The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-06-07
Central Female College Crowned With New Honors

that the fundamentals have beef
Z secured for US.
The rash accomplishments OF thi
! ages are not to paralyze our efforts.
These very high ~endeavors are
prophetic; they teach US the vastness
and the richness Of the life about US.
The waving harvests evidence the
prolific soil from which they sprung.
Ours may not be the task Of alto
/ gether navigating the ~untracked
seas or the discovery Of new worlds.
And we need not be discouraged.
Our Lord, who had covered the
whole realm Of Christian endeavor,
said to his disciples just before he
went back to his father, "Greater
works than these shall We do Also
Ours the task of expansion. Ours
TO labor with larger and mure adequate
understanding in carrying forward
the multifoim details OF the vast
structure.
Ours the responsibility OF finding
where the great toilers left of, and
entering upon their spirit and work,
working out, in harmony with them,
our personal gift with freedom and
conviction. Thus will we combine
the highest results Of inheritance
and personal endeavor.
In the final statement "that they
without us should not be made
perfect" the great apostle e%nunciates
the sublimest law Of human life.
"That the interests of the indi-
vidual possess no meaning, except SO
far as they are included in and are
subordinate to the interests of the
developing system Of the social order
whose members belong to the past,
the present aud the future"
We are brought to think Of
humanity, not as a series of discon-
nected individuals, but as the inter-
related members of a living society.
A conception of life in which sall
the body fifty framed and knit
w.
together through that which every
joint supplieth, according to the
working in due measure Of each
several part maketh the increase of
the body"
"That they without us should not
be made perfect" is the movement
by which the individual is brought to
a consciousness no longer local or
national or political, but cosmic.
"For the race is q in spirit
Aud an instinct bears along,
Around the esrth's entire circle
The swift flash of right or wrong
Whether conscious or unconscious
Though the worlds unseen tibres
Feels the gush Of joy or shame
In the gain or loss Of one race
All the rest have equal claim"
Bot there must not only be an
individual consciousness Of the cosmic
but a sense Of direct and personal
responsibility to principles cosmic in
their reach
How are we to come to a sense OF
direct and personal responsibility to a
principle cosmic in its reach and yet,
be so occupied with the present that
there may be the free and untram-
melled play Of all our powers and
activities?
The answer to this question will be
found neither 10 philosophy nor 10
theology.
~ VIII w iOuHu luCdIudOc Ill uDe
life of Jesus, and the imperative law
Of those who would follow Him-'If
any man will come after Me, let him
deny himself and take up his cross
and follow Me-"
Self remuneration is therefore the
supreme law of individual growth
and world wide development.
Give up your life. 1t will not be
lost.
If you will not take counsel Of God
take it from the most insignificant Of
his creatures-the coral insects that
build gardens Of wondrous beauty be-
meath the sea.
The little insect may well be dis.
couraged when it sees how little it
can do towards the creation OF the
coral world to which by a law Of its
nature it is forced to make contrlbu-
tion.
But it gives its life. And that atom