The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1907-05-25

man and ery NO uAn hasa MISSION
TO perform here snd now, in IN.
-tt,ion IN which he ia PLACED. H.
trOugly Impressed upon Tue moAoels
4 lhs class their duty not only TO d.
something IN the sorld but to do
something ior The wal lac spirit
OF he address may be gaiaered from
the follo wing Ouef extract:
"Ideals are not creations of the brain
or the freaks OF tue Imagination; they
are real. They are not things msn.
uiactured by us; they are discovered.
The great musicians did rot make
their music; they faG7a y. The grea.
artists dill not make their pictures;
they revealed th N, Franklin and 1di-
son did not make electricity they
merely developed IUs methods. 1t was
not made OF their Ideals; 1t, rather,
made their idea. The. great truths
and ideals Of life are the great
realities of life because some person
has entered into closer fellowship with
them than others. Watt and Faraday
and Newton, and Florence Nightin-
gale and Clara Barton and Emily Jud
son saw but dimly first, but their Wis
ion proved to be a reality. 1t depends
on the power and persistence of vision.
To talk about the ideal Is not a dream
The imagination IS the worlds great
est explorer. 1t has beeD the fore
runner OF every Columbus, Browinq,
Shakespeare and TeunysOn and Isaiah
and Esther aud the Marys of Christ
Ian history. The little woman is the
one VINO only se.s the present and
considers policy and expediency, but
the great woman is she who sees the
fundamental and eternal principles
and knows by sight truth and right
eousness and honesty and virture, snd
all their blood relatives, That marks
the difference between the graduate
aud her diploma; between the artist
and The %automaton; between the
musician and the pianola. The ideal
of the business man, the true womnn,
is the nigh est factor in this life; not
always sharply defined, but always
doing its work. The home Is eeauti
full, society Is elevated, the church il
} reformed, not so much by draperY o.
furniture as by the artistic hand OIL
the ideal. Ideals are heavenly mes
sengers; they are the wings of thl
lark to save the songster from th
perlls of the lowlsnds, Aspiration
places bright garments upon povert.
= and reveals the blessings in the arm
of toll. 1t snatches manhood ant
%womahnood out OF the snare and tn
the coils of encouragement. IL rake
the music which the unending buz
, and rattle OF machinery cannot silence
, 1t clears the atmosphere OF dust anC
lets in the light and purity of thu
upper world. The maiden look
through the struggles of her daily tqs
and hearkens for the footstep OF he
: lover and the sound of wedding bells
and watches for the day break of hope
radiant morning. The young ma.
faces the burdens Of life aud rais4
them to his shoulder and dreams 9
of his home and his own c. NJ,
pany and brighter days And 81
= ideals ale the s.ars which God plac1
- in the sky OF young womanhood o
\ her graduating day. The wise me
- who follow this light al avs re Q
- their Bethlehem. The masters IL
!, every part of the world and in ever
- moment of time have always hee
. mastered by a holy ideal. The u
ward impulse and aspiratio
are the only salvation. A victoriol
- ideal ia not 30 occasional impulse,
~ single lesp or bound, or a momeGtar
a promotion or social preierment, Of
70 the steady aim, aud a constant sta
!. and a fixed compass. These shadow
CO and leeting thoughts and purpos
n. are like drops of dew on the grass
@ blade on the morning. They spark
4, with diamond like b%rillancy, and eve
4 reflect the world, but they are evaue
"a cent. One breath CT an opposil
wind, one hot blaze from the sun al
i. it passeth away like the mist of I
A. morning. The trained womanhood
- that which %transmutes and transform
IL these ideals into soul. like and etern
ba character aud divinest realities
-or,on ~ tbis nrodna