Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-06-22


u Ing, attracted there by union servic,
q held in honor of the graduates an
Junior classes OF our high school.
The Methodist choir furnished must
y for the occasion, which was excellen,
and its quartette, Mrs. Minnie Friedly
Mrs. Eugere Hudson, Mrs. M. A. Cole
man, and Miss Addie Pringle, san
I very sweetly.
. kev. Gorrel Quick assisted in tn
( service with prayer and reading tn
: scripture.
The class occupied the front row O
seats and were escorted to the hall b.
the Juniors who were seated back o
them with principal j. G. VanWinkl,
and his corps OF teachers
Rev. A. o. Carman of the M. E
church gave the address and his YER,
excellent and appropriate remark.
We're based on the text found In Psalms
3l:37, Mark the perfect man and be-
hold the upright; out OF which he took
his subject: The Ideal Man, and di-
vided 1T under three heads, Physical
Man, Intellectual Man and Moral Man.
To mark perfect man, he said, we
must behold him as physical, intel
lectual and moral being.
In referring to the Physical man he
spoke OF the sacredness OF the body, it
being the temple OF the Holy Ghost,
and OF the necessity of carefully guard
ing 1T against the encroachments of
evil habits; of giving it the benefit of
scientific care and hard discipline for
its perfect development.
Behold the Intellectual mani True
scholarship is the seeking for know
ledge with the exclusion of self con-
seriousness. He interpreted the word
perfect "A high ideal" The term
scholar may apply to the little child:
1t may apply TO the mature power of
the man of four score to whom has
come the knowledge of many schools |
and great Libraries and the garnerings
oil life time OF study and investiga-
ton. Mr.. Carman discussed the law
OF development along this line and
brought out many good points and
Paul's motto was, s'Tbis
one thing | do" not dividing his ener-
gies but throwing his whole life into
one absorbing ambition and so turned
back the tide of paganism. "To con-
luer the world" says Alexander, and
he stands before you, not as man of
ofty ideals or OF moral worth but as a
Dilliant military chieftain. "Any.
hing Tor money!" and Jay Gould is
he incarnation of successful greed.
Mark the Moral man. What is char
'cterT 1t our moral worth. Charac- ,
er Is broader than intellect, broader 4,
han will, broader than heart even.
l Is the outcome of them all com 5ined.
SCHOOLS which aim at nothing higher
han scholarship place the mark dan
erously low. The purpose of all our :
chool agencies should be to secure not
olllty but nobility. A man may gain
cholarship and still have shriveled
lie; he may have mighty brain and 2
Till have a feeble heart. EQUIP a
IAN with the enginery of the tremen-
uous power of execution, yet leave him
Dnsciousless and he is rudderless with S
lipwreck and disaster as his ineyita- d
lie doom. He brought out the thought
cry beautifully that in the age of c.
'ience and achievements we are reap a
e the benefits of hundreds of years of 81
linking and planning and invention. o.
lat the ancients and people of the s,
iddle ages in many lines of human h
fought and achievement surpassed ST
lose OF today but that their retro n,
aiding wheel among them was not NJ
eir intellects but their morals. Tow h,
log as intellectual giants, they fioun- VI
red and fell in their moral corrup- h,
on. ~
Mr.. Carman in closing said many -
'od things on the value of character u
ID the forces which help to develop br
ideal life. nc