The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-08-03
SENATOR cARMAcNs LECTURE.

SENATOR CARMACk'S LEI OhE
T. Dewitt Talmage has lectured il
Columbia; Henry Watterson, Wendal
Phillips, William Jennings Bryan ant
Edward Ward Carmack have lecture'
in Columbia. And there have beef
Others" but the greatest lecture
ever delivered in Columbia was thu
lecture on Character" delivered a
the Tabernacle Tuesday night b!
Senator Carmack, for the beneht O
the Y. M. G. A. of Columbia.
DIR. Wharton introduced Senator
Carmack as "the first citizen of Ten
nessee." He is that, and he will DC
that until God grows another man
bigger than he; and that man, when
he comes. will be made and fashioned
after the character taught by Mr.
Carmack in his lecture. Whether in
public Office or in private station, such
a charactr as the speaker portrayed,
and as the speaker is, cannot be dim
med. A mind and heart that can give
to the world a thought such as this
lecture contains, is not born to die; a
life formed and fashioned and lived
according to such thought, must and
inevitably will stand out luminous
and high, and by its own pure light,
by the shadows of it's search light,
by the inevitable contrast between
darkness and light, between froth and
substance, between the true and the
falsely every test, will stand out
luminous and high to point to higher
plane of nobler living, to clarity pub
lie thought of mist and fog, to damn
the demagogue without winking."
Senator Carmack stands four
square to every wind that blows"
That has been said of him, and that is
his reputation. But his greatness lies
not in that, but in this that that say
ing is true of him. you may fool all
of the people some of the time" and
that is reputation; but when a
boy stands four-square to the winds
of poverty when he plows for a pit
lance the fields of another; when he
stands four-square as young man to
the cuffs and kicks and proud con-
tumely of a sometimes cold and
naughty world; when he stands four
square before "the rabble, with their
thumb-worn creeds, their large pro
fessions and their little deeds" and
stands, alone if need be, with the cour-
age of his own convictions; when he
stands four-square and faces the !
greatest minds of Nation and the |
greatest temptations that can be con-
ceived in sin and born in inquiry, for
the undoing of man; and greatest of
all, when he stands four-square to the /
winds of defeat, and knows as his
great mind and heart must know that
the people have blundered, and yet
to stand, stronger in purpose, Sweeter
in spirit, tenderer in heart than ever
is CHARACTERS; that
is not only and merely what men
That is the conscience he commends
to others to take to bed with them;
hat is the character man is willing
70 go to bed with, and sleep with, and
not want to kick out; that is a soul
4 man will not be afraid to look down i;
INTO, for there is no whited sepulcher
here; it is the clean deep of a mans :
nner consciousness.
Senator Carmack has placed Co.
umbia under renewed and lasting OBJ
igations for this lecture; for the
pleasure it gave to the six or seven
hundred people who heard it; for the
rood it will bring into the lives of the
many young men present, who gave
such marked attention and such
apturous applause; and for the help
will be to the institution for which
t was given. In his unselfish giving
nd building for this institution, the
himself. He never showed to better Y
dvantage than he did Tuesday night.
lie was never in better voice; he new Y
r delivered himself better He new
r in one short hour added more laur- ~
Is to his name or won more encom- Y
inns for himself. He was never dear n
r to the hearts of the people Of Co
lmbia than he is today; he was new
r appreciated quite so much. He K
as always had personal friends here Y
y the hundred, and political admir- y
RS who followed his flag with like de- X
otion whether it led to victory or Z
efeat; but this lecture has endeared y
i'm to the hearts of men and women h
no never knew him before, and hts "
anne henceforth will be a loving "
ousehold word in Columbia. X
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