Show I I THi GLORY OF MANHOOD In the path of an Indoinltnblo will obstacles are but stcppiiiKstoncs So Haiti II forceful leader of men who in his life was an exemplification of the truth of his assertion The truth holds good I coo in I connection with the experience of j every trno man in whatever department H It d de-partment of life he toddy bo found w i Not every man can he 11 lender hut it is In the power of urdinuy nun to educate It anil fashion the will HO that obstacles in ± F tho way of its resolves shall bo butt but-t t rounds in u ladder on which It mounts Ito jd p I-to highest conquest Hut behind it all thero must be a motive power and that D tP must relato to something worthy of man r hoods noblest attainments Love of d country was tho refining lire through f which the representative men of this Nation r ir t Na-tion and thousands of more common Pj men stopped out from the low level of a routine lifo of drudgery to a higher plane r of thought and feeling It vexes ono to t hear the pharisees and dullards who arrogate f rjyl ar-rogate to themselves tho right to pass t a f judgment on better men than themselves 4 t talk of the demoralIzation of our civil war Heaven knows there was enough i d of petty ambition and mercenary consideration i consid-eration in connection with those who would servo the country only on condition condi-tion that they should receive official promotion pro-motion For such all men have contempt con-tempt Hut for thoso whose patriotism r compelled thorn to swell the ranks of the tdD defenders of their country there came F an inspiration which made them better 4 t bet-ter men ever after From their i different standpoints and with n 1e self sarrilico which was in itself heroic t no doubt the men in gray shared largely 1 in tho elevation which comes from a dot do-t d i votion which perils life itself in defense r I r of that which they had been taught to consider duty To will and to do is mans crowning glory Backbone is as + necessary in the mental and moral makeup f i make-up of a man as tho spinal column in in fe I his physical system Men have wills animals have only instincts |