The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1896-06-05
INTO THE FUTURE
Rather Maher Lifts the Yell Of the Future
and Offers Many Valuable SuggeS-
tiOnS to the
High School Graduating Glass Which Has
Finished its LabOrS and is Ready.
to Grapple With Life.
THE NEW STATE MAP
immigration Association Issues a Map
Showing the -Four Sections Of the
State in as Many ColorS.
THE NEW STATE NAP
THE BAccALAuREATE SERMON.

The High School Graduating Class Re-
ceives Practical Advice for the Future.
Nineteen young ladies and gentlemen.
who comprise the graduating class OF
the Mitchell high school for '96, were
addressed Sunday evening by Father
Maher of the Holy Family Catholic
church, and if they put into practice
the ideas and follow the advice there
offered by him it can safely be said that
the graduates of '96, will live lives of
righteousness aud goodness and in their
declining years will receive the crown
of deserved success.
The exercises were held in the Corn
Palace and to accommodate the crowd
agreat number Of chairs we're brought
in which. however, failed to seat all the
people and probably 200 people remain
ed standing through the entire evening
but they were we'll repaid for by the
grand discourse to which they listened.
The opening number was quartet by
Miss Goodykoontz, Miss Lee, Mr.. Pher-
son and MIR. Brown, with Miss Conant
as accompanist, and the beautiful Sc
lection of a sacred character was rem
dered with excellent taste. The invo-
cation was delivered by DR.. W. I. Gra-
ham of the University.
Father Maher's sermon was drawn on
lines which touches the life of every
man and woman, that is their success
deserved or undeserved Taking for
an illustration he referred to the pic
ture of the archangel and also the death
of Christ on the cross as an introduct-
ory theme, the two pictures being rep
resentation of what success is which
brings us within the range and sight of
God. There is no man, he said, but
what desires success in life, and in every
heart there is a goddess, come in what
ever garb she may, but she makes her
appearance 10 all and it is left to shat
man alone, practically, to use the inhu-
ence of that goddess for better or for
worse. The world loves a successful
man, but with worldly love. which we
all know is not Of lasting character
and when man in a high walk of life
attains success the world places him on
pedestal over which is written the end
of his desires. But the world does not
question or inquire into the innermost
depths of the successful mans heart,
whether he was morally good or bad but
places the emblem of success on his
brow for the simple reason that he has
realized his ambition, deservedly or not
as the case may be and the world shows
its fickleness in awarding its honor by
not measuring its candidate by the
philosophers gauge.
The cost of success, the speaker said,
was seldom taken into account and in
variably the rule was that the Smaller
the success the greater the cost. Do
you desire honor, then you must make
a sacrifice of your principles or part
of them, and this done you are bound in
network of knavery which removes
you from the sight of the throne.
Would it bring happiness to him? Far
from it, for it leaves him unhappy and
disagreeable; hardens his heart and
raises barriers against his fellows: gives
to the eye that cold mocking glance
taken away from his better nature and
loses that kind disposition of heart be-
fore he reaches the acme of his desire.
The world may ad mire the successful
man with cold and distant sympathy
but it does not touch the heart with
that sympathetic feeling were he not
divested so thoroughly of his better
self.
The man who is unsuccessful, said the
speaker, is the one to whom the world
gives its sympathy, is the man who we
can love. How many men and women,
who strive hard for success, deserving
it though they are, and yet never at
tain it? We can pity them and pity
is akin to love. We do not pity them
for their failure but for their honest en-
deavor to win honor and distinction for
themselves. The man who is undeser-
vedly successful brings him no happi-
ness. Before the world his countenance
and personal bearing makes outward
evidence that happiness surrounds him