The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-06-07
GREAT FALLS
MINISTER
SPEAKS
REV. E. FENN LYMAN BREACHES
BACCALAUREATE SERMON
TO UNIVERSITY CLASS.
GRADUATES GET ADVICE


Seniors Are Told of Life to Come and
Manner Of Best Answering Its
Questons-Pastor Delivers Eloquent
and Polished Address in University
Hali-Commencement Week Begins.
Before large crowd of students
and parents, Rev. T.. Fem Lyman,
pastor of the First Congregational
church of Great Falls, started com
mencement week Yesterday afternoon
with the baccalaureate sermon at Uni
Verslty hall. Mr.. Lyman's sermon
was full of kindly advice and criticism
Tor the students and, taking his text
from Isaiah, 50:4, 1.-The Lord Jehovah
hath given me the tongue of them
that are taught, that l may know how
to sustain with words he that is
weary he showed the duty which the
student, educated at the cost of his
parents, his teachers, the state and the
Christian world, owes to himself
and to the world to make his life a
credit to the nation and to Christian
ity by becoming leader and teacher
Of his fellow men in whatever sphere
he chooses for his own His final ad-
vice to the graduating class was brief
and to the point and he closed by ask
ing that they demand for themselves
the position for which their education
has fitted them and that they live AL
Wi fhn
prophet, which had been chosen as the
text for the sermon, fixed firmly in
| their minds,
Caps and Gowns.
Promptly at $3.50 the members Of
the senior class wearing the cap and
gown, filed into the big assembly hall,
followed by the faculty and the in
Ylted guests of the occasion The in
vocation was spoken by Rev Dwight
= Bayley of the Congregational
church, following which the girls sex
tet rendered a selection from Luben-
stein entitled "The Angel" Rev. j.
w. Tait then read from the thirteenth
chapter of First Corinthians. Rev. W.
II. BAgby said a prayer following
which Dr. Duniway introduced the
speaker of the day. Mr.. Lyman spoke
IN part as follows, after reciting his
text:
A Mood Of Contemplation.
These words seem to be the soli-
loauy OF one who recognizes himself
as possessed in some degree of
trained and cultured mind We seem
to see him standing between a pro-
cess of preparation and a task In
mood of contemplation he is uttering
to himself his convictions as to the
meaning of it all that he may better
get himself in hand for his waiting
work. He does not speak as one who
is boyishly casting his books aside as
though liberated from an irksome
bondage. There is rather upon him
that spirit of serious dignity to which
every manly soul rises when, in con-
scious readiness, it addresses itself to
high enterprise.
And the way in which this speaker
OF the ancient past deals with the fact
of his own training and discipline af-
fords suggestive guidance for such a
moment as that to which you of this
graduating class have come today.
1.-The first conviction to which the
voice of this soliloquy gives 'utterance
is this: The Lord Jehovah hath given
me the tongue of them that are |
taught. 1t is fine thing to be con-
scious of having a trained intellect
to feel qualified in good measure to |
do first hand independent thinking To |
be a peer of the realm of learning is |
one OF the noblest distinctions a man |
can reach. When Saul, the young |
Benjamite, the future king of Israel |
stood erect in the assembly of the |
people and saw that his broad athletic |
shoulders were higher than other peo-
pies heads, I imagine there must have
surged through him a consciousness
of power that made him a better and
more courageous chieftain in the de-
fense of his nation. And there must
/ have been far finer glow of power
in the breast of such a one as Daniel |
Webster when he arose in the United /
States senate and in the conscious
superiority of intellectual strength
gave himself to the task of demolish-
ing the trenchant arguments of Hayne
and thereby swinging the whole
nation forward with his slogan of
Liberty and union His, in surpas-
learned and he did we'll to rejoice
gladly in it's possession.
"And if it was right and manly for
Saul to modestly rejoice in the pos
session of a body that was large and
poWerful--if it was right for Daniel
Webster to be glad in the possession
of gigantic intellect, then I take it that
it is right for you whose arrival at
the degree of intellectual excellence
to which you have now attained is be-
ing thus publicly recognized, to cher
ish with a heart -throb of conscious
strength that Whereunto you have at
tanned, and that, too, without being
inconsistent with that modestly which
is the best ornament of power So
then, lnasmuch as you, my young
friends, have pursued your prescribed