The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-06-16
THE DAY OF FATE HAS COME.
EDITOR HERALD:

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Never 10 the history of Columbia
never. at least during the twenty years
which it has been my good fortune tc
have lived among the generous. hea ted
broad. gauged people of Maury County
has there been so much promise ahead
for the town and county as now stands
at our very threshold.
The day of Fate bds come; the OPP
pOrtunity is hare.
Amoag the greatest of these, class
our new Columbia Military Academy
To all of US Mr.. Editor and you know
there are many-who have worked for
this so many years, it is indeed crafty
ing to think of the bright prospect be-
fore us.
What We want to do now is for ALL
OF Us TO TALK AND WORK. Things do
not come of themselves. They spring
from causes. Causes are fixed, they are
laws unto themselves. Causes-stropg,
fine causes, which have been quietly
growing for years have eliminated in
that public necessity that demands this
school. But We had been attrophied
intellectually and in a school way so
long that things had to work outside
of Us to produce this result Schools
splendid schools, spIaug up around US,
at Mt. Pleasant, at Spring Hill, at
Culleoks, McCains, Theta-all around
US. Like dry sponge in the midst of
running water, by the laws of absorp--
tion-of at .rition-Columbia has finally
absorbed the glorious moisture and now
since she never does any thing half way
she will prove to the world "the mettle
of her PASTURE We are all proud of
the schools above named. To them
to their splendid influence, Columbia
owes her school. There is room for all.
In this beautiful country which God
has seen fit to give as. showerinR upon
US, till we be smothered in the very full
ness OF its profusions. gifts which no
other land can claim, man, the animal,
should reach perfection not alone ply
sicsiiy, but what is infinitely greater
morally, intellectually. Will he do itf
Will he accept the mental and moral
and ihtellectuai gifts as he does, the
othersf Will he grow with the wheat
and the corn, the grass and mighty
trees, the horse that holds fame in has
nostTils. the sunlight that brings the
glory and the story of the Middle Ba-
sin?
Shame upon him IL he fails! May his
name be blotted from land wherein
be alone is the only counterfeit upon its
sweet and glorious face. Let us then be |
up and at it. The SCHooL-THE LII
BRARY. Let us add the moral and in
tellectual leaven which should go with !
The glory and beauty of our land. Let US
10 this not by pulling anybody down,
put everybody up There is room for
sll, and when think of what we owe to
Spring Hill-the influence of that
SCHOOl bu6r0-JO MC El0aSdOL.
% them all l take off my hat and wish
hem God speed.
And now we will add another. Let !,
Is work to make it even better.
Let US look forward, not backward
ct US look up, not down.
Never has any town been so fortu.
rate in the choice of two teachers such
Ie have now come to US. Everywhere
have turned, men who knew them tell
ne Hardy and Edgerton are the peers Of
my in the land.
II is up to US and we will come. My
me boy is less than two years old. but
am going to send him over every day
ust to ''smell the air." and grow up ,
melting it ana breathing it. For what |
urroYnds boy as he grows becomes I
be soul of him, grown. We are what !
70 have around US from our books to
ur bed-clothes.
JOHN TRoTwooD MOOSE.