The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-06-08

Inc exercises ana DacCalaureate
sermon at the Agricultural College Of
Utah Sunday morning drew to the
college u large number Of friends of
the school and graduates. The large
chapel was fairly iilled-and not one
present but was highly pleased. The
stage was draped very artistically In
blue, and potted flowers and palms
added to its quiet charm. On the
stage with the faculty and speaker
sat number of Logan's distinguished
gentlemen, among whom were Hon.
Jos. Howell, Ex-Mayor Hansen, J. T..
Carlisle, Bishop Preston, Revs. n. T..
Clemenson and Il. Il. Gilpin, James A.
Langton, Judge Hart, Hon. Moses
Thatcher, |. G. Thoreson, w. II. APP
perley, j. c. Jensen and Joseph f.
Shepard.
The exercises were opened with an
anthem, Praise the Lord" by the
choir, done with credit to themselves
and pleasure to the audience. This
was followed by prayer from Supt.
Carlisle. The choir again lifted up its
voice in a most beautiful selection,
Raise Me Jesus to Thy Bosom" in
which Mr.. James Jardinc and Miss
Rachel Campbell shone quite bril-
liantly in duet.
DR.. Widtsoe then introduced Rabbi
Lewis G.. Reynolds. of Salt Lake City.
who for an hour held his audience en-
tranced with flood of eloqucnce that
has rarely been surpassed on any &C.
cason in this city. The Rabbits
thought was grand, and clothed in his
elegant phraseology, delivered in his
extremely earnest manner and with
an accent and voice that lent addi-
tional charm, he was superb. Even
before the Rabbi told of his personal
life, one could not but divine that he
is man with a history, one whose
career had not been over paths strewn
with roses. He spoke as man who
knew sorrow, trial and tribulation
yet grandly superior to all had risen
by sheer force OF will power and in
tellcct to an honored place among his
, fellow men.
The speaker was most happy in ex
} pressing his pleasure at being present
} and after telling story that wa,
more or less appropriate, Launched
D forth with hearty good will and will
D the audience in sympathy.
D Isaiah 9Th chapter, llth verse serve,
e for his text, and from this the Rabb
] worked out great deal Of helpful
: thought which he expressed in Ian
guage unparalleled. The idea which IN
S presented most forcibly was that o
morality. and lie was not mild il
: urging that the most important par
: OF education Is the moral idea. With
: out the proper cultivation OF TIN
4, moral life of the student, his learning
! must necessarily be Il dangerous thing
c The Rabbi desired that morality b
: considered on broad basis and no
i in the narrow sense generally accept
4 ed 1t was his idea that moralt
o should embrace that consciousness o
4 responsibility that led to the respec
), for and love of country and its inst
n buttons, its laws, It's great and goo
things. Morality does not mean tn
conventional standards set up b
would be "arbiters elegantarium," TO
it is too true that many pose as ar
biters in our social realm who Shout
5 be its outcasts. Morality Shout
;, mean the possession Of such quaitie
o as lead TO the security of our grandes
institutions, faith in the noblest prir
- ciples, a keenly sympathetic manhoo
;. and womanhood, the clerishing am
J. holding dear the grandest civic ideas
u answering loyalty and devotion t
the yearnings and promptings of Tn
inner soul. appreciation and reverenc
OF home, worship, racial, national an
institutional life. Without spiritu;
and moral standards one can not /
true TO himself to his country nor I
= his Maker.
. The speaker expressed the opinio
+. that morality is the keynote TO educi