The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-21

beauties. unless they bear upon b COM
fort OF their lives might as well be sealed
mysteries stih. so far as they are con-
Il is he coiEnx. money-grubbing
present alone that interests and couples
them. They ave determined to go forth
with their muck-Takes and do not care
whether rheir eyes are lifted above II
little heaps which they are gathering
What a pitiful spending Of mans great
POWERS OF mind ard soul. Be the muck
powers rave beer sacrificed for its gath
lering and the brief span OF life reck-
ilessly thrown away The teacher can
beautiful and memorable words which
Were uttered as his ideal for the Uni
lversfty by its honore president. Dr.
alderman. DOW serving in a distant state
/ repeat them here because they can os
applied by each teacher in his work. AMI
lstriving for such an ideai must restore
Ia truer equilibrium:
Z have an ideal for this university.
there Is always a breath OF freedom IN
the air; where a sound and various learn
ing Is taught heartily without sham or
Ipretense; where the life and teachings
lof Jesus Christ furnish forth the ideal
lof right living and true manhood: where
manners are gentle and courtesies ally
multiply between teacher and taught:
where all classes and conditions and be-
lAefS are welcome and men may rise, il
earnest striving by the might of merit:
where wealth IS no prejudice poverty
no name; where honorable labor even
lrough labor OF the hands. is giorifed BIZ
Ih1gn purpose and strenuous desire fo-
tine clearer air and the larger view;
where There ds a will 10 serve all high
ENDS OF a state struggling up out of ig-
lnorance into general power: where men
are trained TO observe closely. to imagine
about them some humility and some
federation: where. finally, Truth shining
patiently like a star. bids US advance. and
I'VE VIII not turn aside"
| a last Thought that 7 world Loo ~. xrir n
you IS that IL Is a part of your mission
Ito set men free. In fact. in one way or
another. this thought runs through all
THE story of your striving. Men speak
LOT political freedom and patriots have
struggled to free their country. but this
kind of freedom means only a change of
governed in some way to insure the pub
I1c good A constitution is substituted
tor autocracy; a many-headed majority
TOR one king; a ruler chosen by the pep
lple for one foisted upon them through
some fansied right or by sheer might.
but he who teaches the truth brings into
lohe world the only breath of freedom
which it knows. releasing those who find
wisdom. from t%yrannies more ~ensIaving
and degrading n a mere political
Tyranny.
of a great university are Inscribed the
words of the Master: I'VE shall know the
truth and the truth shall make you
lIree and no more appropriate, grander
words could have been chosen for those
Who teach and those who sit at their
rect to learn. Teach the truth and the
slavery OF ignorance disappears. the
bondage OF superstition and of error il
broken. the selishness and narrowness
OF petty e~cclesiasticism and bigotry are
all that degrades. or dwarfs or Ttoisons
in any way the sweet waters of the
fountain of human liberty. shall vanish
away. as the noisome r1ists are dis.
persed by the rising OF the glorious sun
preachers of the truth. it is the truth
alone that can make men free. and int
TINS truth 1t is your high privilege &c
lead them. -
And so, l magnify my office and T love
ITO think that 1 too may be counted
among the army of busy workers who's
world. :