Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-06-02
THE HIGH SCHOOL
GRADUATING CLASS
Will Hear Address By DIR. Eastman
OF The University And Receive
Their Diplomas Tonight.

The first one of the series of meetings
connected with the Commencement ex-
ercises of the Audubon Public Schools
was held ON Sunday evening at the
Methodist Episcopal church when the
! class sermon was delivered by Rev. A.
b. Miller of the Presbyterian church.
The music was furnished by vocal
quartette consisting of w. W. Smith
DR.. Burnside, Supt. Smith and Frank
Sampson, with Mrs. Smith at the piano
| The Scriptures We're read by Rev,
Schlesselman of the Evangelical church,
and prayer was offered by DR.. Morley.
| The sermon by Mr. Miller was Thought
| full, forceful and practical His theme
was the realm of difficulties and how to
overcome them, which he treated under
the following divisions. The necessity
of having correct measurement of our
selves, "a correct measurement of the
importance of what we seek II correct
measurement of the obstacles in our
way, and the courage TO overcome the
difficulties in q prompt and persistent
manner Mr.. Miller said:
Living is serious business TO be under.
taken with courage and CARED forward
with self sacrifice. Ii is "A task tit for the
highest type of manhood and woman.
hood Ii is intended to bring ont the best
i'm us so that we may give the best to
those about us. To live truly and nobly
there must be the manifestation of
courage Pleasures, trials, burdens and
difficulties must not come between us
and real life. Sacrifice when necessary
must not be stunned, for sacrifice de-
velops manhood and womanhood II
enlarges the sympathies and intensifies
the best of the heart qualities
sometimes wonder If the young people
leaving our high schools think seriously
about these things which make up their
lives. Many come from comfortable
homes. A fathers love and a mothers
tender solicitude has been about them.
They have been spared the harsher ex-
periences of life. They know nothing
about the cost. They have not witness
ed the sacrifice made in their behalf.
They have gone on from day to day in
ignorance of the anxious hours spent in
planning for their present comfort and
their future welfare. AS "a result they
have gained false conceptions of life.
They have come to think that the future
must be what the past has been, but
the time has come when, If any are
present who have such conceptions,
they must be put away.
Life has its difficulties These must
neither be stunned nor feared. Wemust
recognize the place they have in real
life. We must meet them like men
and women conscious of our strength.
Someone has said, and believe right
fully, that the more difficulties one en-
counters the more significant and the
higher the inspiration his life will he.
Men and women cannot impress the
world with their greatness, until they
have met and overcome difficulties
They never can be conscious of strength
until their lives have been disciplined
in the great school of difficulty. The
meeting of life's difficulties is no boys
play nor girls frolic. As suggested it
demands the strength of manhood and
womanhood. Ii means the meeting of
problems hard Of solution. 1t means
hard work and lots of it. 1t means dis
appointments and many of them. 1t
means backsets. Itmeans an occasional
down and out feeling. 1t takes an j
will to stand under such stress and
strain. Somewhere | have read that
there are just three classes of people in
the world; the / wills, the | wonts and
the .cants. The first accomplish every
thing, the second oppose everything,
while the third fail in everything.
The speaker further said that Socrates,
who was one of the worlds greatest
sages, taught his pupils that a lxnowl-
edge of self was life's most important
lesson; its Importance was emphasized