The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-06-01
REV. WHITE GAVE FINE
BACCALAuREATE SERMON
Class Of 'O9 Of Bemidji High School
Listened to Finished and ApprO-
pirate Address.

crowded to the doors Sunday even
ing, when Rev. S. E. P. White
preached the baccalaureate sermon to
the graduating class of the Be-
midi High school.
The members of the Girls Glee
Club sang selection, and A. Rood
sang a solo, after which Rev. White
delivered the sermon, of which the
following is digest:
Text: Hebrews E: 1. Let Us Go
on Unto Perfection. In everyone's
life there are days which stand out
with peculiar prominence. The
day of ones graduation from school
or college is such a day. Time
grasses many events, but as the
traveller fingers long by the pool in
the oasis, SO memory dwells upon
these days.
According to our text, no record of
the pastis sufficient. We must press
on to new conquest and more com.
plete preparation, regardless of
hardship or sacrifice. The process
which we call education is that
training which fits one for the duties
and responsibilities of life and makes
him more useful to his fellow men.
The difference between the most ex-
quisite rose in the florists garden and
the simple wild rose is merely a pro-
cess of education. The difference
between a barbarous Hottentot and
Gladstone or Roosevelt is simply
the result of generation of education.
Let us 60 to a more complete
education. We can never say our
preparation is complete. We
must not confound knowledge and
education. knowledge may mean
Simply the assembling of abstract
facts. Education is vastly more.
1t is the power to apply knowledge,
the increased capacity for work.
An encyclopaedia contains knowl-
edge, but it can not be called edu.
Gated. Education empowers men
and women with the ability to do.
Occasionally there is a man who
is peculiarly endowed, and stands
among his fellow men as one in
spired because of his grasp upon
circumstances, his ability to meet
every demand and rise to every
emergency. Such a man is a genius
and is born, like the poet, not made.
Education merely enhances the use
fulness of his gifts. The man who
became the silver tongued orator of
Greece, and swayed as one man the
mighty multitude, first walked the
shore for tedious days with the sea
surge in his ears and the pebbles in
his mouth, developing his God-given
powers.
The diamond in its natural state
is neither remarkable or beautiful,
bur after it comes from the hand
of the expert lapidary it catches
and reflects the light from
thousand points. This is its edu-
cation.
Let us go on unto greater
achievement. Before the gradu-
ate, life appears in glowing colors.
Each has an ambition for achieve
ment. These who have helped
and blessed the world have been
men and women of achievement.
Those who have given to the
world some new idea, not the
copyers, the refectors of someone
else, but those who have first
"thought Gods thoughts after
Him."
When Watt watched the teakettle
lid in the rude cabin and as a result
gave to the world the marvellous new
idea which has been such a means
of progress, he was a man of
achievement. His name will never
be forgotten.
Man has not exhausted the uni
verse in his discoveries. Gods
thoughts have not all been thought
after Him. Long after the dust
now animated by the life of this
generation of men has been dis
turbed by the spade of generations
TO come(if the Lord tarries), there
will still be new fields to explore,
new ideas to discover, still thoughts