Woodrow Wilson, an Appreciation: Address Delivered Before the Literary Societies of Antioch State High School (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Woodrow Wilson, an Appreciation: Address Delivered Before the Literary Societies of Antioch State High School

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Woodrow Wilson has often expressed to his intimate friends, that he owed his whole success in life to those pious parents, who sacrificed for him, who urged and encouraged him to seek his education, and who instilled into his youthful heart the love of God and his fellow-man, so profoundly taught in the Book of Books. Those who knew the son during the life of his parents, speak eloquently of his filial affection for them. He was always a noble type of the dutiful son.

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Excerpt from Woodrow Wilson, an Appreciation: Address Delivered Before the Literary Societies of Antioch State High School

Mr. Chairman, Members of the Literary Societies, Ladies and Gentlemen:

When the subjects appropriate to this occasion passed in mental review before me, there stood out pre-eminently, in my mind's eye, the great character now occupying the central place in the arena of American public life; so that I now come to deliver a short message concerning him who, in my opinion, typifies more perfectly than any other man, all that is good and great in our national life. The story of his life, his character and achievements, should appeal with peculiar force to this auditory, composed as it is of so many who are bound to him by the ties of a common race, common ancestry, and (I may add) a common creed.

Woodrow Wilson is descended from a Scotch-Irish ancestry noted for its culture and its intensity of religious conviction. Some of his Scottish forebears, before they emigrated from the hills of Scotland to the north of Ireland, died as martyrs in defense of their religious faith. He is descended also from a long line of preachers and editors - those who constantly stand upon the watch-tower, and whose lives are largely consecrated to the common good. William Duane, an early democrat and friend of Jefferson, contributed in no small degree to the educational and religious training of James Wilson, the grandfather of Woodrow Wilson. Duane emigrated from county Down, Ireland, lured to the shores of the New World at the early age of twenty-two, seeking fame and fortune.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.