ADVICE TO THE RISING GENERATION.

Evening Star, Issue 23130, 2 December 1938, Page 2

ADVICE TO THE RISING GENERATION.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —“ Re inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling, not a mean and grovelling thing that wc are to shuffle through as we can, but an elevated and lofty destiny. The words, spoken by Mr Gladstone to the pupils at Hawarden Grammar School in 1877, were the keynote of Gladstone’s own life. Ho was always terribly, painfully in earnest in whatever he undertook. Even on a railway journey he could not restrain himself, but poured from the-carriage window at every wayside station his convictions on the topic of the- hour. In ,ht s great speeches, of which Midlothian heard many, his fervour,- his; eagerness to convince, his fierce energy, his irresistible eloquence which rushed upon his hearers like a mighty torrent, so inflamed his soul that his whole frame quivered and his eyes gleamed with an almost uncanny brilliancy. The magic of his silver tongue has swayed vast audiences as if by some wizard’s power and sent an answering thrill ot excitement through the veins of every listener. His mastery was the outcome of his energy. It grew with him as his hair changed to iron grey, and later, that redoubtable will essayed to bear down all opposition and to sweep it from his path as if it were a thing that never should have been.—l am, etc., December 1. Arestos.