The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1903-06-03

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
favored time, you can have anything you
want if you are willing to pay the price.
The price comes high, but you must not
forget that you are able to pay high
price.
BY continuing to the end of - years
course while many others who started
with you have fallen out along the way,
you have shown that you are among the
favored few, possessed of some OF the
fundamental qua tiles of character, de-
termination, patience, industry, and APP
probation of high ideals. The position
you have gained among the few thousand
high school graduates of 1908, has been
won because you have been willing and
able to pay the price. The life before
you is very much like your school life
you can have the best if you are willing
to pay the price. Your main difficulties
will be, as they have doubtless been
heretofore, not with lack of opportunity,
but with yourselves; your life struggle
will be just here-within your own
breasts, and your victory will be won or
lost within your own hearts. Nor, if you
fail, will you fail for lack OF ability. Any
one who can go through high school
course successfully has, so far as mental
ability is concernd, all that is needed
to 90 through the rest of life success
fully. Your fundamental problem is,
and the answer you give will determine
what you are going to do and be. Are
you going to love and believe in that
which is high, or that which is poor?
Mems destinies are controlled by their
loves and their faiths. If you love and
believe in poor things. then you your
selves will grow poor and weak. Then it
will not matter how many opportunities
come before you, for you will not be able
to see them, and no one will think of
giving you anything great to do, for all
will know that you cannot do anything
but small things. On the other hand, if
you love and believe in high things, they
will be continually lifting you up towards
their own level and entering into all that
you do making you the best of your
kind, and the product of your daily labor
the best of it's kind. Nothing but love
of and faith in the best things can ever
do this. There are thousand voices
which are all the time calling us away
from our best, voices OF pleasure, calling
us to have momentary good time at the
expense of our future voices of compan-
ions with poor ideals, trying to lure us
down to their own level voices of Gus
tom, bidding us do as others are doing,
and if we resist jeering at us for setting
ourselves above others; voices of low
prudence, urging us to put land and
money, place and name above duty
voices Of apparent eXpediency, impelling
US to try a short cut, and take chances
rather than 90 the long and sure way
around to certain success. Ii you are
able at all times to say no to these allur-
ing voices, it will be because your love
for and faith in the best things is so
strong that nothing less than they can
charm you or make you forget them.
Only a. You are thus inspired within, as
you carry Your safeguard within your
own breasts, can you keep from falling
down, a. so many others have fallen. 1t
is just here that religion is of such price
less value. 1t i always whispering in
our ears, Whatsoever things are hon
est, just, pure, lovely, and Of good re-
port, and if there is any other virtue or
anything else that is praiseworthy, think
on these things" Always suggesting
''Set your affection on things above. "
Continually reminding us of perfection
as yet unrealized, and of the straight and
narrow way that leads surely TO more
abundant life. Unless we hear these
thing, which lead us upwards, we shall
surely hear the things which lead us
downward. Nothing, you see, can take
the place of strong inward motive force
bidding US love and believe in the best
things.