Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-11-28

iOn6hip the Kings of thought, the mas
ter minds Of the world. Ten years ago
! sent to London for copies of the New
Testament, clearly printed on good
paper and protected by substantial
binding, for which | paid one penny
each. This audience will, 1 believe,
acquit me Of emotional extravaganza
when confess that felt thrill when
took these volumes in my hand and
realized the capabilities of such cheap
and boundless acquisition. ZAP
plause. The strength OF Scotland as
suredly is found in the education that
has been secured to all classes of her
people. And in this cultivation of the
brain not less has been assisted the
cultivation of the heart, which makes
the brotherhood and helping hand of
Scottish people TO each other so known
and admired the wide world over. The
cold crust of class and personal selfish
ness is penetrated by these roots of in
tellectual fellowship in the common
wealth of letters, and tide has set in
which, with increasing volume, is
drawing men from every class of oc-
cllpatlon into cooperative sympa-
thetic understanding with each other
for the advancement and diffusion of
ioaidilBt Which III tulb COunLTN anu III
the United States has thrown wide
open the doors OF scholarship, and is
bringing the best education practically
within the reach of any frugal citizen
of average intelligence, expanding the
force of modern thought and opening
paths to new discovery. Applause. |
A picture was lately drawn, and by a
master hand, in simple story of Scot
| IN, mo nj
tive, and an extract from which, in
closing, will here reproduce, as illus
trative of the brotherhood of the hui
man mind, and touch of nature that
makes the whole world kin-the Davids
and tho Jonathans of actual life. lit
was low-roofed room, with box he'd
and some pieces of humble furniture
lit only for laboring man. But the
choice treasures of Greece and Rome
lay on the table, and on shelf beside
the bed tho college prizes and medals,
and everywhere the roses that he loved.
His peasant mother stood beside the
body Of her scholar son, whose hopes
and thoughts she had shared, and
through the window came the bleating
OF distant sheep. 1t was the idyll of
Scottish University life. =" And the
words of the high born and high bred
Gordon TO the peasant mother: "Your
son was the finest scholar of my time,
and very perfect gentleman. He was
also my true friend, and pray God to
console his mother, and he bowed low
over Marget's worn hand as il she had
been queen. y Applause. In the be
ginning referred to the appalling
array of martial forces, but we should
be equally mindful of the unpro.
claimed, moderated, ununiformed
armies of healing, restoration, and
ameioration, which never were SO
strong in numbers, in enthusiasm, so
potently organized and effectively &C.
cupied as they are to-day, nor so
mighty in their mild strength since the
Star of Bethlehem shed it's serene light
upon the Chadean shepherds, and has
steadily rresistibly radiated its influ-
ences silently into the hearts of man
kind, converting countless men into its
unconscious instruments. Evolution,
not revolution, is the quiet, masterful
force now leading the progress of civil
lization, and the personal conscience
and the "living soul'' of the free in
dividual are essential to enable man.
kind tn conform to the changes which
are inevitable in its onward journey.
For what await, the plough or sail,
Or land, or life, II freedom fail.
loud applause.
Mr.. j. b. Sutherland, S. S. O., in
moving a vote of thanks to Mr.. Bayard
for his brilliant and interesting ad-
dres, said they recognized in his OK
cellency "a statesman holding a pre-
eminent position in the councils of his
own country, and lawyer of great
eminence and culture. Applause.
They were grateful that he had found
time, amid the onerous duties of his
responsible position, to come and de
liver an address on a subject of so
much Importance at the present time.
The pendulum of public opinion was
apt at times TO take swing too much
in one direction, and he thought
there was great need at present for
public attention being directed to the
pre- eminent Importance of preserving
intact personal liberty, limited only by
a due regard TO common rights and in
terests. Applause. He expressed the
hope that Mr.. Bayard would see HE
way to follow tho example Of his illus
trious predecessor in this country and
publish his address. Applause.
The resolution having been cordially
adopted,
Mr.. Bayard, in replying, said the
subject which he had had the temerity
to approach was one that could not be
disposed of in an address. He had
come there, firstly, because he desired
to respond to the respectful invitation
with which the Institution had
honored him; and, secondly, and per-
haps principally, because Of his most
earnest desire to see whether a com
mon road of safety and of adjustment
could not be found between labor and
capital on both sides the Atlantic.
Applause. 1t was because he be.
lieved that with an appeal to mems
sense of justice, an appeal TO mems
sense of common brotherhood, an APP
peal, SO far as they might do SO, to
their origin and to the great mystery
of their lives here on earth, the prin-
ciple might be established of doing
unto others as they would be done by.
Applause. He knew no other solu-
tion in the affairs of mankInd-whether
it was to create happiness between two
people, OF between two thousand
people, or between millions of people
he knew of no better rule than that
the hearts of each should be filled by a
desire to benefit the other. Applause.
With that he was sure that the com
petition between all the better quail
ties of our nature would overcome
those which were worse in our nature
This progress must be wholly voluntary
lit could never be established by
coerciye laws; it could only be estab-
lished by considering what no might
call the philosophy Of liberty, which
was an arrangement OF society in
which the spirit of justice was never
lost sight of between man and man.
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