Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-05-28
BAccALAURATE SERMON.
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faii 70 Shane, the astronomer would know
il. III adugle light house ON the rock
botad coast goes ont. the mariner knows
ii. III fingle instrument in the great
orcAessra Ia silent, the leader knows it.
And ye as stars, and We are lights, and
We are Instruments, aud God says to you,
shine snd give music Ard the
shining il 10 be no Pickering light as
though yon were afraid Of burning
someboar Aud the music is to he 10
muffied Gud melancholy roar as
though ycu were afraid Of grating upon
somebody's delicate ear Work hard,
serve gladly. II you don't, somebody
else will take your crown
IL Aka to this thought you will dis
cover that il is by personal power.
original and creative in it's exercise,
that you win make the most of life.
What Will Jon make Of the world Yon
are going 81 mould it, or it viii mould
you. Whea Admiral Dewey was about
TO receive Sfle assembled thousands who
had thronesd about him ON the occasion
OF bis reception at the national capital,
President cKinley said to him, Don't
letany man shake hands with you, you
shake handE with him The president
knew that the best method Of prevent
ing crowG from squeezing a public
mans hand into state Of soreness was
for him to he the aggressor Itmakes d
vast difference whether man is the
shaker or tho shaken. And the question
before -cn tonight is whether the world
~ 20 shake y9u, or whether you are to
shake the wS,rld. 1t Is the old eneStscn
of my text. Out of these twelve men
who went uE to spy out the land, ten
were shaken and two were shakers Ten
were the creatures of circumstances and
two werE the creators of circumstances.
And Joshua, One Of the two, went on
creating and creating until the giants
fed, and one morning the sun dawned
upon nation carved out Of suffering
and tragSay-the resplendent product
of this creatsTc genius.
say to you tonight: BE masters of
tho world" It is trne that every one of
you viii be largely influenced by the
kind Of world into which you permit
yourself to graduate. It is true that
the life partner which many Of you will
choose win nightly affect your charac-
ter. Let me say that it is a dangerous
thing for Christian to unite in mar
riage with one who is not Christian.
will say INTERESTINGLY and unqnali-
fedly that more women play the fool ia
the matrimonial field than any other of
God 8 creaturea known To ms. / refer
TO women marrying young men to reform
them. That yoang man who has not
respect enough for himself, for the
innocence and purity Of that young
woman with whom he associates, who
has rot respect eAough for the God who
made him, to be induced to lead sober
anu yirtuous life before lie is married,
ninety-nine chances out of hundred he
viii not reform afterwards. I most
humbly depIore the estate Of that young
man who gets himself tied up with a
modern daughter of Ahab, a baIl-going,
misunderstanding. society -worghipping,
religion-hating and Christian -scorning
young woman lind ! pity from the
depths Of my heart that innocent
Christian young woman who gets
for husband prosane, fiout-
ing. soothing infiel. Consider, first,
yonr own spiritual interest; second, the
cause OF Christ; third, posterity. Again
say the life partner which many Of you
will choose will snightily affect yonr
character. The home where you live,
whether it be dark and dingy, shut up
in the smoke and shadow of = noisy
city, or lying four square to the beauties
OF summer landscape. is going to
make its impress upon your inner life.
1t is true that the business you choose,
whether 1t leads yod into channels of
high and noble commercial usefulness,
or whether it is sorHd with a question
able morality and it's last analysis COM
promises the finer qualities Of the soul
it is trne that this Will reach into the
quick IF your being end become potent
factor in the outcome Of life. Yes, this
is all too true. THAI little world that
lies before you will leave its trace upon
you Bat be not deceived, your envir-
onment need not-must not--master
yon Cast into the soil of this life-gar-
den Of yours the seeus of Cody par
pose. no matter how inhospital that soil
may be and it will crowd on and up
through its environment TO the sunlight
above it, Cast into the soil of this life
garden Of yours a pebble and with all
the richness Of the Dakota prairie to
cheer it, it will remain pebble for