Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1893-07-06
Charlotte Hail sehssl.
Correspondence of the Beacon.l
CuAurnTrU Hail Mr.

SehOoI began MODuays June ZotD, Wild tne
athletic contest among the students Cap
tain J. NJ. Dent. Of St Mary's county, was
pronounced the best all round athlete, with
an average Of 0 1l-16. The other success
fnl contestants were r. L Harrison, ga;
q. NJ. Williar. 81; J. G Edwards, OF; w.
Garner, 8 IS; Z. A. Mcpherson, 8 30.
The Judges were Prof Henry Harrison, Of
the Maryland Agricultural College, DR.. g.
w Petherbridge and ]. F. Dyson. Many
ladies were present and greeted the young
athletes with with much applause and
many smiles.
At p. m. ofthe same date an spprecistive
audience assembled in the old school hall TO
hear The Baccalsureate sermon preached by
! the Rev. L. L. Henson, OF Baltimore. The
speaker, by his impressive manner and in
struciive matter, held the unremitting at
ton Of his heaTers for over an hour. He
began by reading the 4th chapter Of Zach
arias. and taking therefrom az subject
"The Golden Candlestick." Tie said in
part:
al assume that you, young gentlemen,
have already asked and answered the ques-
ton, What il my life's work 10 be? TAX
ing that TOR granted, then, would like you
to ask yourselves with me this question,
How in that line OF work that have al
ready chosen can do the most good!' Let
us seek an answer 10 this together. First,
then, no matter what your vocation may
be, no matter what field of human endea-
vOr may claim your time and efforts, the
one general rule, embracing all others that
lead to honorable success, is Serve the
Lord The most successful man in all the
world ID the Christian man. This is not
the popular idea, and yet IL is truth.
To prove il, compare the Christian man
with himself aud not with someone else.
Take the man with Christianity and the
same man without it and compare results.
The comparison will show you Christiani-
~ and success hand in hand. Some OF
you may take to farming, and / am glad Of
it, for it is a noble calling. Itgrieves me to
see the youths Of our land turning their
backs upon this most ancient Of human
pursuits. Agriculture needs educated men.
If you adopt it, do your work with trained
mind, and you will easily become leader.
Intelligence will make crops grow. Sup
pose in addition to education, the farmer
be server of God, worker in the vine
yard of the Lord. All the more certain
will be his success.
1T may be that you have concluded TO
become q teacher. o what responsible.
tyl To great degree the lives entrusted
TO your care are either made or marred by
you. Yes, il is an awful responsibility. A
conscientious performance Of your duty as
a teacher will be JOY forever TO you.
With what pride will you look back to the
days when you were conducting that young
soul up the sleeps of knowledge You see
him conversant with the profount truths of
philosophy; you enjoyed with him the grand
music of Old Homer, that mighty moutbed
inventor of harmonies. You taught him TO
be at home among the stars, to annihilate
time and space; to tell with accuracy the
age of the rock ribbed hills, to analyze the
flower. This is all grand; but grander
still it is to point through those stars to the
Creator of them, through those hills TO the
great builder, through that flower TO the
maker of it, Teach that young soul en-
trusted to you TO read the great book ofna-
ture for knowledge of the love that flows
from the eternal throne!
Should the law enlist your energies, you
have there also great respon Utility. You
will be student; you may become great
criminal lawyer, a great jurist, and man
Of power. But be q follower of the Lord
and you will have more power. The temp
tations will be many and strong, but be
sieadfast Honor the laws of God, and
respect for the laws of man will follow as
the day the night Do not believe in the
popular fallacy that a man cannot be
lawyer and Christian II is a base and
ignorant SANDER upon an honorable pro-
fession.
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all its various forms. Self.Teliance and
GOODNESS will be needed The responsible
iiy of knowing what is the right thing to
do at a particular juncture will be great
When YOU have done all that your skill
can do for the patient, when you know
that the last summons will in short time
be served upon him, then II will be your
great privilege and duty 10 point him TO the
Great Physician, to Him whose love cuEss
all diseases
Should you aspire to public life. remem-
Der that eternal vigilance will be required
of you If you would keep your reputation
uuspotted. Rise above the partisan-be q
patriot. The relations between the laws
of nations and the laws Of God must be
studied If you would direct the forces that
shape the destiny of human governments.
A nation established on the laws Of God
shall never fall.
ave hear il said that man cannot sue
coed in business and serve God faithfully
at the same time. What an indictment
against the world But you know and !
know, we all know il is true only as an ex-
ception and NOT as the rule There Is one
thing certain, and thai is, il your business
is Of such character as tn lead you from
g I'd, you must give up that particular bus.
iness.
"Why is it better TO be Christian