The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-05-24

tuition and handing it down to- the gen.
GRAFTON to follow, in a more perfect
state of development. Then, too, you
should appreciate the sacrifices of
your fathers and mothers and the
faithfulness of your teachers. The
teacher, who has been most loyal to
your future success has detected your
weaknesses ard pointed them out to
you, encouraged you in the develop
ment of your latent powers, praised
you when praise was justly merited,
restrained you when restraint was
necessary, while those who were short
sighted, and in many instances desir-
Gus of your favor, have tlattered you
and praised you unduly, thereby Great
ing in yolr mind a false measurement
of your own powers and paralyzing
your best endeavors. Paul said, If
a man thinketh of himself more high
ly than he ought to think, he deceiv-
eth himself Self deception is a very
great hindrance to the proper invest
iICuI vi ullO . SdPILdl. OO ul10u, lily
friends. some of those who have
shared your greatest appreciation may
possibly be entitled to the least graft
tude, and those who seemed the most
critical and particular are entitled to
the most, and the latter, out of 10y
atty to you and your best interest,
may have sacrificed the devotion of
your youthful period, yet they will be
loved devotedly by you in our matur-
ity.
Another indispensable quality is
that of purpose. If with teaehableness
and appreciation you couple that OF
purpose and then persistently apply
yourselves, your future will be pleas
ant and profitable. You are now MAX
ing your exit from the high school.
Up to the present you have had the
one thing in mind. Today you stand
where are meeting the crossroads of
time-life in a larger is before
you. l pray you enter net upon the
way until you have first made up your
mind what you will do. Garfield vas
oohSd WHICH, .DuI Iau, N4loC liz IL
tended to be. I first intend to be a
man; if l fail in that | will fail in
everything was his reply. First be
manly and womanly. Do not choose
for your life's work anything that
will not give opportunity for the de-
velopment of the Goa-given graces,
and never, never, engage in a calling,
a profession Or a business, no matter |
what the Inducements are, that will
not be uplifting to your fellowman
and advance the cause of Christ in the
world convictions.
81 would lay great emphasis upon
asset of life. In these times OF
greed for gain, when the emphasis
is laid upon what a man has other
than what he is, l feel the necessity
urging you to be men and women
of convictions. l pray the time may
come again when it cannot be TRUTH
fully said that every man has his
price-the time when principle out
weighs position, when character is
precious than gold. l beseech
you in matters of religion, of politics,
of business and all moral reforms, in
short, anything that vitality affects
and his relations to time or eter-
take your place OF one side or
the other and honestly and for prin-
sake heroically defend your po-
anu at the end of life may you
be able ito truthfully say, I have a
conscience void of offense toward God
and man.
And lastly, for l must leave the
subject but limitedly discussed, the
greatest of life's capital is love. To
love God, to love humanity, to love
ones work is to possess the necessary
stimulus for life's varied experience.
To love gives hope, to love gives pa
thence, to love gives tenderness, to
love in deed and in truth is to give
development to all the higher and
attributes of man.
LET us see to it then that these
elements of character which make up
life's capital are to he found in us,
and remember that
He liveth long who 1iveth we'll;
Cam else is but life flung away!
"'He liveth longer who can tell
"'Of true things truly done each
day"