The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1905-06-01
tion to humanity this struggle

Germany gave the world the
elements Of a free parliament
and the right of free speech.
He had a spirit that responded
to the teachings of Jesus re-
garding the equality of man in
the sight of God.
Long before Patrick Henry
cried, "Give me liberty or give
me DEATH" thousands in the
Netherlands had chosen death
rather than slavery; and gener-
alton after generation of liberty
lovers in England had wrested
from the king and mobiles the
rights of free men.
Cromwell and Washington
were really fighting for the
same thing. No more impas-
stoned oratory was ever uttered
in defense of American liberties
than by Pitt in the English
Parliament.
The school child of to-day
without lessening his love for
his own country is coming to
recognize that he is a child not
of one country, butof the world;
and that those who have come
to US from other lands have
their national heroes worthy of
remembr ance because they,
too, gave their lives for the bet
terment of the world. There is
something higher than love for
country it is love for mankind.
We read that it was a mixed
multitude that Moses led out
of Egypt. But all wanted to be
free.
It is not the place to empha-
size the blessings have come to
the world thru Moses and the
prophets jewish and Christian.
But no student of history can
fail to note the worlds progress
has been marked by the rise of
great religious teachers. Moses,
Isaiah, Jesus, Paul, Augustine
and the splendid line of
pioneers and preachers, Roman
and Protestant who laid the
foundations of society in God.
A few men living in an age of
intellectual ahd spiri u l
tyranny have thought it imposi,
BILE to hold to religion and free
dom but mcst of the great bene-
factors of humanity have been
like Moses men of faith. That
which we hold in comm mon is
more imortant- than that about
which we differ.
A Protestant clergyman
found poor Jewess dying with
none to comfort her. He turn
ed to the 23rd Psalm and direct
ed her to put her trust in the
great Shepherd of Israel, and
in the dark valley she found
light and peace. 1 trust that
you have already thought of
the fact that the greatest bless.
ings that you have received are
things that you can not buy.
They have been freely given.
You can hire a nurse, but who
can price mothers love? You
can hire board and buy food, but
a fathers affection who can
estimate? You can buy expert
knowledge and skill, but the
true teacher imparts himself
he must have something of a
parents love and something of
the spirit of the artist who de-
lights in realizing ideals. The
unpaid and unpayable service
is what the world has profit
ed most from. higher
service is ever rendered than
that of parents, and teachers,
secular or religious; they are
the hope of the future. Even
rich men are more and more
learning that it they would live
in the memory of men they
must spend their money for
libraries and schools and
churches. They see that the
only way to be worthy of mems
praise is to make the worlds
teachers more effective by pay
ing or pensioning teachers and
preachers the real world makers
l trust that this survey,
brief and superficial as it is, has
made you feel how much you
are indebted to the world for
the ,privileges you enjoy. l
trust that this survey of your
indebtedness to the world has
made clear to you the folly of
conceit, and the sin of selfish
ness. For these are utterly un-
pardonable in an educated man
or woman. A little knowledge
makes a man conceited, but
real knowledge makes a man
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