Evening journal., 1900-11-05


ception of its needs, and SO, in the
natural order of a sentiment order, the
individual will is necessarily and cease
lessly in check, as It is ceaselessly
stimulated TO endeayor by all that APP
peals to the better nature, that in
spires to the higher ideals, and re-
wards with the consciousness OF a
worthy attainment.
For you who are here tonight there
is nothing OF fuller meaning than all
this-of more immediate application or
of pertinent conclusion. You are
strivers. and as social life has through
its complex growth divided of into
specific individual endeavOrs, you
have a specific task, to the accOmp-
lishment Of which you must address
your native powers. In what those
are lacking, you must qualify them;
and in this respect always there will
be the need Of more knowledge. there
will be the benefit of the larger light.
It Is because OF this we have been at
school together for the last two days.
and it will be because of this that we
shall go from this convention not
only giving a newer energy to VIII.
but realizing in ourselves the awaken
ing force as still more largely the ur-
gency of the Dynamic will. For. as
the conclusion Of all this, we are going
to take again into our hearts this les
son of the ages and bear fresh testi-
mOny to its truth in the fresh achieve
ments IL shall inspire.
For me, there has been its applica-
tiOn and corrOboration in many ways.
but I have had one experience so en-
phatic as an endorsement of its gener-
al truth, that / feel / must tell IL here
as fitting corollary OF what has been
said.
In the Winter of 1893 I visited the
Island Of Mauritius, enroute TO South
Africa. Here ] was agreeably enter
tained by the powers that be, having
inToductiOns that assured me an Open
Sesame wherever / went. 1t is not my
purpose to enter into a description of
the country or its people, nor into de-
tails Of my personal adventures or ex-
per.ences; il is only that / wish tc
come to the moral of what has been
so far said. The day before l was to
depart from the Island. l went to the
Treasury Department wishing to pur-
chase a quantity Of the minor coins of
Mauritius, with a view Of distributing
these in school visitations when I re-
turned to America. For this purpose
l wished to secure bright, clean coins.
and those which had never been in cir
culatiOn. / found, however, that there
were none to be had in the Treasury
Department, and / was referred to the
COmptrOller's Office. to the department
which was In charge of the finances Of
the colony, including its mint output
WhereupOn I sought out the COmptrol-
Ter, but when / expressed my desire
to him, he looked at me with amaze
ment, and said:
why. Mr. Stewart. do you know
what you ask of me?"
/ replied that / suppose the request
was sufficiently plain; it was simply to
be an equitable exchange of English or
American money for a quantity of the
Mauritius coin.
But" he said. 'dt is net that; 1t is
the difficulties involved; it is the enOr-
nous amount of bother and trouble
you propose to subject me to-and for
nothing that concerns me-
There It's, however" I interposed
the concern of the public-"a question
Of general amenity and courtesy that
properly maintains under special cir
cumstances,-an this is one of those
circumstances. | wish to carry away
| from the birthplace of Paul and Vir-
ginia, the shrine Of that beautiful little
love story which so many of the world
have read, the most apt souvenirs for
presentation at home"
But" Mr.. Stewart, he said, "do you
know that, in order TO comply with
your request, l shall have to summon
Il my three colleagues, the incumbents
of three other departments of the state
/ which he named,-and that we mus
all four go together to the big safe Ol
the colony, open it in the presence oi
i each other, removing the seals which
had been previously affixed, and re.
1 cord each in his own book the fact thai
the seals were intact when the safl
was opened on such a date, and tha
such and such things were done, anG
that the safe was again closed and dull
sealed, and to this we must each sew
orally subscribe our names in eacl
others book Now, think of our doing
all that, just to satisfy you in the ex
change of a trifiing sum of money!
With this he gave me a look tina
seemed to imply that he regarded tn
situation as inexpressibly astonishing
and apparently with the conviction
that this statement of his must EN-
the contention.
But" l said to him-and this show
the wonderful potency of words, an
especially words which are symbols q
an idea that has gained authority an
currency through the realm of know
edge-I said to him, MY Dear Sir
there is in the English language a
aphorism which is almost as old as tn
hills. that has been venerated almOs
as the altars of religion. To m
knowledge, it has never been discreC
ted; l am sure that you yourse
] would quote it the very n6Xt minui
as of undoubted veracity."
What is that?n he said.
1T is" l said, Where there is Wi
E there is a Way. Now, am dispose
B | to furnish the Win" Looking at hi
with a pause, saw the light of a ne
- intelligence flash into his eyes; a su
\ picion of merriment about his lips di
c spated the disposition to frown, al
? catching on with the flash of the W
d thus suggested he said:
It And am l disposed to furnish Il
e way"