Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-06
GLASS Of ID HEARS
FAREWELL SERMON
REV. WILLIAM PENCE JAMES
GIVES BAccALAUREATE ADJ
DRESS SUNDAY NIGHT.
TALKS ON OPPORTUNITY
AND WHAT WORLD NEEDS
Seating Capacity of Methodist Church
Taxed to Accommodate FeopIe Who
Heard Address and Exercises-spe-
ciaI Musical Numbers Are Features
of Program.

C!dl MuSiCdl NunpefS ARE features
of Program.
The Methodist church was taxed to
its utmost capacity Sunday night in an
effort TO accommodate the hundreds of
people who attended the exercises in
cident 10 the delivery of the baccalau-
reate sermon to the graduating class
Of the Marshalltown high school.
Evening church services generally
were dispensed with in order that the
hour might be given over 10 the bac-
calaureate which was delivered by
Rev. William Pence James, rector of
st. Pauls church. Rev. Mr. James was
very Inspiring, and in a most excel
lent effort, he held the very closest at
tention of his large audience.
The body of the main audience room
of the church was given over TO the
different departments of the public
schools. The seniors occupied a Sec
ton toward the front. in The center
and behind them We're the members of
the school board. the faculty of the
high school. and teachers of the public
schools. The juniors sat 10 one side
and the members OF the high school
glee clubs to the other
Musical numbers, arranged for the
occasion. We're a pleasing feature of
the exercises Miss Sutphen playing
prelude, ofertory and postlude, and the
two glee clubs appearing separately
and together in numbers. Miss Eliz-
abeth Wellemeyer, supervisor Of music
in the public schools, sang Bartlett's
Grass and Roses" with a violin OBJ
ligato by Miss Margharita Lewis. Diff
ferant pastors of the city assisted in
the exercises, Rev. James Rayburn
giving the prayer, Rev. ]. E. Stauf-
facher the scripture lesson, and Rev.
5. E Ellis the benediction.
MIR. James Address.
Rev. Mr. James chose as his text pas
sages Of scripture dealing with the
divine command 70 Noah 70 build the
ark, and also from St. John 1915 Il
have given you an example" He told
of the history of the building OF the
ark. and the deluge, and also of Moses,
when he led the Israelites out of bond
age. and drew lessons from the ancient
scriptures to show that opportunity is
here and that the world today needs
men and women of vision, ideals and
power. Mr.. James said in part:
"A little child is born into the world
today, and We wonder what that life
will mean TO itself and to the state
and nation. It comes with a certain
physical. mental, and moral bias which
we call heredity. We know that in
home and school and church and So
ciety this hereditary bias will be modi-
fed weakened here, strengthened
there. eliminated in another place, by
that contact with the world which we
call environment. | suppose the char
acter of every child. up to a certain
point. is largely the combined result
Of heredity and environment. But the
time will come when a third element
must enter into his experience-con-
scious choice. The child will begin to
take notice of things as they are. Life
will stretch before him, a long. long
roadway. The years Will seem illimit
able as, standing on the hither side.
he gazes with eager eye out, far out, to
that far away day when he will be
man and do mans work and take
mans responsibility in the world of
things. And he will see, too, that just
what that coming manhood shall mean
10 himself and to the great human
society of which he is part lies very
largely in the field Of his own conscious
choice. He can make his life what he
will-he can build the character which
most appeals TO him.
Character Building Important.
For the character to which we attain
is very much like building. There is,
first the foundation, carefully laid;
then come the walls, then the roof,
binding together and adding sym
merry to the whole; and finally, the
little touches, the embellishments. the
ornaments which add grace and beauty.
making the finished building a pleasure
to its owner, and a joy to all who may
behold it. But as with the ark of old
Noah or the tabernacle of Moses, every
perfect structure must exist somewhere
in the mind of a master builder before
single stone is laid or single tim
Der formed. There must be a plan
a pattern-and the building must con-
form to that pattern. First. there must
be the idea; 1t expresses itself in the
outward Visible form The form with
ouL TIC lbt-d DdIh VI IL Is DuI d utdcl
thing; the form, filed with the idea,
continually manifesting the idea, con-
stantly fulfilling the idea is alive ac-
tive, perfect.
Tho Man Of Forms.
The man of forms is the one who,
in his business or his social or his
religious life, never gets into the region
Of ideas at all. Business to such a
man must answer but one Of two
questions. He asks, How can this bus
mess he made to snpnnr. nc ard ny
family" or What rules for conducting
this business are most acceptable in
| the business world?' The thought
| of his business as the working out Of
life ideal, the form, the out-working
/ of the mans self soul-the business
but the outward manifestation of the
growing life of the soul never occurs
to him. His religion is but ladder
to take him to heaven-not the answer
to an overcoming question Of the
soul. what are the relations between
God the father and man the child p
How can know God and realize Him
in my life!" His life is modelled after
no unseen pattern. The only d1sap-
lpointment his business can bring to
him is the disappointment Of lack OF
results-or the disapproval Of his fell
IoU business man Tho aH1v .5i ~