Milford chronicle., 1902-06-27


his birth in Newtown, L. l., his mother
placed her hand upon his head and
said: "Jimmy. you are now about to /
90 into the great wide world to make |
a success OF a failure. Remember, my |
boy, you go from a Christian home |
and do not disgrace it. II you dis |
grace this home, remember that on the |
great day of judgment before God / |
shall witness against you and tell God |
that you were brought up right and !
dedicated by our prayers to his serv-
ice, and that you went to destruc-
ton of your own accord" You know
just as much what you morally ought
to do as James Harper knew what he
morally ought to do.
So on this graduation day Of June !
congratulate you young people because
you have had such competent teachers
to develop your intellect, and l also
congratulate you because you have
had such efficient moral teachers to
develop your heart. You were rocked
in a Christian cradle. You were start
ed forth with Christian prayers. There
d
you have been away to college that
your father at the family altar did not
make a morning prayer something like
this: "God bless and protect and guard
our boy and girl at college. God make
John a good man. God make Sarah a
good woman" Your mother, kneeling
by his side, would say: "Amen, amen!
No. u nhc nd Il
sent daughter" There was not a week
in all your college life when you did
not receive letter from home. Per
haps your professor of bellies lettres
might say they We're poorly written.
but Christ would say they were beau
tifully written letters In those letters
your mother always wrote about her
Saviour, and she always penned a
sentence something like this: my dear
| boy, remember that when you are
studying about the ancient Greeks and
Romans you must not forget to read
your Bible and study about Christ.
would have you know nothing but
Jesus only rather than have you know
everything that worldly scholars might
want you to learn if thereby you would
neglect to know about my Christ"
Do No DishOnor.
! To show how much a young man
ought to appreciate the moral training
of his old home, as well as the intellec-
tual training which he receives at col
lege, the late J. Sterling Morton, who
was once a member of Mr.. Cleveland's
cabinet, placed this epitaph upon the
tombstone of his dead wife: Here
lies Caroline French, wife Of J. Ster-
ling Morton and mother of 10y. Paul
Clark and Mark Morton" Then the
father took his four sons to the grave
of his dead wife and said: Boys, yOul
mother is buried here. If any one Of
you does anything dishonorable or any
thing Of which she would be ashamed
If she were alive, l will chisel YOU
name from her tombstone" And so
addressing you in the same spirit il
which Secretary Morton spoke to hi
four sons, / now say to you, 'YOunl
men and young women, remember tn
teaching Of your parents, who frs
gave the right direction to your hear
+ and nature, and. as you would not dis
honor them by ignoring their mora
teaching, so / beg of you do not intel
lectually dishonOr or disgrace your al
ma mater, from whose walls you ar
being graduated today"
q Again congratulate you, young pee
q pie, because hereafter you are abou
o to have the inspiration of daily re
p wards. II is a hard task for yOun
+ man TO work for something that is t
/. happen ten. twenty, thirty years henc,
s to work for something that is to tax
4. place so far away that it seems a
u though the fact will never happen,
e work for something in the way that
= young man pays his first life insurant
/ premium. / suppose my personal e
!, perience in getting insured is that
e almost every other young man. Wht
II / took out a twenty year tOntine Ii
a insurance policy. felt as though w
1t paying for something which won
t. happen at the end of eternity. l pa
Of my first premium very grudgingly;
II paid the second in the same way.
lip the third year I was almost ready
to surrender the whole policy, but as t
re flying years began to go over my he
as a flock of migrating birds l began
ne see that the twentieth year was not
el- far away. Now, the last investment
Dy would be willing to sacrifice is IL
y, twenty year life insurance policy.
Il So the young student who works
Sc his studies is sometimes willing
IT. slight them because graduation d;
ge like death, seems to be far away at I
b. edge of the horizon. The more t
to student works the farther GRADUATE
is day seems to recede. But, my you
Dis friends, from now on you shall see
Dis direct returns from your daily labOr'
no An aged writer once figuratively
We clared, 'The longest half of a ma
,,a earthly life is that in which he Ii
Of before twenty years of age is reache
Nv / think that statement is true.
rs+ matter whether a man lives to be S
est enty, eighty, ninety or even a humid
cat years old, the longest half of life
Gro that which he passes during the f
nm twenty years. When we We're you
Al. time seemed to have leaden feet. I'll
los like a snail, would crawl. 1t ne
av. walked or ran or flew. To a Ii
md boy the last week before Christi
an is almost endless. Every second
and the longevity of an adults hour.
ali week seems as long as the aver
400 adults year.
mid But as we grow older the years 81
nh to have seven leagued boots. T
,d,, grow so fast that they almost seen
,em be born with gray hairs. To the l
tor. in active life January seems ain
itb. to tread upon the heels of Decem
and spring and autumn seem to
twin sisters. My young friends, tho
you may hardly be out of your te
" no yet in the sense in which speak
lci- have already lived half of your
nan During that first half you have hs
ram hard struggle to get an education.
,'el- times you were almost in despair.
tam in answer to your mothers
.lot fathers prayers. and also to your G
nllu God always came to your rescue.
10 were able to get through sOmel
IN Here you are ut graduation day.
llr in the latter part of your life, if
tl"' trust God and do your best he
mas surely see you safely through.
AIMS are going to have II Oubles, and
nan; tronblas Won ora esoing m SIN,
dis over the biIIocl,s Of now, mode ore
Naru' You are going to have injustices /
cast ticed upon you. But if you will |
anne your hand in the Divine Fathers
RANK He will never let you go.
eneu A story of Heroic Sacrifice.
uleu He is able to deliver as well {