The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-06-14

men and monuments perish, but memory
Is immortal. 1t is the sympathy which
unites the ceaseless generation" Even
Lethe itself, If it disappear in one part
of the earth rises again in another"
Amid the appreciated equipage and
modern improvements Of the magniti-
cent temple of learning, the New Trin-
lty, the old Trinity was, and to the old
members of the alumni association ever
Is By association it must ever live in
our lives Who of Us can forget her
halls, her walks, the sound of the old
/ bell the dear old professors, the morning
services in the old chapel and often in
/ lonely hours We hear again the old tunes
we then sang come yelling up TO the
! song tuned breath, oh, come angel
| band "
| No harm, but good can come from
contrasting the Then with the Now. \
! just appreciation of the roses, though
/ dead, that bedecked the head of the past
/ extracts not one breath of the perfume
| from the tlOWery garland that now and
must forever here after adOrn the temple
OF this beautiful new mother Of the old
alumni
! Fourteen years ago your speaker, after
! receiving his degree, left this the state of
ais nativity to seek a home in land
where the orange and the pOmgranite
mingle their pe!fdme with the magnolia
and the jasmine, and soft winged Zephyrs,
laden with the aroma OF the honey
suckles and the violet watt their sweet
| breath over southern mOOn-lit lakes,
where woOing lad and blushing maid
speak loving words in tingling ears
then there in that sunny southern land
your speaker pitched his tent in that
! nf q al
ing himself better half from the flower
bedecked bank of the song famed Suan
nee river, settled down to work out his
destiny.
Though an adopted son Of chosen
state, still in the language Of the immortal
poet. Breaths there a man with soul so
dead who never to himself hath said
this is my own my native land.
In the words that Bulwer puts it into
the mouth of his beautiful lone, My
Fathers ashes repose by the waters Of
| Illysus, my brother is of NeapOlis, but
my heart, as my lineage, is Athenian."
Then let US here make an Offering to-
gether.
The old Trinity is dead, but the new
Trinity is born thing of beauty and a
joy forever. And she now calls upon
her people like Rider Haggard's She,
her loved of Leo. She calls upon him
even in the presence of the dead ANA
haZer Look now on me kalliCratis,
and with a sudden motion she shook her
gauZy covering from her form and ris
ing from her Wrappings like Venus from
the wave, she stood forth, and fixing her
eyes upon his own, we see the first OF the
strong Leo unClasped, his set and quiv-
ering features relaxed, his wonder and
astonishment grow into admiration, ad-
miratiou into fascination. He loves; he
moves towards her Looking up to his
Ayesha, his queen, she eXclaIms: kalle-
crates it is naught. If | have snned let
my beauty answer. If | have sinned it
is for love of thee; let my sin therefore
be put Oway and forgotten. If the loved
Ustane lies dead upon the hills OF old
Randolph, the beautiful She, the New
Trinity lives and robed in raiment OF
light rises like Galatea from her marble
as a beautiful spirit from the tomb.
Amid these beautiful surroundings
that constant, untiring energy and chris
tian hands have here erected to bless
mankind, Methodists should to day re-
ioice. May her people support and cher
sh her, her efforts be crowned with
years of usefulness to her church, her
state and the nation. May her alumni
from year TO year here gather to rejoice
with her in her successes and cheer her
in her reyerses, bearing her on their
strong shoulders like Ameas bore Achil-
les from the ruins of Troy.
But linger too long amid the scented
urns of the past and the enchlnting
walks of the present.
The importance Of a right valuation
of leaders, and where to grow them.
Chief Justice Story said: The Ameri
can republic, abOYe all others, demands
from every citizen unCeaslng vigilance
and eXertion, since we have deliberately
dispensed with every guard against dan
ger and ruin except the intelligence and
virtue of the people. AS it can never be
to the interest of the ma iority of the peO
pie to PROSTATE their own political
equality and happiness, SO they can
never be seduced by tlattery or corrup-
ton, by the intrigues of faction or the
acts of ambition to adopt any measure
which shall subVert them"
Now, how does the present measure
come mp with the standard erected by
this great jurist:
Keekey, in his history of European
+ Morals, says: 1T is one Of the piainest
facts that neither the individual, nor the
ages that have been most distinguished
for intellectual achievement, have been
most distinguished for moral eXCellency
t and that high intellectual and material
civilization has often CO-eXisted with the
r greatest depravity." 1t would be trite
thing for me to speak 10 you to night OF
the brutality and liCentiOusness OF the
leaders of the great nations of the past
For as the breath of the winds, the
genius of history sweeps over the fallen
= and crumbling ruins Of time, and the
faded images of the past, as with mas
ter's hand are touched, revived and
restored Time has nUiseless, but an
! unfaltering and heavy step. " here
: cities lay mouldering he may have STUN
: bled on his way, and the caravans grave
: might be the impress OF his tread.
/ In these, probably the most democratic
| times the world has ever known, the peo
t pie are not opposed to government or
governors. Even in earlier times, when
republics were scarcely dreamed Of, the
people clamored for leaders This was
t true, even when their rulers were terribly