The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1912-03-28

'yNog thOubh ~ uoDe hOt oS'hu W ho'o
injured Lincolns eyes. But I do say
that It is we'll for you that your edu-
cation is not obtained without some
effort and some sacrifice.
Berea today stands very much where
the older institutions stood twenty
or thirty years ago, when they turn
ed out men like Taft, Roosevelt, Root,
and in fact all the great men of the
present day. Berea today knows
nothing OF the luxurious life and Of
fers her students most of the advan-
tages which any college has offered
at It's best period. There is no place
In the country where an earnest
boy or girl, young man or young wo-
man can obtain a better training Of
mind and character than at Berea.
Before closing l wish to tell you
story which is instructive because
II is true, to illustrate what ! con-
slider the most essential thing In
education. I mean common, every day,
strict honesty. The great evil Of the
growth OF luxury to which I have
referred lies mainly in forgetting that
the basis Of character rests upon the
homely virtue. We know how apt
we are In the complications Of busi-
ness and OF life to depart here and
there from the straight line. We have
seen this tendency in our politics,
in business, and you know how equiv
ocation and evasion have crept in
to even our college athletics. And yet
this common honesty Is the basis Of
character and the Christian life.
Do you know that there has new
err been a bank failure in China, that
any man can walk into any bank In
China and borrow money on his un-
secured note? They know no such
thing in China as defaults upon pro-
missory notes.
There was a hotel proprietor in
California who had a Chinese boy as
a general servant Of all work. He
was a good servant and was paid
$500 a month. He saved his money
and after some years told his en-
ployer that he would have to return
to China to marry a wife whom his
mother had selected for him; that he
did not know whether he would re-
turn or not as he had money enough
to live on In China, but he had been
offered an opportunity of going in
to business in San Francisco with
two Americans and they promised
large profits and in a few years
he could return to China and be for
that community a rich man-that he
would not go until he had taught an
other Chinese boy to do his work
Just as we'll as he did It.
He brought the other Chinese man
and left only when assured that his
work was entirely satisfactory. He
went to China, married, and return
cd to enter business, was cheated Out
of his money and then as is so com
mon. with that race, when great dis
3 appointment comes and the hear
breaks, was thrown into gallopint
consumption. One day the proprie
tor of the hotel was sent for by hii
old servant and found him in a BARE
attic and very close to the end o.
life.
John wished to ask a great favor
He said that he had lost all of hi
money and that his wife and mothel
would starve unless the hotel pro
prietor would keep the other Chi
nese boy and pay him the $500
month as long as he did his worl
well. That as long as he received hi
$500 he would send two-thirds o
it, or $1,000, every month to John
: wife in China.
The hotel man said, "Why Of cour'
| will keep him, why shouldn't ! a
, long as he Is satisfactory?
Then John broke down and sal
} that he would have to tell him tina
that Chinese boy was low, mea
, character, an outcast-that he ha
done such things that he was 8
: despised by all Chinese that no on
, would give him work, that he coul
/ not obtain employment in Chin
nor In San Francisco among the Chi
, nese-that when John had gotten hiI
/ this place he had promised to sen
5 $500 a month home to Johns wifi
y as long as he retained the place.
Z Was he a friend of Johns? NJ
[ John would not speak to him, ez
cept to direct his work. Did he kno'
1 Johns wife? No, 1t would be an In
; suit to be known by such charac
5 ter.
: Then" said the hotel man, =
, he is such a degraded man, an Out
r cast, and does not know and Is nc
known by your wife. what assuranc
/ have you that after you are dead b
D will continue to send two-thirds
Q his wages to your wifef
= Iohn,, avaa onened in astOniSh