The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-09-18
DR.. M'IVERS' ADDRESS
HE PRESENTED \ BIBLE FROM
THE JUNIOR ORDER.
REV. C. A. G. THOMAS PRESENTS A FLAG
Rev. |. W. Harreil Made the Speech of Accept
ance--Rey. W. G. Bradshaw's Excellent
Address of Welcome--lt Was a Day
Long to be Remembered.

High FONT, n. T., sept li.-(Speclal.l
This is big day III the history of High
Point. The program for the day, which
has already been published all over the
State, needs no comment. The cause of
the celebration is the completion and
opening of High Points new and ma
gnifcent school.
The town is decked with stars and
stripes. The Jr. O. L. A. NJ, which has
arranged the program, formed az the
Anchor warehouse at 9 o'clock this morn
ing and together with the speakers of
the occasion and the Daughters of Lib
|crty proceeded to the SchoOlh0uSe, where
the speaking occurred. One of the feat
ures of the parade was 4 little red school
house drawn by two ma gnifcent horses.
1t was probably the most elaborate and
instructive program that has ever been
rendered at this place.
About hundred visiting Juniors from
Winston and Salem are here and Sails
bury, WalkertOwn, Randleman, Licking
ton and Walnut Grove are also repre-
scented.
Everything was carried out as pub
lished.
At 10 o'clock Dr. w. G. Bradshaw
made an address of welcome, followed by
Rev. Charles A. G. Thomas, of Fayette-
vile. who presented an American flag
TO the graded school in behalf of the
Juniors
Rev. l.. W. Harrel. of High Point,
made a speech of acceptance
This was followed by the presentation
OF holy bible to the school in behalf of
the Junior Order by DIR. Charles d. Nc
liver. of Greensboro who spoke as fol-
lows:
Il congratu the people of High
Point upon this day In some essential re-
spects your town is built upon Il firmer
foundation than any other town in North
Carolina. Every day its chief business is
to take natures raw material as found in
the forest and multiply its value manifold
by the application Of the intelligence and
skill of your manufacturers and labOrers.
IF North Carolina ever becomes Il
wealthy State it must do so by following
the example set by this enterprising town.
Yet wealth is not the essential element
of civilization.
Education is infinitely more valuable.
Education without wealth Will surely pro-
duce wealth. whereas wealth without
education is no guarantee of education.
Il congratulate you because you have
determined to educate your people-all of
them--and increase the value of your citi-
zenship. Your public schools will add
more TO the productive value of your
manhood and womanhood than your
factories add to the value of the raw,
dead material upon which their energies
are expended.
Il congratulate you that in your midst
~ 80 orJn r nhi ~
ticles Of faith is the maintenance of the
public school system throughout the
United States.
''It is that order which III large meas
IRE gives life and soul to this meeting.
1t is that order whose members have
marched through the sun and heat to
proclaim their undying allegiance to the
public schools of this country. The order
has presented to your school the flag of
the United States. May it always remind
the people of this town, as well as the
children over whom it shall daily spread
it's beautiful folds. that they owe duty
to their country, the first step in the dis
charge of which is to become intelligent,
productive, law-abiding citizens.
In behalf of the Jr o. U. A. Nj. / am
commissioned to present to the public
school of this community the book of
books-the word of God The Order hopes
by this and similar presentations to en-
courage the reading of this blessed book
in the schools where more than nine
tenths of our children are educated, and
in that way to make 1T Impossible for
those children to grow up to manhood
and womanhood without becoming famil-
lar with this book.
1.-THE order is actuated by no hope or
desire that public educational insutu-
tons shall become theological shoots or
the promoters of the peculiar interpreta-
tions of any religious sect. If the scrip
lures be the word of God, familiarity
with the scriptures rs the greatest need
Of the human creature. If they be not
the word Of God, as claimed by some, |
but are merely the words of men, they
present the highest philosophy and the
purest ethics that the world has ever
known.
The teachings of Moses and the teach |
ings of Christ are the foundations of
morals, public and private, and the
foundations of health, public and private.
From the standpoint of history literature
and ethics the exclusion of the bible
from the public schools would be playing
Hamlet with Hamlet left out. Shall
we teach children the history and laws
of Lycurgus and be silent to the history
and laws of Moses? Shall we make men
and women familiar with the teachings
and language of Shakespeare and leave
them ignorant of the teachings and phi
losophy of the man of GalileaW
BUCKLEN'S ARNICA SALvE.