The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-18

Principal Frederick d. Tucker is highly
pleased with the work of the present
class, and says that at least 80 per cent
of the members will go back to their
home farms when the graduating exer-
ciSeS are over something which, he
thinks, cannot be said of similar classes
in other states.
Both the young men and women have
just finished a three years course in
agriculture, horticulture, stock raising
dairying. The course for the young
women has included special training in
cooking and sewing, and that for the
young men special training in black
Smithing, engineering and carpentering
DR.. Montgomery's sermon was a mas
terly effort, and was closely followed
by the large audience. 1t appealed, of
course, with special force to the members
of the graduating class, who seemed to
be deeply impressed by the forceful, elo-
quent words of the speaker, and by the
feeling manner in which it was delivered.
His subject was THE Worth of Man.
and his text, Isaiah xiii, u: 81 will
make man more precious than fine
gold" In part he said:
On that memorable night when the
Duke of Brunswick was defeated by the
army of the revolution, the soldiers,
forming a circle, sat in darkness about
the lazy flicker of the campfire. The
stiffness was such calm that with it's
mute tongue it Numbered. At last
Goethe broke the silence by saying: "Hese
and today begin a new epoch, and you
can say that you were present at its
BIRTH. We are here this afternoon in
a familiar place, that this great state
may offer its congratulations, but we
are also present at the birth of a new
epoch. John Milton is said to have been
the greatest scholar, the first theologian,
the first statesman and the first poet OF
his time. He loved to pasture in foreign
fields, In that awful hour when the
batteries opened their mouths to belch
at England's Sumter, Milton was smiled
upon by foreign skies. With sad eyes he
turned his face toward his home land ard
his back on fair Italy; his last vacation
begun.
The members of this graduating class
will this week turn their backs upon this
beautiful Italy and become actors in
real drama. You are altogether worthy
Of commentator for having spent so
much time in assiduous preparation. Now
your new powers are about to be tried
and your quickened judgments tested.
You should consider yourselves fortu-
nate that you live in one of many states
which has taken great advanced step
in the bringing of these opportunities
within the reach of the masses.
THE VALUE OF MAN
A man must be measured as men
measure building-below the foundation
line as well as above it. The task for
making ready for lifes work is not al
ways an easy one Laying in the founda-
ton stones, the surface evidences the
fact that the drift of the ages is up
ward Man begins at nothing; he is the
poorest of all creatures. Nothing in ali
the world completes for his perjury. The
bird in the nest is not so helpless as the
haste to exchange with man; they all
Outmatch him at the beginning. BY and
by he will become knowledge filed and
ne viii move to his sky. Here he lives
In the higher lobeS of his being. Herein
his greatest value is wrought. -AcGui. ed
knowledge must never take the place Of
common sense. Better have common
sense with no education than 10 have
education with no common sense. This
rare commodity is the conservator of
safety. God wants men, rather than
saints. Man would soon die were he
only q saint Society depends for its
Eleeper3 totter and drop to pieces, it is
when the hardy stock has gone out of
them. When manly fibre is turned into
pulp, Self-lndUlgence becomes prevalent,
the venal spirit prevails and the rich ac-
cumulations of society are scattered like
dust. Let us this afternoon Join hands
with God in despising shams. That pat
tern is false; that model is untrue that
does not assiduously address itself to the
highest task of man. The lake and the
pond differ, in that one has the life-giv-
ing spring, WIDle the OlhSr is led mechan-
ically. Like the cheek of two maidenS
on one the blush comes and goes, on the
other it always stays. Let Plato's PRAYER
be with us: Help me to grow beauti-
full, iE the inner man."
THE. WORLD AS A SCHOOL OF IN
DUSTRY.
The world offers no quarter to the par
nSite. There is no place for the drones
and the sluggards, but for him who as
pires, opportunity is written across the
face OF the sky. Today calls for all
follies and childish affections to be put
aside and for the living of real lives in
real world. The crown is given to the
youth who can feed and clothe himself.
Industry does not come as dispatch
of news. but as an immortal language,
an exalted eloquence and a holy inspira-
ZION. in the parable of Jonah we learn
that, over him, heart broken and asking
for death, God caused a vine to weave in
q single day. canopy OF leaves and
blossoms The toiling youth going forth
TO carve his place in the worlds granite.
has right to expect the vines and bios
SONS of we'll earned success, not, how