The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-18


! our hearts years ago. l can never for
get G. Durham. He furnished a large
part of the canvas for God to write
on. So did Henry Battle, Thos. Hume
Brother Hutham. L would have you
honor her who stayed at home and
reared the children so that they could
go.
/ Mr.. Struggled told about the prayer
meetings all over the State. Such pray
er meetings. How grateful we are
that God has led us all along. This and
nothing more. The joy is Just begin
ming. We wanted to build school
lust like Wake Forest college, only. a
great deal better.
/ Mr.. Springfield was greeted with a
perfect ovation as he commenced and
when he finished. Then the entire
| gathering sang two Stanzas of Nearer
Ny God to Thee" Following this came
a song, Lift Thine Eyes, oratorio of
Elijah, by the chorus. Then the Sc
niors, in their mortar-board caps and
academic gowns, went upon the plat
form and the audience applauded.
DIR. Il. S. Henson.
| Next DIR. p. S. Henson was fittingly
introduced by superintendent Joyner.
| 1t was one of those accidents that
called the hub, should meet Raleigh,
which had some pretensions to that
| title herself. l welcome you to the
hub of North Carolina.
Dr. Henson said he was glad to be
| here in such a "hubbub." If he was
abashed, he was like the barbarian
who after visiting Rome was asked
"a nation of senator's" Now / am in
the presence of a race of orators. He
was glad that he had crossed the line
into the South, but there was no line
now. (Applause) He said he was born
in Virginia educated at the Univer Sity
of Virginia, and made his first foraY
into North Carolina. At Milton he had
edited the North Carolina Democrat,
and for that reason or some others,
perhaps, North Carolina had remained
solidly Democratic ever since. He had
taught at Wake Forest agricultural
chemistry, the thing of all that he
| knew least about. But the trustees
had told him that at least he had a
mouth, and could plough among the
brethren at the associations
! He was glad to be here ht so aus
picious a time, when North Carolina
| was forging ahead SO fast, and must
! be reckoned with among The great
powers of the nation. Then he spoke
| of the woman question. He was GJa d
| this institution did not have the name
of female, but that of woman. THAT
was a very delicate question and one
must be very careful as he handles H.
or it will go off and blow the operator
| 10 the skies. He himself never ap-
preached it without fear and trem-
bling. He had learned something from
| his sufferingS.
| AS to the question of equality, or
the comparative superiority of the
| sexes it was like what Lincoln said to
the two hatters, Your two hats do
l 1f1rn llxr ac.c oh or or
| cannot compare a peach and rose. A
| locomotive was to him the most mag
nificent thing made by man, but stuck
I in the mud, off the track, nothing was
| more ignominious or detestable. So
nothing is more disgusting than a
| WomaniZed man or a maniZed woman.
He touched on the question of evolu-
ton, and said he believed the account
| in Genesis, Humanity in it's totally
was in Adam. God did not create a
man and a woman.
| Here DR. Henson conceived a beau
tiful comparison between Adam and
Jesus Christ as embodying each one
| the whole of mankind.
Man claimed to be more logical,
but that was but badge of his servi-
tude. A man is bound by the letters of
| his syllogisms, while Il woman just
| knows things, anyhow. She does not
have to reason things out by any logic
| Womans instincts are quicker and
truer. With her love is her very be-
! ing, with man it is an episode. Per-
| haps the reason there is no marrying
nor giving in marriage in Heaven is
| because there are not men enough to
go around That was in connection
with the fact that most of the churches
are manned by women. Among all
| the enemies of Christ mentioned in the
Bible, not a woman was mentioned.
No inspiration was comparable with
that of woman who walked step by
! step with a man of high ideals. Let
girls be so cultivated that they put
| young men on their mettle, instead of
| being treated like little simpletons to
| be pelted with bouquets and candy.
! He then told most humorouSly and en-
| tertainingly of his first love affair, and
set the audience in roars OF laughter
| There is nothing so helpful as Guilt
waited womanhood in the development
of character. They tell us of republics
that fell but we have what they had
! not, the open Bible-a cultivated wo-
| manhood Athens and Rome had not
cultivated women, except in rare cases.
! AS to woman suffrage, enfranchlSe-
ment,r that introduced us INTO mat
heated arena where the discussion is
about womans rights. L believe in
rights Industrial / don't think wo-
| man should be obliged to marry in
| order to get living or TO escape the
] title of old maid. / have seen women
! whom the Lord seemed to have re-
| moved from all domestic cares IN or
der that they might have wider
| range of service for God. suppose
| man of her ideals should never come
along, should she bind herself by un-
| congenial ties to man she does not
| love? Give her a chance to earn Nv
| ing. God be praised that we have
come to a time when a woman can
earn an honest living without SOCIAL
ostracism. If / were the car of all
the Russias-but that does not sound
so big as it used to.If | were the
Mikado, l would take a whip of scor-
pions and drive all the white-livered,
white handed young fellows from jobs
that women could fill. In this connec-
ton the speaker deplored the discrim-
nation in wages and salaries against
women. He spoke of the rights domes-
tic of women and how some husbands
make life almost uncomfortable to their
wives because of their irritability at
home when business went wrong. AS
to other rights and suffrage great
deal of nonsense was talked on both
sides. The ballot is not plaster that
o,,roc Tile What is needed is more