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Show ATTORNEY OF OGDEN TALKS TO STUDENTS David Wilson. Former Student Stu-dent Body President, Is Chapel Speaker. The Honorable Duvid Wilson, "Dave" Wilson, as he used to he known by the "Y" students when lie was president of the student body and a rapid fire debater, was the speaker at the regular Wednesday assembly at Young university. "Little did I think ten years ago," Attorney Wilson began, "when I oceupied a seat down here in College Col-lege hall and listened to the wiseacres wise-acres talk about mating that I would join the chorus so soon." Attorney Wilson was in a happy mood and succeeded in placing the congregation in the same mood before be-fore he began upon his lecture. "Many good beginnings make bad endings," might be said to sum up his talk on "Seeing Things Through," in which the attorney used Abriham Lincoln as his great illustration. "Lincoln had two great contemporaries," contem-poraries," Attorney Wilson said, hi part, "who had in them the qualities quali-ties of greatness, but lacked iho clear purpose of their greater contemporary. con-temporary. These two men wore Stephen A. Douglas and Jefferson Davis. Davis had more vision than Douglas, but both lacked the vision of Lincoln. "A nian should get his vision of life and then follow' it through. That's what Jesus did. He went into the wilderness to got his vision. After he came through the temptations there presented his vision had been seen and his purpose pur-pose defined. After that all the fires of bell could not swerve him from his course. I "So it was with Lincoln. He got' one great vision: he determined to I save the union; half slave and half j free, all slave, or all free, but. ho; was determined that it should be saved. That one great purpose aided him in solving the many j troublesome questions that arose." j Failures are usually due to two things, Attorney Wilson declared. Either men fail to get a vision of what they wish to do or where they wish to go, or else they lack the moral courage to carry out their vision. Officials in high places, the speaker continued, do not obtain their positions with the idea in mind of defrauding the nation, but due to lack of vision or lack of moral strength, they break down under the stress of the situation in which they ore placed. Scandal, broken lives, disgrace follow in quick succession. The mixed chorus, under t ho direction di-rection of Prof. Florence Jopperson Madsen, sang "The Two Grenadiers.'' |