The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-20

were yesterday You re assumed new
relationship to the W From this hour
bu each are one 9 fies worlds laborers.
4 factor IN its ac' .evements. This insti-
ution has don, flor you intellectually
What training oes for the athlete, or
drilling for the soldier. Al college is a
hamo 1t creates no new power. 1t
Simply develops, concentrates, transmits
existing power. You leave these walls
with larger capacities and broader OPP
portumtles. You will be able to create
opportunities and to open doors which
have heretofore been barred in your faces.
Your chances Tor leadership in any given
sphere have been UNNECESSARILY increased
But intelligent, moral power meals re-
sponsibility. There is no responsibility
without such power, nor any such power
without responsibility. If your diploma
gives you new privileges with the world
II also gives the world the right to make
new demands on YOU The world has
fght TO expect more from you than from
your uneducated sisters. Your broader
views and larger powers impose higher
ophgatlons ITO whom much is given of
nm shall much be required" What has
me world right to demand from you?
LIST, your sympathy: your intelligent and
sincere sympathy with the worlds suffer
lngs, It's high purposes, and its struggle
TO realize those purposes. You are to
! touch the world at more points and with
klndlier hand. Not to hold yourself
apart, not to insulate yourself from sur
| rounding llte, SO as neither to feel the
shock of its woes nor the thrill of its lows.
out to enter heartily into all that makes
tor goodness and greatness and gladness;
to keep so close to humanity as to feel it's
heart throbs to study intellgently the
world movements, great and small, and to
know humanity as it is-this much Gods
great world may justly ask of YOU this
much you cannot innocently refuse
| Secondly, your service. Honest SYM
pathy means service. Sympathy without
service is maudlin sentimentality, nothing
more, affectation no less weak than vain
| rs your knowledge of men and things in
.reases, as your powers are enlarged, you
must undertake greater things for your
| cace. You contemplate a constantly
widening sphere for yourself. But no
| noble sphere was ever worthily filled ex-
eept by noble service. knowledge and
service are complementary one to the
without knowledge is a full charged engine
With no guiding track. Knowledge with
tut zeal is a dead engine rusting its use
less life away. knowledge is the foun-
TAIN service is the stream Dam UP the
fountain and the stream will run dry. |
Stop UP the stream and the fountain viii
stale. The fountain is now open. You
ire expected to send out the stream OF |
service to bless mankind.
Great questions, social, political and
moral are stirring the world The labor
problem, the race problem, the drink pro-
olem, and the many-sided religious pro-
olems, are all pressing hard for settle |
nent and they must be settled on the |
ines or righteousness. Let it be remem- |
oered that at heart all great questions
ire moral questions. 1t may be your pro
vince to contribute something towards |
their solution, some true womanly service, |
none the less notwithstanding the |
more valuable-because it is pure wo-
manly. For not on the hustings, nor at I
the ballot box, nor in the legislative halls, I
nor on the martial field, nor even in the t
pulpit, are these question to be settled |
finally and rightly. They shall find their
eral culture, unclouded by ignorance and
unfettered by prejudice; patriotism that
sets country above party and honor above |
office; a sense OF righteousness which ac-
cords to others what we demand for our T
selves, shall be brought to the task. These
sentiments and conditions are not created, /
they grow. And the seed is generally /
planted in the homes where broad minded /
md God-fearing women reign,
The third demand which the world may
rightfully make on you is for yourself, /
your best and noblest self Your sympa-
thy, your service, yourself these three;
but the greatest of these is yourself
They follow one another in necessary Sc
quence. There is no real sympathy with
out corresponding service and no high /
service apart from the servant In meas
dring your obligation to the world and
your influence on the world, the personal
equation generally counts for the I'M
known quantity: but it is always the de
termning factor So that you cannot
serve the world until you have surren-
dered yourself to the worlds service. And
this self-surrender, once a mere contem-
plation, is now a high and holy ohlga-
tino. Eye are not your own Was this
not written of you? mo man liveth unto
himself Who hath made you an excep-
ton?
The world has right to clean every
man for his servant. But by as much
as you have enlarged your capacity to
use and enjoy the world, by SO much have
you increased your obligation to the
world.
And you will never attain to your very
best womanhood till you have recognized
the worlds claim and devoted yourself to
it's service. In your school struggles what
has been your dominant purpose? Has
your eye been fixed only on this day?
What does this parchment signify to you?
Only better equipment for yourself and
larger freedom? What has your horo-
scope revealed? A world of life and pleas
ure with yourself as the central figure?
Then was your vision earth-clouded and
narrow, no less certainly hopeless than it
was thoroughly selfish. Follow such a
plan and you are likely to grow in all
that IN mir 70 b,1Y, life IIttl