The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-03-15


n man race. He is grieyed because o
the ignorance and vice in the world
N he is moved with compassion for thu
poor. the suffering. the erring. In hin
the social conscience has been awak
ened and developed.
X He gives of his means and his tim'
to promote the general welfare. He
D loves the commonwealth.
y The public-spirited man is not KEEP
z from doing his duty as a citizen be
y cause Of personal animosities. He will
y not hold a grudge against one or more
X individuals and because Of this refuse
Z to cooperate with others in a needed
public enterprise. God made men to
be friends and not enemies. When a
man cherishes a desire to injure an
other or to see misfortune come to
him, he moves down in the scale of
being in the direction of the beasts
that perish.
Tennyson exhorts MS to
Move upward, working out the beast,
And let the ape and tiger die"
In some men the tiger predomi-
mates, in some the ape is in the as
cendant. But whether it be ape or
tiger we are to seek to be made noble
and unselfish by the incoming of spir-
itual life and strength
/ u mon 1iofb unto bIYnooIf Each
man is placed on this battlefield OF
earth to bear his share in the con-
fict No man has the right to take
his own life in order to escape "The
sings and arrows of outrageous for
tune" Such a man is a deserter. Nor
has any man the right to destroy his
life by self-indulgence or dissipation.
The good man is to struggle and to |
work until the summons comes to t
enter upon larger usefulness in anoth-
err and better world.
It seems that some good people out
live their usefulness. About all APP
parently that many can do is to fight
disease through many weary year.
But these do more than appears.
"They also serve who only stand
and watt
It means much to a household and
to a community to have an example
of patience and of Christian resigna-
tion ever present. The effect for good
of such life cannot be estimated.
It is a great thing to be under the
influence of a noble soul, chastened
and refined by suffering.
The apostle tells us Whether we
live, therefore, or die, we are the
Lords" w have been placed
In this world to do and to suffer His
will. The only way we can serve God
IS by serving our fellowmen. He is I
he greatest who renders the most :
service.
AS city we have some social con-
science. We have at last been arous-
ID to strike down that enemy of civil
ization-the saloon But the world
will never be made what 1t ought to
re by suppressing evil only
Things that are good must be cher
shed and fostered. A Young Mems
christian Association is here in our -
lidst It behoves the parents of this
to remember Franklin's
I'm when the Declaration of hide
endence was signed: Gentlemen, we =,
lust hang together or we will all
ang separately" r..
1t Is great deal better for Chris
an people to hang together in an ef- -,
'rt to save their boys, than to refuse :.
do so and have the boys hung sep
'ately.
We have here a public library con- -
lcted by an organization OF our
,od women. 1t is the only place in
e city where a boy or girl who has
It good library and cannot buy one, =
n secure good books to read.
A man for a trifling sum can here
t good literature all the year round =,
: his family. The fact that we have
t done more for this enterprise is
Inclusive proof of our great want of
bile spirit and our little apprecia-
n of the higher and the nobler
ngs
There are other things of general 'i-"
crest that have been neglected and ~
ored in way that is a disgrace to
twentieth century and to this 80
at county. '"
Would that God would speak with
ce that wakes the dead and arouse
hin us a greater sense of duty to
commonwealth.
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We invite special attention to the cont
elsewhere in this is Leg
by Hon. r. A. Wilkes, on the road than
stion. II is a thoroughly well con- Ten