or nobler idea of the true purposes and aims of life � i may not confidently trust that i have imparted to one mind a deeper disdain of those luxury ease wealth power popularity honors by which many an ardent and soul has been to its ruin but you are by position scholars and by virtue of that position you must at least in your calmer and better moments when that which is immortal is not stifled within you � that a true life is tlie one thing desirable to man on earth for and in itself � that virtue being truly such all idea of reward and becomes to the spiritual what is to the material world � a law which will not be he who truly fully the one fact that god knows all that can be of morality � knows that no conceivable from the line of of endeavor can possibly be otherwise than in and of itself wholly apart from all conditions and consequences i shall not then you to follow purity and since the would imply a possible ignorance on your part of the existence of the all wise � of the laws of your own being but i may warn you friends of the mistake so commonly made by our educated youth of lingering long by the of active life under the pretence � very often alleged in good faith � of a want of opportunity o deceive not yourselves thus young men to tlie rightly constituted mind to the truly developed man there always is there always must be r opportunity to be and to learn nobly to do and to endure � and what matter whether with pomp and the relations op learning to labor with sound of trumpets and shout of thousands or in silence and seclusion beneath the calm gaze of heaven o realize that no station can be humble on which that gaze is bent � that no work can be which is performed and not impelled by sordid and selfish aims it is a vital defect of our society and our culture which you are bound to against and to overcome that while an of effort is ever needed of true work remains undone we are too generally dissatisfied with that which lies broad and plain before us and waste our hours in seeking long and far for something and nobler we wander to the poles and the vainly seeking for that which to the man at peace with himself is to the nowhere vainly sighing for the opportunity of some other which his genius and ready acceptance have made the basis of an illustrious and dazzling career we neglect and sacrifice our own we speak of the age of chivalry the age of hero or of perilous and doubtful struggle for freedom as if we did not recognize that man s struggle with darkness and evil is ever in progress and that to render any age one of heroism nothing is but heroic souls waiting for the dead past to be acted � over again for our selfish gratification and we suffer the precious and living present to glide away from us and says a deep fearless of our time to day is a king in disguise to day always looks common and trivial in the face of a uniform experience that all great and happy actions have been made up of these same blank to days let us the king as he passes yes my young friends here is our high privilege and our imperative � to discern and honor the disguised angels whom god is ever sending to and bless his earth not from on the times hints toward among the children of ushered into being with boom of cannon and shouts of millions but from amid the sons of obscurity and toil in peril and � from the and the come forth the and of mankind so when all the and glare of our age shall have passed into a fitting oblivion � when those who have enjoyed rare opportunities and swayed vast and been borne through life on the shoulders of shouting multitudes shall have been laid at last to rest in golden to forgotten the stately marble their only monuments it will be found that some humble youth who neither inherited nor found but out his opportunities has uttered the thought which shall render the age memorable by extending the means of and blessing to our race the great struggle for human progress and elevation proceeds noiselessly often often checked and apparently baffled amid the and impelled by greedy selfishness and low ambition in that struggle maintained by the wise and good of all parties all all i call you to bear the part of men heed the lofty summons not the feeble messenger and with souls serene and constant prepare to tread boldly in the path of highest duty so shall life be to you truly exalted and heroic so shall death be a transition neither sought nor dreaded so shall your memory though cherished at first but by a few humble loving hearts linger long and gratefully in human remembrance a to the truthful and an to generous endeavor by the proud tears of admiring affection and fragrant with the of heaven human life human life a lecture to the piercing gaze of an spirit of space which should it from the central of our system this fair globe must afford a spectacle of strange magnificence and beauty rolling on ever on in her appointed round the earth must present new scenes of interest and grandeur with every hour of her revolving progress now the of china and the plains of india with its tiger haunted relieved by the gaunt bleak piles of the piercing the very skies with their of eternal rock and ice then appear the more and of southern and middle europe and with them the and 