The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-06-12
MAKING Of LIVING.
IS NOT TO Be
DESP|SED
That Object in Life Worth
While, Declares Rev. F.
M. Mccoy in Sermon
SPOKE TO GRADUATES
OF THE HIGH SCHOOL
"The End of Education" Was
Subject of His Bacca-
laureate Address
SPOKE TO GRADUATES
OF THE HIGH SCHOOL

Graduates of the Grand Forks high
school were addressed Sunday after
noon by Rev. Francis NJ. Mccoy of
the First Methodist church, the
baccalaureate services being attend
ed by a very large audience.
"The End of Education" was the
subject, and the text was Follow
me-" Matt. 4:19., Till we come unto
a perfect man, unto the measure OF
the stature of the fullness of Christ, .
Eph. asa. Rev. Mccoy said in part:
These arresting words hold us In
the grip of their bold assertion. They
blaze the way to the heights and bid
us walk in it. In a less important
moment we would wonder at their
high challenge and It's possible reali-
cation but in this exalted hour when
We look down upon the days Of low
content where life is cast amid the
miasms of plains sunken far below
spiritual sea-levels, we seek clear vi
sion and true teaching and stand
ready to grid ourselves for the jour-
ney. knowing the powers of the best
within the man these strong leaders
urge not to the higher life but to the
highest life. Up to the mountain side
of spiritual striving there is no half
way house to which they encourage
us to climb and stop. They point to
the summit-a perfect man. The call
comes with peculiar emphasis unto
the educated man. Upon the scrip
ture basis that from those to whom
much is given much may be requir-
ed the world has right to expect
from the high school graduate more
than from those whose privilege has
been less. And it is my yearning de-
sire to impress upon you young men
and women the fact that higher and
broader and more important than
business or profession is the great
art and science of living. Back of the
lawyer, doctor, teacher, diplomat,
must be the over-towering man. That
1t is the end of education to enlarge
the range of ones interests and har-
moniously to develop all ones pow
ers. Science, literature, art and re-
iigion are in real sense disciples
of the adequate and comprehensive,
having as their mission the delivering
of life from being. in Professor
James phrase, big blooming buzz
zing confusion? To bring light out
of darkness, order out of confusion,
intelligence out of ignorance: to cor
rect the perspective, broaden the
horizon, lift the altitude, to swing
back the door of the soul and lead
out in royal procession the
faculties and powers of ones
life to better working relation to all
about us is the true end of education.
Spencer we'll expressed it when he
said, the end of education is to pre-
pare us for complete living The
speaker threw the thought into great
err clearness by contrasting with it
the popular misconceptions of the
day.
Many man has stopped growing
when his business began to grow.
Mr.. Gladstcne's expression is exceed
ing appropriate to this thought:
Life itself is the great and noble call
ing for everyone. The call if life is
for one to do something. bnt it is
first of all important for the soul in
action tc guard its integrity and to
preserve a clear, clean conscience
and see to it that obligation is
brought into harmony with the d.
vine will
4 Possible Danger.
The danger that the light of the
educated man be darkness is so real
that the signal must be continually
flashed and especially in this day
when epoch-making changes are
transpiring so rapidly. We may
guard cur safety in a study of the
past from which comes the dispo-
sition and power to shape the future.
The power to appreciate is the first
step to the power to achieve. 1t leads
to that radical spirit which express
es itself in rational progress In the
goodly companies VINO mistake mile
stones for destinations. One so wide
ly delusive as to merit mentioning is,
the making living.
The Making Living.
This widespread conviction is MT
to be despised fer it is a legitimate
object of endeavor. Jesus gave it
place in the order of life when he
said Your Father knoweth you have
need of these things The fathers
Drawing the seas to find a new world,
the pilgrim host moving into the I'M
settled west, had a foregleam of
newer and better opportunities to
make a livelihood. But this is not the
supreme aim of life. For the educat-
ed man to interpret his advantage
merely as chance to make a better
living is to be guilty of treason to
the academic idea. This is no place
for permanent habitation it is but a
milestone marking possible progress.
Making q Life.
Greater than expressing life in the
material is the culture Of the life it.
self. The man who places no value
upon self is wrongly adjusted to life.
He who Is without ideals is already
dead for all life consists in realizing
unrealized ideals. To keep self in
foreward action, to consider each
goal reached as a point of departure
for greater things, to look upon each
development of character as an