The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-06-06

distinction. tha noblest human attain
ments, the finest products in art or
letters, earth's choicest flowers pluck
ed from the richest trees IF human
achievements, whilst they satisfy for
"a time and may not be despised, yet
they can not abide. What will abide
is that character whose image ap-
proaches more and more nearly from
day to day, that Of the man, Christ
Jesus, Gods incarnate Son, the Re
deemer OF al! life, the Savior and
Lord OF the race Only as His image
and superscription are found impress
"a and written upon humanity's heart,
only as His life becomes, and finally
is, mans life. can ultimate satisfac-
ton and final triumph be attained.
Members Of the Glass of 1911 and
students Of Newberry college, the one
thing which you must all recognize to
make your life's career a success IS
that there is vast difference between
appearances and reality. Things are
not what they seem. believe the
present age is emphasizing more cour-
ageously the real thing, that makes
life worth while. Bus rnere IS yet
plenty of danger that the reality OF
things may take on so materlallstlc
conception as to narrow reality to
what we can see, handle, exploit and
manage successfully. The great dan
ger of this time is to eliminate the
spiritual from the real, to forget what
one wrote who was a rare progressive
in thought, "that the things which are
seen are temporal, but the things
which are not seen are eternal" The
spiritual varieties are in danger Of
being either underestimate or over
looked, in this great, moving age of
progress and achievements. Men are
inclined to build for themselves, tenn
rary and fin1sy edifces, out Of false
las and ideals, when they might be
DuSlding eternal, imperishable struc-
lures, in which, unafraid, they might
meet every storm that sweeps life's
plain.
am not recommending TO you at
the beginning Of your .ne a weak pro-
gram of self-surrender to another.
am (and trust I have shown it,
pointing you to the divine plan OF
The redeemed life in Christ as theI
noblest, best and manifest. You can
not appropriate any ideas that will
magnify your manhood ana glorlty
your person, as will your utter and
complete allegiance and devotion to
Jesus Christ. No possible career is
comparable to that, which is hid with
Christ in God No one for a moment
would deem that false standard set
up by great King Arthur for his
knights of the Round Table:
<:My knights are sworn to VOWS
Of utter hardihood, utter gentleness,
And, loving, utter faithfulness in love
And uttermost obedience to the king.
t is true a peerless Lancelet under
these mightiest VOWS to his king may
turn faithless, 'His honor rooted IN
dishonor." Yet every one nonors the
knight who thus VOWS. A Leonidas
and his 800 make mighty appeal to
men through the ages. They handed
themselves over to their country in
an act of utter surrender. They ex-
emplifed the patriotism of him who
wrote of his country:
<sOur hearts, our hopes, our all with
thee,
Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, !;
our tears,
Our faith, triumphant over Our fears,
Are all with thee, are all with thee.
No one doubts such devotion to his
own country as the reasonable sacrl- !
ice and surrender of patriotic soul. !
None can be found who would envy
him. All try to emulate those who
thus are able to sink themselves and
their own interests in that Of their
native land When to save her name
and honor, to advance her standard
and to secure her triumphs, Crom- !
we'll, William the Silent, or a Wash
ington. or thousands of the worlds
uncrowned heroes and kings, have
made good in the shock Of battle, with
a ss-im visaged enemy before them,
amid shot and shell, and destruction