The Denver star., 1917-06-23
TIMELY COUNSEL
FOR GRADUATES
Hampton Students Told How
to Serve Their Country.
HIGHEST IDEALS ADVOCATED

HIGHEST IDEALS ADVOCATED
In stirring Address Isaac Fisher Tells
What 10 Really Needed IL Democracy
10 70 Live and Spread It's Spirit
Throughout the World For the Good
Of Mankind.
~ WILLIAM ANTHONY AERY.
Hampton, Va. Hampton insti6te
has just sent forth ninety-four voca-
tionally trained graduates to carry the
message OF education for service" to
colored, Indian and white people
throughout the nation. Principal II. B.
Frissell, in presenting the diplomas
and certificates, in part said:
I'VE give you these diplomas as q
very slight evidence Of the confidence
We have that in the days to come you
will be true to Hampton, true to your
country, true to your God"
DR.. Frissel referred to the schools
recent memorial service at the grave
Of General Armstrong. where all had
consecrated themselves anew to the
service Of their country
You have caught the vision Of the
kingdom which is to come" he said
1.-The better world which Christ has
made possible through you; and now.
today, you so forth to bear the great
message-the message Of love to all
mankind. Your oyes have seen the
glory Of the coming of the Lord. You
have seen great nations turning from
the selfish rule Of autocracy to the
blessed and better rule Of democracy.
tion to understand what real democ-
racy means. You are going forth to
serve this great country"
Isaac Fisher, university editor, Fisk
university, Nashville, Tenn, in his ad-
dress on THE Rebirth of the World
After the War" in part said: when
this cruel war is over the task before
mankind will be to rebuild the world
to rebuild its wasted cities and to re-
pair 80 far as possible the staggering
economic loss which the great struggle
be of major Importance by the side Of
the real task. The reconstruction to
which this world war points with i'm
perative hand is the rebuilding Of the
hearts and spirits of men. When the
world talas up the new work, which 1t
must do 1fter the war, the new teach
ings Of home and school and church
and press must be not dominion, not
power, not force, not arrogance not
racial prescriptions, but the virtue and
conQuering value of the humble and
contrite heart filed with love for all
and the meekness which shall inherit
the earth.
You can help make 1t easier for
democracy by seeking to come into the
possession Of common ideals-the high
est ideals Of the nation, those ideals
which represent Christ. You can help
make it easy by learning the beautiful
things that have helped make civilixa-
ton grand and glorious through the
years and by making those Ideals your
9wn-not ideals of colored people, not
ideals OF red men. not ideals Of white
men, but the ideals Of Christianity.
What are some of those ideals? First
of all there is Righteousness. You can
make it easy by standing for the kind
of service that makes the good of all
the people the highest aim of life.
III this war is to prove anything 1t
is that men may not hereafter think in
terms of race White people cannot
think any more, after this great world
tragedy is over, in terms of the white
race. The black race cannot think any
more in terms of their own little social
group. To everybody watching on the
far flung battle lines OF Europe almost
all of the artificial distinctions of caste
and race have been obliterated. The
lesson which burns itself into the con-
sciousness of people is that men here
after shall live for the one common
good
Eve must insist that schools like
Hampton where the Negro sees the
white people at their best and where a
common meeting ground is established
for all the races, shall be maintained
for years and years to come.
Il want Tuskegee to remain forever
as DR.. Washington built Unnamed
and conducted by colored men and wo-
men and a monument to their ability
and genius; but l want Hampton and
schools like 1t to endure as open gate
ways to mutual understanding and mu-
tual help.
'See to It that schools Of the Hamp-
ton type remain forever. where we can
get together and understand each other
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