Omaha daily bee., 1905-06-05
ADVICE TO The GRADUATES
Dr.. Cessna Impressss Upsn Them Necessity
for High Ideals
TAKE VIEW or LIFE FROM VANISHING END
study 90 Make Life Day by Day what
We would wish IL when the
Final Burden il Laid
Down,

STUDY to show thyself approved unto
God" was the text of the baccalaureate
address delivered yesterday afternoon by
DR.. o. II. Cessna of the Iowa State Agri-
cultural college at Ames, to the graduating
class OF the high school. The services were
held in the auditorium OF the high school,
and despite the fact that the temperature
was soaring close to the century mark in
the shade. there was an attendance which
filed the large hall.
DR.. Cessna said in substance:
There are two view points from which
we may look at life. The one is the present
moment. looking at II as 1t may minister
20 present pleasures-the other Is to get
over on the other side of it and look at
life as we will when we are through with
It. This latter was Moses standpoint when
he made his great decision and chose
rather TO suffer affiiction with the people
Of God than to enjoy the pleasures Of sin
for a season.
do not mean to rob the buoyant youth
OF one iota OF It's pleasure by suggesting
that we live our lives as we will wish we
had lived them when We get through with
them. AS young people face life with all
its splendid possibilities. the one thing
which is necessary to insure success Is a
high and noble purpose together with en-
ergy and force to carry it through.
The man who has no noble purpose or
ideal in life is TO be pitied. He is simply
drifting as the creature of circumstance.
This does not mean that It is necessary for
you at your graduation from high school
TO have the particular vocation IN mind.
Indeed. you may not know just what you
are best fitted for. This is one of the prob
lens you are yet to solve. The greatest
discovery q young person makes is the dis Is
large question marks written over young
people who stand where you do today.
High Purpose Needed.
We may fully meet the exhortation of the
apostle and yet not nave a very definite
ioea of the particular thing We are to do
in life There may be a definite purpose
ture of the ideal will determine the results.
study 10 show myself approved unto
God st. Paul puts among the first ele-
ments of a well protected and aggressive
life the soul girt about with truth, and
there is no mistake in the order in which
he places them. Without this element of
truthfulness or a lite viewed from God S
standpoint. none Of the other elements Will
be possible.
The men who have done the most toward
the uplifting of the world have been those
who have taken this as their guiding prin-
ciple. Young people are going out INTO a
world where there will be severe tesungs
and they will need a purpose high enough
and strong enough to hold it. They need
q purpose great enough to be worthy OF
them, created as they are in the image OF
God and a little lower than the angels
They will need a motive and a purpose
that will keep them in touch with the kind
OF work this world needs Service anc
preparation for the kind of service this
world needs should be the ideal
The man who starts out with the pur'
pose simply of making money or winning
a prominent place or gaining pleasure viii
likely overlook or despise a lot of things
he ought TO do and in which he Will hnc
the richest revelations of divinity and hap
piness Ambition may be As cruel and re
ieutless a master as the appetite Tor strong
drink and may as ruthlessly trampe or
rich possessions. We need motive ol
purpose that shall cause us to do lot o.
things which the world and unsancunec
ambition despise. go
You will need a motive which Will holC
Won TO your life work even in the mids
nnanpTeCiHte0 service
Nh one ever gets under this world or share e
in the responsibility of lifting things with
ont sharing in its maledictions and curses
II is an old story that the world often re
iects it's benefactors and crucihes ~
saviours. You will need motive whici
will endure 20 the end and grow prlsh,Ie, ,
With the advancing years ana Wanlnl
nhvsical strength. Therefore at all ume'
stlidy to show thyself approved OF COD