, 1924-05-14

tHe TnlHuS Oh the youth VINO SaC
The address is given in full be-
low:
In an endeavor to decide upon a
theme that would be of interest and
h~elpfulness to you young people
who have honored me with the fine
privilege of addressing you upon
this eventful occasion | finally chose
the topic. Man the Conqueror,''
suggested by the substance of a
verse of scripture in the first chap
ter of Genesis, where God said to
the man that He had created, Sub
due and have domination over the
works of creation" Feeling that
the history of mans career as a
c%onqueror would have it's message
of inspiration for our lives today.
A brief review of that history fol-
lows:
Onnipotenee spoke and at His
bidding this bright beautiful world
was formed;- His fiat went forth and
it teemed willis aiiimal and vegetable
life; the laws n forbes of nature
came into existence. His browning
work was breathing into man the
breath of life and sending him forth
with this divine injunction: Sub
due and 'kage dominion over the
works of creation" Thus with the
divinely given and inalienable right
of sovereignty. man as a predistin-
ated conqueror went forth upor his
history making career.
He broke the shackles of ignor-
ance and inexperience that bound
him to a small sphere of living: he
expanded from the seclusion of his
primitive existence by overlapping
the defying mountains with walls
of granite. steep and high; by tra.
versing the restless deep with al
most the eqqbi rapidity as thai of
land and THUS reveling in the beau
ties of higher unknown realms,
then discontinued with the slow
step of life. he brought about meth
DDS of rapid and comfortable loco
motion; he made inventions of mar
ufacturing machinery with the del
icacy and comnlexity of the spiders
web but with the accuracy, speed
and efficiency that far ~excelled the
human hand; he has built the cities
of wonder and magnificence for his
h~abitation: he has utilized the coun-
try of unadorned beauty and re
so~urcefulness for his welfare: he
has perfected excellent methods Of
government for his safety and pro-
lection, and has acquired the capaci-
ty of rapidly transmitting the news
of the worlds procedure for his
pleasure and information. Wher-
eve necessity has arisen, or even
whatever his increasing fancies have
demanded his spirit of mastery has
led him forward with |unresistine
determination and a conqueror he
proved himself to be! And such
wonderful advancement has this
brought about that the achievements
of the 20th century stand out be
fore the world as the marvel of all
ages.
Judging the future by the past,
we are led to the conclusion that
mans c%onquering tendencies will
ever lead him onward and upward
into an ever increasing largeness
of civilization and perfection of liv-
ing.
And the man who fails to grasp
the significant fact that his career
is destined TO be ever onward and
upward, rather than standing still
or re~trogading. is the nan who loses
out and is left behind by the pro-
cession of mankind.
In 1885 a man resigned from the
U. S. Government patent office in
Washington, giving as his reason
that there would be no more inven-
tons of any consequence. For lack
of new IDEAS the business of the
patent office must stop and all en-
ployes be discharged. So his wise
one had ~prudently resolved to re-
sign and seek employment elsewhere.
The man who wrote that r~esigna-
ton had never seen a telegram, a
sewing machine. an electric car, an
automobile, an airplane or dirigible
atrship, a wireless telegraph appar-
atus. a revolver, a repeating rifle,
a breach-loading cannon. a torpedo,
a submarine boat, an iron or steel
ship, a rotary printing press nor a
linotype machine hat seems almost
to have human intelligence. He
wrote and read by candle light and
dreamed of nothing better, for he
had never heard of a room lighted
with gas, kerosene or electricity.
The phonograph, radio. the power
of electricity and the thousands of
smaller inventions have been devel-
oped since that day.
In addition, let us notice some
of the rncnnE IIncfrntinnn 20 u..