The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-06-15
~REEGAN INAUGURATED;
CLASS IS GRADUATED

so great a charge and he hoped thai
God Almighty would aid him in doing
his very best for the welfare of the
college under every and all circum.
stances.
Rev. Updike's Address.
| Following Judge Amidon's address
and the presentation of diplomas, g
splendid commencement address was
delivered by Rev. Eugene G. Updike
d. D., of Madison, Wis. He spoke in
part as follows:
Il think there is something in the
possession of property that adds to
ones self-respect and ones value in
the community. The consciousness OF
ownership adds to the power of the
man who has such a possession. We
terial prosperity unconsciously by his
legal title to property.
There is an ownership that is spirit
ual and greater than any material
ownership of material property. A
man may have, in his library, every
great book ever written, but may not
have spiritual ownership in a single
volume while he who owns not one OF
those costly bound books may have the
spiritual ownership of all of them.
"A beautiful home may be owned in
spirit by every man in the community
who can look at or enter into it. A
man goes abroad and comes home sew
eral thousand dollars poorer than when
he went away, but If he has had the
capacity to rightly enjoy what he has
seen he has come back with the spirit
ual ownership of all he has observed.
All the world has contributed some
thing of real worth to his wealth Of
soul.
'Is not this the real meaning of edu-
cation? A mans real possessions. if
he be a man, are not limited by real
ownership. There is a better owner
ship than the wealth of the millionaire
it is better to have the capacity to
become the owner of the real worth
of the world than any material wealth.
IF education trains the student to
become the real owner of things it is
worth while. Life is measured not by
length Of days, but by it's vital rela-
tions, and a mans life is large or small
just as he has been trained to touch
life at many points. If you can train
a human soul so that 1t can establish
relationship with things eternal when
the temporal things are broken, it still
lives on.
1--WE shall not make very great pro-
gress until men use their power to
make the truth they have received, no
matter from what source, really their
own. There is no place where real in
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where ignorance is not at a discount
The great discoveries yet to be made
in science are to be made by men
trained to think. In competition what
chance has a man to stand who has
not been trained in some special way
to use his power to adjust or readjust
the complex relations Of life and reach
new conclusions? Common sense is the
ability to make extemporaneous ad-
justment of facts to reach new con-
illusions.
Lincoln had not much school train
ing, not many books; but he knew
how to think things through to their
conclusion.
I'VE need to remember that books
and libraries and great universities dc
AASONASN%AAAy
must learn to think broadly, for one:
self and for a purpose. There is some.
thing more than an intellectual life
in education. All through it is vitality
connected with the spiritual. A mar
who is absolutely fair in his thinking
is not going to-stop until he finds the
greatest of a" thinkers-that is God
There is no poetry, no art until the
truths of philosophy and science are
spiritualized. There was never a great
poet who did not have more than cold
logic and mere intellectually When
man gets great truth he wants tc
make it the common property of al
men. A great soul is unselfish and al.
truistic.
1.-THE deepest things we feel, the
surest things we know-these are the
things we must hold to. If the time
ever comes when you must choose be
tween the intuitions of the soul and
science you can let your science GO
and cling to your souls vision"