Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-06-09
REDEEM THE TIME
Baccalaureate Sermon Delivered
to High School Glass ofleo3.
ELOQUENT ADDRESS BY DR.. STOLTz

Dan F. Bradley of Grinnell, Presi.
dent of Iowa College, 20 deliver
Commencement Address at Grand
Opera House Thursday Evening.
From Mondays Daily.
DR.. F. F. Stoltz, pastor of the First
Presbyterian church, delivered the bac-
calaureate sermon Sunday morning to
the members of the high school class
of 1903 The church was beautifully
decorated and the audience composed
of the congregation and the large class
together with their friends and rela-
tives, filled the auditorium to over
flowing.
The delivery of the baccalaureate adj
dress was the first of the commence
ment week exercises. On Thursday
evening at the Grand opera house the
commencement will take place. The
address will be delivered by Professor
Dan F.. Bradley, president of the
Iowa college at Grinnell. Friday even
ing the reception to the high school
alumni will be held at the high school
building.
The Address of Dr.. StoItz.
"Redeeming the time," found in
Ephesians, SIG, was the text chosen
by DR.. Stoltz for his address. 1t was
magnificent effort and made deep
impression not only upon, the members
of the class but upon the large audi
ence present. His words of greeting to
the class members were. beautiful and
full of encouragement and the occasion
was one long to be remembered.
The address was in part as follows:
"Redeeming the time is buying up the
opportunity as it comes out of the flu
ture. 1t is really laying hold upon the
opportunity in such way as to turn it
to good account 1t is therefore moth
ing else than the fulfilment of duty
for each moment of time.
"Time is past, present and future.
The past is gone irrevocably, the flu
ture is not here. We have to do in ac-
tual life with that infinitesimal point
that unites all gone before with the
mysterious future. 1t is the point of
time here and now which we have to
| redeem.
Time is Both Rigid and Elastic.
again time is at once rigid and
elastic. 1t is rigid in this sense that
all have that something we call he
now There can be no monopoly of
time. 1t is Gods gift to all like the
air and the sunshine. The moments
as they come out of the future are fluid
| for all and we use them. We put into
them the Interchangeable record of our
| lives and they hold those records for
eternity.
| Thine is also elastic. > 1t is elastic
| in the sense that moment, an hour
a day, actually means much more to
some people than it does to others
The moments, hours, days, are rich.
| er in the way in which they are used.
How much more for example opportun-
| ity means to a Ralph Waldo Emerson
| than it does to Beau Brummel. EN-
erson speaks an earnest message tt
| men and women and inspires many
| with high ideals, and molds noble char
acters as he leads the people to make
good their possibilities. On the 9th.
er hand George Bryan Brummel, al
though having good school advantages
and being the heir to fortune is
known in history as a famous 'fop,' and
while recognized as an oracle on the
question of etiquette and dress he
| squandered his fortune and died a pau
per in a lunatic asylum at the age Of
4 So. How much more the former put
| into the time given him than the lat
4 ter
TN the experience of all persons
there are times when they live more
than others. There are times of in
| SEPARATION, moments when faith and love
are bright and full and work is joyous
and results are bountiful.
1 Aim of Our Lives.
"The aim of our lives should be tt
| fill the opportunities with the richest
freight. They are thus filled when they
hold a record OF good thoughts, good
i feelings, good deeds. Time is redeem
ed when the verdict coming up from
the relentless changeable past is wei
done You can get the true ideas by
looking over the sketch of noble life
George Peabody and William e. Dodge
were princely merchants and made the
world their debtor by we'll used years
The same is true of any noble life
whatever may be the field of it's &C
tivity. Judged of in this way many
whose names we shall never known arr
enriching their times, while Others
whose names we may know or no
know, are wasting their days.
1 We Are Responsible for Our Living.
Eve all want our lives that we car
}, look back to with some pleasure, a
i least. Life becomes solemn enough
when thus looked at. 1t becomes more
solemn than death. For we are not re
sponsible for dying and we are for liv
4 ing. The monuments recording TIL
deeds of nations will crumble away
I but the life we live, never. Should WI
not, therefore, fill the moments full o
good earnest saving work and play
We should play as well as work. W.
should play that we may work and thu
/, play must be clean and wholesome tina
the work may be up to the prope
pitch. We should redeem the time
i Whatsoever We do, all to the glory 0
| God. There is a sense in which al
hard workers make much OF time, bl