The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-06-05

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the weu-known expression of Mr.. Gar
! field. He frequently said that to have
| the fellowship Of a great soul like Mark
Hopkins would be a liberal education if
! he could have the privilege of asking him
questions concerning ali the problems
about which the average youth is inter-
| ested. No matter what have been our
| attainments, we need keep in mind that
we are students still. WheS we consider
/ the one who speaks to Us in the text we
know that he was the foremost scholar
! Of his time. He was trained in all the
| incest learning Of the Egyptians Teach
! ers had come from afar 10 instruct him
! in science and philosophy, so that ne was
at the age Of 20 recognized as one of the
! greatest scholars Of that great age Not
only was he great in scholarship, but
by what he did he has shown to the
world that he became great as a states
man. His performances, the calmness
and delibsration which characterized hts
movements, warrant US IN believing that
he was statesrnanike; not only US, but
history insists upon the fact that he was
the greatest statesman Of antiquity. Then
he was called the man OF God. being one
who often communed with Him and get
| ting from that fellowship inspiration for
his task. Moses is thoroughly able to
teach us this morning; his counsel seems
to demand the making of the most of
ones self: he seems TO say, Consider
the value of time" How it hurries us on
like the current Of a mighty river. Time
is short. We must improve judiciously
the hours of every day. making the most
Ell yl.r,,
sion to be charmed with recreation and to
ignore that which is remote from US. Be-
cause we have the opportunity of de-
lightful fellowship there is a tendency to
neglect the Improvement Of the mind and
heart that shall qualify US for life's
sterner experiences.
"At lifes Threshold we need not only
to know ourselves but to Iarn what we
are capable Of doing, and TO know our
work-to become acquainted with our
task. Moses was forty years a student
and then for forty years more he was
in comparative solitude. and dnring those
years he was having the necessary prep
aration for the distinguished service he
fas to render God and the Hebrew peo-
Pile. David was sent alone into the pas
ture that under the quiet stars he might
upon his own life's work, and it was here
in the mountains Of Judea where God
prepared him for the shepherd king that
he was to be. And when we consider
the earthly life of our Lord we find that
he was much alone receiving instruction
for his great task in preparing himself
as the mediator between God and man.
That life which takes up its task without
serious reflection and careful preparation
surely covets failure.
mo life is successful that does not take
God into its fellowship. We need to be
absolutely certain here.
''Now a trained mind, together with a
pure heart, brings Hfe's mission fairly
before us. 1t is not to simply know that
you do know; not that your training hith-
erto has been for the purpose Of making
you q living; neither that you are to es-
cape manual labor because you have grad
uated from this institution of learning;
not that you are to have larger degree
Of ease than If you had not taken your
course Of instruction here, but the rreal
purpose of all education is to qualify
you to more perfectly and more helpfully
minister to others What a beautiful illus
tration we get from the life of Moses.
cause Of the oppressed. When he had
been trained and educated most care
fully the first office that he felt called
upon to perform was in relieving a He
brew from the cruel assault Of an Egyp-
tan; and then later he appears as
peacemaker between two Hebrews who
strove together; and then after going over
30 indian, he finds himself obliged to
interfere with the shepherds of the plain
that the daualters of the priest at Mid
ian might have opportunity to water their
hocks And then the fourth glimpse we
get of him is when. after careful delib-
Grafton, in conversation with the Most
Nigh. he becomes willing to undertake
the gigantic task of relieving the op-
pressed Hebrew nation from terrible bond
age 1t was said Of Christ that He came
not to be ministered unto, but to min
lister. SO I take it this morning that you
have thought sufficiently long about the
reason for your education and that You
have resolved TO be a help, though #
be ever so little that you may be able
to render, yet that the purpose of your
life viii be TO minister 10 the wants Of
others. This is the newer education,
whose business is TO make life