Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-06-08

Kind friends. the class OF SO
will go forth to swell the great throng
OF busy workers in busy world. We
! go to take our places in the drama of
life In which we will all be players on
the worlds great stage. Our years OF
schoolwork have been but years of
preparation, and tonight we fully real
ize that this is not the end, but the
beginning. The scenes of our school
life are now TO be changed for those
which bear with them graver response
bilities. The past has its imprints al.
ready recorded, while the future lies
out stretching before us, aud, much as
we may desire ii, we cannot know what
IT holds in store for us. We do not ex-
pect our path to be one of roses but
ever conscious of that saying, there is
no excellence without great labor, may
we press forward, with the prize our
tickets have procured trying TO add to
the knowledge we have obtained ut
school, and making the obstacles of our
lives but the stepping stones to our
success.
Members of the Board Of Education:
To you who have so kindly provided
us with comfortable and pleasant sur
roundings and procured for us kind
and efficient Instructors, we tenGer
many thanks. Although many have
risen to distinction under the most nd.
verse circum stances, progress is more
sure and rapid when surrounded by
comfort and plenty. With the best
wishes for the future success of the
Audubon schools and hoping that you
may meet with many fruitful results
In all your undertakings we now bid
you adieu.
To the Professor and Teachers: 1T is
with sad hearts that we bid you q last
farewell. We, as a class have passed
the last day under your careful guild
ance, but the kindling fires you have
awakened within our hearts shall not
soon die away. Although we may
never again be placed in the relation OF
instructor and pupil, yet long will the
class of 03 cherish the memories OF
those pleasant hours spent with you In
the schoolroom. We thank you for
the influences with which you have sur
rounded us, and the principles which
yon have instilled into our minds. To
you we feel indebted for much that we
are or may be, and, as wepass out from
your instructions to take our part In
the worlds industry, we only hope that
we shall meet your highest expecta-
tions. May the future years bring you
q rich reward for all your efforts and
finally when your schoolwoIk Is draw
ing to close may IL be sweet conso-
lation for you to knew that your in
iluence still lives,
Dear classmates
DAYS and weeks In quick succession,
Rapidly have flown away,
Aud mid scenes OF work and pleasure,
Brought us TO this parting day"
Words fail on this occasion to express
our feelings foI our hearts are sad.
Perhaps this may be the last time we
shall ever meet as class, but wherever
we may go, the friendship already
formed shall bind us together. The
golden days Of our schOol.life have
passed away with the rising and set.
ting Of the sun, but they have left pleas.
ant memories which cannot be sffaced.
In after years when we are battling
with the world, when perchance, the
nights are tempestuous and the clouds
lowering methinks, In fancy, we will
oftlmes be carried back to our happy
school days, AS we sit gazing into the
fire, brooding over the trials of life,
what q sweet consolation to live again
those joyous times; TO recognize in the
living Goals the forms and faces of our
dear school-mates. After these years
spent In training years of Joy and sor.
rows, we arc going forth ms laborers to
toll In the broad fields of life. All the
future lies dim before us, uncertain In
our way. With our whole souls In our
work, let us go forth conquering and
to conquer, ever battling for the right.
Let us be found Mt our posts of duty,
whenever and wherever duty calls.
We are not to live out the fatiguing
years as delightful dream but to In.
Dor earnestly thoughtfully and faith.
fully.
"And who thoughtful OF the future,
Let us not forget, to-day
We are paving slow but surely,
Our t0mOrrow's certain way"
While travelling over the rugged wavs
of life we will find dangers to confront
us ON every hand, hardships to be en-.
dured and battles to be fought but NAV
we always remember that we must not
live for ourselves alone, but let us SO
I'VE that when our earthly labors are
DER 1t will not be said of any of us that
we have performed no deed of Kindness
or dropped no word by the wayside on
the ear OF some poor lost being to
quicken his waning energies or stir
him to higher aspirations. Let us al
ways bear In mind that our acts, our
deeds, our influences shall live after we
have passed from earth. Then let MS
80 live, that when our earthly tolls are
ended, we shall hear the voice Of our
Maker saying, unto each OF us, "Well
done thou good and faithful servant,
enter into the joys Of thy Lord"