The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1890-05-29

beautiful city.
This day to you 10 q commence
ment, and throughout the Who'll
land the commencement season 1
accompanied with bright smiling
faces, and proud fathers, mothers
brothers and sisters. Flower
abound and bright cOlOrs- Tn,
audiences like this one here to
night are full Of sympathy, and th,
world, for time at least, seems full
Of JOY aud happiness. This com
mencsmeBt means TO you, my younI
friends, that straight out before yOI
runs the path reckoning you int
the wsrld where you are TO taste the
joys Of noble conduct aud win the
laurels which never fade. And I au
sure we would all make Il = season
Of encouragement even as II IL one
OF hearty cOngrstulatiOn. We would
remind you Of your better selves
coupled with the assurance that y q
choose TO believe that you are good
aud brave aud wise aud tender, aud
that yos are now controlled Ivy Q
noble aud holy ambition for the
future! In effect you say to us "ws
are now ready for busiuess"-the
business OF life.
You go forth, no longer I presume
4 TO be under tutors aud governors.
with your nominal education COM
Pleted. We all know that there
must ever I've somebody TO open up
the primer To = rhild-aud then the
child hHs To work out the alphabet
for himself. so you, respected
graduates, have been primed in the
public schools, aud hensefsrih you
are 10 read, study, Trfiert, dream
aud work in the larger scbs0l Of
every day practical life. Your
teachers have finished with you.
They have done their work. Yours
nov begins In earnest.
All thoughtful people recognize
that the beginning Is . great thing Ia
every department Of humaR Thought
and sctiOn. We'll begun half dUue"
- an old saying, aud IL seems TO me
that the right beginning il really the
beginning Of the end. "IIs got
started wrong" H. the obituary 81
many = moral wreck, and II IL
equally true ia regard 10 educational
failures. We venture 10 believe
that YOU have been started right,
aud that your education has been
given TO teach yeu how 10 live we'll
for this, surely, IL the underlying
object Of all education. Emmanuel
kaut says There is In every man q
divine ideal the type after which he
was created, the germ of perfect
person. II L. the Office OF education
To cherish aud direct the growth Of
these germs" Education In itself
Ii not an end; u IL but . means 10 an
and; aud that end, rightly under
stood, IL the art Of living we'll. 50
that noble character Is the fruit Of
the toll!
Therefore I say 10 you, live well Ia
the present, make life worth living
through the summer OF flowers and
growth, the autumn Of harvest, aud
the winter Of rest and hope!
You have already discovered the
value Of Industry. To my mind u IL
but another name for genius. What
is genius but q genius for hard
work: We all find out sooner or
later, that nature has no holes In
her pockets. Things have to be dug
out-ihry don't drop out. Gold Is
locked up in quartz, and so 10 know
ledge. All things are sealed, aud
the secret Of their disclosure Is in
dustry. Aud I am sure we ought to
lie thankful 10 gold Is locked up in
quartz that we may get IL by per-
SEPARATION. aud . mereurlal solution!
As for knowledge-why Il stands
inviting us all saying, Just seek me
and you shall find" And how pro-
foundry grateful We should be to
know that there Is always . clue
given!
My friends, be sure Of this one
thing, namely, that knowledge IL
never uurolied for US while we slt In
amber plush! IL IL ever . discovery
AN eVoIution-to the true man
Who, through Industry, lays hold Of
&c, aud cries. Eureka!
Americas greatest thinksr-of
course mean Emerson-ssys:
"GOd offers TO every mind its choice
Ietueen truth and repOse. Take
which you please, you ean never
have both. Between these, as
pendulum, man Osciliates. He Ia
whom the love Of rePOse prsdOmi-
mates will accept the frst creed. the
first philosophy, the first political
party lac meets-most likely his
fathers. He gets rest. commodity
aud reputation; but he shuts the
door Of truth. He In whom the love
Of truth PredOmiuairs Will keep
himself alOOf FROM ell mOOriBgs aud
afiOat. He will abstain from dog
matism, ard IrCt kniye all the OPP
pOsits negations between which, ss
walls, his being Is swung. He sub
mits 10 the ineOuvenienee Of sus-
Pense, aud imperfect opinion, but be
Is = candidate for truth as the other
IL not, aud respects the highest Law
Of HE beiug."
All true know ledge Is hut truth in
some form or either, aud every par
tiels Of knowledge IL secured by the
conscientious activity Of mind and
heart-I say mind aud heart! May
God keep eli aud every one Of NJ
from being all head aud no heart!
And right here IL n danger we must
guard against, for many have
wrecked themselves upon this fatal
error. In that m.schless fragment
by Nathaniel Hawthorne entitled
ETHAN Brand" we are introduced
10 the man sho for % years went In