The Newtown bee., 1908-06-12
The NeWtOWn Bee.
New Milford.
THE INGLESIDE COMMENCEMENT
 Continued from page H.
Newtown. Friday, June ls. 1908.

THE INGLESIDE COMMENCEMENT
 Continued from page H.
 serve is to fulfil the purpose of youl
 being. It is to be great. No being
 can ever touch greatness which evades
 the purpose of its existence. The pur
 pose of existence is. to serve. This
 alone as our human powers fulfil them
 selves and put on their full glory ant
 strength. In rendering unselfish, self
 sacrificing service, ingenuity is quick
 ened, sympathy is enlarged, charity
 grows more radiant, ambition is trans
 figured, ennui is destroyed, hope smiles , like an angel and with the increase ol
 strength comes an increase of delicacy
 and fneness, which ends life more
 beautiful and attractive.
 "All earthly joys grow less
 To the one joy of doing kindnesses.
 All knowledge is empty which does
 not do something. All privilege is ar
 offence which does not succor and bless.
 All criticism is idle which does moi
 serve and deliver. All well-wish-
 ing is futile which does not express it.
 self in action. All service, worthy of
 the name, springs from the desire, ere -ated by love, to go :out of itself and be one with others, that it may enrich
 and bless them. "To do good and
 communicate" says R. L. Stevenson,
 lis the lovers grand intention." It is the happiness of the other that makes his own intense qualification and indeed it may best be defined as passionate kindness. It is related that one cay. when famine had wrought great suffer-
 ing in Russia, a beggar at a street corner asked for aims. Tolstoi found he was absolutely without money. In this he took the beggar's hand in both of his own and said, Don't be angry with me, brother, have noth- ing with me-" The worn face lighted up, and the beggar said, But you called me brother, that was great gift" There are men and women, who like St Peter, have no gold or silver to offer and yet sad hearts leap with joy at their coming for they bring with them the witching charm of sympathy. But there must be other elements in your life than the service of your less fortunate brothers and sisters. D. Mozley in his University sermons has one on "Our duties tow
 ards our equals" and perhaps the real difficulty of noble living comes in here. It is so easy to be kind to the poor, it is so easy to go patronize one in a different sphere from ourselves, but to do our duty to our equals is not so easy. You will, rot only of choice but as matter of duty. have to share in the duties of society. You will have to submit to the tyranny of the card case. You will have to attend dances and to play bridge. These things will be both duties and pleasures. Only in the things let me beg of you to ob- serve the Flaw of proportion" It is not that game of cards for the love of the game is wrong. It is not that going to the theater is wrong in itself, if the play be a good one. It IS not that any amusement in itself is wrong if it is recreation, but is when, over and over again, hour after hour, ab- sorbing all the energies, recreations take the place of real work and the time that was meant for the education of mind and heart has gone in mere amusement, producing kind of rest lessness and weariness of spirit. The law of proportion is beautiful law of | God. All the works of God are so beau tifully ordered because the law of pro- portion governs them all; therefore l want you so to govern your lives. How much time and thought is spent over dress. Dress is important. It is the duty of every woman in every rank of life to make the best of her dress with her means. There is no virtue in be- ing dowdy and woman should make the best of her beauty and no woman is without beauty, by suitable clothes and ornaments. God has intended her to look beautiful; she does wisely to fulfil his intention to the utmost of her power. That is cheap and shallow scorn which is forever alluding to the vanity of woman as displayed in her love of dress. It is reasonable and natural for a woman to make the best of herself, nay it is winsome and sweet of her to please and delight us by looking as beautiful as she possibly ;an. Can maid forget her orna- nents? is an inspired question which las it's root in the intrinsic reasonable ness or some kind of care being given 0 them. The affected superiority which treats clothes and their accom- ,animents with lofty negligence, if lot with a supercilious scorn, would lave made the daffodil brown instead if yellow, robbed the forget-me-not of ts darling blue, stolen its heart of or nge from the daisy or darked the rimson from the robins breast. Wom- t m adorns her ornaments and increases { heir beauty and value. The costliest t ewel seems valueless until it gleams ( lpon her finger or radiates upon her l row. They need her touch and pres k nee to invest them with their fullest . harm. S The far-fetched diamond finds its d
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