The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-08-03
SPLENDID AUDI
ENCE, MAGNIF-
ICENT LECTURE
SENATOR cARMAcK SCORES A
TRIUMPH IN HIS LECTURE ON
CHARACTER AT THE
TABERNACLE.


\ will ever foget the occasion or tn
impression made upon them by Ter
nessee's most gifted son. It was
\ indeed a red letter occasion and on
D fathers will tell to their children il
. the years to come The audience wa
composed of representative, intelli
gent citizens from all parts of Maur!
and must have numbered in excess o
800. And how closely they followed
the magnificent address, showing
their deep appreciation by prolonged
applause at times, evincing by their
every look the admiration and love
they held for the speaker. No lecture
ever delivered in Columbia has APP.
preached it in eloquent word painting
in the power and force with which il
pointed the pathway of truth and
right living.
The audience was rather late in
assembling, but possibly half of all
who attended had reached the Taber-
nacle when Senator Carmack came
upon the stage, and how they did ap-
plaud him. Then Mrs Forgey and
Miss Figuers and Miss Ashton arriv-
ed, and they, too, came in for share
of applause. Miss Figuers, accom-
panied by Miss Ashton, favored the
audience with a violin solo, perfect
ly executed, and her hearers would
not be satisfied until she had respond
ed to an encore. Then the lovely, well
come voice of Mrs. Forgey was heard
in solo, and, of course, the audience
demanded an encore. DR.: T. A. Whar-
ton then arose and delivered one Of
the most apt and thoroughly appre-
.ciative. introductory addresses heard
on Columbia platform DIR. Wharton
was not accustomed to applause and
when wave of enthusiastic applause
spread over the house, the Doctor al
most forgot what he had to say. His
address was as follows:
Ladies and Gentlemen:
II trust. for the sake of my own rep
utation, that no one here will imagine
that | am weak-minded enough to I'M
dertake the formal introduction of the
speaker of the evening.
Il could not so sin against the propri-
cites and good common sense. should
sooner think of committing a felony
than committing an introduction to
his home town and his own people of
the first citizen of Tennessee. 1t is
my high privilege and distinguished
power to speak the word of preface.
1t is mine only to announce the name
of the man whom you honor and adj
mire above all men in public life to-
day. I say this deliberately and from
my heart. I had rather be in the
shoes of the senior senator of Tonnes
see, than that of any other man, not
only of this great State, but of all this
ut is not his reputation for bril- !
liancy, splendid capacity or oratory
in the greatest forum of
the nations. 1t is not his reputation
for fearless leadership that | covet- i
but the fact that all over this great
country he is known as man who
stands four-square to every wind that
blows. A man in the forefront of ev-
cry battle for civic righteousness and
better morals.
Il announce to you the public SER
want, who has kept the faith and
whose magnificent career has only I
just begun. announce to you one of
the few men in high political station
who could afford to lecture on "Char-
acter." and one whose life adorns the
doctrine that he breaches.
Ladies and gentlemen--the Sena-l
tor
AS for the lecture, no report other
than Verbatim transcript could near
do 1t Justice, and that would fall short I
Of the spoken word and the deep i'm
preston Ieft by the eloquent speaker.
As he arose a great wave of applause +
swept over the house and 1t was some
minutes before he could speak the
opening words. His remarks were adj
dressed particularly to young. men, to
the youth who had finished school
and was just entering upon the arena
Of life. He drew strong contrast be-
tween the man who simply possessed
attained in schools and the
man who knew how to do something
we'll, and while he did not pretend to
fecry the power of education, he urg-
ed his hearers to attain to the do
well'' of life. And yet man might
10 well the things of life, he said, and
still not attain to true happiness UNI
ess he cultivated the heart as wen
Is the mind. He urged upon his hear
BIS the importance of sobriety. and