Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-06

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Raccalaureate Sermon.
away from as long as possible, but
which he hoped some day to reach
when he must and principally because
his neighbors entertain a similar hope
There is no eternal standard by which
he judges an act. He cares only fol-
the proba Bile effect on his business OF
his social position or his future bliss
His is mechanical life-a house bull,
after no master builders pattern.
The Man CT Limited Ideals.
Then there IS the man of limited
ideals. He does indeed have in his
mind a pattern. an ideal towards which
he works. He demands that his work
shall be the manifestation of that
ideal; that his business shall conform
to certain definite ethical standards;
that his social life shall reflect his
ideals: that his religion shall manifest
what he thinks ought TO be the re-
lation of God TO man, Of the divine
Father 10 His human children. In all
his dongs there is a vision-he knows
som ething of what his work ought to
be: he is not content with IT as 1t is
His is a true idealism. There is an
unseen pattern after which he models
his life. He knows what he wants to
be, he is content only as he approaches
the attainments Of his ideal. There is
but one defect in such mans aspir-
alton. II is that his ideals have no
higher origin than his own soul. His
life is higher than is the mans VINO
knows only the form without the pat
tern But it yet shares the incomplete
ness of the man himself. 1t may harbor
selfshness; it may be modified by
prejudice or bigotry. The man Of ideals
by whose pattern is but his own con-
victioa of what things ought TO be is
too often the uncharitable man, the in
tolerant man, the one who would de-
mand that all men see as he sees, think
as he things, act as he acts, shape their
lives as he shapes his.
The Man With An Ideal.
But there is third man. He is the
man who has an ideal, and who pat
terms his life after that ideal. But he
looks back of the form, back even OF
his own convictions, to God the source
of his being, in him finds his ideal, and
to that ideal, patterns his life. lie
believes literally and truly that the HE
that little child who was born TO-DAY
ought to live, exists, is an ideal real
ity, in the mind of God. He believes
that no other life can quite take the
place of that one in Gods plan. If 1t
fails, then its place must forever re-
main untitled, its work undone. For as
no two blades of grass are alike. no
two faces exact models one OF the 9TH
err, so no two lives can be exactly the
same. The pattern of your life is one
the pattern of your friends life is an
other, the pattern of the life OF the
little one born today is still another
Each must work to the perfectlng in
outward form of the pattern OF MS
life existent in the mind of God. For
after all, we have life, only as we have
it in God-'in him we live and move
and have our being. The possible
perfection of everything that we can
do or be is in God. Hence, in finding
the pattern of our lives in him, We are
but finding ourselves. 1t Is not the
copying of some ones else plan-the
living of another's life-but it is find
ing the perfection of our own lives IL
him who is our life. What calmness
what peace. what cheerfulness. what
confidence, what ability to do and to be
there is in the man who thus finds the
pattern of his life in God. No calamity
can overwhelm such a one, no mistake
can discourage him, no difficulty car
disnearten him. The pattern of his life
is in God. In him he will yet trans
form that pattern into personal char
acter
And today, you, the members Of the
ST1- Al
school can come to him and live your
life in him and in him find your eterna
ideal You will see it as he sees it, anc
then your one wish and determination
will be to make real in your character
the vision you have seen in him.
Men and Women of Power Needed.
Young people of the class of 1910
there is but one thing this land needs
today. 1t is men and women of vision
of ideals, of power. Great movement!
The pattern of her growth is the Chris
and the power of her attainment i!
the Christ. He calls you into the
mount of vision. He shows you the
pattern, he calls you to work out tina
pattern in your lives, that in you h
may work out the great, pattern of oul
human destiny. AS another has said
he calls you to turn from the pool
reality to the great ideal in your live!
with one earnest question, What will
thou have me to be?' You may pierce
thru the clouds and reach TO the sum
nit and there seeing mis- vision of you
possibilities, he freed at once from
yyou7 5rcther's tyranny and from you
own content and slusgishness, and Sc
| to work with all. your might to fulfil
Gods image of your lives, to be all thai
he has shown you that it is possible TO
you to be, to make all things in thes,
lives Of yours after the pattern showed
to you in the mount. In his strength
you will be able to follow his exam
pie, in his life to reach the fullnes
Of your lives"
In the Police Court.
| In the mayors court this mornin.
Jack Smith, George Bradley, an,
James NJ. Fisher, who were up Oh
charges Oh intoxicat1on, were uiscnarE
ed, and j. A. Corbley, Darby Connors