Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-01-30
PRIOE ONE GENT
THE BACCALAUREATESER
DELIVERED TO THE GRADU-
ATING CLASS.
Chaplain H. H. Clarke, OF The
Naval Academy, Delivers
Able Address.

The baocalaureate sermon To the
graduating class of midshipmen OF
the United .StatessNaval Academy was
prea ch ed yesterday morning bv Chan.
lain H. II. Clarke. The old armory
was filled with an interested congre.
CATION OF officers and their families.
midshipmen. their friends aud rela-
tives.
The graduates occupied the seats
directly in front of the chancel. The
mldshlpmen choir led the singing.
Prof. Charles 4. Zimmerman was the
organist. There is no diSeharge In
that war, Ecclesiastes. viii, s.
DIR. Clarke said there were sevreal
renditions of the text "There is no
leave, there is no furlough. y
there is no quarter, but whatever
scholars may think of il there is no
doubt OF rs meaning-there is no dis
charge in that war. However scholars
may differ in their interpretations of
the passage in which this text stands.
there can be but one opinion touching
the great fact of warfare of which il
makes use. In war individual choices,
wishes, interests count as nothing.
The whole man belong TO the war.
LIFE OF SACRIFICE
Whether there be actual war or
possible war the one set apart TO il Is
TO be complete offspring. Especially
is this truth applicable to these sur
roundings and this occasion. Your
life in the navy may be spoken Of
under the figure of n war. It is at
once a struggle and a pursuit a strug.
gle against everything that could i'm.
pair your efficiency in the service, and
warfare against everything that
conld dim professional ideals.
Your life in the service will, fret
OF all, be u conflict with your own
hearts. Even the love of home must
not be permitted TO stand in the way
of duty Often the heart is a battle
field where the weapons of duty clash
with the weapons of feeling And
the bitterness of the strife is known
to yourself, for not an echo of it must
be heard without. With youth the
love of pleasure is a ruling passion,
but in this conflict with self TO which
the naval service calls you pleasure
can be given no quarter in the face of
even the humblest duties. Your di.
ploInas are not passports into a life of
ease. They are guarantees of your
| consecrati0D TO a calling IN .s,sfIcii
every thought of self.indulgence is to
be put down.
PRINCIPLE OF OBEDIENCE
"A supreme duty of your life is the
loyal submission of your wills TO the
great principle of obedience-the re.
Cancellation of ought aud must. Ought
is the great imperative Of duty must
the great imperative of authority.
The will of the ought is always TO be
the word of the must. How fine the
character in which conscience thus be-
comes aid to authority There is no
discharge in naval service from the
pursuit Of intellectual ideals. The
mental faculties, so TO say, must be
kept sharp down to the very hilt.
Then one must pass through many
struggle to win what may be called
the disinterested, unselfish virtues
mercy, chIvalry, magnanimity, cour-
tesy, self.sacrifice, heroIsm.
1.-The world has not reached that
period yet in which it is immune
from war War may come any time
like the swift agony of fire upon a
sleeping city. The whole endeavor Of
your life, therefore, is to be ready for
il. The country expects much of
these young men; for this institution,
in which so many hopes center, where
such vital interests concentrate, has
bequeathed them to the flag; the flag
that has caught its folds auroral. light;
the flag that the Navy has planted
forever where morning is born; the
flag that was not astisfed to be great.
est where the sun sets last, but must
be greatest where the sun rises first =