The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-05-27

country"
Continuing on this line of thought,
Mr. Cast illustrated by reviewing the
life of Livingston, the renowned eX-
plorcr and missionary
Let us emulate the example of
Livingston, let us set out to win and
amid storm or calm determined Ia
forge ahead. assured that Il we can
not win the fame Of Livingston, we
can at least accomplish something
worthy, and make our Nves sub
lime"
The next Oration was delivered by
Helen Baumgardner entitled 1.-THE
Twentieth Century Girl" Miss Baum
gardner treated her subject I'm very
scholarly manner Among the many
good things she said, the following
are a few extracts:
The time was when woman was a
slave. During the reign of supersti-
tion the highest estimate placed upon
her was that of n slave. In Athens,
the eye of Greece, mother of arts ana
eloquence for woman to be educated
was to publish her unchastity. She
could obtain learning only by the
sacrifice Of character. Christianity,
the foundation of our American civ.
ilization, which permeates the civlli.
zation of the world, has brought wo-
man to a higher plane. She is now
free and has become a queen. Break
ing the reign Of superstition. the pre-
eminent example of the social effects
Is seen in the improved condition o.
the Twentieth Century Girl
Girls of the twentieth century, we
are either sailing or drifting Those
who reach the port will skilfully ami
boldly shape their course with the
wind or against il. Those who drift
will let the winds and tides carry them
where they will. Success of the real
kind Is always TO the girl who wins
II, not in conditions. No girl becomes
great by accident. Great things are
never done by chance. We can drift
along doing our work fairly well or
we can set our faces toward the front
and do our work so well that we can
not be kept back"
Hildrod Kathleen Keller, I'm her or
alton, the subject of which was "Imag-
nation said:
"Many persons think the magma
tion deserves rather tn be repressCd
than to be cultivated. They regard
it as dealing only with dreams, not
realities, and so tending to UNIT q
person for actual life. Its realms
they suppose to be the world of fairies
and other impossibilities. But the
imagination Is one of the faculties
which God has given to all men.
I'VE do not see God as we ought
If we only see Him in the Bible and
not in nature lie has filed the
world with beauty to overlooking su-
perabounding beauty. He has mani
Tested himself In suns and storms,
in stars and flowers, in the majestic
order of the universe, in the Infinite
variety of creation and IL we do not
see this, we do not see His working
I'VE should endeaYor to create
beauty as God creates 1t, carrying this
idea of the perfect into all that weds,
learning, continually to think more
exactly, speak more accurately. live
more truly and finish all we under
take well. SO shall we be brought
into the love of the Divine beauty,
which is above all. through all and
in us all. This is that beauty which
not only dwells in the summer suns
and around the ocean. but is "A beauty,
known TO neither sea nor land, but
borrowed from the prophetic soul it.
self dreaming of things to come"
The following extracts We're taken
from the Grafton by Fred X. Dix, en-
titled 'The Conquest of Fear"
"Fear has ever held an important