Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-06-24
Sermon to Graduating Class Of
the Cony High School.
Methodist Church Filled With People
to Hear Rev. H. E. Dunnack.
Noble Thoughts Well Delivered BY Speaker 10
An interested Audience.


; class of the Cony High school having
assembled to hear the baccalaureate
sermon by Rev. II. L. Dunnack.
me pulpit was beautified with
flowers tastefully arranged. The peo-
pie We're comfortably seated by the
corps of ushers, composed of Harold
johnson. ID. w. Cony, Ray Pettingill
Robert Partridge and William Il. John
son. Splendid music was furnished nv
Miss Georgia Clark. Miss Sara Miller.
-. FRANK Dyer and A. d. Ward. Mr..
MacNichol was Organist.
AL $50, the class was ushered in and
marched down the aisle, led by George
). Williams and Miss Annie Macom-
Der, and took seats in the front of the
church After prayer, Scripture read
ing and music by the choir, Rev. Mr..
Dunnack delivered the sermon. The
discourse occupied universal and I'M
divided attention. Noble thoughts
were offered, being directed especially
TO the young lady and gentleman grad
yates. With the forceful expression
and clear articulation of the speaker
every sentence was driven home to the
hearers. The sermon in part is here
given:
Mr.. Dunnack spoke from the text. II
willed, and the sense was given me:
prayed, and the spirit of wisdom came
unto me; and l set her before king
doms and thrones" Book of Wisdom.
VIII.
Il speak unto you who are at the
beginning, because you desire to make
the most of life. You would possess
sanity and strength; you would be
strong in conflict with temptation; you
would be open to all high influences;
You would become all this. you must
have Il purpose, worthy and definite
purpose that will eventually add
something to the sum of the worlds
joy and peace and final triumph The
sole purpose of life that is safe, to be
sturdy. honest, erect, clear-eyed. right
minded men and women. Then, unto
such lives will flow the forces out of
which God makes immortals.
You must know that you are not
born into world ready made for you
Every life, at the start, finds ma
terials at hand out of which it may
create physical, intellectual and moral
worlds. President Hyde has we'll said
There are no worlds ready made; none
to let Every world that we inhabit
is made of the different interests which
center in our lives. From the very be-
ginning. we are creating worlds of
some sort and we shall never inhabit
n world that is not of our own crea-
ton: the outgrowth of our willing and
praying.
You must know that the thing you
i, 60 ti,y.S
You stand, today, at the end of your
High school course. These four pre-
ceding years have been the Genesis
| tomorrow will come the Exodus; but
| the tomorrow is not altogether uncer-
| tain. since the present is the prophecy
| of the future. When one knows Plato,
| Virgil, De Ninci, Lincoln and Jesus, he
can safely prophesy The Republic,
| the Aeneid. the Last Supper, the
! Union saved and a world redeemed
| The work takes the character OF the
worker. Theoretically seize life; the
| life Decides wrote Rabbi Hillel. The
| life Decides if the temple of the archl-
| tect-the poem of the dreamcr-the pic
| ture of the artist-or the book of the
| author is to speak to and arouse the
soul kindle the imagination, unbury
dead hopes, it will be because into the
| warp and wool of the originator OF
| these things have been woven true and
noble ideals. The world of good and
evil are expressed in character is
| clearly the outgrowth of the accumu-
lated choices of all the days that have
gone.
I'VE must know that the life OF To-
| day decides largely the life of tomor-
| row. Young men and women !oui
| hone is that you are now at the DeSHh-
ming. 1t is not too late to change, Dut
tomorrow may be too late; you must
| settle your destiny, today. why, the
very things you take into your IVES
( tomorrow, depend upon what you take
| in TODAY. 1t is true that we see IN 4
thing which corresponds to something
in ourselves, and we chose that above
everything else. We cannot live TOT
one thing and choose another; even
choice has it's limitations. Four years
AGO some of you said: We will not
take a college preparatory. Such are
Gerry tonight. They would like to go
tn a college, but it is too late ferhaps
some of you are already fitted Tor COL
Lore are deciding not to go after all
! The four years lioih ho"'
vii, realize that it is too late ana tna'
N, college man has 30 chances Tor sue
cess to their one. Then, the regrets
the sorrow, the disappointment u
them. and to the one, VINO, perhaps
in an uncuarded moment advised theh
to leave out of their training one VI
the important factors, the bitter curse
z ri,haracteI' is the. index -Q1 every
Itfe. Though We possess Wealth' anu
life and heaven itself. yet with Sill
FIJI character riches shrivel INTO power
tx. life becomes death ana heaven
hcIl. because a noble character creates
the only riches, the only me- ihe o.iis
, heaven worth the cOnSecratloh VI
human soul. Righteous charac'ei
tbcn. must be your choice. by DAY AM
nv night: you must will it; you mus
may for it. Every moment, ever!
J thought. every ambition must give wa!
to this one thing.
I ,,haracter. the result OF all pas
choices. has or will enslave so that
:, last our freedom will be TO 90 ON!
u what is in accord with the past. Ell.
erson makes SwedenbOrg say: AS ne
so he sees To the thief announcer my
is q brother: to the saint, the 'iiiel ,
:. devil La Fargo, the artist says
Won selected ten artists ana each pam.
| ed the same scene you Woulu hd'