The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-05-28
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ed Clay's compromise measure, although
with massive head he looked more like
a lion at bay than defeated senator,
whittier wrote of him:
3" From those great eyes
The soul has fled;
When faith Is lost, when honor dies,
The man Is dead.'
There was no need of writing Ichabod
over his life. He had risen only so high
Charles Sumner met the same test with
different ideal. Well born, well bred and
a favorite of society, he possessed the
nabits OF the scholar. the culture, OF the
university and the politeness and elegance
gained by years spent among the cultured
classes of Europe. But all of these could
not avail. What enabled him to take up
the cause which Webster laid down? We
are told that after he was assaulted by
Brooks and returned to Boston, that not
one house in Beacon street was lighted in
his honor But when all were cold and he
saw his professional prospects crumbing
around him, the power of high ideal
alone sustained him. His ideal was the
equality of all men before the law.
This ideal enables us to say that life
Is worth living. Some Of us heard in Den
ny hall the other day preacher of right
seousness in this city in whose veins per-
haps flows the same blood as in those of
Dreyfus. ask in language beautiful and
full of faith, what 1t was that enabled
Dreyfus to endure years OF agony at
Devils island and to wait patiently until
great republic exonerated him? The
answer was fdealism.
Finally. the higher life is a life of pow
er; Faith and ideals develop power In the
individual There are other forms of pow
err. You realize that money Is a power
when you see hundreds leaving friends be-
hind to sail for the gold fields In the
North.
There are few who can say with Agas-
siz, ] have no time to make money And
money is blessing. One may be altruis-
tic, but without money he can give moth
ing. He hath no power who hath not
power to do 1t is right to ask that ideals
and faith stand practical tests.
Education is power. 1t took a boy
from the towpath and made him presi-
dent. 1t Is. all things considered, the best
avenue by which poor boy or girl can
rise rise, TO positions tons, Of responsibility and
God said unto Moses For this cause have
! raised thee up, to show In thee my pow
err, Thel Psalmist said, God hath spoken
once. yea, twice have heard this, that
power belongeth unto Cod
Advice to students.
Members of the graduating class: You
stand upon the portals OF the larger life,
for which you have been making prepara-
ton. If anything has been omitted by
way Of instruction or ideals from your
course. 1T Is useles to add It now. I Will
only say, Trust In God and He will care
for you. In the mountains to our East
have been told that there is a lake which
was formed by the sinking of land AS
he sees the fish swimming among the
tree tops, The same God who used to care
for the bird life I'm those trees, and noted
the sparrow when II fell. now watches
over the fish life among the same branch
es. Your circumstances may change. but
God will care for you. AS you go out into
the world, each of you will make place
for many others. II will become your
duty to lift up others and to point them
to the ideals. I recollect the first time I
ever saw the stars. My sister took me to
ia I'M and t..Ats, Too
upward said Look, there they are A
little later she went out to make her home
on one of them I have forgotten how
she looked. but ! shall never forget that
she was the first to show me the stars.
There are enough to point downward
II becomes your duty to point men to the
stars and to God As you go forth let
knowledge and faith go hand in hand.
Throw your minds open to tho latest the
cries and facts In science Neurologists
tell us that there are parts OF the brain
unmedullsted to the last and because they
are unmedulated they do not function
ION. the physical side. then. there IL a
possibility OF making new attachments
until old age So your spiritual life can
grow richer and richer In LEIPZIG heard
an aged professor whose hair was snow
white lecture upon Immortality The
German students loved to hear him and
seemed TO think he was so near the boun-
dairy that he could hear voices from the
veiop with the mental and when your
hands have grown nerveless with age
and forgotten their cunning altogether
already upon your wasted cheek and pale
brow, you Will feel the breath of the eter-
nal morning.