The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-10-05

Iisinterestcd love for the human race
were holding up the light of American
civilization, and when l reached Bonn
bay and addressed a. school support cd
! by American money, when | attended
another institution where little blind
Indians were gathered together and
taught by American money, told
them that we mi ght not be able tc
boast that the sun never set upon our
! possessions, but that We could boast
! that the sun never set upon American
! pi''lanlhi"py; that before it went
I down upon one center Of civilization
! 1t rose upon another. learned to adj
mitc these people with purpose,
these people who are willing to sacri-
; flee themselves for the benefit Of
others, and what | loved about our
dead friend was that he was measur-
| ing life by what he put into the world
and not by what he took out of the
world.
IT | were going to describe a sue
ccssful life and contrast it with a sell
, fish life: if | could illustrate it bv a
picture drawn on canvass I would
present Stagnant pool, gathering
water from all around. and giving
forth nothing till at last it became a
scene Of disease and death: and then
| wouId present on canvass a living
spring pouring forth constantly Of
that which rcfrcShcS and invi~orates
| would scnts selfish. Self-ccntcrcd
life, and that the living spring repre-
SrntS an mSclffish life. a really sue
ccSSful life; and look back upon the
life Of Prof. Mclver as spring over
flowing with that which rcfrcshes
lnvi"oratrs He worked his way up.
lie WAS anrHamplc of what can be done
III TINS country, starting and laboring
first to secure his education: then go
in~ ont and teaching: then starting
with Il purpose to establish il school,
and he has made his impress upon the
educational system Of this state. When
| WAS last here he showed me a map.
and on tina, map he had marked places
I" show where the length Of the school
terra had been extended. He was try
80: IL cnlar"r the scope "f education.
Ike WAS trying t" brin. it within the
reach Of more people. Why7 Be
rnu>r he !"vrd the human race: be-
r.u>r he wanted to DO something for
'h"m. He might have enjoyed him
self ut hnmr more whr, he was off
speaking. lie might have had the
quiet Of life when he was busy and
r,ivr. but there was within him some
thing that demanded that he should
20 forth and do something. He saw
education of your women confined
largely to the class. that is, higher
education, where it was expensive. and
rs his heart was in sympathy with the
poor and the struggling. he wanted to
make il possible for more Of them to
gel an education. and with that pur-
pose he secured the establishment Of
"A school, and he presided over it, and
he gave his experience to it, until
now he has II great institution here
with between five hundred and six
hundred girls. and they are getting
educati"n, and he has made education
so cheap for them that people can
how get an education who could not
have afforded it before his work was
done.
Who will measure the things done
by such man? have been in coun-
tries where education was scarcely
kn>wn. In India where less than one
per cent Of the women can read and
write. lo"kcl upon one of the most
""antiful pieces of architecture in the
y Il. Many people think there is
not on, = building that equals in
beauty the lai Mahal. II is tomb
that man reared to his wife whom he
loved. and people who visit it marvel
AT its beauty. For more than three
hundred years ii has stood there, the
admiration Of all the world, and yet as
| looked upon it, and then looked
around and saw how few Of the wo-
men in ~. community we're able to
read and write. how few Of them ever
had anything done for them, asked
myself: "Would not this Emperor
have paid higher tribute to his wife,
had he done something for woman
hood, trying to lift woman up and
make her lot easier and her path
brighter9 Would he not have paid n
greater tribute to his wife than in