The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-06-01
STARTING RIGHT
IN LIES WORK
Dr.. Paden Gives Wholesome
Advice to Graduates of the
Collegiate Institute.

The baccalaureate services last evening
in the First Presbyterian church in honor
of the graduating class OF the Collegiate
/ institutes were we'll attended in spite of
the fact that there was a dre3ry rain
during all OF the, evening. The sermon
delivered by Rev. DIR. w. NJ. Paden, the
pastor, was one of the most interesting
discOurses of the kind ever heard in the
city DR.. Paden, taking for his theme.
Look Carefully How Ye Walk" said in
part:
To graduate means to arrive at GER
tain stage of training or attainment. 1t
is 10 pass step by step. or stage by stage.
through certain prelimnaries II is there
fore a mere beginning or commencement
not an end or finish. As we say of the
babe who has graduated from the cradle,
He Is beginning TO walk so we may say
OF The student who graduates from acad-
envy, college or training school, he has be
gun his education: he has learned the use
Of certain tools; now he must use them.
For Profession or Trade.
''This is especially true of the training
We receive as a preparation for our pro-
fessiOns or trades. We take our first
steps under guidance. We learn to walk
alone. We begin to walk; then We enter
the various callings or walks of life. The
steps we take in beginning TO walk are
important; but the steps which we take
thereafter are the steps which make our
beginnings worth while. Your principles
are all right said DR.. Sewer: what you
need is the practice. You must not only
step into your profession. but you must
keep on stepping; you must make prog
ress; you must walk in il.
First steps may be as hard for YOU
to take as any you may have TO take in
after life, and your first Hills of Diff
Guilty may be as hard for you to get over
as any of the higher hills of the years TO
hi
keep going and growing, that you keep
advancing step by step. each year growing
wiser and stronger
What brave first steps some of you
young folks makei What high beautiful
visions you have Of the things to be
done, What determination of purpose to
get into line and keep in line with the
best you knOWi It has been as hard for
some of you TO get OFF TO school as it may
one day be for you TO get off TO the heart
of China. II has taken quite as much
courage perhaps, for some of you to take
your stand for Christ and his kind of liV
ing as would suffice in other days to make
you martyrs. Hurrah for the heroism of
hard beginnings!
AS in these early stages of training
which we call school life. so in the early
stages of life in the larger outside world.
First steps in home making, school teach
ing. business, profession or trade may test
the beginner TO the limit of his daring
and endurance. They are most favored
learning to walk. They are safest and
most likely to increase in strength whose
progress is orderly, gradual, grade by
grade step by step. As il is better for
student 10 walk firmly in lower class
than to founder about in a grade which Is
too high for him, so it is in the school of
life The ideal place for the beginner IS
in his own grade As the best piece or
timber will break if overburdened, the
best sort of a beginner may be crushed or
crippled If Overplaced. They ascend
NOSE securely who ascend grade by grade
The man who works himself step by step
is the man who best knows his bus
mess, trade or profession.
The Place and Way to Begin.
1T NAV count only as a college boy
blunder for a young fellow who is learn
ing TO survey to lay out an irrigation ditch
which CLIMBS up hill in fact as well as IN
appearance; but if as the engineer OF
company he makes such blunder, he WI
likely get his walking papers. One OF
Won NAV get nightly mixed in your ideas
of anatomy and so get cipher IN that
DAVIS grade book; but a surgeon who so
loses his head may kill his patient or
cripple him for life That's the differ
ence between going through one 5 PAGES OF
learning to walk in school and putting
ones attachments or lack Of attainment
TO work IN everyday life.
at is therefore no small part OF ones
opportunity at school or college 10 learn
m walk accurately; not merely to spell,
read and cipher accurately, but to state
facts accurately, TO know accurately. 10
think accurately, to purpose accurately
and TO do accurately The good thlhgs
which YOU get learned and so well learned
that they become as much part ol your
outfit as ability to walk are the things
which are so capital 10 you. The most
useful of all arts is the art of doing right
things in the right way until II becomes