The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-06-10
Audience Which Filled LindIey
Hall Heard BaccaIaureate
Address to EarIham Grad
uating Class, Sunday.
SPLENDID EFFORT BY A
YOUNG, LIBERAL THINKER
Speaker Pictures the Advan-
tages of Youth and the Pos
sibiIities They Have of Dis
covering a New Jerusalem.

Before crowd which filled the
chapel in Lindley hall, Prof. Ebert
Russell delivered the baccalaureate
sermon to the graduating class at
Earlham, Sunday. Prof Russell is re-
garded as one of the broadest thinkers
among the younger class which is fast
taking control of affairs in the Quak-
er church. His address was a splen-
did one and in it he made an appeal
for better men.
The speaker said in part: Spiritual
form is the only valuable and inviting
element in our civilized life and we
need to realize that our Jewels today
must be great men rather than great
buildings or ships. How often men
get cities built OF stone or steel,
choicely located as if founded on rock
and call them eternal and then an un.
known truth comes or a great charac-
tombs and the palaces ruins. Massive
Notifications are useless when men no
longer care to defend the mart and
hearth.
Results of an Idea.
A teacher like Abelard locates in the
forests solitude. and men leave the
great city to be near him. Saint An
thony lives in the desert and at once
the cities are deserted. Our battle
ships are in greater danger from the
new idea that makes them antiquated
than from the torpedo that would
sink them. Constantinople refuses to
buy the secret of gunpowder but the
Turk purchases it and gains with it
vast dominion in Europe. The idea
of the earth's rotundity fructifies IN
Columbus brain and there follow tie
and plunder of Spanish
America, the golden galleons. the
pride, the wealth and the decay of
Spain.
The teacher. the scholar. the inven-
tor-all men who kindle new aspira-
tiOIS. WHO jlGfiit ASw 10tco III the SohA5
Of men. are the worlds coneuerors. re-
formers. redeemers and benefactors.
Often they are astonished at the
srowths THAI spring up. or frightened
1T the flames they kindle. Not peace. |
3ut the sword. is often their unwilling
portion. Luther was surprised at the
his theses aroused. In the |
ridst of the battle. he always sighed
or peace All the forces of evil enlist /
against him who kindles the fire Of
lie worlds progress. Vested inrer- t
,sts. pride of opinion, lust of position. I
will be stirred to resist. But the lover I
If man will not fear nor desist. After
he fire has cleared the ground the |
eed will spring up end the grea3sr
ife mature.
Christ as Leader.
When | invite you to become leaders
nd benefactors, to SOW and kindle lie
beginnings of lines or p1agress, | Oily
SIX you 70 follow Christ and fulfil
our des6I1y Youth IS Gods Dros;s-
for continuous impulses of truth +
nG passiol Its restless. uncon tro-led
nergies preserve life fIom stagnat;9I. +
Trough t1sn the ignorant and b.iad
ften discoye~ so much that the wise
ave ceased TO try FOR They pare
he youth on new view points Iesd
i'm to thread paths wi4cre their ED
. longer tread. to explore where the
harts show only danger, to climb.
here glossv does lot Led. It IS your
eritage to find and plant the new
aeus-like tie civiliziag fire.
In addition to the address by Prof.
ussell. there We're devotional exer-
ses and musical numbers. President
.elly read the parable of the sower
nd prayer was offered by Allen Jay.
Iiss Jennie Edwards sang a solo and a
lumber of her music pupils sang an
athem.