The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-03


 ing the dangers of the forest ia yather them lie sought stronger weabon than the stone hatehet and found in the hills me Iron ore which he finally hammered
 into sword of steel; from thai hapr mans mastery over the lower animals was complete.
 From the beginning, as we have seen. man struggle for enlightenment was de- Veloped, nrst by his desire to provide most conveniently and surely for his food supply
 ihis intimately led to the acquisition of siioi oi the necessities of life than his s1..., 'e wants required, and when lie ,,si 1 ne had an over stock of one 1f life's necessities and short s,nnl, nf shoeher, he sought neighbor with whom ne could exchange. This led to barter anu traue, and was the beginning of com iherce. The necessity of common medi- uii oi exchange brought about the meas uins oi all values by a fixed standard
 i4eH III our day is known as money; sneiis' beads, agricultural products and precious metals have all been used as A ineolum of exchange, but as commerce gre" the world soon accepted gold and silVer as the most convenient and safest measure of values. Then came the desire TOT wealth and the accumulation of
 eDlRnfened DeODlp sought trade with the less .>enlightened ana for gold in unknown lands: this caused the growth of commerce and Inc ueVeiopment of the intellect along these lines 's '''ese
 ne anlmal was made to bear mans ou.atn. ships were built and the wind ana waves of old ocean made to do mans bidding, and his intellectual powers stin uta,eu along these lines until he com a rom this drew force that sends an express train three thousand miles across tne continent in five days
 wealth brought leisure and with eis- ,fe came the love of the beautiful and the expansion of the soul; then came the ihteiiectual development in the fine arts ana in religious study and research With thls advancement and development of the intellect 1t is well for Us to consider now 1t was acquired. I want to say to you, there is no golden road to know ledge; every man must pay the same price for 1t. It can only be acquired by work whether the seeker for 1t be the ! son of millionaire or q pauper
 Mans first Knowledge came from per i sonal experience as does that of the child of today He found out that the fire would burn when he put hs hand In it, and probably the most valuable know ledge of all we learn Is that we acquire DN eXpef1ence.
 Then man acquired knowledge by it's being handed from father to son by word of mouth The training of the hand, and Hs disciplining of the eye. A great part or modern knowledge is acquired in the same way in the trades and arts. How long would 1t take you to paint picture or shoe horse If you were required to learn 1t from the books and had no mas ter of the trade or art to show you? The eI ba r,rfae ip | ba nt temples, and the minstrel wanderers who sung of love and war were all eonveyors of knowledge by this means.
 But man desired a surer and more per manent means of the conveyance and es- tablishment of knowledge; his first efforts in that direction Is the historic monu ment builders when We find him piling rocks together to commemorate some i'm portant event, as a stimulent or a warn ing to himself and his children. The Phenecian who cut his hlerogly- phich on the rocks; the Indian who paint cd his signs on his blankets. and the Arab who invented our system of num- bers, were all animated by the same desire and guided by the same impulse to hand on to the future the happenings { of the present and the past
 Modern letters were the ultimate deyel- opment of mans intellect along these | lines, and the steps from the pyparus copy to the printing press and the lino | type machine are but an evolution from ! that expanding intellect that first bound rock to a stock and called it a wea pom We have traced back to It's source the dawn of the intellect and the acquisition of knowledge The acquisatlon by the brain of knowledge is education. But you must mot confuse education with in- teiiigence; intelligence Is a normal, heal thy brain, ready at all times to perform its work; it Is born to you-not acquired On the other hand. education is some thing you are born without. You must acquire 1t and the uses to which you can put it after it's acquisition will largely depend upon the amount of intellectual force that goes with it.
 Do not overlook the fact that God en- dowed barbaric man with two physical forces with which to conquer the world mind and body.
 If you would win lfe's victory and gain earth's reward, it is as necessary that the one should be as sound healthy and edu- cated as the other. No matter how pow erful are the muscles and how great the strength of the body, 1t can only be newer of wood and drawer of water unless an intelligent mind directs its movements: and q great intellect in weak mlshappened body is chained to earth by bodily infirmities
 Do not forget that the great surgeon must nave a trained eye anu d Shllllhl hand. as well as the knowledge of the books to aid his intellect or he will fail in the supreme moment.
 And the Scotch lad whose powerful muscles welded the iron at the black smiths forge could never have become the great Andrew Carnegie, had an edu- cated intelligence not directed the ham, mer in its blows.
 Body and mind must both be trained. How little use is a powerful body if 1t is only trained to throw clods from the ditch. instead of multiplying it's power by skillfully directing powerful machin cry. How powerless is a great intellect if it is not furnished with the tools of a modern education with which to work. For education is only a set of tools with which the intellect works. Without native intelligence an education Is of lit- tie value and without education great intellect Is bound to earth and can ac- compish but little.
 trained body Is necessarily a healthy body and trained mind ia ot necessity healthy mind The combination of these two in a man is sure to produce the greatest essential to success in modern times, and that is-character. By char actor l mean that standing man ac- ouires in the opinion of his fellow men for industry sobriety. truthfulness and honesty; 1t Is that quality that makes A man stand to his post in the darkest hour and keeps him from losing his head in the moment of his great success.
 Character brings the opportunities of life. It may take intelligence and educa- ton to grasp oportunity and use it. but hoth are of little avail unless your fel-