Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-06-29

us look forward and upward. though, |
taking courage in the Hnow-
ledge that we may, If we Will, 80
food the world round about us with
goodness and strength and beauty ana
sweetness and love that our errors
will seem insignificant buried beneath
the better things which grow bigger
with the added years. What n blessed
this, which holds it's al
luring Invitation up before this grad
uatlng class to-day! Your teachers
have been watching you, thinking of
you, and praying about YOU. young peo-
pie. during these years of your stu
dent life with solicitude greater
than you have GUESSED. And now, In
these last days, come to you in be-
half of them with definite promise.
II is one on which you may confident
" rely. IT is the promise of that which
each one Of you desires above all
things else---it Is the promise of i'm
mortality. Next Wednesday you will
turn your steps away from these col
lege halls and haunts and associations
which have become SO dear to YOU
through the years to walk out into
that future, which YOU somewhat
dread. positively assured thai You are
going to deathlcss career. cannot
promise any of you an immortal name.
Some of you may find it; most Of you
will not. The question of obscurlty
or of prominence ia the smallest one.
If you are true to your convictions of
right If the integrity of your man
! hood and your womanhood IL ever the
! first consideration, If you hold to some
lofty purpose without wavoring, and
| Il YOU work without ceasing you can
not fail and. known or unknown.
great or lowly. you will live on in
blessed influence until eternity fades.
This IS the immortality which Long
! follow gave TO Alhrecht Durer when
he wrote:
Hence in srlencc and in sorrow toll
ing still with 1usy hand
Like an EmiRrant he wandered seek
ing for The Better Land
Emigravit is the inscription on tho
| tombstone where he lies
Dead he is not--hut Departed
for the artist never dies
You may all be artists, for, after all. is
not living the art Of arts? None of you
will ever die. Some day you will emigrate.
| Let this mind be in you, which was
also in Christ Jesus" and we shall greet
you. though YOU lie gone, again and again
In this world, and know we shall strike
glad hands with YOU in another country
| when we greet your glorified bodies In
the company of the immortals who have
come up "Out of great trihulation, and
have washed their robes, and made then
white in the blood of tho Lamb 1--WE
shall not die" Immortality hcre,-thc
immortality Of which Lonsfellow sang
Immortality therc-the immortality
which Christ has promised. immortality
in two worlds! What a glorious posi-
bility. With what ardor it should fire
you-wth what courage It should inspr,
| you as you front the future.
For mo to live Is Christ and to die Il
gain" In such a faith. young people
go forth to conquer. Then when this lif
ends, each one of You will move out int
larger life. When the silent boatmal
calls, YOU may step In with confidence
and we who wait upon the shore vii
! answer your smile with smile through
9 our tears for 'One we havo loved lonI
l since and lost awhile"-for one who ha
c only emigrated
"As I stand by the Cross on a Ion
Mountains crest
g Cooking over the ultimate sea
an the gloom % the mountain, a shi
o lies at rest
> "And one sails away from tho lea
"Dra SDreaGe its white u.infre
"Ocr a far-roaching track.
f with remnant and sheet flying free,
b cone halts in the shadow, with sail
e laid back
t The ship that is waiting for me.
Il But 10: in the distance the clouds brea
5 away
y The gates glowing portal I see.
Il "And / hear from the outgoing ship
n the bay
1t The song Of the sailors in glee.
o $50 | think of the luminous footprint
= that bore
d THE comfort DER dark Galilee
d "And ! wait for the signal to go to II
e shore
ii '''ro the ship that is waiting for me
% Bret Harte.
l. Al the close OF tho sermon a distin
lie murmur OF admiration was noticeab
Is throughout the audience. DR. Bliss al
nounced hymn 561. and after this WI
: sung, DR.. Benton pronounced the beued
N ton.