The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-27

May Montague, Sarah Tyler.
Certificate in Piano and Organ
Rosa Shuford.
Certificate in Vocal Training
garet Stedman.
Diploma in Vocal Music--Miss Mary
Mackey.
Certificate in Drawing and Water
Color-Leize Weaver.
Certificate in Water Color-Nannie
Smith.
Certificates in Business School-Nel-
lie Bernard, Ella Davis, Myrtle DISCS
way, Ellen Dortch, Annie Dughi, Lii
ian Haigh, Lucy Miller, Halle Ro-
bertson, Mary Thompson, Placide I'm
derWood.
Diplomas in Business School-Mary
Andrews, Louise Evans, Matte Jones,
Daisy King, Margaret Sanborn, Mary
Sturgeon, Leize Weaver.
Diplomas in College Graduates
Eliza Richards Brown, Isabel Ashby
Brumby, Minnie Greenough BurgWyn,
Corneha Coleman, Virginia Albright
Eldridge, Ann Kimberley Clifford, Dali
sy Watson Green, Margaret Herbert,
Marjorie Hughson, Esther BarnWell
Means. Elizabeth Willing Massey Car
RE Helen Moore, Lucy Taylor Red
Margaret Gray Stedman.
Bishop Cheshire's Address.
After the diplomas and certificates
had been presented by Bishop Chesire,
he addressed the graduates as fol-
lows:
Young ladies of the graduating
class the class of 1904 of ST. Mafys
School, must say a few words to you
This is our parting. Today you
cease to be what you have been, and
become something else. For the past
year you have in a way stood at the
head in your little world, the world of
school life. Today you leave this,
and in the larger world of men and
women you take the place of the
youngest Today you are first in our
thoughts. All this fair company are
met to honor and to admire you. To-I
morrow the flush and glory of COM
mencement being past, you will in a
sense, be beginners in a new sphere;
and as beginners you will learn another
service and new duties. Learn from
this that the highest prize of attain
ment is that we may come to a bet
ter and wider service. He that is
chiefest among you, let him be your
servant said our Master.
Many things might be said on
such an occasion. l shall try to say
one thing. There are many duties in
life. | will dwell upon one In the
life before you BE Happy / do not
say-seek your own happiness. Far
from it. If you set out to seek happi-
ness, you may be merry, you may be
gay, you may reYel in the joys Of
youth and high spirits; but in seek
ing your own happiness you will never
be happy. What | put before you as
one of the duties of your life is, not to
seek your own happiness, but to Be
Happy. Be happy in yourselves: a
good man is satisfied from himself
And if a good man is satisfied from
himself, much more is a good woman.
Lay it down as d first principle in
your scheme of life that it is your
duty to be happy-that it is your duty
to others to be happy in yourself that
you may be a cause of happiness TO
others If you do this you Will find,
as the very first effect of this happi- |
ness in yourself, the effect of your
to preserve this habit
of mind and of heart that you must
be charitable in your judgments of
others, and kind in your conduct to
others, and gentle and obliging and
compliant in the varied inter- !
course of life. If you would be happy. |
no ugly temperS, no hard feelings, no |
thoughts must harbor in your breast. |
You cannot allow yourself to be vexed |
or cross or impatient, even when |
there seems to be good cause for |
such feelings. You cannot allow your
self to be cast down by disappoint- |
ments, or to be discouraged by fall !
ures, or to repine at misfortune, or to |
be soured by unkindness, or to sink |
under pain and sorrow. All these de-
stroy happiness And happiness is |
not selfish indulgence; it is a duty |
you owe to God and to others 1t is |
a certain poise and balance of temper |
and of mind and OF affections: a GER |
tain moral and social culture; a tri- |
umph of that which is true and real |
and abiding in character. over the vciS- |
STUDIES and trivialities of the moment |
by which alone we come into the pos
session of our true self, and answer
to the purposes for which God puts |
us into this world When we realize
this duty of being happy in ourselves
that we may add to the happiness of
others, many things will become easy |
which seem very hard, which are very
hard, if we look at them in a different |
way. But ST. Paul has said it all in
two short verses: Rejoice in the
Lord always; and again | say unto
you, rejoice. Let your moderation, |
that is your self-control. your gentle
ness, your sweet content and reason
ableness, st. Pauls words mean all |
these: Let your moderation be known |
unto all men. The Lord is at hand.
''This internal poise and self |
conquest which / have tried to de- |
scribe as the inward condition and |
sure means of being happy. st. Paul |
calls Moderation | am almost tempt |
ed to render his word by our word |
'Modulation.' For happiness, true, |
real, happiness lies not in external Cir
cumstances or experiences, but in in |
ternal self-conquest. in the inward !
harmony of a gentle spirit and a low |
ing sympathetic heart. Look about |
you and select the happiest and sweet |
est tempered of all your acquaint- |
ances Look about among your school |
mates and make the same choice. l !
make bold to say that in every case |
she who gives most happiness is the |
one who is happiest in her own gen
tie heart; and it is odds that she is also
one who has had her own little sor-
rows and trials and pains.
Goodness, greatness, happiness
such as | have described happiness to !
be-all are joined close together in |
human life and atness |
that is, in doing great things for God |
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