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

eye and the hand and the ear and tn.
brain and the voice and will that
make men free because they give
us what is in us. Take an uneducat-
ed boy, he is full of possibilities and
yet there he stands dumb and mute,
he cannot speak, he cannot use his
hands, his voice, his brains. There
may be possibilities of great
ness In him but he is mute until set
free by education. IL is only the
educated man that is free. ! do not
mean by that the man who has gone
either TO schools. colleges or univef-
stiles, but ] mean the man who has
some way, by himself or by the aid
CT others, trained himself SO that
lie commands his own resources. No
man has any freedom with stone or
color or language unless he has been
educated. There has been n great
deal In this country OF the fallacy
that one man can do just as well as
another. You may have heard of
the man who was asked II he could
l'lay the violin and he said he didn't
know, he had never tried. Between
the man undeyeloped and the mast.
er of these things, the arts, there
lies this heroic time of toll.
We, the most fortunate OF us.
are educated at only one or two
points. No human being as yet was
ever completely educated. That is
one of the signs of our immortality,
there is so much in us that We haven't
time to bring out. A number of years
ago, after the death of Edwin Booth.
u beautiful character in spite of GER
tain faults which he largely ovcrcame
through great effort, there was
memorial meeting in New York and
was very much impressed by the
freedom which education gives The
first person on the program was a
distinguished American writer who
read poem, but he was not accus-
toned to face an audience. And so the
poem was read with such lack OF
vitality that II was not appreciated
He was followed by three great act
ors. Henry Irving, Joseph jefferson
and Salvini. And at once you felt the
audience respond to the man whose
personality was free. Salyini spoke
in Italian. language understood per-
haps by very few OF the audience.
and yet every man understood what
he was saying. for the whole man
vas a great organ of expression.
But there must be something more
than skill Skill must rest upon obe-
dience. that organized group of habits
backed by will which We call charac
ter and which Emerson said is the
emily definition OF freedom and power.
We Americans do not understand the
meaning OF that word Freedom"
There is no such thing as freedom
III this world in the sense that
man can do what he wants to do
No man was yet born TO do what he
chooses, and no man ever will be. II
does not make any difference how
Euch genius we have: what know
ledge has done and is doing today is
to deliver us from pain and death
simply by showing us what the laws
are in order that we may obey them.
There is no such thing as freedom
In the sense that We may choose
what we shall do. Freedom lies IN
the ability and right 10 choose what
and whom We shall obey. To make
a perfectly free world, in the sense /
In which we often use the word free
dom. every man must be born into /,
a world by himself and create its /
laws. But we were not born into /
such a world. When our forefathers |
threw off obedience TO England and |
came to this country they did IL 10 .
accept obedience to themselves. .
49, NiAt
lies whom they obeyed. They did not
90 off into the wilderness to do as
zach man chose, Tor that would
have been anarchy. Every mans
iuccess lies ultimately on his obedi-
nee, not on his self assertion. Moth
hing great, friends, was ever done
Without self-control. self-denial, self
acrifice. The pulpits are continually /
aging these things to us and we Of
en- imagine that they are simply
he professional talk OF professional
eligion, but they are just as true
# the arts and Of business and work
Il every kind as they are of the reli-
ious life, for there 10 no truth that
5 not true everywhere, no truth OF
eligion that is not true of business,
S great many business men are
ow finding out, and no truth Cf
iork that is not true of religion.
All great work is based on self
acrifice and sclf-denial. This is a