The Glenwood post., 1910-05-28

| The past week has indeed been a
busy season for the GlenwoOd schools,
the close of the school year being cele-
brated by numerous events which will
ever recall pleasant memories to the
many students who are passing from
one stage to another in the school as
well as to the graduates who now go
forth into the active avenues of life.
Sunday evening at the gymnasium
the baccalaureate sermon to the gra l.
uating class was preached by Rev. d.
T.. O'Dwyer of st. stephens church.
1t was a scholarly discourse which caa-
not fail to be helpful to the lives OF
those who are now leaving the high
school and who stand Oh the arena II
manhood and womanhood and face the
realities of life with all the tempta-
tions and responsibilities attendant
thereon.
The gymnasium had been most bear-
tifully and tastefully decorated anu
with a profusion of school and college
remnants the effect was indeed most
pleasing.
Rev. w. o. s. Cliffe offered the l.
vocation; Rev. J. NJ. Dickey gave the
.criptural reading. The solo, "Consld-
er and Hear Me-" by Miss Aitmah
with high school chorus. "Just
for Today" by the high school glee
club, cover the Stars There is Rest
by quartette composed OF Misses
Holland, Smith, Claudon and Drach, as
well as the voluntary and accompanl'
ment by Mrs. Clyde Smith were fea-
lures of especial interest.
Father ODwyer spoke in part as
follows:
"It was thought well to begin the
exercises of graduation week by i'
ligious function, and one part OF th''
function has been committed to me;
tbe address which is known as the
baccalaureate sermon. Now. sermon
is supposed to deal with our relations
with God. 1t treats of matters tha'
relate to our last end, and that have
bearing on our actions insofar as ehey
are moral. By the exigencies of the
case, sermon, here, to graduates from
the public school, which is committed
to no particular creed, must be fre7
from every sectarian flavor; it must
deal with such religion as is outsioe
the creeds, or rather, common to them
You have asked for sermon because
Won have arrived at an important stage
| in life. and because, before you arc
finally launched into this new world,
YOU desire something in the shape Oh
advice from one whose years are sup
posed to have gained him some exper'
ience. Hitherto dependence on others
was a strong Characteristic of yo'r
life; the subordination Of youth, though
lessening with years, was yet far from
the independence which is to marx
your career henceforth. The many
props of protection that parents an0
teachers have afforded you, are. for the
most part, about to be withdrawn; you
are about to become more Responsible
beings, and the accountability OF your
acts has neared its full measure
feel that at such stage the care OF
your new state, rather than the chieve-
ments of which they are the result,
should furnish me with subject. l
shall speak to you. therefore, as young
| men and women who are about to ex-
perience the first real taste of respon-
sibility. The consequences of actions
must be more your study now than be-
fore, the evil that abounds in life is
to be more matter for your own dis
covery that for the warning solicitule
of those who are interested in you, and
here 1 want to point out one great
mysterious truth. From mere human
points of view there seems to be no
proportion between the evil with which
men begin and the ruin which that evil
brings about. The mystery Of this lies
in the soul, which is Of a delicacy and
depth beyond all Imagination. 1t has
a sensitiveness which responds to ths