The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-11-30

lively a rescue-missiOn but it covers
the whole range between the lowest
I and the highest in life and has as its
ultimate aim a wellrounded Christian
manhood.
1t is a great thing to have increased
the output of a factory from two
vehicles toone of one hundred thousand
per year; to have extended the shop
of a village smithy until it covers a
hundred acres and employs three
thousand men; 1t is great thing to
help to build a city and to blaze the
path for progress; but the highest
expression of the manhood that
wrought out of the flaming forge a
name which it hammered into the
girdle with which it binds the earth,
is to be found in the erection of this
factory for the building of men.
The most important thing in the
universe is man. He is the noblest
work Of God. He has dominion in the
world because so near divine. He
lives in a clay house and must have
corn and money, but his life is greater
than anything he owns and his happi-
ness cannot be measured by dollars
and cents. There is a kinship be-
tween him and the Almighty, and he
walks and talks with his Maker. Il
Is because his soul can rise so high
that he can fall so far. His charac-
ter is most precious stuff and blessed
is he who helps to shape it into godly
form.
Who is the richest man? He who
enriches his country most; who gives
himself with his gold; who opens the
door of opportunity widest to those
about him; who is rich in good deeds;
who has made the world better be-
cause he lived in it. When truth gets
a hearing men will be measured by
what they have done and not by what
they possess. Generosity is mark
of greatness. He only is truly rich
who shares his wealth and who feels
that what God gives him, He gives him
for mankind, He who has no money
is poor indeed but he who has nothing
but money is poorer still. The selfish
holding of trust enriches no one,
not even the holder. The man or
means who has no higher ambition
han to see his business grow in order
hat he may simply add bonds to bonds
and mortgages to mortgages and
stocks to stocks is little better than
/ miser. So far as the grander posi-
)ilities of wealth are concerned he is
4 man with a buried talent. In a
able an old miser is said to have kept
/ tame jaekdaw that would steal
,ieces of money and hide them in
lole. He was reproved by a cat
which told him that the coins thus
hidden would be of no use to him. The
ackdaw replied, why my master
las a whole chestful and makes no
more use of them than I"
] lift my voice as a representative
# this community in highest accla-
nation of the eminent genius that has
oupled the name of our fair city
With its own achievement and pub
shed it in every nation under heaven,
nd ! voice the sentiment of sixty
thousand people when I pay tribute
D the generous spirit which has built
self into SO many philanthropic me-
lorals and today manifests itself in
his magnificent gift. Honored Sirs,
the firm of whose benefaction we
re the recipients, we are proud of
ne industry you represent; proud of
ne men who gave their talents and ]
heir lives to found It; proud of your |
onored president, the sole survivor !
that sturdy FIVE; proud of your lib l
rality and generous deeds, and we
ccept your favor with most grateful t
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But, ladies and gentlemen, citizens 5