The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-05-21

and honor that | can speak to the con-
stituents of this institution at this au-
spcious hour
DIR. Hatcher then said he would begin by
dividing the race to which we belong in
to three classes. First. the pensioners.
these that live on bounty, those who re
incapable Of self-support, who produce
l.othirg and have nothing to give away,
such as children, the aged, the feeble,
wounded, cripples. The second class are
the self-supporting ones, those that are
capable of taking care of themselves,
and are only capable of taking care of
themselves. They set up for themselves
and for nobody else. Il will
place them," said he, ''a little
above the first Any man or any woman
who would enter into any relation with
the primal idea of dependence is un-
worthy of support. The third, or top
class IS composed of those who have Il
surplus who are capable of self-suoport
and have something besides to give their
neighbors'
Continuing, DR.. Hatcher said in part:
Il address a class of people who in
the nature of things have SO far belonged
to the first class. 1t is one test of your
character that you appreciate what has
come to you in your dependent state.
But you will go higher than that. You
must come to the time when you Will
Irealize the honor and glory of self-re
lance We belong to a section of coun-
try which gloried in the dependence OF
it's women but we are coming to the time
when the most glorious type of woman
Ixy I,n I
marck of self-reliance.
"But this point of self-reliance is not
one to stop at always. We musc GO on
/ to the highest class, and l have some
thing to say of the donors, the contribu-
| tors 1t is of the women who have some
thing TO spare that I have to speak of
/ this morning.
IF you are a pensioner, the world
will be poorer for your living. If you
are simply self-suppCrtcr You will use
up all that you make. | want to see all
| of you dissatisfied with that kind of
, life. So it is of the contributors | want
to speak.
Many people think of money in this
sense. / am sorry our American people
| think so much Of money. One of the
most interesting things to me in this the
| beginning of our second century, is the
| dominance, the power the tyranny of
our money makers. And not less pllz-
zlinG and beWildering to me is che coney-
giver. There is something in the man.
moth gifts of the great money givers of
| the present day that fills me with hu-
initiation. for it makes it look as if great
universities We're not to be made by the
common people.
Il believe this is going to be a great
university, and that it is going to be
| built up by the kind of men who have
made North Carolina what she is. poor
men. There is an indefinable charm
about university that can be given on
| ly by the aggregation of the little and
not by the great donations of the rich
They may put up splendid buildings.
| but they cannot make that atmosphere
that IS thrown around university by
the small gifts of loving hands"
Speaking cf great men and remarkable
| geniuscs, he said:
I'VE really do have very little place
for great people, but we do have need
and place for thousands and thousands
of really good and true people. Because
we cannot give millions or give the world
great masterpieces with the chisel or
brush, It does not follow that God has
| given us no work to do We are to fit
| in TO the wants and needs of humanity,
| and have resources to meet them.
| Your gift is going to be according to
what You are. There is tho trouble with
some of the money-givers They are
nothing but money makers. and they can
|
nothing that is of Gof.
ITO me the most hyperbOlicai and vet
the profoundest thing Jesus Christ ever
| said was what he said about the widow S
| gift in the temple. that she gave more
thar all Of the others put together Tie
said that woman put her life. ell she had
! into that gift. That is the Illustration of
that saying: whatsoever saveth his life
shall lose it
Friends, if YOU are to be contributors,
| if YOU add anything to the world, you
have got to add it by what you give, hut
the value of what you give is to be
measured by whether you put your life
into it or not. This is where the wo~
mans chance lies: she can put her life
into her work in the home. she car put
her life into the suffering she is often
called upon to endure
! i ask you to give something to this
world. to be worth something in the
world. L want you to be ready to give
something, and put yourself in it when
you give it, and make as much of your-
self as You can before it goes in. IT is
only when we put our life into~what we
give unto others that we como into pos
session of everything that other people
have"
DR.. Warm said he thought we should
have no difficulty in Classifying the
speaker as belong to the third class he
! had mentioned
! The bcnediction was pronounced 10y
| Rev. w. D. Hubbard. of the Tabernacle q
| Baptist church.
Commissioner Patterson rack.