Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-02-27

not mean TO speak disrespectfully of
the mercantile spirit, l do not mean to
derlde the struggle OF men TO make
themselves rich and those around them
more comfortable; but ! do say that in
our day and time the thirst for wealth
and property needs some qualification.
There must be something better and
higher than that, and turn for that
TO the profession that cannot by any
possibility connect personal gain with
its pursuit. Cheers Ii is easy for
those who may he provided with luxury
and comfort and means to discuss the
narrow bonds Of poverty, that res
augusta domi that does so clip the
wings of fancy and shorten the dreams
of pleasure; but in these homes from
which the hope of gain is ex-
cluded what takes the placer Nobler
themes, nobler thoughts, more unselfish
thoughts, and these form the atmos.
phere Of the homes Of the poorer
clergy, Cheers. There are no base
associations in these homes The luxury
that all history tells us saps morality
cannot be found there. 1t is not pos
sible. The frivolity that idle pleasure
induces is not possible there. The
idleness that sets so many hands mis-
chieviously at work is impossible
There must be self help or these homes
could not exist. Therefore, both self
help and mutual help are found in
these homes. Then comes, excluded
from gain and the passion of specula-
ton, literary and intellectual resource
as the natural consequence, and go the
homes of the poorer clergy become the
foundation of the safety of the State
In them is the atmosphere that con.
duces to moral health. There ia
great publication. so volumnious as to
bo almost terrible-the Biographical
Dictionary and it contains no more
interesting fact than the disclosure
of how largely the families of the poorer
clergy have produced the most dis
tinguished men Of this country. Look,
Englishmen, look, Britons, Scotchmen,
lrishmen, colonists, look at the annals
of your country, examine the sources
of your distinguished men, and ask
how large proportion have come from
that poverty to which your clergy are
so often condemned. Cheers lis it
the army? Is it the navy? Is it
theology, or law, or medicine, or civil
forms? Take them all, and / incline
to think that | am safe in the assertion
that the sons. of the poor cergymen
have been your best recruits for Great
Britain's service. Cheers. | believe
you will find it TO be truet hat no other
profession known to US OF the present
day has subscribed SO largely to the
advancement of the true glory and
safety and interests of this kingdom as
has the profession of the clergy and the
poorer clergy. Hear, hear. 1t was
the good fortune Of an American friend
of mine, a naval officer, to write or to
publish some of his lectures TO his class
of young cadets, which has, in my
opinion, greater effect on the thought
full men Of this country than any other
book 1 refer to Capt. Mahan's history
of the influence Of sea power. He is
my countryman, and am glad to claim
him as my friend. When he was in
this country year ago ! took
down his book and asked him to write
me sentence in the tiy.leaf, and the
sentence he wrote was this: ENGLAND
was saved by Trafalgar. 2" BY whom:
Whose genius was essentially presnt?-
Nelson's. And where did he come
from? What was the atmosphere that
made that typical hero, not only OF
England, but Of all navies of the
world? What bred him? What taught
him? The home Of poor English
clergyman. Cheers So when You
shall weigh the forces of England and
measure the tons of her batteships,
the number of her troops and the range
Of her guns, forget not, / beg of you,
! the spirit that makes them effective.
| Cheers. And IL you should beget that
thought and beget that feeling that il
is In the heroic impulse that comes
from the study of high things and
high thoughts, you cannot contine it tC
this island; it will pass across the At.
lantic, it will be hreathed by men Of
your own race, who speak the SAINT
tongue. Cheers. And then, wher
the time comes to set the power of the
material forces of the world in motion,
you will find them, at least, under the
control of that morality ard that re
ligion and that conscientiousnes tina
make material force respected. Tha
force is the moral force born in thu
quiet homesteads Of the land that ma,
give birth to its sons. Hear, hear
But may | say one other word for thu
boys themselves? II there be tive
beautiful words in any language the,
are ingenuus puer. If the Simple, truth
full, fresh hearted, natural youth. in thu
facs of boy glowing with ingenious
ness, with character unstained and uu
touched, unsulied by passion or by bas
interest. will not attract an honest
hearted man, | do not know what will
Cheers. The older we grow, tn
grayer our locks become, the more W
turn back with affection to tho sim
plicity and tho truth OF youth. So tina
We take our stand on two sides-first
on the question Of self protection 10
the community. Go back to the nur
series of true education, an education
that schools cannot give, the education
of the pure mother and the homes
father. That is supplied to you by til
poorer clergy and their wives. VIVA
are you to supply? the secondary &c
compartment, instruction. The mora
/. education, the real education, is tn
education Of the home: but the instruc
tion, the quickening of the mind, yo
will be honored by allowing yourselve
to assist. That is what | think thi
school and foundation lie for. 1t is m
respect for that that has brught m
here, and it is to the prosperity of
that ask you to drink. Cheers.
Panic in the Family.
No wonder that family Is panic-strnc
when one of its members il seized with
violent cough. In this country, from iuhan
nation of thethroat or lungs 10 consumptio
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