Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-10-20

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1.-THE GOOD OLD DAYS"
Where is the old-fashioned man
whose word is as good as his bond?"
asks daily paper; and the Southern
Pines IN. c. Tourist replies: Fright
here in Southern Pines-and there's
more than one of him, too
Well said and truly.
If those people who are always Ia
menting the passing of the good old
davis. who ask in hopeless tones Tor
the noble men, the consecrated Wo-
men of other times, would only open
their eyes to the real lives OF the
men and women about them, they
would usually find the answer to
their pessimistic questions right at
hand. We look back to the men OF
an earlier generation and recognize
their honesty of purpose and upright
ness of soul because we are able to
look at their lives as a whole, and TO
see their mistakes and faults and sins
for what they truly were-mere
blemishes upon characters in the
main true and sound. Too often,
however, as we look at the man close
by we permit these little defects, be-
cause of their nearness, to loom
larger to us than do the real qualities
the innate integrity and goodness
of the man. 1t behooves all OF us
to remember that were we judged on
ly by our weaknesses and our errors,
we would seem very bad indeed.
Yet in our own hearts most OF us
know that we wish to do right, to be
lust and kind and helpful. 1t is not
likely that the men and women
about us are so different.
No, it is not worth while to ask,
as so many do, for the old-fashioned
men and women of many virtues; if
we can not see them all about us, it
| is only because we are lookink at life
| through distorted lenses. The men
of today are as upright, as brave, as
truly devout as the men of any past
| time; the women of today are as
pure, as loving, as tenderly helpful
and serenely hopeful as women have
ever been. The old-fashioned father
who gave good counsel and set good
| example to his children can be found
all over the land. The old-fashioned
mother, whose gentle charity took IN
all the world and whose self-sacrific-
| ing devotion covered her loved ones
as with a garment, walks the streets
of every village and throngs the
| aisles of every country church. The
sweet girl of the old-time; the youth
of great ambitions and high ideals;
the people who unselfishly loved
home and country, and who rever-
| enced abstract truth and Justice
all these, the real nobility of earth,
are all about us; we jostle them in
| the streets or see them pass along
the "big road" every day.
Let us be careful that we do not,
| because Of their mistakes and fail
| ures, shut our eyes to their real
characters and persuade ourselves
| that, like Lot of old, we are almost
the only righteous persons in a land
| overflowing with iniquity.