The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-02-23

and let some great truth take hold ol
 you; open your eyes to the higher truths | of life and testify to what you have discovered.
 'The tenth man is the man whose
 name is writ large in history and in the hearts of the people. Who is the tenth man? He is the man who sees some thing and incarnates what he sees. The great Nazarine walked one day with His disciples in Galilee. Ten men, made
 pariahs by leprosy, stood at legal dist
 ance, and shouted their needS across the sand. He who was never deaf to hu-
 man appeals made answer. Go show
 yourselves to the priests; as they went their flesh became as the flesh of little children. Nine of them saw nothing
 but the cure, and, rejoicing in what
 they had got, hurried to their homes The tenth man saw some of life's high
 CT truths; he felt the play of mysteri- ous forces, he traced those forces to the
 stranger who had spoken his deliver
 ance, and, recognizing his obligation,
 he turned back to worship Then the
 Master looking sadly at the man at His feet, said, were there not ten? Where
 are the nine?' The proportion seems
 almost satire on human nature, one
 in ten! But, whatever may be the field
 of inquiry-gratitude benevolence,
 patriotism, ability to lead men and to
 bring things to pass-something like this disparity is easily traceable through
 history Many Chaldean idolators, only one Abraham; thousands of Hebrews
 in Egypt, only one Moses; whole mon
 asteries full of monks in Germany, only
 one Luther; many planters in Virginia,
 only one Washington; hundreds of
 western woodchoppers, only one Lin-
 coin; plenty of tanners, only one Grant;
 herds of priests at the altar, only one
 Phillips Brooks; scores of smart officers
 in the United States navy, only one
 out the parallel. The tenth man is the
 man who gets his name into the rec ords, and Is ready when God wants a
 messenger, a leader, or hero. Wher- ever you look you see the tenth man, on every plane of human interest he looms pre-eminent. He Is the man Of vis- ipns and open ears, he looks below the surface, peers behind phenomena, inter- prets hints. and prophecies, and laughs at boundaries and horizons. Take him on the material plane. He Is your in- ventor and discoverer. He stIdies the heavens and the seas and then sets sail to find continents; he crosses sprairies and lords rivers and threads forests and climbs mountains, his blow turns up the virgin soil, his pick searches out hid- den treasures He experiments with soils and crops, invents machinery, quickens and diversities production and expands markets. So when you come to that, he saves the dull-w witted nine at last by helping them to find work for their hands and food for their mouths, and to make life easier and pleasanter.s
 ''Take him on higher plane! He Is the man who opens the would of thought and beauty, he gives you your art and your literature, he perceives the order and glory of the universe. He is the high priest of the intellectual and the ethical, he introduces you to your nober self. explains to you your envir- onments and possibilities; he finds and declares that there is something more than food and rainent and toll and pain and death, there is thought and imag- ination and growth, and righteousness, ultimate truth, hope of final perfection and joy eternal. He searches. for the soul of nature that lies below her rocks and oceans and storms, then he images it on canvas or chisels it in marble or it in bronze, or imprisons it in a song. His microscope sets fee the under world and introduces to you the wonders of infinitesimal life; his tele- scope reveals the splendor and orderly movement of the heavenly bodies, and brings them so near that you again hear the morning stars singing together. He ventures into the very penetralia of the world, brings the sacred fire to earth, and enriches the world with the products of his genius.
 "The world is the good world it is, man has come to his present develop ment because all along the ages the tenth man has seen something and tes- tiied to his discoveries. Inspiration, revelation, uplift have come through him; he is the tonic of the race, the prophet of the better time, the repre- in the setting of human life, of the divinest things in character. He sees visions and interprets them, he hears words not to be spoken by man, and translates them into the rude dia- ect of his time; thus he is eyes to the blind and ears to the deaf and tongue to the dumb; he is brain and heart and to the crowd; he is prophet and poet and philosopher and evangel- st, above all he is incarnation living the truths he has found
 George Washington was the tenth man; and his message to the youth of this generation is, in your place in life, in the doing of your work, be a tenth enth man. Run on ahead, lead rebuke inspire. With open mind and respon- sive heart, with eye on the farther and 'eet keeping step to the divine purpose search for the higher truth of life, and lever cease to preach to, the nine the glad gospel of hope and progress