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mons which were reported In Inc
New Orleans papers in connection
with other incidents of the session,
from which the following extracts
are made:
Special TO \. q. Times-Democrat.
Seashore Camp Grounds, Aug.
1.-The Tri-state Epworth League
Conference came to a close, practi-
cally, tonight, though the re-
\ ligious services of tomorrow are
included upon the programme.
y number of preachers and
/ leaguers went TO New Orleans on
the afternoon train to-day Those
who remain for tomorrow will
have the pleasure of hearing two
sermons by Rev Richard Wilkin-
son. who created quite furore
here last night by his eloquent adj
dress on The Twentieth Century
Man" Those who had heard him
before predicted something fine,
but others who had not had that
privilege were rewarded beyond
their expectations.
Rev. DIR. Featherstun introdu-
ced the speaker. who proved him
self magnetic orator, deeply
cultured man and an inspiring
thinker His splendid address
was eloquently given. Among
other things Rev. Wilkinson said
that heroes were made, not born.
History is the record of what
men do and are. As units. said he
The story of the world is the
story of the men who have accom-
plishcd great things 10y their
thinking. George Dewey was not
made at Manila Schley nor Hob
son were born i'm the Cuban cam
paign. Their deeds were the mere
expressions of the character with
in them. In is not true. unquali-
fled. that ideas rule the world
Moore's Utopia is still dream
If conception is TO have any
value il must have practical eX-
preston. Epworth Leaguers. ii
il the specific kind of thinking
YOU and | are called upon to do.
Show me n man. show me woman.
who has not had thought which
have transformed the world. and
: will show you prodigy. Those
} who are recognized to-day are not
those of ancestral lineage, but
those of intrinsic merit.
, Rev. Wilkinson quoted Diraeli's
famous expression, Men are not
the creatures of circumstances cir
, cumstanccs are the creatures of
/ men" and said: Great charac-
ters do not wait for opportunities,
! they make them. The twentieth
century man will be- the one who
natures and executes his greatest
: thought An aimless man doesh I
deserve a place in life. and be
never gets it. No man has ever
been made for the accomplish
ment of an ordinary purpose.
= There is no fate in the economy
: of human life. We ascribe our
successes to ourselves and our fail
ures to destiny. The one difieren-
CO between the great man and the
insignificant man Is purpose. The
day of universal genius is past
This is day when the air is re-
scnant for the best in the human
spirit Life is an arrow The
/ world stands aghast mt the man
. who will cling tenaciously To n
, divinely appointed purpose until
he is wrought out.
Seashore Camp Grounds, Aug
3.-The Z o'clock service this
: morning was led by Miss Emma
! l.. Tucker. The morning sermon
was preached by DIR. Wilkinson of
Aberdeen. who sustained the rep
utation that gentleman has made
a. an eloquent speaker.
Special "a y. %. Picayun.
Seashore Camp Grounds, Aug ,
Probably the finest address OF
the season was delivered last night
1t was the high water mark of the
conference. The address which
called forth such favorable criti-
cism was The Twentieth Century
Man. by Rev. Richard Wilkinson,
, of Aberdeen. Miss.
Afterquoting Hamlet's soliloquy.
TO be OF not to be-" he declared
tina. it discovered the true philoso-
ply of life. He said that the
business man and the scholar did
, dot live in separate and indepen-
. dent realms. "a human action, un-
less men had resolved themselves
into mere machines, moving ac-
cording 10 the impulse of the blind
force behind them, was but the
, expression of thought. and that
. the quality and merit of all human
conduct was but the outward ex-
preston. He declared that no
life was created for an inferior
purpose-that the mediocre aud
the ordinary man were the pro-
ducts of indetiniteness of aim aud
scattered energies.
The browning test of this TWEEN
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