The Newtown bee., 1909-07-02

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 life to It's end is engaged in building house in which you are to liy,
 throughout the rest of your life. Thl
 education of which we are speaking
 has for It's third and greatest pur pose the beautifying of that house
 lt has adorned 1t with pictures fol the walls and books for the shelves
 1t has transformed 1t from a bare ant barren abiding place, to a home o comfort and beauty; 1t has throwr up the windows and let in Gods sun light to dispel the darkness; it hai widened the horizon so that you may look forth over the green earth ant see the beauty of river, mountain ant field; so that you may look back along the course of mankind ant know what men have been, and have done; may look forward too, witt prophetic eye, may
 Dip into the future far as human
 eye can see,
 See the vision of the world and all
 the wonders that shall be-"
 In other words, this education has equipped you with means by which you may think the happier thoughts.
 It may seem to you that what have said is directed more particular ly to the boys, rather than to the girls of this graduating class. Per haps, if that is so, it is because have unconsciously, had in mind the thought of the little girl in school. The teacher asked each boy and girl in the class to draw a picture illus trating what he or she wished to be when grown up. On the first boys slate she found the picture of a soldier. "So you want to be a soldier, do you, Johnnie," she said. On the second boys slate she found the picture of man following the plough. Willie, you want to be a farmer, do you?" "Yes, Ma'am." " On Mary's slate she found nothing. "Why, Mary" she said, don't you know what you want to be when you grow up?" "Yes, Ma'am. l know what I want to be when 1 grow up, but I don't know how to draw it. /" What is it you want to be-" q want to be married"
 A preacher always comes back to his text from time to time, so must come back to those happier thoughts which are to make us happier men and women. Did you ever join a crowd that was going to see and hear some great man, some President perhaps, or other man whose name and features were familiar to you? And as you climbed upon vantage point and got glimpse of him did you say to yourself, perhaps uncons- ciously-how l wish 1 might meet him and hear him talk and feel that I know him? Bnt did it ever occur to you, that we may know the great men, the statesmen, the philosophers, the poets, better than those who came in daily contact with them, better than those who. were num- bered among their friends? It was the thoughts which these men thought which made them great, which made them useful and inter- esting to their fellowrien. We know, for example, Abraham Lincoln, to- day, far better than those whC were in daily touch with him. He has long s!nce passed on 70 his glorious reward, but the thoughts which made him great, have been written and re- peated and studied and analysed by the keenest minds minds of men, so that to-day his motives, his purposes, his self-sacrifices, all give us better knowledge of the man than was pos sible to those who walked their daily life beside him. And so the thoughts of the greatest minds may be ours. We may know them better than II we had walked with them.
 The dreams which Shakespeare dreamed three hundred years ago are ours to-day as truly as they were his. Wordsworth looked upon the face of nature and saw it's beauties as few have ever seen them before or since and wove them into pictures that we might see them with his eyes. Great novelists have made study of life and painted mastter- pieces of art for our delight. What these men have done is ours through the means of a broad and enllght- ened education. Every man who has thought a happier thought and committed it. to written words has put it within our reach. It may be- come, if we will only reach out and make it our own, part ot the fur- nishing of the houses in which we are to live-it may be one of the happier thoughts by the thinking of which we are to live the happier lives.
 l sometimes hear or read that a certain person finished his educa- tion" at such and such an institu- tion. No truly educated man ever finished his education. An educa- is the work of a lifetime and at the end of life, no matter how long or how studious. remains unfinished And it is a continuous process. Your education here has been only partial success if it has not given you desire for more Of these pictures of which have spoken If it has not given you a taste which will make an acquaintance with good books, a quest after the hap pier thoughts which may be ac- quired through them, daily habit of what calling or pro fession may claim your time. Only thus will you be working out to the full the purposes and results Of the education which has