The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-06-19

these l. handicapped. And yet In the perform
ance OF LIES duties and In the discharge OF LIES
responsibilities which God commits not 20 soce-
ties. nor TO corporations. but TO each one sepa-
rateiy, tits individual effort. after all, that is the
i'm pOrtant thing IN n mans life.
But another consideration makes our topic
timely. People are apt in this age OF invention,
discovery, the multiplication OF books, maya
zines aud papers. the unparalleled advances In
life. finding little Inspiration 10 enter into Wig
orous struggle odds. they say. being so strongly
OF doing or saying anything that has not already
been just as we'll IL not better done and said.
successful To w say or do % something
new onlyl Hardly. IL IL not 80 much TO find out
or do something new that is required of US II we
wish To he called successful as TO stamp our IN
dividuality OH what we do. be 1t new or old. IT'S
the man back OF what is said or done in most
cases that inIpresses the world most.
How can We attain q powerful individuality
Not by being imitators OF predecessors or con
teInporaries. but to open heart and character 80
tnat all that Is pure, worthy, good, noble, truo
may un0bstructedly flow into and become one
with us. Bread and meat grow into our bodies
by being turned TO blood, then bone ana muscle.
60 our minds and characters are made by our
turning great and good thoughts into the
structures OF our minds. We live In an age
wherein We have wonderful inherltance-nn-
paralleled opportunities TO he made BY the great
men who have left themselves in history
as urns from whence we can oraw our mem
tai susenance. Job, David, Solomon. Isaiah
sophoces, Lucretius. 81. Paul. ST. Augustine,
Tertullian, Pascal, Milton, Shakespeare Goethe
ALI these souls poured into man Will, as has
been said. largely solve the great problem OF
how 10 restore TO the human mind something OF
the ideal
THE NECESSARY PRINCIPLE.
Especially. let me say, pour Jesus Christ the
ideal manhood. into humanity's life and charac-
ter and man will rise safe and true heights OF
being. What we need is to keep before our minds
the perpetual vision of what God meant each one
to be; then earnest efforts will be made to grow
strong and worthy, for
"Couldst thou in vision
Thyself the man God meant
Thou never more wouldst be
The man thou art-content"
What is implied in attaining ones invividual-
ityl First, being well-inf0rned man-ignOrant
when they are alone The weil-informed man
often stands near and sometimes among q
crowd, but 1t is always as himself, aud not
merely one OF the crowd. Jesus Christ was
never alone as when He stood among the
multitudes pressing about Him, especially when.
in all sne dignity and glory OF ss soe
| before PLATE, the mob bowling aud agitated,
| crowding around Him. Emerson said: cit is
| easy In the world to live after the worlds
opinion; IL Is easy in solitude to live after our
| own. but the great man Is he who. in the midst
OF the crowd. keeps; with perfect sweetness the
| Independence OF solitude"
| To have no welLinformed noble convictions Is
really to be nobody. To have then, isto be nan.
| No man is worthy who follows any line of action
giving as only reason for doing so the abomina-
| BILE expression: They all do it. God
| save a man from regulating his life
/ by such a saying The popular expression
! is: "Wemust keep up with the procession" But
| the true man first asks who formed IL. and where
is it going, before joining IT. and IL he finds il
going in the wrong direction, dares TO stand
| aside from the procession. Christ saved the
| world because he dared step aside from the pro
cesson. and point another and better way for
| man TO follow. Luther saved the church from
| deadening ceremOnialism because he dared leave
| the procession and say: Here l stand. car
do no other"
Other Commencement News.
| BETHLEHEM. Pa, June 1S.-Tbe bacca-
| laureate sermon to the senior class OF
| LehIgh Univ ersity was preached to-day In
Packer Memorial Chapel by, Rt: Rev