The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1929-12-26
SENATOR W. A. CUNTER
ADDRESSED ROTARY CLUB
Continued from page one)

to be a good-sized child we find that
we have forgotten or. we have pro-
crastinated, or we have compromised,
or we have deliberately violated our
solemn covenants with ourselves and
in our shame and despair we throw
them all overheard and cry out,
What's the use?' and so we brand
ourselves as failures, as traitors to
ourselves, as though we were the only
malefactor and delinquent. We recall
the words of Johnson that Hell is
paved with good intentions, and the
words of Malet, Good resolutions are
a pleasant crop to sew. The seed
springs up so readily and the bios
SONS open so soon with such brave
show, especially at first, but when the
time of flowers is passed, what as to
the fruit?" We forget the lines from
the Chocolate Soldier; Resolutions?
Yes, we make them, not to keep them
but to break them, for we are only
poor weak mortals after all
"An artist who painted portraits
for living was doing piece of work
in Bristol England, in the year 1857.
A small boy, five years old, looked on
with curious interest. The artist, to
please the child, said to him: My lit
tie fellow, will paint you picture;
what shall it be? Paint me an angel
said the child with flashing eyes.
Paint me an angel with wings and
trumpet to sound my name over the
earth The child was Thomas Chat
terton, England's marvellous boy
poet His precocious answer was pro-
phetic of the sad career whose con-
suming motive was ambition and
whose melancholy end was suicide at
the age of seventeen.
"Why do these air-castles we con-
struct out of exquisite architectural
fabrics of our fancy so soon vanish
from our sight? Why are we not per
mitted to fill them and thrill them
with the life and warmth of our being
and make them what we would have
them to be-realities Why is it that
ambition and realization are so often
two parallel lines destined never to
meet?
MY son, if thou will receive my
words and hide my commandments
with thee; so that thou incline thine
ear unto wisdom and apply thine
heart to understanding; yea, if thou
criest after knowledge and liftest up
thy voice for understanding; if thou
seekest her as silver and searchest
for her as for hid treasures, then thou
understand the fear of the Lord and
find the knowledge of God
$50 spoke the sage and king of Is
rael 5000 years ago. One of the
greatest monarchs that ever filled
throne or swayed a scepter. His name
belongs to all tongues and over all
the earth abides the shadow of his
lame. HIS NedlCH ploodDlS CANSCuCu
that of any monarch or millionaire
who ever lived before or since. His
income was $SOO00.00 an hour. AS
to his intellectual attainments, it is
said that all the kings of the earth
sought his presence to hear his wis
DOM In many respects King Solo
mon was the most remarkable man
that ever lived and his career presents
one of the strangest problems Of hui
man nature Beginning life under
bright morning skies, dark clouds OBJ
secured its MONDAY splendor. The
wisest of men by the special favor of
Heaven, he became by choice the
greatest of fools He uttered power
full warnings against the destinations
of strange women and then married
or otherwise annexed to his domes-
tic establishment a full one thousand
of them. In early life a humble wor
SHIPPER of Jehovah; in after years he
turned apostate, reared affairs to the
god of the heathens and sacrificed to
Moloch.
"And yet, despite the contradictions
of his character and the. inconsistent
cies of his course, no man ever uttered
wiser words than Solomon concerning
the problems of life and the duty of
man.
"And so it detracts nothing from
the value of our counsel that we our
selves forsake at times our own prin-
ciples and become backsliders. Some
men have lectured on temperance and
died of alcoholism A New England
navigator who had chaEted the dan
gerous reefs Of the Massachusetts
coast, wrecked his own vessel on a
sunken rock which he himself had de-
scribed and of which she warned
others. A surgeon on one of the Arc
tic expeditions of the last century
earnestly and repeatedly cautioned his
fellow-voyagers against the peril of
yielding to the almost over-master-
ing impulse to sleep, but the surgeon
himself fell asleep and persisted. His
tory and experience abound with APP
palling contrast of precept and ex-
ample. The failure of a pilot to fol
low his own chart or of a preacher to