The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-06-04

vocation by Bishop Earl Cranston of
Washington, VINO prayed that the
United States might be led Alright in
the present crisis.
81 Eave not come here today to de-
liver an address, but merely reverent-
ly to take part in expressing the senti-
ment of this impressive day" SAID the
president in his address. ct is neces-
sarily a day Of "reminiscences. Renl-
niscences are not always a profitable
exercise. 1t generally belongs 10
those appropriately to those only who
have left the active stage Of life and
have nothing to think about except
the things that are gone and dead 1t
does not belo nation to walk
with its eyes over its shoulders. It's
business is constantly in the years
that lie ahead of it, and in the Pres
ent that challenges it to the display
of it's power
Some Good and Wholesome.
'But there are "reminiscences which
are stimulating and wholesome, and
among those "reminiscences are c-ief-
ly to be ranked the recollections of
days of heroism, days when great ma
tons found it possible to express the
best that was in them by the ardent
exercise of every power that was in
them.
'"That is what gives dignity to a
day like this 1t is not day of re-
! gret; it is not day of weakening
memory. 1t is a day of stimulation
But, my friends, these stimulating
memories we are sometimes apt to
minimize because we do not see the
full significance of them We are con-
stantly speaking of the great war of
which we think today as war which
saved the Union, and it did indeed
save the Union, but it was war that
did a great deal more than that. It
created in the country what mad never
existed before-a national conscious
ness. 1t was the time wien America
for the first time realized it's unity and
saw the vision of its united destiny.
'"The solemn lesson of these memo
ries for US is not that we must be
ready to save the Union again, for
there are none among US who threat
en- its life, but that we must see to
it that the unity then realized, the
vision teen seen, is exemplifed in US
and the things that We do because
there is no stimulation in any lesson
unless it be the stimulation to duty
There is no stimulation in any oc-
casion if it be merely the pleasure of
recollection; it must also be the ardor
and courage of hope. Greater days
lie before this nation than it mas evr
seen yet; and the solemn conscious
ness of those who bear Office in this
time is that they must make their
best endeavor to embody in what they
do and say the best things in the
! United States.
Too Much Talk Bad.
''It does not do to talk too mucn
about ones self and I do not tcink
that it is wholesome for the United
! States to talk too much about itself.
I do not want to know what you are
today so much as I want to know
what you are going to do tomorrow.
The only test I know of that is COM
petent to determine what you are
! is the test of what you do. Let us
not think Of our characters; let us
, think of our duties and of the actions
that lie before us. l have always
maintained that ute man who lives
| to cultivate his own character will
result only in cultivating an intoler-
able prig; because his object will be
himself. Character, my friends, is a
! by-product 1t is produced in the
great manufacture of daily duty. But
duty is not easy to determine. Duty
for a nation is made up of so many
complicated elements that no man
can determine it. No group of men
without wide common counsel can
possibly determine what the duty of
the day is. That is the strength of
democracy, because there daily rises
in the great body of a democracy the
expression of an untrammelled opin-
ion which seems to fill the air with
/ its suggestions of duty; and those who
stand at the head of affairs have it
as their bounden duty to endeayor
to express in their own actions those