The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-31

1t is the full fountain, which because
| 1t is full, overfloWS and makes the
green grass grow and the plants TO
/ burst into flower II is a full man.
who, having all he needs can con =
! tribute to the wants of others IT is
needful, too, in order to get the best
out of men, that we shall be- able to
| recognize a fine thing when 1t is done.
| No man can speak to people who cam
not hear. No musician can play for
| those ears are not attuned to harmony
and no man can paint for those whose
eyes are not trained to see the beauty
! which he produces. There must be
an appreciative audience before any
man can do his best. If a woman
sings her best songs and strikes the
| deepest chords of music when her
sweetheart tells his story of love it is
because she believes that he Under
stands and appreciates the beautiful
| thing which she is doing. If she
| closes her piano and puts away her
music after the wedding. it is because
she has discovered that the man
| whom she loves best does not realize
| the splendid talent that is hers. The
woman who spends her days and
nights studying light, shadow and
perspective; who mixes her colors
with her own life blood, can never
create a great painting unless She
! feels that some heart shall under
stand the fine thing she has do le
and some soul be uplifted by her
work. If these things be true, and
| that they are | am assured then il
must needs be that the finest things
can be done only by the education Of
| the masses.
1T is education that finds and
brings out for us the noblest and the
best. Ii stimulates these best to the
utmost eXertion and fullest develop
ment by putting them in competition
with others just as well trained as
themselves and ii gives to us the
nobleSt and most appreciatiVe aud
fences. When this thought shall be-
come the guiding thought of the South
and our school teachers shall work all
the time to their utmost until every
son and daughter of the South is the
thing that God intended,-then and
not until then, shall we take our
rightful place in the American I'm
ion. To reach this place will cost us
much-much money, much toll, much
sacrifice; but everything that is worth
while always does cost much, and in
deed the finest things can only be had
at the highest prices and then only
when paid for in advance. No speech
ever yet fell from mortal lips worth
remembering a moment after it is de-
liVered that did not come after Ike
speaker had paid for it in advance.
No song was ever sung that raised
the hearts of the people and made
them long for better things that WAS
not sung after the singer had suf-
fered all she sang. No preacher ever
stirred the souls of his congregation
and put them to yearning after "a
closer walk with God whose sermon
was not made after his own hands
had been nailed upon the cross by the
side of his Lord and Master. No man
reaches the highest peak of q noun
tain until he has bruised his knees
and scrambled over boulders and fall
len into the gulches on his way up the
height. Indeed before he reaches
there his head shall split with aching
his back shall break and the nails on
his fingers shall be torn out by the
roots as he pulls up the rugged way.
But when he does reach the top, the
world lies at his feet and the pathway
seems to him no longer difficult The
boulders are out of sight, gently COW
cred by the grass that grows by the
Wayside, While the flowers burst iuto
the beauty of the eternal morning
The struggle upward is worth the cost
and without the cost would not be
worth while The South which bore
80 IiluCil' SdCIIIC0u al Oh nef wealth.
and gave the life of her young men in
such numbers as to appall the histo-
rians. ought to be able to do anything
necessary to achieve the best things
that are 10 be found in the world. We
must learn all that can be learned: do
all that can be done, and be all that
we ought to be. The learning and do
ing VIII not give us power until we
are what we ought to be. for power
permanent and lasting must finally be.
based on righteousness.
when the War Between the States
closed and the Incompatible leader of
the Southern armies cast about to find
the work which he ought to do, he
became teacher. General Robert r.
Lee, the greatest soldier of the 10Th
Century, was greater in peace than in
war. He realized that the South
could only be made great, powerful
and controlling through the school
house and he devoted the last years
of his life to the high purpose of
teaching. When he came to die. toss
ing on his last bed Of illness, his mind
reverted to the Titanic struggle
through which he had passed. He
fought over again the great battles of
that awful conflict, and as he stood
in imagination before the serried ranks
OF the enemy he cried out to his aide,
Tell Hill he must come up"
We are fighting today more ter
rife battle with the forces of ignor-
ance than he was fighting then. If
had the right to use the great words
OF this mighty man l would call out
tonight and say, President Alderman,
President McIver, President Nell,
Chancellor irkland, Chancellor Hill,
President Thach, President Fulton.
President Boyd, President Talaferro,
President Prather, President Jessr,
you must come up Bring all your
corps of light and truth and power.
open your batteries, for the conflict
is now on with the enemy. The pow
ers Of ignorance and darkness are ar
rayed against us and the fight must be
to finish. Tell Hill he must come
up -