The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-07-01
Valedictory Address
Continued from Page Four.)


ition to enjoy life. Literature, art and
nature afford much that gives pleasure.
Books offer one of the chief means
of gaining enjoyment. Hours of pleas
ure and profit may be spent in their
company Education makes us ac-
quainted with the great writer's and
their works; their works will be APP
preciated the more when the writer him
self is understood. The vast amount of
reading matter now adays and the
great variety of subjects afford enjoy
ment to all classes of people. Sculpture
and painting can be better appreciated
and enjoyed when one has become ac-
uuainted with the artists and their
motives and the character of their lives.
Even music, which has charms for
the babe in it's mothers arms and for
the old man lettering to his grave,
for the breast of the savage and the
heart of a king, it, too, may have its
blessings multiplied for the trained ear
and the uuickened mind. So through
education life is made more enjoyable,
the world about US made more pleasant.
But the best fruits of education are not
yet reached
Riches and pleasure are well enough
in their places, but Character is more
precious than checkbook." "A mans
heart is worth more than his house-be
it a residence or a place of business.
Treasures within ones self are better
than treasures without ones self"
Treasures without ones self, such as
wealth, may be lost but treasures with
in ones self will be lost only when the
mind itself is unseated from the throne
of reason.
We live not for the sake of wealth
and the pleasure to be obtained. We
live to build up our character and to
make the world better and brighter be-
cause we have lived. MANS character
is more precious than riches" The
study of literature and history of a
country, the study Of sculpture and
painting of a people, reveals to us the
nOblest that men have thought, eXper-
fenced and expressed. History ac-
.quaints us with the problems men have
dealt with in different stages of their
development, with the methods used to
solve them, and the results which fol-
lowed. By comparing the causes and the
results of deeds done in the past we
are aught to reason and to work out
for ourselves the effects of certain
laws, and we learn to apply them to the
problems in our lives. Education en-
ables US not only to recognize that we
are born under laws but it aids US to
appreciate the confidence of laws and
aids in making obedience to these
laws easy and cooperation with them
natural. Education puts one in pos
session of the accumulated treasures
of his race; their literature, their art,
and their laws.
Thus education teaches us what we
are, where we are, what we should do,
whence we came, whittier we are going,
and what we may become; it teaches US
to set just values on all things and to
estimate movements, conditions and
forces at their real value"
Education helps us to enjoy life.
One can be happy only when one has
come to know ones self and has learned
to understand and appreciate his fellow
beings. 1T teaches truth and tender
ness, it teaches to appreciate beauty,
to feel nObly, it seeks to increase the
number and worth of ones relation
ships, to give self-knowledge, self
control, self-development, and fosters
social efficiency"
Education teaches one to think truth
fully, to choose wisely, to appreciate
beauty, to feel nobly, to reverence all
goodness and God.
Since then in education are to be
found the means of making life more
comfortable and enjoyable and Of devel-
oping character to it's fullest and high
est capacity of good for the world
around US, let us make our motto the
guide of our lives-"Mehr LIGHT
more light. More and more of the
light of education for all the youth
throughout our land, and for ourselves
too. 'Mehr Licht''-more light to find
our weaker fellow men, more light to
brighten our darker lot; more light to
see the duties in our paths; more light
to help us do our duty nobly;
and when at last we enter the valley of
the shadow of death may we see gleam-
ing beyond the dark vale the bright
walls of the new Jerusalem, and may
we cry with joy-"Mehr Licht!" Mehr
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