Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-10-29
WHAT IS A MAH NORTH?'
DR.. James Hedley Answered the Cues
ton Last Night
In His Lecture at the Y. M. G. "A
Large Audience Delighted With
His Talk-ae Gives Some Of the
Measures Of a Mans Worth.

The Y. NJ. c. A. lecture course was
opened last night with an address by
Dr. James Headley on What is Man
Worth" The doctor handled his sub
jeet in very pleasing manner, and for
nearly two hours held the undivided at
tention Of an audience which complete
" filled the hall. He is endowed with
a clear, musical voice, and delivery
which is alternately persuasive, pathet-
ic, humorous, eloquent. He illustrated
his points with amusing anecdotes, in
which ne displayed remarkable powers
OF impersOnatiOn.
He began by describing the death OF
a poor artist in London garret, and
mathematical analysis OF his worth by
a surgeon, who gave a list Of the ma
terials of which the body was composed
and their intrinsic worth. He was not
satisfied to go no further than the mere
objective testimony OF matter He dis
cussed modern skepticism, and said that
in any mind which runs an but one
channel, great thoughts cannot enter
except at the expense OF suHOcatlOn.
What is a man worth? The value OF
human life is not found at the point OF
a surgeons knife, at the bottom of
chemists crucible, nor does his epuaph
present a correct pOrTaiture.
How measure his worth? BY charac-
ter, which IS what a man is, and not
what people say he is. What people
say Of a man is his reputation. Char
acter is a fact, and reputation may be
and often IS, a miserable fiction. Men
should not be judged by what they say,
but by what they do.
The chief corner stone In the mOnu-
ment of mans character is righteous
persistence. Nothing short of Omnip-
otence can match It's power. Without
it no man can achieve great results.
Persistence in the line CT right, should
not be COMPOUNDED with mulishness,
mere stubbOrnness. Stubborn men do
not possess opinions; the opinions pos
sess them. We need understanding,
more than knowledge. There is a vast
difference between the meaning Of the
two terms. knowledge is an accumu-
lation of facts in the storehouse Of the
memory: understanding is the practi-
cal application of these things under
the guidance of reason. At the line Of
of demarcatOn between the strong and
the weak. lies the secret Of persistence.
Faith is also essential to persistence.
The speaker declared that love is a
potent factor in the worth Of a man.
He could not define the word 1t must
be known, felt, lived. 1t is the only
thing in the world that if You give you
keep, and if you keep you lose. He
said 1t was unselfshness. 1t was love
purely which made Christ conquer
mankind No love, he said, is COM
parable to a mothers love. The love OF
Christ for us does not transcend ii.
He ridiculed the modern woman OF
fashion. the hot house plants, human
interrogation points; and described and
eulogized in eloquent periods the wo-
manly woman. She is the only created
thing in the universe that achieves
true greatness, without acquiring fame
in literature, in science, in art.
A mans worth is measured by his I'M
iversality. He is entitled TO mention
for what he does for himself, but he
achieves true greatness through what
he does for others. The man who dis
covered gold is entitled TO mention. al
though ac,uated by motives of self
benefit: but the man who gave to the
world the alphabet, not for himself, but
for the entire race, IS truly great.
4 Fine Finishcr.