The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-05-20

OF the viii. So that the divine Is first
to elevate and then purify the atfec-
tions.
The speaker proceeded at some
length to discuss and apply the phllo-
SONNY of this statement OF scripture.
He then laid down the proposition
that the text furnishes the only basis
for building right character; and pro-
ceeded TO discuss:
/. That character is destiny. God
has made no arbitrary arrangement
for giving the soul success and happi-
ness. These come in obedience TO n
law as inevitable rs that OF gravity
2. The nai.ure of that character
z. The process and method OF its
building.
I'D 1t requires patience. You Wlil
have many obstacles "a surmount.
t9.) You must seek your happiness
III making others happy.
f99 This character will be your
most valuable possession. II Is im-
mortal. Health may fail and money
take wing. but IL YOU have the right
character you have a value That shalt
last beyond where the stars turn to
dust and he a source Of happiness TO
you forever
The speaker showed the rationale Of
the scripture statement as TO the tram
ing Of the affections.
He said we are going TO have in thus
country an aristocmsy of brains and
character. Mr.. Disraeli said that the
politicians did not govern the world
that ii was private life that governed
the world. You young ladies are The
chief power Of that private life. And
he proceeded 10 give them much good
counsel,
This is rather an incomplete synop-
sis, but will serve TO give an outline
Of the sermon.
MR.. BATTLES SPEECH.
h .atWdoes shrdl hrlIlu shrdlu shrdln
What does this portrait represent
/. AS a work of art it represents the
skill, industry and genius of North
Cardinals greatest artist; because eye- 4
~ one who knew Coy. Vance well, dur
ing the last ten years of his life, must
recognize in it a perfect, and almost
speaking likeness triumph of the
painters art.
,. In it we recognize the gratitude of
a great institution. this the Normal
end Industrial School" of North Caro-
lima, to the great man, who, when his
voice was most potent among all the
people of his native State, SO raised
that voice ia advocacy Of normal in
struction that this institution became
possibility. True, it is the creation
OF another great North CaroliniaI,
your honored president beside me, and
we owe it mostly to him that we have
here so important a factor in the train
ing and development of the best wo-
manhood of North Carolina, which IS,
to me, the best womanhood of the
world.
8. In it we see Vance as he stood,
erect, gallant, self-confident, but with
out a suggestion of undue self-asser-
ton, the master of his subject and his
audience, addressing his peers in the
Senate of the United Staes, primus in
ter pares, in the greatest arena Of
earth.
AS we look at the picture we see the
man, as i knew alim, the qualities OF his
great mind, soul and heart apparent ia
his bearing, and shining in every Inca
ment of his countenance. Let us ana
I'VE those qualities. What are they?
There is courage, moral and physical
innate, and the growth of three score
years of conflict, with the hardships
and foes Of the battle of life, and of VIC
tory over them; allied to courage, and
her twin sister, truth, speaks from the
face and those lips. His direct mind
sought the truth, as the needle the
pole, and when found it became part
Of his very life. He valued it as price
less jewel, and his honest heart impelj
ed him to display it to the world, for
its guidance and improvement, and not
as an evidence of his own wealth in its
possession. He is speaking words or
truth now. And here is honesty, a de-
veIopment of truth, its expression in
the life of the man as he dealt with his
fellows, taking only what was his, and
freely according to others what was
fairly theirs. And benignancy and
charity beam from that face, tender
kindness for his friends and indulgence
for the faults of his opporets- G say
not enemies, for few could be enemies
Of one of so open and genial a nature
as his). And here is wit and humor,
keen wit twinkling from that small
eye, nearly concealed by that honest
brow, and racy hunor bubbling from
those half open lips. And behind them
friend can see the half playful irony
with which he met the sophIstry OF
good-natured adversary, and the biting
sarcasm for the malicious charge OF
one who would traduce his people or
his party.
Here again is the pose and confident
power of the orator mot the elocution-
list, merely, whose words carry con-
viction to the unprecedented, and con-
fusion and dismay to the prejudiced
hearer And here is patriotism, the
love Of his fatherland, needing not
words for its expression, and gratitude
to his Creator for giving him so fair
land and nature SO richly endowed
for the enjoyment of its blessings. And
here is consciousness of many match
less gifts, to be used not for his own
glory, but for the good of his State and
his country. In a word, we see in this
manly form and expressive face, a com
bination of those qualities, that yirtus,
which makes man. man among men
such a man as Anthony described
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