Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1897-06-17

AAN4SAO SN-O
and forceful eloquence, we publish
to-day, in Difference to a wide
spread request from the Fremont
section, where it was delivered,
the speech of Mr.. F. A. Daniels,
already referred to in our report
of the above exercises.
Mr.. Daniels said
When l received the invitation Of
your accomplished principal to adj
dress you to-day, there was in her
letter e sentence which made such
an impression on me that | felt that
l could not decline. 1t was this:
THAT on us all is laid the duty of
helping one another L was not
sure that [ could help any Of the
people who would be gathered here.
L knew that | should have before me
men and women whose hair had
grown g1ay i'll the performance of
the duties of life and who had ac-
cumulated in the struggle a store of
experience out of which had come a
ripened wisdom, i'll the presence of
which [ could only aspire to humll-
Ivy d1O CudDlG1l OI HILL. L
knew / should meet the young and
vigorous manhood of this commun-
ity, full of sturdy courage, toillng III
the daily labor which sweetens their
daily bread, endowed with strength
and faith and honesty of purpose,
and sustained by the good women
who stand like guardian angels in
their homes, and that [ should be
strengthened by their presence and
gain inspiration from their lives. l
knew, too, that the boys and girls
would be here, in all the joyousness
of youth, full of bright aspirations,
looking with eager eyes into a future
holding the promise of usefulness,
prosperity and happiness, and that
from their brave spirits, undaunted
by even the fear of failure III the life
opening before them, 1 should re
ceive a new baptism of that hope and
faith which have prevented our race
from falling into an unlovely and
desolate old age.
How beautiful is youth, with its
bounding pulse, it's light step. the
glow of health and beauty upon its
cheek and the heaven OF generous
sentiment and lofty purpose III its
heart. How it ONE as a revelation
and a tender reminder to the care
worn and weary laborer in life vine
yard, Of the days when all the world
lay spread out before him, with the
blue heaven above it, and the warm
u flooding it with life and energy,
and all nature reckoning him to come
and explore its mysteries, and achieve
the destiny which God had ordained
for him-and how he went forth,
with confidence and with gladness, to
do the work of a man. And as the
years roll by and each successive
generation passes before him, he
reads III their heaven-raised faces
the hopes and aspirations that made
his own youth glorious. I am not as
old as some of you, yet [ am old
enough to confess and to be grateful
for this revivifying influence.
As I thought upon these things
and realized the good you would do
me, and remembered how the face of
man sharpeneth the face of his
friend, and how spirit answereth to
spirit, and how the glad earth smiles
into harvest in thankfulness to the
good farmer who cultivates it, [ felt
that as you would do me good. /
would like to do you good; as you
would help me, it would be a lasting
pleasure if L could help you. And
so / come to discuss some of the OBJ
legations we are under to each other
and how we should discharge them.
We all admit, in a general way,
that we owe duties to each other, but
are apt to cnnfine them in too mar
row limits. The relations of hus-
band and wife. father and child.
brother aud sister, and our small
circle of personal friends, not unfre-
quent1y engross our interest and
h~elpfulness, and cut us off from that
broad sympathy with mankind,
which is our duty as well as oul
privilege. 1 would not underrate the
power and beauty of the family at
lection, nor the tie that binds friend
o friend, because, without these
there is no hope for the individual OF
the rae These are the foundations
Upon which the whole fabric of so
ciety must rest, and out of which
must arise the sublime structure OF
universal brotherhood. The cruel
husband, the faithless wife, the in
dlfferentmother, the disobedient and
thankless child, and the di8loyal
friend-these have ever made the
great tragedies of life: these are the
blots and blemishes that disfigure
and degrade humanity. In contrast
/ point you to the family in which
the father and mother, knit together
by mutual love and esteem. bring W
than ahI1ITynn ~. tho fnar of (tn6
setting ever before them the example
of an upright life, training them tc
walk in the paths of righteousness
breathing an atmosphere in which
love, reverence, and faith in all things
high, come easy to them; and / un-
cover before your eyes the source OF
the power, and glory and majesty
of a nation.
With the Influences of such a fam
lily life upon his character, the young
man or the young woman starts out
in the world and finds himself IL
contact with his fellows. Many OF
them have been deprived of the ad-
vantages he has enjoyed. Inherited
and acquired tendencies may have
dwarfed many of them-the struggle
for bread may have given little time
for the cultivation of the graces OF
life-ignorance and narrowness may
abound, and yet under it all there
lies the strong human will and the
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