The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1913-01-03

certainty Of cargo and passengers go
my Dy saiely' Somebody said: Pro
VIDE me with men, implements and
Whatever ask for and / will open
Heiis Gate. And so a contract was
MADE work started and, we are=taAaa
nine acres OF rock was undermined In
that dreadful gateway; forty thou
san pounds Of explosives were
brought, mighty explosives. TO that
gateway, tons Of dirts and rock were
hauled away; thousands of men with
strong arms and machienry honey
combing beneath that river until
thousands and thousands of holes
were drilled and charged with eyplos.
ives. And when 1t was all lxed a
certain hour orders were given for
everybody to be In the house. and
Ine engineer called his daughter ana
said when the hands that watch
reaches twelve you touch that but
ton, but don't touch it until l speak
And at the moment he said 'touch the
button" and an electric spark ran
along one wire and diverged in a
thousand directions and 'HelI's Gate"
was lifted.
was lifted and rocks and everything
imaginable were torn UP and scat
tered thereabout; and now their is
no better part Of East River to &C
commodate the thousands of boats
boats passing through it than HELPS
Gate. Young friends, we are going
up the river. distractions have met
us, and ought to meet us, and we
ought to discover a remedy and ap-
ply that remedy; we ought to go be-
meath, around and over and use
every ingenuity that mind and muscle
can honorably bring to bear, set them
to work and clear the obstacles away
and float this boatau up the river until
we come to its ~veryRsource.
Fifty years from now, when these
teachers Of yours sleep, when this
speaker will have been forgotten,
when this university, / trust. win just
begin to put on her beautiful garment
for her morning work, | hope around
this compass, when the lark begins
to sing her notes will be Joined by all
listening hearts, throbbing hearts and
animated spirits, simply entering to
do the grandest and greatest work
an institution ever did for a race;
that you will be stronger, and the
next Jubilee will bring a different
state of affairs to what we see here
to-day. And when / say that, I mean
this: I am optismistic enough to be-
lieve that the time will come when
the great wave Of prejudice that
sweeps the country today will take
a lull and go to sleep; I do not feel
that 1t will last forever. I believe
the world is getting better. There is
a condition now that we all would
change if we could. When was there
a time when there were not conditions
that everyone would change? In
: the days when Christ walked this
, earth, the hearts OF men burned
? against Him, and they never stopped
r until they nailed him to the Cross
, But the people are to-day singing
{ hosanas to Christ.
D 1t should be our purpose to sci
D about and never still our brain unit
: we have turned out a mighty OBJ
Y ject lesson that the world may Aset
c that there is something in us. Lei
/ the world see within us more than Il
!. gives us credit for having.
We want to convince this worlC
: that we are inexhaustible, that there
g is always more to follow.
t The following is the program as Il
q was rendered:
I America Audience
I %Invocatiin ------- DR.. C. W. Morrow
( Remarks -------- Mr.. e. r. Alexander
d Piano Solo, 1.-TWO Mazurkas"- Chopin
s Miss Johnella Frazer.
I Reading if Emancipation Proclama
4 ton ------- Miss Sadie E. DAME
v Solo-"Crossing the Ear (Buck)
a ----------Miss Leona Hughe.
t Address ------ Bishop Evans Tyre
CALCULATIONS ------------ ---------.
- BenoQ1Ct1On DR. C. Morrow