The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-03

present and future Greater Birmingham,
and helm us and teach us by His infinite
wisdom, how we may as a city and people
escape the calamitous burden OF carrying
the man who Is absolutely satisfied with
himself and all that he has and who
calmly and complacently delivers to him
self the blessed JUNCTION of being great
and learned and wise, even though that
wisdom % retards, in many cases, the
progress of a great city.
Only the restless, ambitious. discomfort
ed, Independent thinkers and actors among
the sons of men are those who have
been foremost In blessing mankind, and
hath wrought the marvellous developments
seen on every hand that have sprung from
their dark and hidden paths; men who are
never satisfied to stand still, but move
ever forward as tireless and resistless as
the course of time.
The man who has accomplished his
fullest purpose in life; who is satisfied
with himself and everything else as he
finds it; In the vast economy of God and
nature, has no abiding place in the
heavens above nor in the earth below, and
1t is doubtful If Mr.. Pluto lin the
regions supposedly under the earth),
would even trust such a fellow with
pitchfork; for not even the Devil could
make use of a fellow who is so con-
tented with himself and the world, that
he can do nothing but sleep-sleep-sleep'
a senseless, supplying sleep, the symbol
of eternal night, and the absence OF all
life and progress, and who desires to
hold every thing around him. his lands
and dingy tenements, in the same state
of lethargy.
Only the restless the thoughtful, the
seemingly dreamers, yet active thinkers,
of humanity have touched the hidden
springs of nature, and by the grace of an
all wise, all powerful and Omniscent
Father delivered her wondrous treasures
to a waiting world; to a world that for
centuries looked out wonderingly upon the
earth, the sun, the moon and the stars,
then back. in upon themselves, finding
on every hand that the whole of creation
presented at every turn mysterious in
terrogation points; man himself overshad-
owing them ALL that all was created for
him; that through him, by him and for
him. gradually, moment by moment, hour
by hour, year by year, century by CEN
fury, as the sure cycles roll on the great
hidden treasures is gradually unfolding
her generous bounty, and man is COM
ing into his own and will reap richer and
more wonderful rewards as the years go
by. so soon as he is able, justly and in
diligently. to receive them.
The Birmingham and district, past and
present. is a glowing demonstration of
Kind Providence, guiding and yielding
the earths secret treasures to man.
Let us clear up the rubbish, build up
the waste places, make the bad good, and
the good better, and our sore spots and
liscensed shames will disappear in regen-
Grating sunshine and wholesome ac-
tlvity.
Who can look upon Birmingham and
the Birmingham district with her mar
velous disclosures of natural wealth, and
the wondrous revelations of science and
art and the general uplift of the human
race at home and abroad, and not say
that we are on the threshold of greater
things? And that Birmingham is in the
forefront and the heir of all the ages?
Let us strive and tire not by the way
side, that we may be better prepared to
grasp the opportunities of the present,
and deliver to posterity a really and truly
Greater Birmingham.