Arizona republican., 1898-06-14
AT THE NORMAL.

At the normal last night there was fair representation from Phoenix and a large crowd down from Mesa to hear the Baccalaureate sermon deliv- cred by Rev. s. L. Guthrie. The au- ditorium was filled, there being noth- ing but standing room left when the radiant class marched in and took it's pIace in seats reserved for it, directly in front Of tine rostrum. Irving H. An drews delighted the audience with two vocal solos during the evening. strong etoir also embellished the musical programme.
 The text of Mr. Guthrie's sermon was, ''Ye are not your own. He spoke in part as follows: Self interest, worldly philosophy and satanic de- lusion have misied mankind so long that the difficult thing and yet the en- ttreIy needfuI thing for a man is to find where he truly belongs. Who is his master and what is his work. ITS difficult for the human mind to fully grasp the siea of its true place and mission. 50 long has the world ruled by force acd divorced power from service that man very slowly comes to see that while he was made for do- minion, dominion involves protection, and protection involves service. All $ law. yet ali's love. God rules only that He may serve, and Christ taught that he that would be great must serve The ethouSi;t of absolute self ownership, absolute Independence and self con trol is or t,irse out of the question to finite will.
 We have great freedom of will and power O. choice, but we are not strong enough to stand alone. We might be strong enough if we would be let alone, but if our choice does not ally us with the power of God, if we are not true vassais of our life, God and suzerain, then are we forced to do hom- age to His and our enemy. This Is 8 fact difficult of apprehension ana slow of belief because we are in such bondage to the senses and dwell so much under the lower sensual planes that the metaphysical-the spiritual realms-are almost purely 1maglnary and as such have no great influence upon our lives And yet all true pro- gress is the increasing apprehenslon of unusual spiritual forces. We dwell in the things that are seen and the great upuseen, but eternal realities, the real powers with their occult de- signs and influences upon our lives all forgotten or relegated to the realm Of the absurd And yet the human soul i.; a battlefield of the great elemental forces of ls5nt and darkness, good and svii. God and devil It is still true that we wrest.e not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers, against the rulers Of tnis worlds darkness; still true that the long tenuots fingers Of the holy ghost, ir our bai,aif, are graphing the fiend in a wieid death grapple in the dark ness.
 The text emDodies and places be- fare us with a grand insistence that idea whicts more than any other has iu 1t the redemption of the race, fe gre not your own,' while the context bears the documentary evidence Of our erfranehisa:nent coupled with dl- vine wonder that we have not before perceived cur dignity and powers and I ciyine reminder of our responsibil- itg Easing ny argument upon ooth text and context, it is my purpose to- night first Go deny the right or some wculd-be masters, and second to a1- firm the right of the real master, ana what is involved in carrying out ms U.du ana purpose IL IS my uCoiiO " show that this text is not the product of 6 narrow view of life, but IS the embodiment of the greatest social idea"
 Then the speaker took up society, political parties, appointing powers and ones friends as would-be masters of ourselves, and in most forcefu' and effective manner showed the soV- ereignty Of ones self over all these. He followed this with the declaration that we do belong to God because He paid the price We belong to human ity in its broadest sense, for it's upllft- ing, reconstruction, it's evolution and it's redemption. He then addressed himself to the graduating class.
 But class of '9S, especially l want to make this statement: You belong to the school that has employed your services. Whatever you can do to make it better, that is yours to do. You belong to it, but you belong more especially to the little souls that com-