The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1912-06-06
Pres. Frosts introduction

dents here will have as blessed
memories as | have of a few grea
Diessages that came into my hear
when was a student ! heard New
RAN Hall preach on THE thief on th'
Cross" heard Cannon Farrar and
heard some Of the great voices thai
were not ministerial. When you thint
OF IL, you who study the Bible, 9
large part of the Bible, some of the
great writer's, were not preachers
Technically they were public men, lit.
erary men, poets, a lot of them.
God speaks through such people as
well as through the official body OF
ministers. | heard Bayard Taylor
and he led me out in imagination to
the great world which he had travel
ed through. heard John b. Cough,
and he opened my eyes TO the sin
aud misery and suffering and need
of the world. | heard Joshua r. Gid
dings and he made my soul burn with
the desire to help those that were
most in need of help. l heard Wen
dell Phillips, and | have never enjoy
ed bad English sentence since. |
heard Charles Sumner and | have had
an ideal of statesmanchip and pub
lie service. | heard DR.. Holloman,
founder of Scribner's Magazine, and
I was introduced to thought and style
aid public questions.
Now it seems to me that there are
few such men today and they are
precious; and | have searched for
them and | have had a supreme joy
in calling two or three of them my
acquaintances and in getting one or
two of them where you could hear
them. Such man-you read
his books, you see his articles, you
hear his name, have seen him in
his native heath of New York City.
These great cities-oh, you country
hoys and girls-the great cities are
not all made up OF vanity and slums.
1t is there that some of the great
soldiers of the Cross are holding W
the banner and thinking the thoughts
and starting the ideals that swing
over the world. In those higher cir
cles, where these thoughts are origi-
mated, sifted and transmitted, there
Hamilton w. 3Iabie is a king among
kings. He will speak to us tonight
on THE Challenge of Life
DR.. Mabie's Address
l doubt if the mountains were
ever more beautiful than they were
this afternoon when they kindled in
the light of the last moment of sun
set, and as | looked at them
thought of the myriad paths or trails
that follow the streams into the
very heart of them, into all the re
mote valleys, into the loneliest pla-
ces, penetrating them serywhere-
those paths, sometimes solitary and
trodden by multitudes.
Tonight, as l face you, students Of
Berea, am thinking of all the paths
that you are going to take in life.
When we are in college we share
Common capital of enthusiasm, oc
and idealism and We go out
with as large an endowment OF these
things as we are capable of taking.
But when we get into the world,
though our relations with men may
lie intimate and wide-spreading, each
one OF us walks a path by himself,
and tonight, in Imagination, looking
al you who will go out day after
and the next year and the
year after, | see you all treading,
by yourselves, along paths
that are invisible to anyone except
to yourselves. And everywhere ! See
on those paths the figure of life,
standing at every turn, beside every
piece of work. And wherever there
Is an opportunity ! see the figure
Of life standing and challenging you,
and that challenge is a single Ques-
lion; it is, "Are you ready?" And |
he great challenge comes from
your work itself.
Now what is our work? | suppose |
here is not one of US that does not .
expect TO work in life. There is not |
me of US upon whom will not be .
aid the necessity of work. How shall 4
We think of it? A great many peo-
lie in this country and in other coun-
ries think of work simply as an Oc-
'upation for getting a living, simply
IS means OF putting clothes on
heir backs and food in their mouths
nd shelter over their heads. Yes,
{ is that, but 1t is a great deal more
han that, and | want to put it 70
-ou tonight in its true and more
piritual aspects. Is it going TO b.
imply a means of making a living
o you or is 1t going to be the means
II making a life, which is very
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