Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-02-23


your work need not be lost: all you need do
IS 90 put foundations under them We
have done So and to-day our air castle is
a reality a thing of beauty of which We
may well be proud. and which | hope viii
D. joy forever Tor ourselves and for our
children.
4 think you have AN reason to be proud
or the work OF the last TWO years YOU de-
rNr Co oe congratulated for II. Firs, of
all. YOU may congratulate yourselves for
having chosen a board Of directors made
mp or young men. Youth is the season OF
hope and energy. Youth is presumptuous.
even. Axe brings with it the wisdom OF
experience. bur it brings also the fear. be-
GQt OF past failures, 10 brings the foresight
ci dluicClues ahead. But as the post says,
ln TIE bright lexicon Of youth there is no
th3t when work like this was TO be done,
the hope and the energy of youth should
o. the motive power. with the cOnserNa-
b>m ana experience or maturep years 70
serve as balance wheel 70 regulate the
pi oete9s or the enterprise. You peholu 10
ih@nt, what this combination OF FORCES.
within the board Of directors and outside
OK Do. has effected in TWO years time.
one year ago, February lOth. when inc
original club property had been purchaseu
ana furnished and was thrown open LOT
th- use OF the club. those 10 whom you hdu
entrusted the conduct OF auairs saw tndt
there was not enough 10 insure perpetuliy
TO % club having such aims as ours: w
saw that new features Were neeueu. BOW
ing alleys gymnasium and halls were
necessary n me club was 10 do the whole
work /, was intended 10 do, II II was 10
ach out and hold all for whom II was ue-
signed.
The board of directors said. We must
complete the club II YOU had asked US
then how DO was 10 be done not a man OF
us could have given you a satisfactory
answer. And SET there was a certain SIM
puc.,y about the problem here M"S w
work 10 Doe done. ANY one COuid say 10 IL.
We determined 90 40 IT, remembering lnat
where there is viii there Is a way. W
began our task. trusting IN YOU ana IN tnc
future. We put our hands 10 the pIoLsH
and we lOOked not backward until inns uaS
when we are near The end OF the turrOW.
Cu this day ike travellers on the Alpine
peak we shuddtr when We look down owe.
The obstacles w nave surlhou"Seu az
wonder now we could ever nave Nt'I gu ~
attempt the ascent. SOhered by ine expo
r.-uce OF the last TWO years. cndSlcneu u4
the thought OF the times When failure
seemed Imminent. when mos ior Wn .o.l,i
We work seemed lukeWarm ana even
cold when the demon despair knocked az
th. very portals OF our hearts, when We
were overwhelmed with ADVERSE, lhousu
entirely friendly. criticism some urging
imp4UguUy that the pace was 100 sio"'
others warming chat We went 100 iast, We
RENE mberluE an the things come IN thank
tulurSs 90 YOU tonight, FOR YOU helu up
our hands i'm critical times. you co-opeidlsu
well boo this our labor OF love whose IIu-
itioU We are now Co enjoy together.
'fut I shall DOt have done run justice 10
the past IL ] look bu- TWO years backward.
tus club IS not ,ne work OF W. W., sr.0
Years. B5fOIa BE- was club on paper. II
lived iu -ue minds of many OF Nou. me
secretary of the original committee ON or
,Juizl.iou. in the u=a, OF has t5rvid elo-
tuence. iu one or nus printed a., W.,
once compared ,h.s venture 10 a snip. WIN
mis- Simlle iu mind tod You TWO years ago
rl2 Dr. was % ship that had been a-bdlollS
these many years. Many mudS have pom
az.
ZION tra mobile s.r.Irtllr. which TINS pi- Seu-
time sees iu reality. In the fUilucss Of
Gods own good tiul.. The ,l3v came I'm wuicu
LID r.e.tr H. u.,rE D. La..Ir with a uI ~s-
inc fT.Ir, ono Who Sins 81 your midst to-
u-.rr Ef-hrn DcTahI- lrd as this is a
blessed work a. WINS wholly hitting that Il
should begin with "a blessing. That ne
..r -fv.r MANY ,Irar willing hands be-
..4r. -be ya...I.s K ii was l3fi. the mighty
r.bs uprear,d fb- -rrn SIDES were fastened.
Tine decks We're fashioned and Spdr~ and
riss'u- fitted. our lgdd-r was built OF pa
.r.or.sr, and olIr sur1D~ forged OF Holy
f-1frn
Sand bore we arc to-day 10 start the
finished vessel from the et1vs and iauul D
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