Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-14
MANS SOUL HIS
GREATEST PRIZE
DR.. LOCKE SAYS GROWTH OF
SPIRIT Is ALL IMPORTANT
DECLARES DEVELOPMENT FOR
GOOD is HIGHEST AIM
Graduating Class at University of
Southern California Listens to
BaccaIaureate Sermon on
Human Masterpiece

DR.. Charles Edward Locke preached
the baccalaureate sermon yesterday
morning to the graduating class at the
University of Southern California. His
audience consisted of members
of the class about to conclude their
college studies, the members of the
faculty and relatives and friends Of
the students.
DR.. Locke selected for his text Eye
are complete in him" Colossians 2:10
His theme was MANS Masterpiece"
He said in part:
"a masterpiece is a work in which
master has invested the most of him
self. Gods masterpiece is man, Gre
ated in Gods image.
what is mans greatest work? Is
it to be a world conqueror? To be a
great poet? To build Brooklyn
bridge with Roebling or an Atlantic
cable with Cyrus Field, or Mississippi
jetties with Captain Eads? To fight
the battle of the Wilderness? Great
and marvellous as are all of these
achievements, mans magnum opus is
not any of these triumphs of genius,
What, then, is it?
Jesus greatly emphasized person.
ality. His greatest words were ad-
dressed to individuals 1 know scien-
tific materialism pretends to deride
personal God and a personal man. But
such conclusions are not true TO the
records or experience.
Describes Personality
What is personality? It is prin-
ciple incarnated. Man becomes a per-
sonality when he incarnates in his soul
the everything principle. great
truth impresses an age when it be-
comes clothed in flesh and blood.
When somebody lives and suffers and
dies for it. Principles are vague, i'm
palpable things until q human heart
throbs them into life.
"If Gods masterpiece is the creation
of man, then mans masterpiece must
be the development of the best that
there is in him-his soul. Mans chief
chance is not in the development Of
his body, which so startlngly resem-
bles the chimpanzee or orang- -outang.
The soul is the image-the man. We
know that spirit dominates matter.
Some of the ancients taught that the
soul was imprisoned in the body be-
cause of sins committed in another
state of existence; but instead the
body is the prisoner of the soul. Tho
soul may become fuller of beauty and
hope and power, as the body disihte-
CRATES with old age.
This therefore, is the highest pur
pose of all creation, the growth of a
soul. If a man would grow a soul it
must be his greatest, almost his only
work. Great truths when incarnated
become great souls, but great truths
are not incarnated without great
labor.
One Must Struggle
eve must struggle and invite our
soul, as did Job and Peter. There are
many 'tempests in the brain for each
of us il we would grow a soul.
"What a man is must be greater
than anything he does. Tolstoy said
recently to a young man from Amer
ica IF you would make the world
better, you must be better If a man
would do any great thing he must be
growing his soul. Goethe the man
the SOULS greater than the brilliant
writer of Faust wellington the man
is greater than the victor at Waterloo
Washington the man is greater than
the Father of his Country. Simpson
the man greater than the marvellous
preacher and Mckinley the man, the
soul greater than the nations beloved
martyred president.
"David, the aged warrior, said to his
brilliant young son Solomon, Take
heed now, for the Lord hath chosen
thee to build an house for a sanctuary;
be strong and do it, The soul is the
sanctuary-the holy of holies. An ar
tisan's wife came to DIR. Henry Drum,
mond requesting him to come and see
her dying husband. She said: My
husband is a dyin', sir; he's no. able
to speak to you I dinna ken as he
can see you, but I would like him to
have a breath of you aboot him be-
fore he dies Atmospheric invasion! A
mans sphere as we'll as a woman's
sphere, as one has said, is his atmos-
phere.
"Christ will add the finishing touch
es, for in him dwelleth all the fullness
of the Godhead bodily, and we are
complete in him. There is hunger in
the normal soul for God and the soul
will never be satisfied until 1t pillows
itself on the Fathers bosom.''