The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-06-15
BaccaIaureate at UniyerSaIiSt
Church Yesterday
BY REV. W. H. DEARBORN
Faculty, Juniors, and Then the Seniors
Marched Into Church Auditorium to
Listen to Parting Words Of Ad-
monition--Many Present.

y
iushered in the thirty-ninth commence
ment week of Goddard seminary. The
annual baccalaureate sermon before the
graduating class Of 1908 was delivered
| yesterday morning at the universalist
church by the Rev. w. H. Dearborn, D.
ID, of Boston. The front seats in the
church were reserved for the members
of the junior class, the faculty and the
graduates, who marched into the church
IN separate bodies IN the above named
order. The congregation filed all Of
the remaining seats to their capacity.
Four members OF the junior class
acted as ushers, Henry Harrison, George
IWeiiman, Herbert Dean and John
Knight, The front OF the altar was
prettily decorated with daisies. The
musical part of the service, rendered by
the regular choir OF the church, assisted
BY Mrs Sheldon Of Montpelier, yiolinist,
was very enjoyable.
The order OF the service was as fol-
lows: organ prelude, Miss Lease; an
them, "Te Deum in B MINOR, Buck,
quartette and Violin; invocation and REL
sponsive reading, led BY the Rev. G. G..
Conner; anthem, My Faith Looks Up
10 Thee Schneider, quartette and vio-
lint scripture reading and prayer, Rev..
w. II. Dearborn; response, AT Thine
Altar,D Hanseom, quartette; vocal solo,
wich violin obIigato, 70 Savior, Hear
Me- Gluck, Mrs. nj. ID. Lamb; hymn;
benediction; postlude, Melody in F, Ru-
bcnstein.
DR. Dearborn gave o thoroughly in
struftiye and interesting sermon, draw
ing bis lesson from the text. Philip
plans, third chapter, 18th and l4th
verses: Brethren, l count not myself
to have apprehended; but this one thing
Id, forgetting those things which are
behind and reaching forth unto those
things which are before, press toward
the mark for the prize Of the high calling
Of God in Christ Jesus"
No man, he said, should allow him
self to Ne measured wholly by his past.
Life is before us all. We are all aspir-
ants for knowledge and results. We are
always noticing the changes in the order
of nature. With the winter we look
forward to the spring and then to the
summer and the fall and the different
changes they present. Our interests in
this world are never stagnant, We are
All like the little child who builds a
temple or house with his blocks only
70 Knock 1t over and build IT up again
after a momentary glance Of satisfac-
tion az IFS completion. The perfect mar
wells Of the century after a little become
commonplace and we become interested
only in their uses.
Forgetting the things Of the past
we are pressing on to the things that
are before, never allowing ourselves To
be measured By anything that We have
done in the past, but always locking TO
the future for something better. Life
ii before us. not back Of us.
ut matters not what we have done
ar what we are: we are All children Of
God and looking to the future
To the graduates, he said: You are
about to 20 forth from q school that
has been strength to you and has be-
come dear To You. You will 60 with
both sadness and joy-ioy, perhaps, at
the idea of the liberty that it brings to
YOU that you may be able to work your
way according to your own ideas.
know not in what way your ambitions
may Be directed, but ] want to say to
YOU that it will be well to realize right
here now that the chief business of life
is right living: living the pure, simple,
truthful, honest life The great teacher
of life Is always at your call. Remem-
ber that YOU can live with conscious
ness that the future holds more than
the past, The future il q new day,
May God bless it to you"
Alumni Day To-morrow.
The class day exercises Of '0S are
being held this afternoon at the school
chapel, and this evening the recital Of
tie music department will be given at
eight o'clock. Alumni day comes to-
morrow, with prize speaking in the even
ing at the opera house, The graduating |
exercises win be held Wednesday fore
noon at the school,