Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-06-12

ANNAPOLIS. Md. MONDAY. JUNE 1e. 1916.
teady VIII whise volitions are determ-


ined by reason and an enlightened
conscience. You will discover that
the schols of training are the home, the
educational institutions of our land,
and society generally. The home
counts for much, and you cannot afford
to forget your obligations to those in
your homes who thought it labor of
might have the advantages offered in
love to sacrifice and toll that you owe
our country. Then, too he thankful
that you live in land where the little
red school house stands at every turn
of the way America asserted at the
first that all men had equal rights TO
life. liberty and the pursuit of happi-
ness, and among these rights was that
of development. Our public school
system is a God-given blessing With
out it, many of us would be compelled
10 go unframed for want of funds.
When the Stars and Stripes were un-
furled over the Philippine Islands, l.
O42 American school teachers were
sent there within a month Your
home and your country have joined
lives of usefulness. Society also is a
training school. We can do nothing
without our fellowman. Touching ell
bows with him prepares us for greater
tasks. We are depenent one upon the
other The merchant must erect his
store where folk are, the lawyer must
locate his office where people are.
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large sympathies. without which we are
dwarfed in the struggle toward better
things. This three-fold training makes
US industrious, obedient and strong
ready to move the wheels upward and
onward.
III. The creature with inspired inn
agination is one of force. We must
see visions and dream dreams. Joseph
was the dreamer, and later ruler
second to Pharaoh. Frances Willard,
when a child in Wisconsin, wondered
if she would ever be great. She re-
solved to count for something, and pic
tured herself as engaged in the worlds
work. AS a result the country was
not surprised when in 1899 the State
of Illinois voted to place her statue at
Washington as one of the States il
lustrious children. In your dreams
and through your imagination con-
struct a world in which you desire to
live. Place it upon a higher plane
than the actual world about you. Then,
through persistent effort, make that
world of yours real one. Never be-
lieve that the undesirable things in
life, such as poverty, sin, ETC., because
they have always existed. must ever
be characteristic of this globe. Con-
struct your world with these out of it.
and then spend yourself in lifting the
earth to the plane of your ideal. A
divine discomfort is good thing.
Nothing is accomplished save through
men and women who have become dis
contented with the conditions that they
have found, and with vision, started
out to remedy them.
"III, Last of all you must have soul
power. My text says the wheels were
lifted up from the earth by the living
creatures. With training and inspired
imagination you can move the wheels
but not upward. Ii is soul power that
counteracts the law of gravitation and
sends things upward. Soul power is
that which abides with us when we
remain true to the highest spiritual in
structs. You must construct your own
world but what will it profit you if
you gain it and lose your own soul?
Andrea Del Sarto is called failure
by Vasari and Browning because he
lost the soul from his work. What
ever else goes we must retain the
image of Christ, for He alone gives
soul power to men, whereby they can
move the wheels of the world upward
and Godward. covet for you the
ability to lift this world of ours"