The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-05-21
NUMBER 8.

sees no path before him but pleasure
and no path shall he follow but this.
He will say, 81 cannot do that for see
the unpleasant things / will have TO
meet. No, I must follow my own
course, come what will"
THE oRATioNs.
"Individualism" was the subject OF an
Grafton by Ira d. Bowser. He said:
When the Great and wise God had
made the world OF all creatures 1t
pleased Him to choose man His deputy
to rule It, and TO fit him ior so great
charge and trust. He did not only
qualify him with skill and power, but
with integrity to use them justly. He
gave one mind common TO all individ-
ual men. Familiar as the voice OF the
mind is to each, the highest merit we
ascribe to Moses, Plato and Milton is
that they set at naught books and
traditions and spoke not what men but
what they thought. There is time
In every mans education where he
arrives at the conviction that envy is
ignorance; that imitation is suicide;
that he must take himself for better
or for worse, according to his position.
All true greatness is the result OF in
dividuality, whether it be man, town,
city, state or nation, and the old maxim
goes, "Heaven helps them who helps
themselves" The spirit OF self-help is
the root Of all genuine growth in the
Individual
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The subject OF Fred Smiths Grafton
was Anarchy" and he said: He who
studies the theory Of anarchy may find
it strange and paradoxical but will also
allow it to be worthy of discussion and
consideration. The anarchist would
leave every one free to share impartial
ly in the necessities of life by "taking
from the heap" like wild animals, but
they dc not stop to reflect that once
the booty became insufficient men
would prey upon one another. These
people believe the supreme remedy for
their so called ills to be destruction Of
property and proprietors and even
government. BY this means they hope
to bring about at one sweep the radi-
cal changes they wish, but they forget
that nothing In nature and nothing in
human society is accomplished perma-
nently as the result OF a sudden up
heaval or catastrophe; that in order to
be finally accepted changes must be
slow and that there is a necessity OF
time In the development OF all things,
that success gained by crime only pro-
vokes counter-action from an opposite
source. There is reason for the preva-
lence OF anarchy and for its flourishing
condition in countries where there are
no means of obtaining justice, where
government is so bad that anything
seems preferable to submission to it,
| and where IL is vested in one man. But
it is not easily explained in a country
like ours where there is real liberty,
and where bad government falls or
always has formidable opposition which
| brings about its defeat when it seems
on the verge OF triumph.
SERMON TO GRADUATING CLASS.
The sixth annual sermon to the grad
uating class was preached in the pub
| lie school auditorium at 1l.00 a. m. Sun
day morning by DR.. John F. Goucher,
President of the Woman's College OF
Baltimore. The sermon was a we'll
finished and scholarly production, show
ing deep thought and careful prepara-
tion. The attendance was large, and
yet every person found comfortable
seat. The services were fine throughout.
The boy choir added considerably to the
singing. Rev. A. J. Meek, Rev. w.
Frank Reber and Rev. Perry A. Reno
assisted in the opening and closing SER
vices.