Excerpt from Address of the Hon.: John Sharp Williams Mr. Williams, after being introduced in a few well chosen words, spoke as follows: One of the Ten Commandments delivered by Jehovah to Moses on Sinai, and not the least of the ten, is this: Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. Like all the other commandments of God to his children, this applies not only to the individual man, but to men in the aggregate - men in organized societies fdrming governments, constituting peoples. Just as the boy who does not honor his father and mother is apt to bring his own life to an untimely end, as a consequence of experimenting in new and foolish paths to the neglect of the advice, accumulated experience and teaching of those who have seen the world before him, so a people who forget the history, despise the traditions, ignore the ideals and fail to share the aspirations of their ancestry are a people not apt to conserve anything - neither their own power nor great ness, nor their very living in the land itself, which the Lord their God has given them. Just as a man cannot safely ig nore his heredity and environment, so no people can consist ently, with the hope of a long life as a people, neglect either, and the life of those people who do not honor their ancestry, revere their teachings and traditions, share their aspirations and ideals, is apt to be a short one. It cannot be long before they lose their identity in the land which the Lord their God hath given them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.