The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1896-10-17
AN ADDRESS,,
Founders Day, Tome Institute,
Thursday, October 1, 1896.

Life may be given in many ways,
And loyalty to truth be sealed,
AS bravely in the closet as the field,
So bountiful is Fate.
An English theologian has said, "Do thy
duty that is best; leave unto thy God the
rest
An English statesman has said, 'Duties
are ours; events are Gods"
An English sage, holding in his strong,
earnest heart the same magnificent truth,
has said, 'Do the duty nearest thee"
Duty assumes many forms: to some, il
comes in the guise of the pomp and circum-
stance of military display the clash OF
arms, the perls Of the field, the authority
OF power. To others, it calls from the Sen
ate halls, the lecture platform, the public
rostrums, where men, by the marvellous
force of eloquence, lead humanity captive.
The proclamation of the ineXhaustible
riches of Christ's Gospel is the duty that
seems nearest to many. while the school
room, and the college hall, as well as the
pulpit, have their missionaries. Law and
medicine, finance and trade, each assumes,
to some, the potent form of duty, and each
finds it votaries. The luxury Of doing
good is practiced by many until it becomes
paramount duty, and upon its affairs are
offered unsparngly, time, interest, sym
pathy, money, anything, everything, that
can be made available.
To this class-ths last class belong the
men and women of our land, who have
translated the voice of duty into this mes
sage, 'Takc much of what thou hast and
do good among the people" With graft
tude, be it said, the list of these interpre7
tiers of duty is Il long one-Cooper, Girard,
Stanford, Carnegie, Corcoran Armour and
host of other names names that are not
born to die: names whose mention will
evoke thanksgiving, and whom thousands
will arise to call blessed.
As citizens of these United States, as
lovers of all that is good and true within
their borders, we feel an intense pride in
the splendid generosity Of American men
and women; but our pride mounts highest
burns brightest when it is directed to the
sons and daughters of our own State-the
beauteous land of Maryland, My Maryland
From beneath the solemn shadows of
Westminster Abbey, parting company there
with the dust of England's greatest and
noblest, her heroes and sages, her poets and
her philanthropists, borne on the wings of
the wind and by the breath of steam,
escorted by fleet more splendid than that
which conveyed England's darling Nelson
from the scene of his fatal triumph at
Trafalgar, more splendid even than that
which carried the ashes of the great
Napoleon from his lonely island to the
banks OF the Seine, there came to us thirty
years ago the mortal remains of George
Peabody, man whom kings and peoples
delighted to honor. The city of Baltimore
reJolceS today in the Peabody Library, the
Peabody Conservatory, the Peabody Art
Gallery, the Peabody Course of Lectures
while almost every State south of us feels
her public school system encouraged and
lnvigorated by his munificent donations
for the support of normal schools and
teachers institutes
As we call the roll of our benefactors the
figure of Johns Hopkins rises before our
minds eye from the mists and shadows of
the past A Marylander by BIRTH the
greater part Of his life was spent within
the borders of his native State. Sound in
Judgment, careful in negotiation, economi-
cal in living, he amassed fortune which
has been the means of opening the gates of
advanced learning for many young men and
for some young women; and of opening,
too, the gates of healing for sufferers of
every kind and of every condition. The
renown, as well as the benefits, of the Johns
Hopkins University, and the Johns Hop
kins Hospital are confined to no land.
During the busy years of a long life
Samuel Ready had occasion TO see much of
human restitution and deprayity. His
business compelled him to spend great
deal Of his time about the wharves of Bal
timore where hungry, ragged children most
did congregate to beg or to steal the means
OF getting bread Especially were his SYM
pathes enlisted in behalf of the girls,
whom he saw daily in these places, exposed
to suffering, sin and temptation He did
much during his life to relieve their needs,
and at his death it was found that his for
tune was placed in the hands of trustees
for the purpose of establishing home for
orphan girls. Today, Baltimore has the
Samuel Ready School, an institution ex-
cellent and beautiful in arrangement ard
management, where almost one hundred
girls, ranging in age from to Il, are care
fully reared, comfortably and becomingly
clothed, and thoroughly educated in the
elementary and secondary branches: and
when they leave the fostering care of this
home they are mentally, morally and prac-
tically fitted for the struggle of life
Only few days Igo there passed to his
reward one WHO, for many years, had been
prominent in the Development and success
OF Ba!tlmolr--a man, honest, earnest,
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