The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-10

! is storming the citadel and making a
| man so greedy of success that he VIII
use his fellow as his prey. Not to coarse
vulgar forms of selfishness does it tempt
us at first but to a kind wrongly con-
! founded with enterprise, energy, and pow
or to bring things to pass. 1t is new
! heroism that people are worshpping. 1t
not only wrecks chara ctcr. but fashions
soothing excuses while it kills an es-
/ sence that should ccme forth in the
| noblest forms of life and work.
Thirdly: Destroy this divine essence
and the man is mutilated by the means
he uses and the ends be gains.
| The best part of the man falls by the
! way. Gebazic got TO the top: so did
Joseph. One was a prince-the other
| leper when he got there" The devil is
| now reversing the old proverb, and is
getting the foremost" instead of the
"hindmost."
| We develop shrewdness, cleverness,
now, just as the tight-rope dancer trains
his legs. In Journalism, politics, litera-
| ture, art and the drama money is the
! goal, and greed makes us nimble. We
! grovel to get, and what we get crippes
us. The moral sense is the sense of God.
1t is one of His greatest gifts that are
all common property. They are easier
to seize and are unpurchasable except by
hunger and purpose. The true riches are
the acquisition of the dcterminedly good
Here is your great encouragement, the
real life-LuXuries are broadly strewn
among the common people, whom. rs
Abraham Lincoln said God must love-
He made so many of them Often they
have a sweeter taste in the lean and
meager life than in that supposedly fat
and full.
The present emphasis upon quantity
! will shift The moral emphasis upon
| quality brings the common mans op-
! portunity. Then his moral character is
| his weekday gospel. He himself be-
! comes the message of righteousness. The
great, the supreme appeal is this: 1t is
! the will of God. 1t is possible to man.
! The sense of Duty becomes a sense Of
| God.
! so nigh is grandeur to our dust;
So close is God to man:
When Duty whispers low, Thou Must,
The Youth replies-"I CAM"
After DIR. Watsons address the chorus
sang, They That Sow in Tears"
SUPERINTENDENT JOINER.
Then came the awarding of diplomas
and comforting of degrees by Hon. j. Y.
Joyner State Superintendent of Public
! instruction.
President -Mescrve introduced Superin-
! tendent Joyner in a few words of appro-
pirate self-congratulation upon his pres
! ence.
Superintendent Joyner In addressing
the graduates spoke of the tremendous
responsibility resting upon them to prove
! to the world the advisability of educating
their race; for there were those. even
among their neghbors, who questioned
whether or not they should be educated
Superintendent Joyner began by speak
ing of diplomas as evidences of gradual
ton, tokens of work well DONE declara-
! tons of worth and confidence.
The cost of these diplomas was great
won as every prize worth winning must
be won. by days of toll and nights devoid
of ease.
Life" said he lis one great school,
with one great Master, in which all
prizes must be won in the same way, and
! you must assume your place in this great
school.
| There is a tremendous obligation rest
ing upon your human shoulders in this
new life, in this greater school. With
| the stamp of this institution upon you
| you go forth as educated representatives
| of a whole race. 1t is crucial period in
| the education of your race-you are on
trial in the court of public opinion of the
civilized world. The success or failure of
education for the race will be judged by
the world by the object lessons of your
lives. You are he living epistles upon
this subject that the world will read"
Then Superintendent Joyner dwelt upon
| out of the relation of these graduates to
their race as logical leaders of it, and
the more limited the number of leaders
the grayer is the responsibility of lead.
| ership.
He said that what they must teach
their race by preccpt and example. the
| necessity of industry, economy, thrift and
virtue; what their true place is in the
government and society and what their
| true relation is to other races that the
marital tie is sacred that the home is
holy; that work is honorable; that idle
ness is criminal. Whether wrapped in
rags or clothed in silks and satins, it IS
criminal alike That they must be con-
| tent to fill well the sphere that they
must fill whatever that sphere be. That
the only true measure of a mans work IL
usefulness and faithfuness to study
THAT honor and shame from no condition
| rise
Act well your part; there all the honor
! lies
"The aim and end Of education is not,
said Superintendent Joyner, Ito make
negroes like white men or like any other
men, but to develop what God has Great
| ed in them and make of them the best
possible negroes, for no race ever became
great without racial pride. The negro
must develop that in his race which VIII
make him proud Of it as the Anglo Saxon
| is proud of his
In closing Superintendent Joyner touch
cd upon the fact that no race, no indi-
vdual ever yet grew great by imitation
| but by following the lines of creation.
| There is nothing creative in education; Il
| is a process of development in growth.
| There is but one creative power in all
the universe, and no process of device Of
man can supply what He has not created.
The diplomas were then presented, con-
| ferring the degree of NJ. d. upon the fol-
| lowing