The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-05-30

man, because he has brought out OF
that failure his whole manhood I'M
touched, strengthened, and you honor
the man for the grand way in which
he bore his failure; the manhood OF
the man is there yet. To all men III
TO Judge St. Paul knew there had
been no failure but n grand success.
Was st. Paul or Nero victor? You
and | today answer without hesita-
ton, the prisoner was the victor.
Nero is name blackened by the
thought of every man as long as he
lives on the earth. Every Christian
flag that casts It's shadows on every
ocean wave and every sea is a memo
rial TO St. Paul. The words he poke.
the thoughts he spoke have made
your lives, mine, the millions, what
they are. His views of life are stamp
ed into the souls of the leaders of man
kind. | know no such name in his
tory that is human. In the centre
of London there scars above you into
the blue wren'S dome the shadows
fall on the streets and on the crowd
ing masses, and golden cross crowns
it all. Whose is this church? St.
Paufs. They do not build such nIons;-
ments for kings, for heroes. And this
man dies 1900 years ago. The one
thing man brings out of life is life IL
self. Those who enter it need not
blind their eyes to that fact. There is
no shame i'll the fact that life is a
struggle for existence. There are
friends here, friends in Loyhoo1,
friends in manhood, but they will lie
striving with one another IN !; Few
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fool that it is wrong. that men should
not come to close grips with each
other and see who is the better man.
who survives.
But shall it be a manly struggle or
a brutal struggle; shall man fight
Just as a man plays football, just as
he works in the boat race, shall he
not work in life the same way? Why
hate your opponent? College ethics
would not sustain you in hating your
opponent in the game, and one day
the ethics of the world will not sus-
tain you. 1t is a fight, a battle, but
the battle must be fought with
neither malice nor cruelty nor hate.
Turning to the members of the
Senior Class. the Bishop addressed
them something like this:
Now young men of the Senior
Class your shady days are passing
RAPIDLY. Over you yet wave the
boughs of springtime and the grass
is green under your feet and the
GOODNESS falls about you, but out yon-
der as you look on is the dry sand
and the burning desert and the hot
sun and the toll. What you are will
be decided there largely by what you
have done here, but to all of you life
will be a struggle, and you ought to
accept it as such. You cannot keep a
life any other way. The life of self
indulgence is a wreck from the be-
ginning. If you are going to walk
your course at all you will walk often
with torn hands and bleeding feet
and aching heart. You will find the
fight of life bitter. All of us who
have gone through large share of
the fight and have the whiteness of
the years upon us know what it
means. The final test of your manli-
ness is what kind of fighter you are
going to be. With the worlds exam
pies behind you to push you on; pride
in your race; pride in your nation,
honest pride; pride in your State,
manly pride; pride in your family,
pride in the father and mother that
bore you; pride in those before them;
with these and the culture gained up
to date you are entering on life, and /
would not spare you il | could one
single trial Of the grit in you, and the
metal of which you are made. The
only victory that will satisfy you and
the world and those that come after
you is the victory that brings you out
of the struggles of life, bare and poor
as you entered it if need be, but a
man every inch of you. To stand at
the end like this old man and say |
have not made money, | have not
held office, my name has not been
sounded in the trump of fame, but
Il have fought a good fight, | have
finished the work | set out to do, |
have kept the faith" is the only true
success.
On Tuesday morning at 1890
O'Clock, the address before the law
class was delivered by EX-Judge
Henry Groves Common, Speaker of the
House of Representatives He said, in
part:
JUDGE CONNOR'S SPEECH.
So many subjects suggest themselves
as appropriate to. the occasion, that |
find it difficult to make satisfactory
selection. 1t would have been sadly