Show ACRES OF DIAMONDS lecture by russell hussell IT Cow bowtell tell clergyman platform orator pastor of the baptist temple philadelphia since and president of temple college born in south worthington mass february 15 IS 43 the most famous of his series of popular lectures delivered on many platforms continued from last issue how many of your men with vast power to help your city how many with great genius or great social power who might enrich and beautify and elevate this their own city are now taking their money and talents and spending them in some foreign el n place instead of benefiting their own people here yet here Is the place for them to be great there alne are as great men here as in illy any other place of its size but it Is so natural for us to say that great men come from afar they come from london from rome from san francisco from new york from mana alana yunk or anywhere else but there are just as great men hearing me speak tonight as there are elsewhere and yet who because of their simplicity city are not now appreciated but the world knows nothing of its greatest men says the great philosopher and it is true your neighbor is a great man and it Is time you appreciated it and if you do not appreciate pre preci clate ate it now you never will the only way to be a true patriot Is to be a true patriot at ome A man who cannot benefit his own city should never be sent to washington towns au ait cities are cursed because their own people tall talk them down A man who cannot bless his own community the place Ino in which he lives should not be called a patriot anywhere else to these young men I 1 want to utter atte this cry with all my force here Is the place for you to be great and liere are your great men sut but we teach our young people to believe that all the great people are from froma away oft I 1 heard beard a professor in ill an in illinois college say that nearly a great men are dead we dont want him in philadelphia laughter they dont want him anywhere the greatest men are hyang ing now and will only be exceeded by the generations to come and he e who appreciates that fact will look 1001 around him and will respect his neighbor and will respect his environment I 1 have to say tonight that the great men of the are those who appreciate that which Is next to them and the danger now to our nation is that we belittle everything that V is at home have you heard the campaign speeches this year I 1 heard a man mail at the academy of music say that our nation is going to ruin that the ship of state Is drifting upon the rocks and will soon be shattered into ten thousand fragments and this republic will be no more that there will be founded an all empire and upon the empire we will put a throne and upon the throne wa we will place a tyrant and he with ills his iron heel will grind the people into oust dust it Is a lie applause never in the history bof god s government of mankind was there a nation stepping upward more certainly toward all that is great and beautiful and true than is the nation of america today let the politic lans jans sa say what the they will for personal greed let 1 t them declaim with all their powers and try to burden the people you and I 1 know that whichever way the elections may go the american people are not dead and the nation will not be destroyed it is a living body tills this mighty republic and it cannot be killed by a single electa election and they that will belittle our nation are not patric patriots its let the land be filled with hope some young yo ine men will say oil oh well the nation is having a hard time but it is not the Dible says it is 13 good for me that I 1 was afflicted we e are getting lown down to where we can consider and take account of f stock lit in the next five years from this 1893 you will see the most nourishing flourishing institutions all h this land will be united a prosperity such as the nation never knew before whatever the result of them the election dont belittle your own nation come young man Is saying there Is going to be a great man here although I 1 dont know of any now young man when are arc you going to be great I 1 when I 1 am elected to some political office then I 1 will be great oil oh oung boung man learn right now in these exciting times that to hold a political office under our form of government Is no evidence of greatness why ray my friends what would become of this nation if our great men should take office suppose you select the greatest men of bour our city right now and ask them to leave their great enterprises and go into some political office I 1 my friends what a i uin luin would be left it if the great men were to take political offices the great men cannot afford to take political office and you and I 1 cannot afford to put them there to hold a political office Is to be a servant of the people and the bible says lie ile that is tent sent cannot be greater than hp who sends him and the servant cannot be greater than his master the officeholder office holder Is the servant of others ile he is sent by the people he cannot be greater than the people you think you are going to be a great man by being elected to some political office young man greatness is intrinsic it is in the personality not ai rn the office if you are not great as an individual before you yoli go into office you may rattle around in it after you get in like shot in a tin pan there will be no greatness there you will hold the office for a year or more and never be heard of again there are arc greater things than political office many a young mans fortune has been made by being defeated when he was up for political office you never saw a really great man mail in off office ice who did not take lake the office at a sacrifice to himself another oung man says there Is going to be a great man here when when cohere corr comes es a war var when we get into another conflict with spain over cuba with england over the monroe doctrine or over the russian boundary or with