The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1920-01-10
(Mr. Terrell is moving to Mem
phis, Tenn, His Future Home)

(Mr. Terrell is moving to Mem
phis, Tenn, His Future Home)
The man of the hour would be
hard to find. We might look amone
a million and fail to discover him.
He is not impossible, but he is a
rare specimen of human power. And
he is rare because he must fill the
full measure of a devinely commits
stoned leadership of his generation.
Such a man is not found by search
among the multitudes. He reveals
himself as the morning sun reveals
the glory of new day. He is
neither discovered nor introduced by
other men. He is a man with a mis-
sion, and he comes endowed with
self-impelling power to fulfill it. He
needs no messengers with spectacu-
lar announcements of his coming.
He wants no heralds with trumpet
and drum. He is himself as the
voice of one crying in the wilder
ness. The man of the hour must be
a man of vision. And he must be
a man of vision without being vision
airy. He must see things and events
and men in their true perspective.
He must comprehend the history of
world conditions and be familiar
with the current event of his age.
But he must see more than these.
knowledge of the past must be
crowned with wisdom of the future.
With prophetic insight he must look
down the coming centuries and fore
cast the effects of present creative
causes. He must lock with Ezekiel's
oeyes. He must be larger than his
environments down the ages on their
mission of good
The man of the hour must be a
constructive thinker. He must have
knowledge, to be sure, but the mere
possession of knowledge will not suf-
flee. He must utilize his knowledge
to think cOnstructively about the
course of human events. He must
be able not merely to destroy the
evil forces that curse the world,
but to fashion and build a nobler
form of human civilization for the
coming ages. He must have the
mental power to discover and to
strike down the gods of ignorance
and place in their stead the gods of
intelligence. He must possess and
exercise a high order of intellectual
aggression that will challenge other
men to think loftily and construct
lively He is not merely a deserter
Of world evils, he is a builder of
worthy ideals for his people
The man of the hour must be an
original personality. No copist can
hold the title. No. photograph record
can thrill the heart of the race nor
awaken te dormant energies of a
people. He must be a red-blooded,
healthy bodied sane-souled prince OF
men. He must see things for himself
as an original discoyerer. "He who
walks only where he sees other mems
tracks. makes no new discoveries"
He must break new ground and Gull
tivate new fields. He must possess
broad culture. The benighted mind
leads only to outer darkness and
disorder. Narrow minded, self-cen-
tered leaders arc prophets of evil
fulfillers Of evil prophecy. Only
the cultivated intellect sanctified by a
refined spirit can meet the demands
of the hour. "He who climbs high
er, though he climbs alone, draws all
the world after him."
The man of the hour must be in
corruptible. In tese days when graft
ic rnu mr. Mt nd hnI
plotted for selfish uses, the man of
the hour must stand upon the pin
nacle with the Christ and shout
back to is traducers: >"GET THEE
BEHIND ME, SATAN" The man of
the hour is without a price. He can
not be sold and he cannot be bought.
No lure of gold, no promise of So
cial elevation, no bride of political
preferment can strain his immacu-
late life. He may be trusted with
the souls of the people.
No coward ever met the demands of
popular leadership. The man of the
hour must, therefore, be a man of
courage. He must be absolutely
fearless of the flattery of friends and
of the intrigues of his foes. His con-
victions are parts of his being He
cannot be separated from them. He
cannot surrander them without sur
rending his character, and he would
perish at the stake before he would |
yield to threats of violence or be in
Inundated by the power of the mob.
He challenges the whole world in
defense of his principles. He is not |
a gutter. He is a FIGHTER for the |
sacred rights of all men. He is |
brave to the point of self-effacement. !
He is the apostle of truth and just
tice.
The man of the hour is man of
a singleness of purpose. There is
no division in his mind and heart |
as to what he shall do. No human
power can swerve him from the one
course upon which he has fixed his |
aims. With indomitable will he
moves forward, changelesslv and I'M
changeable toward the one coal to
which he has dedicated his life. Such
men were Abraham Lincoln and |
Booker II. Washington.
The man of the hour must be a |
man of inspiration. From some dt-
vine unseen suorce bevond himself
NO uIdMS luS S6CIel VI Ills pOMSl. IlS
lives much on his knees. He is ia
miliar with the shores of Galilee.
And many times, with barred head
and unsandale1 feet, he has climbed
the rugged streeps of Mount Olivet.
Amidst the din of the great noisy
world he hears the STILL SMALL
VOICE OF GOD. Such men were
Abraham and Isaiah, Gladstone and
Washington.
The man of the hour is man of
great warm human sympathies. Love
is the ruling passion of his life. At
lection pervades every endowment of