Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-01

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' Bishop Henderson has just been
! speaking of how some rugged men OF
| our own generation have broken down
| in the mountains of our southern coun-
| try following the same trails that
, Francis Ashur1 followed without break
! ing down. do not know never
read. whether Francis Asbury was
physically robust or not. but it does
not make any difference. The ohlS
| thing that is indomita Bile is the human
! spirit. and not the human body: and If
the spirit is indom. tai bic, if it has the
power to lift over every obstacle ana
barrier. the body in which it dwells APP
parently can. by the providence of God.
. men who could carry burdens that ro-
bust man could not carry. | have
! known men so i'll that apparently they
could not carry any burden at all work
with exquisite spirit and vision through
a long generation. weaving their health
and their vitality out of some invisible
stuff which other men did not know
how to use or live upon. So it was the
spirit of Asburv that survived those
hardshps and Travelled those roads; his
body accompanied him only as an i'm
pediment.
81 once told doubling pupil of mine,
when | was trying to teach. that there
was no such thing as Il dry subject:
that the only thing that was dry was
the mind it came in contact with, and
that if that mind perceived the sig
niticanCe of the subject it yielded all
the sap that was necessary for the
most intense interest And that is true
of everything in life. The thing that
makes it worth while is your compre-
hension of it and your enthusiasm for
it. and the thing that makes it endur-
a bic and upon occa sion delightful is
YOUR confidence in the result of what
YOU are going to do.
There is no more delightful picture
i'll the world than the picture of these
knights-erra of the spirit going up
and down rescuing man from the dun
geons and distress of their own sins.
is Stimulating Example,
so that ! was drawn here, as I have
admitted to you, by the irresistible at
traction of this man who did this
| thing. No man ought to refuse to come
and render tribute to a man who has
done all men disinterested and devoted
service. His is stimulating example
for anybody who is susceptible to being
stimulated. A very witty gentleman who
preceded me in the presidency OF
Princeton University once said to a
mother who brought her son to him
personally when she entered him in the
individual care. forgetting how many
others there were, Madam, guar
antee satisfaction or return the boy.
Very often it is necessary to return the
boy. and very often it is necessary to
return the man when you are trying
to communicate enthusiasm, becaus
you find him n-combustible. He will
not burn, ne will not even glow. he is
not even inca ndescent. He will not re-
ceive heat. He will not transmit heat.
| Particularly will he not transmit it
into power.
"And yet if any man is susceptible Of
being stimulated, il is by examples.
self-forgetilsg examples. such as this
of Asbury's and while ] share the
hope that in the city of Washington
some worthy monument of Asbury may
be erected it does not make any diff
ference whether it is done or not, for
he does not need the monument. His
fame is imperisha BILE. The monument
would be an evidence of it, not an addi-
ton to it. The monument would be
merely our admission that the prices
among US are those who forget them
selves and serve God and mankind"