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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 1, 1898)
12 THE BATTALION. guardians of those heirs and custodians of the treasure which comes to them. It is in view of this hig-her relationship between ) r ou and us that the doctrine of my text comes home to us this morning-. “Let him that is being- taugdit the truth make common cause in all g-ood respects with him that tcacheth.’’ Let us see that there is no lag-g-ing- when the order of the day is “Forward.” Let us see that the duties of the day well done lead on to truer, nobler, manlier work. Let us bear in mind the noble saying- of that great educator, Horace Mann, “Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity,” and, applying- it to our daily life and intercourse with men, let us be ashamed to live in a community or set of surrounding's such as this; let us be ashamed to enjoy its advantag-es and thrive under its privileg-es, without adding- our mite, be it ever so little, to the peace, order, moral tone, and g-eneral progress of its individuals. One of the noblest features of true manhood is what we call ing-enuousness. It means openness, transparency of motive and behavior, such that if you have a grievance ag-ainst me, you come at once to me for its rectification, or, if you have done something- of which you are ashamed, you do not hide it, try to justify it, and smooth it over, but acknowledg-e it openly and try to remove its ill effects. Clean, honest-eyed, open-hearted, conscientious men, it is a pleasure to have dealing’s with them; they are the ones up on whom the earnestness of living- impresses itself. Out of them, as out of tried building- stone, there is no difficulty to construct an edifice which will command the landscape