Evening journal., 1909-06-14
THE EVENING JOURNAL, MONDAY JUNE IA, 1909
10 accept It.
God Calls to Work.

TO accept It.
God Calls TO Work
"A mans work is not OF necessity
that which may offer the most con-
genial activity. A mans true work is
that TO which God has called him. A
mans work is part OF the world-plan.
IL has 10 do with Gods glory. and
mans welfare. He who sees this Is
taking a long. long step toward estab-
fishing Cod Justice. peace and good
will among men,
The successful life Of Jesus Christ
largely revealed this plan-'To every
man his work He believed there wac
q work for Him. given by His heavenly
Father and lie maintained His work,
saying, i must do the work that He
sent me- Jesus ended that work. And
dare to say that in our own lives
we viii be powerful and successful in
so far as we truly appreciate and ac-
cept this motto.
1T is as II God has left this world
In our charge and TO each Of us has
given his work. We can at once sea
how this view eXats mans labor. Men
day after day, are misreading th Blb.c
In order 20 bring us TO believe that
labor Is somehow the penalty for sim
Il Is not 90. sin, violation Of Gods law
makes work infinitely distressful, but
labor with clear conscience, is
heavenly gift Labor movements have
done vast amount of good, but con-
sciously or unconsciously, they seem
Go mo to spread abroad a vast error
To too many men the rest hours are
the true hours and the work hours
their shameful hours. 1t is not So
There Is no surer sign Of degeneracy as
a man or a woman without respons
bilty or activity. We need labor to
keep our souls. keep our minds alert,
and our bodies sound Where you
find the idle, there you find the dis
tressed.
In accepting all these assertions we
put a very harmful limitation upon
alive separate spiritual labor from
secular labor. But now we are begin
ming to understand that God calls a
man TO duty on Monday as well as on
Sunday. Gods bells call us to busi-
ness and industry ds well as to church.
He expects us to labor as well as TO
pray And God calls the man of one
talent to his task just as well as he
does the one with ten. TO every man
his work.-such is the call.
Let young man believe that H.
has a work to do in this world AMI
that he has a call 10 it from God
then the discouragements that face the
graduate will be as nothing Almost be-
fore nc knows it, he is occupying a
place In the world and doing a maguih-
lcent work. I believe the finest asset
of any young man beginning his taal
in the world is to believe that b. has
received his credentials from God.
Find the Right Work.
1T Is not enough to be good in his
word--some good people arc intensely
useless-but. nevertheless. they must
be as well as do. He who fails in
character fails i'm all.
Young men of the graduating class.
! | have Just one word to say tI YOU.
That is, find that work to which God
I in his wisdom, his love and his au-
tority has called you. Each NJ you
has been called to some work that viii
be profitable and beneficial and that
will administer to your eternal glory.
| II is your business TO find it. Your
ability your circumstances viii help
YOU, but you win find your work soon
est by saying. I will do thy will q
| Lord. BE strong II Is not your bust
] it'1nrf AN llhAs W Nillls NNhH nNA llt
struggle. II Is Gods gift"
After the sermon. prayer was said
/ by the Rev. 6. r. Anderson, Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. Newark
and a hymn. GO Labor on" was sung
Dr. Robinson then pronounced the bene-
diction after which he greeted the
members of the graduating class indi-
vidually
This afternoon. class day exercises
are being held IN the College Oratory.
Yesterday morning the RcV. r. j.
Hopkins Of Delaware Avenue Baptist
Church. Wilmington, preached the an
nual sermon 10 the College Y. N. C.. a.
This evening the Atheneaen Society
will have it's exercises. and tomorrow
morning the college trustees VIII have
their annual meeting and award de-
grees to the graduates. The com.
mencement exercises will be held on
Wednesday morning.