The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-06-26
Was BaccaIaureate Address
to Goddard '05
BY DIR. CHARLES E. NASH
UniversaIist Church Was Crowded With
People Yesterday Forenoon
Class Day This
Afternoon.

The 3bth annual commencement eA-
ercises OF Goddard seminary began yes
terday morning with the baccalaureate
exercises at the Universalist church, the
sermon being delivered by the Rev.
Charles Ellwood Nash, D. d., of Boston.
The usual large number of people to at
tend the class Sunday observances was
present yesterday, the seating capacity
of the church being overtaxed, SO that
chairs had to be brought in to accomo-
date the late comers.
The front Of the church was very
prettily decorated with daisies, ferns
and flowers. Six students from the Jun
ior class acted as ushers. Seats at the
front of the church were reserved for
the Junior class, the faculty and the
Graduating class, who marched into the
church and took their seats in the order
as named above. The singing By the
mixed quartette, composed of Fred Keag-
an, tenor; Mrs. Alfred Temple, soprano; /;
Mrs. f. II. Puffer, contralto, all of Mont
pelier, and John Angus, bass, OF this
city, was most enjoyable. The order
Of the services was as follows: Organ
voluntary, L. J. Hathaway, Montpelier; /;
FESTIVAL TIE Deum in e Flat" Buck,
quartette; invocation; responsive read
ing; solo and quartette, Savior, When
Night Involves the Skies Shelley, Mr..
Angus; scripture reading, Rev. G. O.
Conner; "Jesus Is Knocking at the
Door," Otis, quartette; prayer, Rev. DIR,
Nash; response, solo and quartette,
Hear Me when I CALL" HalIKing Mrs.
Temple; sermon, Rev. Charles Ellwood
Nash, d. D., of Boston; hymn; benedic-
tion; postlude.
The Sermon.
| The sermon BIZ DR.. Nash was pro-
found and interesting discourse, based
ON the sixth verse of the 126th Psalm,
| sHe that goeth forth and weepeth, bear
| ing precious seed, shall doubtless come
with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with
| him. The speaker said in part: sI
| am not going to plead for morbid or lan-
guild conditions. 1t may be said that
the sower went forth rejoicing but it Is
evident that what the Lord had in mind
was that spirit that never finches in
| the storm. Though the task bring tears
to his eyes he keeps on. Weeps but
sows. We are apt to follow habits and
customs and run in groove which is
not progress, but the treadmill To
| break away from the routine, to pass
forward to determined goal, Is pro-
gressive.
@What 7 want to say is that unless
| life has some tension to it so that it
rings when you touch it, and has cour-
guild. There is no fault so great says
| Carlisle, as the condition of having no
faults Our text contains not only thus
principle, but its assurance.
.sWoe be unto him" said the speaker,
who has no aspirations or desires for
higher things. Better lose eyes, legs
and arms than get into the state that
there is no height. Many would say;
| Blessed be drudgery; but | do not say
/ that. Drudgery il a curse. Work il
a blessing. Happy are we when we are
doing hard things. TO put into them
force, idealism, that every task done
4 may be better than the last. / will take
for my example of the simple life that
4 statue that you have so beautifully
carved out OF granite 1.-THE Burns statue.
and placed in one Of the most eonspicu
n GUS places in your city. He toiled il
poverty and rags but the centuries coms
4 after and sing his ballads and set hin
up as the pieturer of all that is simpl,
and beautiful in nature. We slur owe
his life, but we forget that when w
read his poems He went forth weep
| 1st.4 Al sA4a ali
i All prophets are without repute il
their day. Luther, Savonarola ant
Others were all noble men, They wep
, and they sowed. They worked for wha
| they thought was right and becaus
, men pursued them they wept. But the.
have come back in that immortal life.
/, "NNhat we want here" said the speak
er, in conclusion, SIS not the strenuou
life. Jesus was right when he said
/ have come that YOU may have life
His life was the very essence of tn
simple life. That Is what Got has mean
us to be. Human life should be produc
tive, gainings it own ends, finding tina
there il more in the future than i
the past, advancing on the possibilitie
of the future for life abounding and eter
nal Iife.n
Il In his remarks to the class he said
Il esteem it a pleasure to be able :
Z speak to you in q more personal man
: ner. In your hands are precious seeds
& Go forthl This is not q real clima
!. to your endeavor. at which you. can stof
You are only on the threshold. Yo
have but passed the beginning. Wha
{ you have done is only a preparation TO
!. what is to come. There never was 8
i strenuous world as this one, never
! world SO quick to give place to tn
n worthy or TO crush the weak. 1t IS no
[ possible Tor you to know all the worl
I contains though you may think you d
e It is necessary for you now to get dow
n to the level and go forth bearing you
precious seeds, never doubling that