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HENRY CLAY MORRISON -- THE MAN AND HIS MINISTRY
HENRY CLAY MORRISON -- THE MAN AND HIS MINISTRY
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Dr. C. F. Wimberly has written this biography of Dr. Henry Clay Morrison for serious reasons. Doubtless there has been mingled with his motives the desire to pay a tribute to an esteemed friend, and likely there will appear to the reader evidences of this personal devotion. But this does not constitute the chief purpose. Both the author and the subject are serious men. They have taken the world in its fullest reality. It has not been to them a play-house, a vanity fair, but the scene of eternal plans and forces and issues. And Dr. Wimberly heartily believes, as a multitude of other friends in all parts of the earth, that the story of this good man not only deserves to be told, but that it contains lessons which should be taught.
I have said Dr. Morrison is a serious man, that he has taken the world seriously, which is true. But he has not been a sad man, lacking in humor and hopelessly ignorant of the joyous aspects of life and the currents of pleasure that flow through it. It is not necessary to be flippant in order to be humorous, or to be jaunty in order to be joyous. The virtue of humor he has had without carrying it into the realm of a vice. But this man has come along the route of a working man. Hard necessity imposed this on him. But he was fortunate to have been born at a time when work was an honorable thing among respectable people, when indolence was regarded a social shame rather than a social glory. The man who is rich enough to roar sons without work, and weak enough to do it, is both greatly increased in wealth and too feeble in mind and morals to be other than a vicious menace to society. There is no difference in reality between the idle rich and the idle poor, the crowds who loaf in gorgeous hotels and the crowds who tramp the land in rags, save the difference in the cost of their wardrobes and the price of their meals. The story of this man is the story of a worker, a brave, tireless, joyous, conquering worker, and such a story is worthy of being told and of being carefully read.
I have said Dr. Morrison is a serious man, that he has taken the world seriously, which is true. But he has not been a sad man, lacking in humor and hopelessly ignorant of the joyous aspects of life and the currents of pleasure that flow through it. It is not necessary to be flippant in order to be humorous, or to be jaunty in order to be joyous. The virtue of humor he has had without carrying it into the realm of a vice. But this man has come along the route of a working man. Hard necessity imposed this on him. But he was fortunate to have been born at a time when work was an honorable thing among respectable people, when indolence was regarded a social shame rather than a social glory. The man who is rich enough to roar sons without work, and weak enough to do it, is both greatly increased in wealth and too feeble in mind and morals to be other than a vicious menace to society. There is no difference in reality between the idle rich and the idle poor, the crowds who loaf in gorgeous hotels and the crowds who tramp the land in rags, save the difference in the cost of their wardrobes and the price of their meals. The story of this man is the story of a worker, a brave, tireless, joyous, conquering worker, and such a story is worthy of being told and of being carefully read.
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