Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1908-06-11
The CONCLUDING
PART OF THE
BaccaIaureate Sermon Given by
the Rev. A. A. Myers, Sum-
day evening, May 3Ist

AlaH ever erecCeQ. crowned the
Acropoils of Athens. There was the
aggregation Of beauty and the result
OF intellect. There were statues of
Jupiter and Venus. and Juno and
Minerva and Diana thruout the
lnen civilized world. At the affairs
hundreds of sacrifices were offered.
The blood flowed in streams. Men
came to wash away sins. They i'm
/. lored these deities as tutelar deities
OF their towns. their cities. their
families. IGp almost every house
there was an altar. and man wor-
shipped. Christ began to be preach
cd, and under the preaching of
Christ the whole system has passed
away. To-day there is not man in
the world who .worships Jupiter;
there is not one that bows the knee
to Juno or Minerva. The people
might c1y for two hours. "Great
is Diana of the Ephesians!'' but no
man now bows the knee to Diana;
no man makes her images or sells
her shrines. The system is gone. for
ever gone; and to-day there is not
particle of beauty around any system
of idolatrv. There is idolatry still
in the world. but it is an idolatry
of ignorance. Go into India and
visit the temples, and take the idols
there, and they are objects of terror
and aversion; there is no beauty
about single idol now on the face
of the earth. There are idols in
i Africa. but they are of rough stone
or wood-images deformed and base
and low. Every attribute of beauty
is stripped from idolatry, all the
worship Cfs ART has &c paItJ lrcsa
heather systems; and to-day the art
of the world. the painting of the
world. statuary of the world. the
architecture Of the world. gathers
around Christianity. The pictures
in our homes are those of Mary and
the Infant Child. There is the
picture of Faith. Hope. and Charity.
No one wants the forms of
heathenism about him; but the pure
inspiring ideas of Christianity are
here Jupiter. Juno. Minerva.
Venus. have fallen like Dagon before
the ark of God. They have gone
wherever Christ is preached.
Cat this stage Of the discourse the
preacher gave rapid survey of lead
ing personages of the ages and noted
for what they were distinguished.
But the Lord Jesus Christ is re-
moved because He has saved the
world. And l can cherish nothing
higher. nothing brighter, nothing
better for you young ladies and
young gentlemen of the graduating
class than the presence of this
princely personality and potential
power all thru the days of your lives.
1t is the glory of the world that
He who formed it. dwelt on it. of
the air. that He breathed in it; Of
the sun. that it shone on Him: OF
the ground. that it bore Him: OF
the sea. that He walked on it: of
the elements. that they nourished
him: of the waters. that they re-
freshed Him: of US men. that lie
lived and died among US: yes. that
He lived and died for us; that, He
assumed our flesh and blood. and
carried it to the highest heavens.
where it shines as the eternal
ornament and wonder OF the creation
of God. 1t gives lustre to Provi-
dence. 1t is the chief event that
adorns the records of time, and
enlivens the history Of the universe.
Bengal. the great German scholar,
when nearing the close OF life's
journey, requested dear friend to
read to him the Sacred Scriptures.
When the reader came to the pass
age, ''The blood of Jesus Christ,
Gods Son. cleanseth from all sin, "
the dying man stopped him. saying.
ssadd no more. it is enough; shall
die on these words. His vigorous
and cultivated intellect had laid In
vast stor es of knowledge; he had
gone the round Of the. sciences. and
pressed his way thru the thick fog
bank OF metaphysical and theological
speculation. till he had found the
only resting place faith in a Savior
death. @ Il. M IL
III have taken much pains, ''said
the learned Selden, ito know every "a
thing that was esteemed worth
knowing amongst men; but with q al ]