The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1901-07-11
Sermons and Addresses
REMARKABLE FOR THEIR WORDS OF WARM
ING AND OF HOPEFULNESS.

ment Season Just Ended-A Few
Striking Sentences Which Should
Impress Themselves Alike Upon the
Minds of Old and Young.
Raleigh Morning Post.
1t would 4 service fraught with the
greatest good if the sermons and ad
dresses delivered at the higher schools
and colleges in this State during the
commencement season ust ended
could be gotten together, printed in
convenient form, and distributed
broad cast throughout the State. No
better or more useful textbook for
use in the schools was selected by the
State Board than such publication
as these combined sermons and ad-
dresses would make. Each and all
are remarkable for their words of
warning and of hopefulness, OF their
grasp Of the momentous changes i'll
the social world and of the demands
OF The future.
We have selected few striking
sentences from several addresses
which should impress themselves upon
the minds of the people, young as
well as old.
Hon. Locke Craig, in his eloquent
made the following statement, which
states a mOmentOus truth and carries
with it il momentous suggestion. 1t
is:
The people Of North Carolina
should prepare themselves for new
conditions and greater responsible
ties The utmost endeavOr of the
human intellect, and the utmost
energy Of human character, are now
demanded. Her people must be edu-
Gated"
Mr. Hamilton Wright Mabie. one of
the recognized students and leaders
. of thought in this country, in his ad-
dress at Trinity, said:
There isn't going to be any room
for the uneducated man. There was
time when men with good character
and physique could find work. The
tragedy Of our time is that of half
educated men and women.
| "A man without an education may
oct Job but no man can do the best
work who has not an education. No
man can do personal work without it.
When storms come only the educated
man is safe. He is only safe in mod
ern times who can do something so
well that the world cannot do without
him. Things do not come by chance.
Men do not choose whether you or
have work in tie world. We choose
| for ourselves. Skill isn't question
of chance When man is found who
is not doing his best, then we know
there is trace of unsoundness about
him. Let mans righteousness
work down through his fingers and he
cannot be dishonest. A man is hon
est when he does his best work. The
time has come when it is just as
necessary for great man of affairs
as it is for professor"
Mr. Plummer Stewart, in his liter
erary address at Stanly Creek Acad
emv on Problems of the Twentieth
Century, held out the future as :
great commercial age. Speaking o
the factory, he said:
L
manufacturing center, and in few
wears North Carolina will be the lead
inc State in the South. The factory
is great blessing. 1t furnishe!
labor to the unemployed and increase:
wealth. Four hands with the factory
can do as much as 40 without it. L
adds nine billion dollars annually tt
the wealth of this country. 1t blesse:
all classes and conditions of people
The factory is here to stay. 1t is in
dispensable in modern civilization.
.sMen spend more time complaining
about hard times and abusing wealth
than they do in trying to make times
better.
Zone of the great factors which th
twentieth century needs to accom-
plish its high mission is individual
effort. Ancestral distinction ant
social taste will count nothing. Th
new century doesn't care who you
father was. You need not boast o
your blood, of your ancestry, OF you
social standing.
..Another factor is education. Blu
one of the greatest factors is tn
church-the church without denomi
D national wrangling; the church with
out sectarian prejudice; more religion
and less sectarianism in politics
The new century demands that Ger
tain denominations quit scramblin.
for office; that they quit trying t
manipulate political conventions s
as to get members OF their State elect
ed as State superintendent, count
superintendentS and on boards
education. Away with sectarian pre-
iudce; let us have peace.
Higher criticism and heresy ar
now disturbing the church. Fou
. candidates were denied admissio
into the ministry this month becaus
they believed in evolution. The i'm
portant question with me is not M
origin, but my destiny. 1t makes n
difference with me whether | spran
: from the Bibles Adam, Darwin
monkey. or Stanly Creeks tadpole
and crawtish. But what am | goin
to do and whittier am l going, do cor
Germ me. | may have evoluted fror
the monkey, but l am not one now
But the church is going to triumph
1T (the century, doesn't need pre-
fessional politicians. There is n
room for sickening demagogues, wire
pullers and sap-suckers in the comm
crisis.
North Carolina is the best place i
the world and the twentieth centur
is the best age in all history for
young man or woman to make a sue
cess of life.
1T doesn't need mixed schools no
negro votes. 1t doesn't need rim
rule nor party slavery. 1t doesn
need negro racket campaigns.
But it does need men-men
energy, men of ambition, men OF chal
aoter IT naeds ,nen who are no