Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1904-06-17
THE ADDRESS.

1t is with degree of pleasure that
you, my young friends,
upon your arrival at this milestone
placed by the highway OF your hies
journey, and | ask you to stop for little
and rest, at this ever TO be, with you,
notable spot. suggest that this is a
notable occasion. The pathway OF human
life is marked 10y numerous sign posts,
so to speak, aud every day and hour
almost, leaves its memorial tablet on
the wall of memory. The majority OF
these are of common character and
seldom attract our attention, but at
times we reach such dividing of the
ways or change of the course, that the
event becomes of unusual interest and
moment, and there is then raised tab
let of such character as will best me-
morialize the past and prophecy OF the
future. For you, this occasion is of this
class.
Your personal experiences thus far,
are the world i'll action as you have seen
and touched it; | would not have you
forget it; rather may you consider it as
pillar of cloud or fire to 60 on before
you into that daily life which, in its
development, shall soar to higher levels
and broaden to a more distant horizon.
This hour as you have stopped to rest,
memory sleeps aud the windows of the
| future are open to your dreams; and
ambition flies unchecked to demand ad.
| mittance into the land of success. What
will be the issue? viii the vision be
fulfilled as atrue reward for honest toll
and will the gates be opened that you
may claim and wear crown of victory
| cannot tell.
| would leave with you my young
friends some thoughts which may be
worthy your serious meditation. Ger
tain things would have you strive tC
know. First you need to know the
world. would have you make its ac
quaintance in the many fields in which
YOU are liable to come into contact will
it. | would have you study its charac
teristics and try to comprehend it
needs note its weaknesses and measure
its values; consider its deformitie
, enough to appreciate its beauties, an,
know the relationship which you bear t
it. Again say, study mankind.
DO you ask me how you can best know
mankind, possessed with his peculiaritie
operating for either bane or blessing?
answer, 'know myself" In this worlC
you are possessed of three distinct ua
lures, the physical, the mental and tn
spiritual, neither of which can you b
deprived of in this life Then to kno,
thyself you must understand these tire
natures, which, united into one, we cal
an individuality. 1t is peculiar to itsel
1t has no exact duplicate, and it lives it
life and none other. You should undel
stand the minimum and the maximum
of your physical forces. To tax you
physical energies TO the maximum
putting yourself in jeopardy; not to us
your strength to further development
is also wrong. This rule also apple
) to the mental. The brain must be mad
to work if it would increase its power G
action and work correctly.
You desire to be force, not a noner
tity; somebody achieving much rattle
than a something in everybody's wa,
You must also have your eyes constant
on the future.
These are a few of the eeraenti
principles which will lead you in thi
study OF yourself. Upon the results {
this inspection will probably Deepen
quite largely the road Of activity you
life will travel. Your future depend
possibly more than you are aware toda
upon the technical knowledge you hav
OF yourself, and a comprehension of you
strength and frailties. Failures in Iii
are principally due to misdirected enc
y gles. Opportunities unseen, and power
e wasted because spent in the wrong fielt
} are the result of a failure to know th
= self. Look at self through the right en-
, OF the telescope to present you in I'll
true proportions of your capacity. 1t
| better that you be magnified to yol
| own vision than to be deprecated an
, underestimate. An honest attemp
, although it meet with failure, partial {
| complete, is preferable to sitting idly
the wayside waiting for a moving wor
+ to change the scenes.
| A contemplation of the active worl
r around you and study of yourself wi
: lead you to certain conclusions touchir
) the question of law and supply; II
demands which you have right
make and what you in return may |
able to supply. You need to practice
conservation of your forces, for tt
demands today upon educated men an
F.. women are numerous and vital to tn