The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1913-09-10
The Ladder OF
Success.

@ Following are some extracts
from the address of Rev. VIM.
Frost, president OF
;sBerea College, Berea, KY, in
Eihr school auditorium on last
efhursday night:
IA Friends and Neighbors, for more than
twenty years have planned to visit
sFBg S,ona Gap 1t has been the home
IN some Of my good friends and the
Ss,tssiing place of my most pleasant
sAboughis all these years. And now |
sAm here. knew this city in its sur
Founding before came. hut the noun.
'5rsn, are little higher. the sky little
5,brighier and the people little more in.
s,eresiing than I really thought they
were
Il ON great mountain region, of which
big Stone Gap is one of the central
spots is beginning to discover itself.
B Ne mountain people of the South may
te forgotten by the great cities of the
pain and the seaboard, but we are
coming more and more, TO know that
We may amount to something. Our
3 country is developing, our numbers in
! crtasing we are grateful for our miner.
( 81 wealth and our forests, aud the great
u1urics Of grain and fruit that are 10.
lux 10 lo produced here, but our chief
! PRIDE is IN our children. Whatever else
we raise We shall raise men and women.
have male il my business to visit
the chief mountain regions of the world
and everywhere have found them good
Places in which to be horn.
came here not TO teach You any
great lesson but Just To get acquainted
And We shall get acquainted by talking
over together the things we believe in.
Coming from great religious school.
You will expect me to speak about edu
cation and religion, hut shall not speak
o. these things directly but rather OF
tue influence of religion and education
in making men and women How do
religion and education help us in the
great purpose of our livesl What do
We mean when we say we believe in
education. or we believe in religionr
Now II am only come to Big Stone
Gap once in twenty years. | must speak
my speech IN such "A fashion that ID can
h remembered. would rather have
what ! SAY today remembered by the
hoy, aud girls than to have ii approved
even hy the wise fathers and mothers
ministers and public men who may
honor rs 10y their attendance today. /
will build here by the help of these boys
and girls that We will call The Ladder
u success
think every person in the room has
sen "a ladder What is the ladder fory
II Is something 80 help us climb. Ii en-.
-hles Us 10 mount from the ground To.
ward the sky. IL is q machine for get
ting people higher Not AN elevator
that lifts them, but stairway which
they can climb.
Here Is Il man who does things. lie
can pick good horse and train it. lie
cIn plow a straight furrow, seta stright
lat raise "A big crop. His house is
olmior!able, his stock is well cared for.
his family is well clothed.
Beside him may be another who is nj.
Ways IN trouble and difficulties. He
ioigeis To shut the gate and the pigs
sei INTO the garden He makes promi
rs aud does not keep them. His chill
dTen are unframed. his horses lame. his
wife sick, his debts unpaid, his hands
aIe IDLE half the year. He is an unsuc.
ctasful man
Now boys which kind of man do
You intend TO beY
And here are two women, One of
them has never learned how to do many
useful things. Her front room may be-
reasonable, but her kitchen is dirty and
Jul OF disorder. There is a button gone
from tile back of her dress and the place
j. fastened with Il pin. Her voice is
sharp and monrnful She is all the
lne wringing ler hands and talking OF
an
Hnt IN the next valley lives her sister,
ie'hals, who has always taken an in
,efesi IN the great business of house
SreNng She has saved up all the
rules Tor dressmaking fruit canning,
anu the care of the sick. Her kitchen
: Tie cleanest and brightest room in
Hef house. Her children are all proud