The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-12-10
COLONIAL HOsTEsSEs
Concluded from First Pare

Concluded from First Pagel
not worthy to sit in this room and to
touch the hem of your garments. Great
ness In men and women Is greatness
III soul. greatness in thought, and great
ness in the courage ~ pat The though,
into action. He 3: one who deems Tho
truth the bread of life. ana who makes
!, ms uaiy pursuit. and who does his
duty In spite of all ou.wl:d contradict
lions; a. man who has an infinite reyer
ence Tor his conscience. and for his God.
and who will do anything and suffer
anything rather than wound the one or
df:obey the other. He must he a man
VINO VIII endure and he must be n man
who will dare.
UNSELFISHNEss REQUISITE.
More than this. he must be man
VINO VIII do this for uuselish ends when
1t would be easier for him 10 withhold
from doing IL. He must he a man of
sacrifice and Il man Of love. He must
have something OF that spirit in him
which. like the ideal man and the God
OF The Christian is content to he smitten
mat another through his stripes may
De healeu. content 10 he bound that an
other may go free. He mus. he great
i'll thought. but he must not stop with
thinking. He must be great in action.
SO mothers. teach your children not
that the conqueiors OF earth. who fought
only for their own ACKNOWLEDGMENT, wee
the true heroes, but those who like
Washington and Patrick Henry. fought
for their country's veal alone, are the
truly great.
PILLARS OF CIVILIZATION.
ITO have such men as they were We
mus: have great women.
Luxury and excavation of woman j.
the decline and the death of national
life. Behind the action and the thought
of men Is the action and thought Of VIZ
men. Let women sink in the scale of
civilizations: sink to the conception OF
ithem:elves as made for the amusement
OF men; as children to play with the
vanities Of life, jealous rivals in ignoblc
triumphs: petty conquerors in ignoblc
strifcS; let them divorce themselves from
religion and from the submission to the
law of sacrifice. which Is their crown and
III II glory and their peace. and you have
decay in manhood. decay q: the head
waters of political and social and reli-
gious life
Il think OF two historical scenes with
in the memory of many of Us here.
When near the middle OF the present
century the victorious. armies of Ger
many Numbered at the gates Of Paris,
:he then most brilliant capital Of the
world, what did they find? y city whose
men had lost their manhood.
THE wives ana mothers of Paris Were
degenerate, and the city fell.
AN HEROIC CONTRAST.
The city of Richmond stood u siege oi
four years by armies that many time
outnumbeIed our own. When the days
of danger came. ana they were coming
every month of those troubled Years.
the mothers used TO send their fifteen
year-o!d Toys to the ramparts that are
now grass grown to meet the enemy.
and the women and some Of You here
wee among the number, were happy
in the comfort and courage and the sac
rtice they poured out so freely upon the
soldiers. happy because they loved their
city. they loved their State, they loved
their country they loved their duty,
and that love bcareth all things, bclicv-
eth all things, hupeth all things. IT
would be the same thing to-day If a
grea: wa should darllcn the horizon of
our beloved. on: common, our united
country. In times Of peace, when men
are fighting the battles Of c1mpo titicn in
TRADE and in government, fighting with
clo;er temptations that threaten the loss
of their souls and cowl"dlce 10 their
consclence.s. woman Is or ought 10 be
the moral fo.ce behind, the Christian
missionary in front, the perennial fnun-
tain of spiritual light. and sweetness.
and strength in the home. whore men are
raised 10 do their work and fl their min
iStrY in the world.
There must hsve been women like
that 10 have trained the men in the
days of our revolution, that did a work
under God that no other people in this
world ever did
''And so we honor tonight the great
women ana the great men of our revolt
t:orayy history. and may that honor new
a. no m i'm la nd ~