The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-02-22
The GOOD OF
HERO WORSHIP
DR.. WALTERS DELIVERED MAS
TERFUL ADDRESS This MORN
ING AT FARGO COLLEGE IN
MEMORY or GEORGE WASH
INGToN.

The month Of February is indeed a
great month in our national calendar
said Rev. Walters this morning in a
patriotic speech delivered at the Fargo
college chapel. for in that month we
celebrate, the birthdays of two Of our
greatest men, in fact two of the great
est men the world has ever seen.
1T is well for people of the present
age to consider and discuss the mo-
tiyes and ideals that actuated them
through life. We hear considerable
about heroes and hero worship, but it
is a good practice to worship heroes
and h%eroines. Before the individual
stands a great light fountain who
throws his radiance on us If we stand
in his light. But we should select a
hero who is worthy of our admiration,
a real hero. 1t is well that we have a
pattern from which mould our lives,
and God has seen to it that great men
have been placed on this earth that we
might pattern after them.
Each different age has had it's he
roes-Moses in the age of the exodus
from Egypt, Peter, James. John, Paul
and John the Baptist in the early
christian age; then later the son Of
Mary and Joseph, the Savior Of the
world. H..
Even this age has had a great hero,
in the person of George Washington.
Omitting the petty stories of his child
hood, we may well pass to those fund
amental traits that were characteristic.
His supreme Indifference to earthly
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT is one of the noble
traits found in our hero. His was to
do his duty-and accomplish his work
he cared not for the small bubbles
that society hands to great men. He
stood alone-caring not for the smiles
or frowns of men.
George Washington was the idol
of his time, men did not dare to criti-
else him while alive, but now after
this long period a small-souled indi-
vidual from Milwaukee arises to assert
that Washington vas a CRATER.
1T is indeed a great man that makes
friends and keeps them, and he is in
deed supremacy great who can win
the admiration and respect of the enc
mics that he has fought against, so
that they turn and praise him.
"The spirit of the time in which
Washington lived was a spirit of lib
erty. Liberty today has a different
meaning. The liberty of that age was
liberty Of conscience, of mind and
liberty of soul. Nowadays it is liberty
of the stomach. When l hear the
claims Of the present age as to lib
erty, somehow the shades of Valley
Forge appear before my mind. If a
man Ear hug a bottle of beer to his
breast and sing, We want our beer
on Sunday and smoke a penny CT
garette in my face, he thinks he is
enjoying true liberty.
While We r great, u greatness
does not consist of bigness. Sampson
was not great, neither was Goliath.
David was great. We need a few
great characters, really great charac-
ters, not leaders of some little faction
or creed, but great men, of command
ing stature, leaders Of society. We
need great men more than the null
titude of laws that our representa-
tives are constantly putting down in
the books.
why cannot some. Of us determine
TO be such men; it is not in size and
population that our country is to be
great; it is in the size n bigness of
our men. Let us pray that we may
have some great leaders in the pres
ent rising generation, so that we can
truly say with the poet, o ship of
state, sail on"
The F. c.. band lent a patriotic spirit
to h occasion by playing several pa
triotic airs.