The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-08-08

or equipped for the contest, he must
meet his fellows on an unknown field
and fight in that great battle of life
where no quarter.is asked and none is
given. A young man without an
education is like ship at sea with
out a rudder; the machinery may all
be there; the sails intact; the fire
smoulderingin in the furnace; but with
out that guiding power it is help
less drift upon the stormy waters of
a great ocean. Nature has endowed
hundreds of men with brain, charac-
ter and ability, and the world has
thrown golden opportunities and ad-
vantages across their path, but for
the want of an education they have
been dest to the call of fame and
fortune, and have gone down to their
graves unknown, unhonored and un-
sung. There is no earthly limit to
the breadth and depth of the human
mind, it is as broad as the universe
and as deep as eternity; the trained
mind has already bridled the winds
of heaven and made them do its bid
ding, 1t has harnessed the lightnlng's
fash and made it a beast of burden,
it has fathomed the mystery of the
mighty deep and made it the resting
place of a hundred cables; the edu-
Gated eye has penetrated beyond the
stars through the milky way to
worlds above, and with it's mighty
telescope it reads the secrets of the
twinkling stars and tells the story of
worlds unseen by human eye; and
yet, we are but standing in the gray
mist of the early morning; what shall
be revealed to us when the sun Of
education shall have resched it's ze-
NTH. God alone can tell; but this we
know: the coming generation shall
face problems and possibilities that
are now as far removed from our
idea of realization as was truth from
the mind of Shakespeare when he
made Puck say that he would "put q
girdle round about the earth in forty
minutes" This is a transition pc
riod in the worlds history; new in
ventions and new theories follow
each other in rapid succession, and
it will take quick mind and an edu-
Gated brain to keep from being a
straggler in this great army OF bread
winners.
There is another, a broader and
less personal reason why every citi-
zen should be interested in the cause
of education, and it is because the
very existence and welfare of this
state and nation depends upon the
intelligence, integrity and moral ad-
vsncement of it's citizenship. That
great factor was realized and acted
upon by the founders of our national
government as far back as the days
of the revolutions; for almost before
the smoke of the cannon at Yorktown
had cleared away, the sound of the
pick and the spade could be heard dig
ging foundation for school house
within the shadow Of almost every
legislative hall of that young repub
lie. They cast their bread upon the
waters and it has been returned tc
them a hundred fold, for since that
time, down through one hundred
years, that republic has grown and
prospered, and today European
nations are sending their children tc
drink from the spring of knowledge
that flows from those same educa
tional institutions; and that young
republic has long since thrown aside
it's swaddling clothes, and now chal
lenges the world to o$meet it in thE
mgrts of trade and in the arts of war
The elders of this republic buildec
wisely and builded we'll. They
planted the church on the hlll-top'
and the school house in the valley
and from them they garnered a har
vest of peace and plenty; the fruit o
their labor was the benedictlon of
grateful people and the birth OF
gallant nation.
Our schools and colleges have don
as much towards making this countr..
great and prosperous as has tn