The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-05-12


of his Cod The sentiments OF all
right thinking men might be summed
up in the following:
Gold begets in brethren hate;
Gold in families debate;
Gold hat friendship separate,
Gold doth civil war create"
Duty and humanity will say, "Come
over and help u.s." The factory child
will call you to come and liberate
him from the disease building, and
death dealing factory. Tie gray
haired mother will call you to aid IN
forever putting down drink and its
companion evils. The aged man will
call you to cast your lot with those
who are ridding our government Of
graft and corruption, and with those
who are justly and rightly solving
the great problems which now COM
front US. In a word, never despair.
You have been presented with
few of the working tools Of life. What
will you erect? Every erected struc-
ture must have a foundation; thus to
build vast and lofty fabric of cha
acter one must first look to the foun-
dation. The deeper and stronger one
makes his foundations, the higher and
greater may his superstructure be. A
perfect structure of heroic character
must have as its four cornerstones
courage, self-control, truthfulness,
and a prevailing sense OF duty.
What the world owes to men and
women of courage can not be estimat-
ed. We do not mean physical courage
in which man is equaled and some
times surpassed by the brute. We
speak of the courage that displays it.
self in silent effort and endeavors;
that dares to suffer all and endure
far more heroic than the feats of ply
sical valor which are sometimes re-
warded by honors and titles, or by
laurels wreathed in blood. In this
age, when money seems to be god, and
when men forgetting the example of
the Risen Savior, cast themselves as
willing sacrifices on the affairs of
mammon, the courage to be honest,
the courage to resist temptation, the
courage to speak the truth, the cour-
age to abstain from all pretentions,
truly requires a man of brain and
backbone.
At the second corner of this struc-
ture our hero must place self-control,
which goes hand in hand with cour-
age. It is only courage in another
form, and may be regarded as the
primary essence of character. II is
the instructor in lessons of patience,
endurance, and forbeal ance. 1t forms
the chief distinction between man and
the mere animal; and true manhood
can not exist without it. The char
acter which has self-control as one
of it's cornerstones will be as "a rock
in the ocean, tranquil amid the rag
ing billows."
At the third corner the pillar Of
truthfulness must be erected. Truth
is the very bond of society without
which it must cease to exist and dis
solve into anarchy and chaos. Show
me the man in whose heart truth is
virtue and lying an abominable
sin and I will show you the man who
possesses the heroic. The season is
ripe today for the hero free from
open falsehood, yes, free from all evil
companions and friends. Truthfulness
is indeed the most coveted of virtues,
ana IS LQo OASIS VI d4l u ue 4hduAOoIA'
A forth corner remains, and here,
last but not least, is needed as an es-
sential cornerstone of a pure char
acter, prevailing and unwavering
sense of duty. Duty is sacred we are
told; and to do our duty in this
world towards God and towards man,
consistently and steadily, requires the
cultivation of all the faculties at our
command. In our endeavors to do
our duty toward God, we can only
strive; we cannot attain the goal. But
if we strive earnestly to do our duty
towards our fellowmen, we have pro-
mise of success; and, when we sue
ceed in this, We have succeeded more
and more in our duty towards GOD.
A true hero, then, must possess a
prevailing, and abiding sense of duty
in all things. Lee, the grand man OF
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