new jersey laughter then I 1 will vill sweep up lip among the glittering bayonets then I 1 will tear down their lag flag from the staff bear it away in triumph and come home with stars on my shoulder I 1 and hold every office in the gift of the nation then I 1 will be great young man remember greatness does not consist in holding office even in war the office does not make the great man but alas we mislead the young in teaching history it if you ask a scholar in school who sank the merrimac he will answer hobson and tell seven eighths of a lie for eight men sank bank the merrimac at santiago yet where ire are the women here tonight who have kissed the other seven men laughter A young oung man says 1 1 I I was studying the history of the war the other day and read about generals grant meade beauregard Beauregar cl hood and these great leaders and they great did you read anything about their predecessors there Is very little in history about them it if the office had made their predecessors great you would not have heard of grant or sherman or mcclellan but they were great men intrinsically not made so by the office the way we ive teach history leads the young to think that when people get into office then they become great men inel but it Is terribly misleading every great general of the war is credited ci with many victories victo les he never knew anything about simply because they were won by ills his subordinates it if you knew the value of chamberlains salve you would never wish to be without it here are some of the diseases for which it Is empei especially chally valuable sole nipples chapped hands burns frost bites chilblains chronic sore eyes itching piles tetter letter salt rheum and eczema pi dilce ice 25 cents per box for sale by the eddy drug store but it Is unfair to give ive the credit to a gene general ral who did not know anything about it I 1 tell you it if the lightning of heaven had struck out cut of existence every man who wore shoulder scrapes in our wars there would have arisen out of the ranks of our private soldiers just as great men to lead the nation on to victory 1 i I I 1 will give one more illustration I 1 dont like to give it I 1 dont know how I 1 ever fell into the habit indeed it was first given offhand off hand to a grand army post of which I 1 was a member I 1 hesitate to give it now I 1 close my eyes and I 1 can see my own native hills once more I 1 can see my mountain town and plateau the congregational church and the town hall they are arc there spread before alb with increasing detail as my mayears years fly by I 1 close my eyes and I 1 can see the crowd again that was there in the wartime war time IS 1864 6 4 dressed in red white and blue the he flags flying the band playing I 1 see a platoon too n of soldiers who have from one term of service and reen 11 listed for tie the second and are nov no to be received fry by the mountain town Oh welI do I 1 remember the lay day I 1 was captain of the company although in my teens I 1 was marchl marching ng at the head of that company and auf ed out with pride A cambric needle would have burst me all to pieces laughter I 1 am sincerely ashamed of the whole thing now but what all august pride then in my youth marching at the head of my lily troupes being received by the country town authorities we marched into the town hall they seated my soldiers in the middle of the hall and the crowds came in on the right and on the left then the town officers filed upon the stand and took up their position in a halt half circle the good old mayor of the town and the chairman of the selectmen his family gave me permission to use this without offense to them he sat there in his dignity with his powerful spec tables he had never held an office in his life before ile he may have hae thought that it if h he could get fice that would give him power to do almost anything ile he never held an office before and never made a speech before when lie he had taken his place he saw me on the front seat and lie he came right forward and invited me cf men invited me me up on oil the stand with the town officers why 1 no town officer ever took any notice of me before I 1 wenc to war yet perhaps I 1 ought not to say that because one of them I 1 remember did advise a teacher to whale me but I 1 mean no honorable mention laughter and a applause now I 1 am invited 01 on the stand with the selectmen they give me ice a chair in just about this relation to the table indicating the position I 1 sat down let my illy sword fall to the floor and waited to be received napoleon the nth pride goeth before destruction and it ought when the selectmen and the mayor had taken seats the mayor waited for quite a while and then came forward to a table oil oh that speech we supposed he would simply introduce the congregational minister who usually grave gave such public addresses but you should have seen the surprise when this old man arose to deliver the address on this august occasion he had never delivered an address before ile he thought the office would make him an orator gut but lie he forgot that a man mail must speak his piece as a boy it if he wishes to become an orator as a man yet lie he made a most common mitake mistake so lie he had written out ills his speech and learned it by heart but he brought ils his manuscript with him very wisely find and tool took it out opened it and spread it on the table and then adjusted his spectacles that lie he might see it then lie he walked back and came forward again to deliver that address he must have studied the idea a garmt deal because he assumed an elocutionary attitude he rested heavily on his left heel slightly advanced his right foot threw back his shoulders and advanced ills his right hand at an angle of forty five laughter As he stood in that elocutionary attitude this Is just the way he delivered that hal speech friends often ask me if I 1 do not exaggerate lt its you exaggerate a it I 1 the power to exaggerate it to be continued |