The Delta independent., 1908-05-29
BaCCalaureate
Sermon
Sketches From Rev. S.
A. HaywOrth's
Sermon.

ploma is not an education: it is simply
the outward sign of an inward culture.
An educated man is more than a mere
book worm. A book work is lever
learning but never able to come to
knowledge of the truth" John Ran
dolph SAID "Put a blockhead through
college and the more books you pile on
his he ad the greater blockhead he will
be-"
A man of culture respects the wisdom
of the past. He recognizes the limita-
tions of his knowledge.
Your high school course is not sue
cess unless you have learned that you
know nothing. If your appetite is not
keenly whetted for further research.
your diploma is farce.
A short course generally leads to
egotism. A long course takes the wind
out of young mans vanity bag.
The need of to-day is ability on the
part of our citizens to think broadly in
stead of narrowly. A thorough knowl-
edge of all the facts on a given sub
ject enables the thinker to arrive at
conclusions which will not have to be
abandoned.
Narrow vision results in the adoption
of many fads and fancies which have
their day and cease to be. Truth how
ever is unchanging and abides forever.
Education enlarges the range of a
mans interests and harmoniously de-
velopes his powers.
Science, literature, art and religion
are in real sense disciples of the ade-
quate and comprehensive and deliver
the man from being big, blooming,
buzzing confusion"
The scholarly man is able to make
moral distinctions. He whose eyes are
blinded by selfishness, becomes de-
terring force to the progress of man
kind, no matter how great may be his
scientific learning. The light that is in
him becomes darkness and he is the
more capable of being a curse to
society.
The emergence of religion as a scien-
tific fact has come to be recognized by
the world of scholarship. 1t is no sign
of culture to deny the existence of
God. Such denial is sign of course
vulgarity. Science has become reverent
before religion and the philosopher S
have declared atheism bad logic
The scholarly spirit is open to all
truth, to all beauty of holiness, to all
goodness and the will is ever reaching
out after such continued enrichment as
may be found in communion with God.
The true scholar ever submits his
nothingness to Gods all completeness.
o, the tragedy of being afinished but
finite clod untouched by spark d ivinel
Wealth is bestowed upon the man of
wisdom. No great man is ignorant.
The proof of learning as a means of
promoting industrial activity and wealth
is in the fact that the South at the
beginning of the war was poor com.
pared with the North. Four million
slaves made no demand for the products
of civilization.
Education is the measure of civiliza-
tion's progress. All modern inventions
are the product, not of the gods, but of
the spirit of wisdom applied to mans
need under the guiding hand of our
Heavenly Father.
The universal diffusion of knowledge
is the safe guard of our American Re-
public. Democracy is no longer an
experiment. The monarchies of the
old world will vanish but democracy
will live forever. 1t is the work of our
public schools and colleges which pre-
pares every man to be sovereign.
The influence of the old maid school
teachers is an immortal influence. A
miligram of musk perfume will last for
nine centuries: a miligram of radium
eleven times as long but the influence
of our devoted instructors in the schools
will last throughout eternity.
Culture owes a debt of service to
democracy. The educated man does
not live for dress parade. Culture is
not for show but for service. He who
does nothing is nothing. There are too
many parasites people who live for
themselves only. They are mere earth
worms compared with the devoted
scholar whose talents are given to lift
ing up an ignorant and depraved hu-
manity.
Chose wisdom and thus become kings
and priests unto God; kings in that
your lives rule by virtue of character
and goodness: priests in that you shall
become the interpreters of the higher
principles of living to the lower ele-
ments OF society.