The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-11-14

ldu al 11d16u T01ndlu6u at nome anu
dug in his own cellar, or underneath
his own wheat field instead of wretch
edness, starvation, poverty and death
in a strange land, he would have had
acres of diamonds land in passing al
low me to say that one of the great
est lectures ever given is founded up
on the story of Al Hafed).
The world is full of All Hafeds-
You have met many men by that name.
History has faithfully recorded their
failures. Far-off fields are greenest.
The pot of gold is ever at the foot Of
the rainbow. Opportunity to achieve
success; to build UP great business;
to become noted lawyer or great
physician is not in some far of city or
country, but it at your very door.
Probably you have desired to become
great. You may have felt that if you
held some high Office You could right
some wrong, or that if you had wealth
you could become great benefactor.
But the opportunity for helping your
fellows ;of benefting your neighbor-
hood; Of aiding your own city is not
when you hold some Office or have be-
come wealthy. This opportunity knocks
at your roor daily. You can give of
your time and of your means in aid
ing those who are in need and in help
ing those who have fallen. You can
aid your community by showing a civic
interest You can help awaken the
public conscience so that we will have
better schools, better sanitation, bet
ter parks, better health and a better
city. The desires of AL Hated
were selfish. Our opportunity is that
of service for others.
Again, according to the mythology
Of the Romaneers, the Holy Grail, was
the cup out Of which the Savior par
took of the last supper with his dis
ciples. 1t is said to have been brought
to England where it remained for many
years, an object of pilgrimage and
alteration. It was incumbent upon
those who had charge of tito be chaste
in thought, word and deed; but one
of its keepers having broken this con-
dition, the Holy Grail disappeared.
From that time it was favorite en-
terprise for the Knights Of Arthurs
Court to go in search of it. James Rus
sell Lowell in '1The Vision of Sir
Launfal,' has Sir Launfal, from his
castle dull and gray, flash forth in his
unsecured mail, to seek in all claims
for the Holy Grail, and as he Jared
forth, a leper by the gate set moaning
and begging for aims. Loathing this
leper, Sir Launfal tossed him piece OF
gold in scorn, and began his quest.
In many chimes without avail he
spent his life in the search, and an old,
bent man, worn out and frail he care
back from seeking the Holy Grail.
And as he paused by his castle gate, the
grewsome leper again begged aims.
Sir Launfal, now filed with meek
ness instead Of scorn, shared with this
leper his mouldy crust of coarse brown
bread and gave him water from
wooden bowl, as he broke the ice on
the frozen stream.
And 10 the leper stood before Sir
Launfal glorifed, shining, and tall and
fair and straight, and the wooden cup
and tn crust Of bread were the Holy
Grail, for it is
'sNot what we give, but what we
share,
For the gift without the giver
is bare;
Who gives himself with his aims
feeds three
Himself, his hungering neighbor-
ing, and me. -
My friends, + have endeavored to
sketch before you two pictures, one
of Al Hated, who should have discov-
cred material wealth and contentment
beside his own hearth stone; the other
of Sir Launfal, who should have and
finally did discover spiritual wealth
and happiness in his own castle.
Tonight we are filed with gladness,
because the greatest of all, wars is
ended, and democracy has triumphed
over autocracy. We are proud because
the United States has done its share
to crust the military masters of the Hun,
AS our nerves tingle and as we thrill
with patriotic fervor, it may be well
for us to remember, that Columbus, in
spired by the desire Of Al Hated for
natural wealth-and by the spirit of
Sir Launfal for the extension Of Gods
kingdom, was the instrument by which
America was discovered. That imme-
diately maritime adventures were slim
nlated and colonization rapidly fol
lowed. New fields for industry and en-
terprise were opened. A new nation
was established; nation founded up
on the idea of political liberty, the
idea which nurtured by the political
and religious prosecutions of the old
world, terminated in the Mayfower