIRY Structure of the Universe" BY
J. Z. Love.
gie first took up the chemical com
position of our earth for the supper
at Lite. He said that the earth wa,
composed of certain elements in Ger
tain proportions, and he showed tina
If any one of these elements were re
moved or the proportion changed tina
no plant or animal could live
His second argument was
drawn from certain provisions in ou
earth, as fuel and iron, that wer,
ret essential to life, but essential t
mans intellectual and moral devel
opment in civilization.
After showing how fuel and irol
are adapted to the wants of man an
that they are absolutely essential t
the development of society and
high state of civilization, he con
cluded his speech as follows;
In so many and so happy concur
ences, forethought and intention al
as clearly indicated as they can b
in any work of human intelligence
The adaptations express a desigl
nor can any positiveness ofassertio
make us doubt that there original
al adapting purpose in a structul
that has shown itself so admiral
fitted for the grandest of all earth
eRds the existence Of civilized 81
eiety itself.
AFTER few Introductory remarl