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Or. KINGS Lecture

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The lecture of the evening was by
Dr. Byron w. King of Pittsburgh.
! mere was good deal of local in
terest by Hamilton people in DR..
King. He lived in his youth in West
morland county, Pennsylvania, and
there is quite a colony of Pennsyl-
vanians from that county living about
Hamilton. DR.. King was the guest
of Mr.. Hugh Elder, their friendship
dating from boyhood days.
The subject of Dr. Kings lecture
was Dreams and Visions He said:
You meet man, you see his form
and face, but not the man. You can
only know him when you know his
visions, his dreams and his aspira-
tons. You say that a man is six
feet tall; yes, but that is not the
measure Of man. He can stretch
his arm above his head, he can COM
pass the space above with his eyes,
he can reach out with his sense Of
hearing and catch sounds from afar
off, his intellect can fathom the earth
and the laws that govern it, and his
visions and dreams know, the limit.
you meet a friend and you say
to him, How are you? and he re-
counts his physical ills. 1 tell you
it's more of a disgrace to be sick
than to be in the penitentiary. If
you are in the penitentiary it is be-
| cause you have broken mans law and
that is imperfect at best. But If you
are sick you have broken Gods law
and that is sin. The high ambition
of every soul ought to be to do the
thing God intended him to do. John
was a man sent from God to pre-
pare the way for a man whose COM
! ing redeemed the world. Every man
on this earth is man sent from God
to do something. Into every mans
soul is put a vision of that something
which he ought to do. Sometimes
the boy mistakes the vision and
thinks it means distance and wants
| to leave home. I had that vision and
I've Travelled in many lands and I've
found the lonely places of earth-not
on a desert, but in the midst of
great city, and if you go into the
world you'll find that same loneli-
ness.
Il met a man not long ago who
said, 4 owe no man anything. l said,
is that so? Paid everybody off, have
you? What did you pay Moses for
the ten commandments? Maybe you
don't use 'em much, but they are
yours and without them as founda-
ton there would be no governments
and no law No man ever paid off
all he owed. You are in debt to
everyone who ever sang song, or
wrote a poem to enrich your life or
dreamed dream which becoming
reality, has blessed you.
"Do you want me to tell you what
is the most abject slave? 1t Is the
man who goes to his work hating it.
Love your work, and work for the
sake of doing the work better than
anyone else ever did it and it will
make you rich or famous
you prefer. If I'd give every one of
you million dollars tonight, it would
make slaves of some of you, and it
would bring only unhappiness to
many. But if I can only give you
dream, a vision Of the possibility
within yourself, l shall have made
you rich indeed"
The program for the evening closed
with the presentation of two scenes
from 1.-THE Bohemian Girl" by the
Duggin Grand Opera Co. The neces-
sary limitations of the stage and the
absence of SCENERY made the work
most difficult, but the familiar songs,
1.-THE Heart Bowed Down." Then
You'll Remember Me-" 81 Dreamt l
Dwelt in Marble Halls" and others
which have made the opera beloved
these many years, all gave the audi
ence pleasure and they forgot the
limitations of the stage properties.
The music today, both afternoon
and evening, will be given by Co.
forths orchestra and Ash Davis, the
cartoonist, appears both afternoon
and evening.
The Sumuitomo family, which owns
tho S111nitnnn hank and many Yalu-