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So, considered merely as a factor in free institutions, the school must foster the religious spirit.

It is appropriate that these words be spoken here. For this institution, from its youth as a college to its maturity as a university, has been true to these ideals. It sprang from the people. It looked for inspiration to the great Source of all life and light. It considered itself the Republic's servant. Heroic has been its history. Its faculty in early days suffered hardship. Its students were drawn from farm and shop-children of men who feared God and loved the Nation and ate their bread by the sweat of their faces. Unpoisoned by luxury, unweakened by doubt, they were, teacher and student, the stuff of which righteous and unconquerable nations are builded. Many of its professors refused chairs in famous universities and gave their lives to this college of the people missionaries of Christian education. Many of its students, burdened by poverty or blessed by it — suffered physical hunger that their minds and souls might grow strong and noble under such teaching. And so DePauw has been a mother of citizenship as well as of culture.

Now that we are in the day of material prosperity, fail not to remember DePauw's heroic past. Fail not in stern devotion to these ideals. Fail not to justify the faith of those plain people whose hard-won earnings sustained Asbury, or of those splendid men who poured their wealth into DePauw, chief of whom was that great layman whose name we are proud to bear.

MARCUS A. HANNA- THE BUSINESS MAN IN STATESMANSHIP

Remarks in the United States Senate, April 7, 1904.

Mr. President:

SINCE

INCE to all earthly work an end must come, our words of farewell to a fellow-workman should not alone be those of grief that man's common lot has come to him; but of pride and joy that his task has been done worthily. Powerful men so weave themselves into their hour that, for the moment, it all but seems the world must stop when they depart. Yet, it does not stop nor even pause. Undisturbed Time still wings his endless. and unwearied flight; and the progress of the race goes on and up toward the light, realizing at every step, more and more of the true, the beautiful and the good.

So it is not important that any of us should long remain; the Master Builder lacks not craftsmen to take our place. But it is important to the uttermost that while we are here, we should do our duty to the perfection of our powers, fearlessly and faithfully, with clean hands, and hearts ever full of kindness, forbearance, charity.

These are the outline thoughts that the absence of our friend compels. With his whole strength he did his work from boyhood to the place of rest. He was no miser of his life - he poured it into discharge of duty, keeping with Nature no account of heart-beats.

The things he did were real things. He was the very spirit of the practical. Yet the practical did not kill nor

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even impair the human in him. He never lost the gift of lovableness. His sense of human touch and fellowship was not dulled, but made more delicate by Time and the World. The years made him wiser, but they made him mellower, too.

And so he won the people's affection as well as their applause. And affection is worth more than applause. There is no greater glory than this to make a nation your friend. Senator Hanna did that. For, when the angel of peace, which men call Death, took him to his well-earned rest, the people knew that a friend had left them. And the people were sad that he had gone away.

This human quality in him made all he did a living thing, all he said a living word. He was the man of affairs in statesmanship; yet his personality gave to propositions of mere national business something of the warmth and vitality of principles. He was the personification of our commercial age the age of building, planting, reaping; of ships on ocean, and on land steel highways and the rolling wheels of trade; of that movement of the times which knits together with something more than verbal ties all the children of men, weaves tangible civilization around the globe and will, in time, make of all peoples neighbors, brothers, friends.

Thus he was, unwittingly no doubt, one of the agents of God's great purpose of the unification of the race. We are all such agents, small or great. If this is not so - if we are not, ignorantly perhaps and blindly, but still surely, spinning our lives into the Master's design, whose pattern He alone can comprehend if we and all things are not working together for good exhaled and then for ever lost

if life is but a breath

our work means less

and is worth less than that of coral insects, which, from the depths, build ever toward the light until islands stand above the waves, permanent monuments of an intelligent architecture.

Work with real things real earth, real ocean, real mountains, real men made him conservative. And his conservatism was real. Much that is accepted as conservatism is spurious, mere make-believe. Conservatism does not mean doubt or indecision. It does not mean wise looks masking vacuity, nor pompous phrase as meaningless as it is solemn.

Conservatism means clear common sense, which equally rejects the fanaticism of precedent and the fanaticism of change. It would not have midnight last just because it exists; and yet it knows that dawn comes not in a flash, but gradually. So the conservative is the real statesman. He brings things to pass in a way that lasts and does good.

Working with real things among real men also kept fresh his faith and hope. No sailor of the seas, no delver in the earth, no builder of roof-trees can be a pessimist. He who plants doubts not our common mother's generosity, nor fails to see in the brown furrow the certainty of coming harvests. He who sinks a well and witnesses the waters rise understands that the eternal fountains will never cease to flow.

Only the man whose hands never touch the realities of life despairs of human progress or doubts the providence of God. The fable of Antaeus is truth for body, mind and soul. And so, Senator Hanna, dealing with living men and the actualities of existence, had all the virile hope

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of youth, all the unquestioning faith of prophecy. These are the qualities of effective leadership of men.

He is gone from us gone before us. Strength and frailty, kindness and wrath, wisdom and folly, laughter and frown, all the elements of life and his living of it have ceased their visible play and action. "Where," said despairing Villon, "where are the snows of yesteryear?" Vanished, he would have us believe. Yes, but vanished only in form.

"The snows of yesteryear" are in the stream, in cloud and rain, in sap of tree and bloom of flower, in heart and brain of talent and of beauty. Nothing is lost even here on our ancient and kindly earth. So the energies of our friend, and those of all men, have touched into activity forces that, influencing still others, will move on for ever.

As to the other life, we know not fully what it is; but that it is, we know. Knowing this, we who are left behind go on about our daily tasks, assured that in another and truer existence our friend is now established, weakness cast aside as a cloak when Winter has passed, vision clear as when at dawn we wake from dreams, heart happy as when, the victory won, we cease from effort and from care. For him the night is done, and it is written that "joy cometh in the morning."