Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-06-13
HIGH SCHOOL
CLASS OF 10
HEAR SERMON
Addressed by Rev. William
H. BaWden In First
Baptist Church.
SUBJECT "A WISE AND
UNDERSTANDING MIND"

The graduating class of the high
school, together with the faculty,
assembled In the First Baptist
church last night to listen to the
baccalaureate sermon delivered by
Rev. William H. Bawden, the pastor.
The edifice, which was crowded, was
tastefully decorated with flowers.
under the direction of Mrs. ]. Bruce
Smith and the Misses Ruth Bacon
and Elsie Bernard. Mrs. Robert
Macan sang solo before the SER
mon, while after it the choir render
ed an anthem.
Mr.. Bawden took for his text the
prayer of the young King Solomon,
for "A wise and understanding
mind" A parallel was drawn be-
tween Solomon, in that he had to
deal with conspirators, had the task
of organizing the great empire won
by his father, and was called in ad-
dition to the special task of building
the temple; and the youth of the
land, just stepping forth from our
institutions of learning, in that they
also must deal with those tempta-
tions that are as conspirators, must
organize all the faculties of their
manhood and womanhood, and are
each called to some special task in
the world.
They therefore need the same
wise and understanding mind" he
said, The needed wisdom means
the skill and ability that is based
upon the knowledge of things, the
very beginning of which Solomon
himself declared to be the fear oi
Jehovah This will cause the stu.
dent of history and of natural phe
nomena to discover the workings OF
the Lord in the world. The needed
understanding means that intelli.
gent discernment and prudence, that
poise of judgment, without all
knowledge is valueless. This will
lead the youth to subordinate his
own personal ambitions to the work.
ing out in this world of the purposes
OF the great Father and Creator oil
, ALL"
| This thought was reinforced by a
paragraph from Mr.. Roosevelts ad.
dress on "The World Movement .
delivered before the University oil
Berlin. In closing the following
poem, entitled Victory" by Herbert
Mueller Hopkins, a friend and col.
lege classmate of the pastor, was
| quoted:
1T is not not life's bIef tenure that ]
Its many tears, its vanishing de-
lights,
Nor all the bitterness by heart haiti
known.
In the grim silences of wakefu
nights.
"Nor doth my spirit in the battle
quail,
Dreaming of pleasure and inglori
Gus ease;
My arm would answer mighty fiai
with fail
And try results with mortal desti
MES.
But this my prayer, and this my
one request;
That when my wrestle with the
foe is done,
1t be not said of me. He did his
best
Not that alone, but let them add
He won"
The members of the senior class
who attended were: Misses MARY
Gridley, Anna Allen, Catherine
Kleckner, Esther Jessen, Myrtle
Warren, Genevieve Brennan, Rose
Galaida, Kate Wilentz, Agnes Yor
gensen, Ida Polensky, Ada Aneck.
stein. Carrie Ernst, Grace Wright
Helen Hanson, Pearl Koch, Elsie
Wfttnebert, Ethel VanDusen, Hattie
Drost, Beatrice Jacobsen and Kate
Splitter; Malcolm Crowen, Herbert
Rankin, Albert Carbon, Wallace
Sofield, Wesley H. Fletcher, Charlie,
Wright, Matthew Urbanski, Johr
Seel, Charles Hults, Melville Wild
ing, Oren Browning, Jr., Chester
Peck, John Clark, Jr., Herber
Strandberg, Donald A. Kennedy
Millard G. Boughton, John Kostel
and Rufus Allen.
e. H. Kleinhans, Miss Mary E
Vaughan, Miss Anna Holm, Eugen,
Davis, John Hitzelberg and william
A. Ramsay, of the high school facul
ty, were also present
-JThe Glass OF 10 assembled in tn,
chapel, adjoining the church, prio
to the service, and proceeded to tn,
church in body.