Arizona republican., 1909-05-24
BaCCa|auredte Delivered bu
 Rev. HaW|eg at High School coNQuER|NG THE WORLD
The First of a Series of Func- tions of the Week in Honor of the Closing of the Initial Year of the Union High School.

Rev. A. L. Hawley. of the NJ l.. church, delivered one of the strong
 est addresses heard in the city re-
 gently in his baccalaureate sermon before a large audience at the Union High school auditorium last night Taking as his theme 'Conquering the
 World Rev Hawley said:
 "A story of old relates how the
 Hebrew people were given the land
 of Canaan provided they could con- quer it. It was not a free gift,
 ready made to their hand. Hard years of preparation were followed by
 strenuous ones of conquest. The land
 was given them, but they must sub
 due it. only they who are able to subdue can hold dominion. The Hit
 tites, Jebusites and Perizites must be driven out in order that they might
 possess the land.
 This story is an epitome of every individual life. The world is ours if We are able to subdue it. It is not a home ready made for our occupancy its clements are all antagoniStic. Heat. cold, storms, desert, rocks, for ests, mountains-these are the Hit tites. Jebusites and Perizites We must subdue to our ends and uses before the world becomes ours.
 Hence we must live in a per petual conflict; and what broadens and deepens a man like being con- stantly required to be and do his best? The power to subdue is what makes men men, To be subdued is to be- come a slave.
 This conflict between man and his world has two results, both conducting to his success and comfort First let us notice the result of this conflict on the world. Man is steadily sub duing it. Wild beasts are driven out; forests cleared away, stones removed, deserts are reclaimed, and great cities. railways and institutions built on, and out of the things he had first to conquer. He has triumphed over the barren expanses of heated, arid soil by artificial waterways and has made the desert to blossom as the rose.
 Gold and storm are overcome with manufactured heat, shelter and cloth ing.
 "The mountain chain lifted it's mighty barrier, challenging his ad-
  timber; and from it's bowels the iron and stone necessary to con struct his railway; and To, the con- quered mountain becomes minis ter to his comfort Even the ocean, old and gray, has bowed before his conquering hand and yields rich rev enue for his pleasure and comfort He has chained the lightning. com polling it to carry his thoughts and voice around the world with the speed of light. He has chained it to his chariot wheels. making it bear his burdens, his willing slave.
 All the time the world has been made to furnish the means by which he conquered. Always bear this in alone can conquer. Man has pitted his little stock of wisdom aganst the worlds opposing forces and was enabled to use the 1 world instead of being used by it. | Ignorance or brute force has never accomplished anything. Knowledge | alone is power. The ratio of your success will ever be in exact pro- | portion to your Knowledge of the l thing in hand. Knowledge discovered | the laws of the universe and drew | the lightning from the clouds. Knowl- | edge dug from the earth heroes and | fashioned them into all the enginry of | civilization Knowledge you must | have or the perfected motor or com | pleted ship lies useless before you. | What good to have telegraphs and | railways, motors and presses if you | know not how to use them2s What | use to put a gun in the hands of | a man beset by a ferocious beast | if he knows not how to use it? Why | is the gun useless in his hands?
 "So all through life our conquests | are limited to- the ream of the | things we know. Not only is knowl | edge power, but it is comfort, too. | We fear the things we do not under stand-ghosts and genies are the pro- ducts of ignorance. And mysteries, | how they disquiet us, Knowledge tears from mystery it's sable cloak and robs t of it's terrors.
 Secondly, let us note the result of this world conflict on a man. It has . made him man indeed-a creator of not a creature of them. The ability to conquer the world marks his slow progress from child to manhood. Some attain more of r in twenty years than others ever do. Not years but the ability to overcome makes the man. We measure a man, and rightly, by what he has done. The statesman, soldier. lawyer, doctor or farmer is measured by his achievements-his ability to overcome the things that oppose him.
 "The world is also antagonistic to the higher life of men-the life we