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should turn from it-be a master o
self SO far that evil deeds would be bu
bubbles light as air in the front. HI
told of the orderly OF the battleshil
Maine at the time that vessel wa.
blown up in the harbor of Havana
With death all about him he went tt
the captains cabin, and saluting as :
well trained sailor should, he said HI
had the honor to report that the shiI
has been blown to pieces and is rapid
ly sinking" That "a the deed of ;
hero. That was the act of a man who
could master selfish fear and remem
Der his position as a seaman with /;
message for his superior officer. Two
years later that man had lost this pow
er Of mastery. He had surrendered tt
the enemy, and as he sat in a city parl
he took from n pocket the picture
of his babe, which he kissed and threw
away. From another pocket he to-
a pistol which he placed to his hea
and blew his brains out. He was
strong enough to face death in a
%blown-up battleship, but he could not
face adverse fate. And so he did no
master himself"
One should have faith in the upward
tendency of things; faith that we are
not going to the bad; faith that the
law of man is working for national
and universal enlargement. The
world is broad and is not bad.
Personality is the keynote of pro
gress. Man is the apex Of civilization,
and to him all the things of the earth
are tending. He is the embodiment @
the progress Of ages"
One OF the strongest and sweetest
periods of a strong address was the
speakers reference to a baby. He tolI
how that today he was a weakling,
with no knowledge of the affairs o.
life and tomorrow controls the desti-
MES of the world. To-day he digs un-
der the doorstep and tomorrow he tun-
nels the mountains and brings fort
the bottled sunshine that moves the
machinery of a busy world; today you
put him IN his bathtub and tomorrow
he builds the veritabie palace to skim
the surface of the sea. Today he toys
with the string Of the kite and tomor-
row he brings upon it from the clouds
kho ,1,~,npt, %ho% cnrI thn fhouuhfc nf
man in the twinkling of an eye to the
remotest corners of the earth"
He compared the success and failures
of life and brought out the fact tina.
7elf-mastery was the great gift. Men
lave failed to conquer their own fears
and Christ stands out through the ages
as the man of service and self mast
cry.
Not a man or woman in the large
audience but is the better for having
heard DIR. Young's address. He has
commanding presence, a clear, ringing
voice and a way of bringing out h.
words with a snap as though each was
OF metal and had been struck with ;
sharp hammer. He would stop at the
end of a sentence as If gathering
thoughts, but one came to believe that
the thoughts were there, ready to be
forced out with a ring and jingle thai
filled the large hall and made each syl-
liable distinct and audible from end to
end of the room. When one remem-
bers that the speaker was once a min
er in the hills of Wyoming, it seems
a little quere to see in him the pol
ished, eloquent, suave, confident Mas
ter Of Arts and Doctor of Divinity,
first a preacher in a small town, then
chaplain Of a state senate and now
pastor of one of the most intellectual
congregations in the west. Applica-
ton is his master word, and faith in
the upward tendency of things his
guiding star.
Dean Cope dismissed the audience
with a b%enediction at the close of the
address, and for nearly half an hour
DR.. Young held a sort of informal re.
ception, greeting old friends, Of whom
the audience seemed nearly composed.
and meeting new ones, to each of
whom he spoke a kind word and from
each receiving in turn a hearty word
of congratulation and thankfulness.
To the graduates was he particularly
gracious, encouraging each to see that
the world was not half bad, not one
tenth bad.