Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-03


diocese. was the celebrant of a solemn
high pontifcal mass.
The sanctuary and altar were beautifully
decorated with flowers, palms, ferns and
lighted tapers. The audience included the
parents and friends of the students
The officers of the mass in addition to
Bishop Curtis, were Rev. DIR. Thomas E.
Shields. assistant priest: Revs Edward A.
GilliSan and John NJ Redon. deacons Of
honor; Rev. DR.. John W. Melody and Rev.
Henry T. Rohlman. deacons of the mass,
and Rev. DR.. William j. Kerby and Rev.
l.. SZbowcz, masters of ceremonies
DR.. Maguire's Address.
DR.. Mcguire addressed the graduating
class. in part. as follows:
IF on this suspicious day one could re-
cast all the dreams that have cheered your
hours of study. Frightening those hours
with hope and filling them with promise,
surely among them all the dream and hope
OF success have ever held first place, con-
sciCusly or uncOnsciousy. in all your fan
cies. Whatever other ideals you have pic
tured. whatever other dreams you have
dreamed this. the hope of success in the
days to come, has been most constantly
and consistently cherished. For this hope
in fancy at least. has crowned all the 9TH
ers with the bright halo of promise; 1t has
given them beauty and charm not their
clothed them all in the soft radiance of it's
abiding presence.
Success to Come.
And this thought of a success to come is
yours today with good and sufficient right.
Were it absent your future would be drear
indeed, for the years to come would be as
hopeless as the years past had been fruit
less. 1t is right that the inspiration which
ne of oil
give should encourage you today as you
stand upon the threshold of the future,
looking eagerly, and yet with apprehension,
INTO the broad, complex and actual world,
Whlther you now go to win your place.
1t is right that you picture success today
for whether you will 1t or not the dream
OF success will go with you to the end.
There Is, perhaps, no ideal which men
and women strive to realize with more
earnestness than that of success nor is
there any which leaves more lasting i'm
press on human character or which has so
potent an influence on human effort as
fancy what name you will Call 1t a dream
as we have called it. for as yet with you it
is out dream, or name it the realization
OF the ideal, the fulfllment of hope, the
attainment of a higher or a better life,' or
let 1t be known by it's more homey appel
lat1on, success and 1T is everywhere and
always the same everywhere and always
at work. Wherever a human heart throbs
in sympathy with a higher prompting, there
is its home. 1t is the goal of all human
activity, and 1t underles all human en-
deaVor, and rightly apprehended and used
in the measure of its eternal worth. it
brings all things finally to the feet of God.
Begins With Dawn of Reason.
'To look at this ideal as it is pictured
in the soul of the individual is of interest.
There its power, strong. but unvoiced, be-
gins with the dawn of reason; 1t goes
through life and does not cease with death.
Under the name Of hope it reaches out be-
yond the grave and draws aside the veil
that shrouds the life to come. 1t is the
gloom of the primal fall. 1t is the one I'M
dying ray that illumines every life. Dark
indeed and hopeless must be the wasted
life into which it falls hot.
There is a power abroad today which
has set up Its standards in the midst of
Gods fair earth, power which claims and
obtains almost universal homage. The
name of this power is money, and it's wor-
ship is called success. You have read of
human sacrifice among savage tribes. but
have you ever paused to number the VIC
Tins: have you ever paused to count the
human sacrifices that are daily offered at
the altar of Mammon2
This worse than pagan god has erected
his idol, not in the Businesses of savage
wastes. but in the midst of Christian peo-
pies. His shrineS cumber the groundstead
of the cities His temples overshadow the
temples VI lHe Living COQ. his power is
upon the sea and upon the land. No place
Is too exalted, none too lOwly for his wor-
ship. He has invaded the thrones of kings.
He has frustrated the counsels of rulers
He has damaged nations in their dearest
rights. He has suborned senates, he has
perJured parliaments He all but divides
empire with the God of hosts. And further
still (saddest of AID. the pagan god was
victims blood stained the altar the pagan
god was appeased. But the god of Mann
mon demands and obtains a holocaust of
immortal souls.
When Life Will Be Failure.
Now IL his service be entered he will
gladly receive the proffered allegiance. If
you make money the only purpose In life,
and stake your hope of success upon It's
acquisition, 1t may be that you will have it
in abundance. Give up your freedom, stife
every noble aspiration, Danish the bright
dreams that live in your souls today; be
false to the truth. false to your ideals and
1t may be that his golden hoard will be
yours. If you possess all that he has to
give, and only that, then your life spells
defeat. You have given all and you are
betrayed, it were well if even hope re-
manned.
Neither is the attainment Of power or
fame any proof of success. No one of
course, will deny that wealth power or
fame may be legitimate objects of pursuit;
but if the acquisition of any one of them,
or if the acquisition of all together, be
made the sole purpose in life, then be
surcd that failure inevitable and utter
awaits the issue. Like Apollo pursuing
Daphne, the prize will turn to ashes in the
moment that the eager hands clasp it.
And now to come to an end. How may
failure be avoided and how insure real and
lasting success? Only in this way Choose
deliberately that ideal which carries with
it divine approval See that Ii has the hall
mark of Gods sanction, and that done,
then to this ideal thus chosen give a royal
allegiance. Cleave to 1t through life and
unto death. Follow fearlessly whtherso-
ever it leads, through good repute and
through evil. Then you cannot fail. If
you fall, you win the palm of victory and
your name is forever in benediction.
Real Isues of Real Life.
Go forth to meet the real issues of real
life. Go forth accompanied with the bless
ing and followed by the prayers of your
alma mater. She will watch all your strug-
giles, she will follow all your footsteps with
a mothers anxious solicitude. In the years
that have passed she has learned to love
you well. Now her interest deepens, 1t
grows more tender now, now that the
parting is at hand, now that the farewells
must be spoken, now that you are TO pass
away from her forever. Come then and
take her last, her best blessing. And then
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