The Red Cloud chief., 1911-05-25
BaCcalaureate Services at the M. Z.
Church Sunday evenlns.

The Baccalaureate address to the
class of 1911 was delivered in the
Methodist church Sunday night by
Rev. Tompkins. The church was
prettily decorated by the junior class.
The class motto was well displayed.
As usual many people were unable to
gain admittancc. Mrs. John Weesner
sang an excellent solo and the re-
maindcr of the music was furnished by
the members of the tenth grade. In
his address Rev Tompliins said in
part:
Rev. Tompkins took for his text to
the class Joshua Ills, or the plea of
the family of Joseph for more land
and room. He said that dissatisfact-
ion with the limitations of the present
was ever the law of growth and pro.
gress citing as examples the great in
ventions of the age as being examples
of this fact, and then compared this
with progress in human life, education
business religion and politics.
lie said, "thcir ideal was to be able
To dictate the policies of the peoples
who lived about them and were able
| to do so because of their superior
/ qualifications mentally and morally.
1 Their desire for power also led them
To compete for possession of the hill
country close by. and in competition
| for it lay the secret of their marvellous
development. The great good of com
! petition was emphasized as being a
stimnlous to men TO do their best in
the conflict of life. The speak er furth-
er said That this conquest was one of
mystery, and stated the fact that all
knowledge, of astronomy, mathematics,
chemistry etc has been acquired be.
cause Of the power of the element of
mystery that is in them to lead the
student on.
He further said that they chose. IA
hard land to conquer, for it was hill
country, and then drove this lesson
home by stating that TWAS in the do
ing of the hard things of life that men
get the greatest satisfaction out of liv-
ing.
He then dwelt on the fact that there
were some then as there are today
who could not see any opportunity for
achievement. but cited the fact the
doors of >tatesmanship, invention,
politics and religion are opened wider
than ever before inviting and demand
ing men to enter them, aud that if one
of the class would invent substitute
FOR India rubber, solve the negro pro
blem, or perfect IA tariff law he would
have conferred an inestimable boon
on mankind and would be hailed in
future years as u benefactor of his
race.
Tie then emphasized the fact that
there is a great demand for leaders to.
day who will mingle with the masses
and give them the advantage of their
superior learning and training and
cited the life of Christ as the worlds
: SlNHNNNN NNuhlIit u lediltISuln. ana
also the fact thattrue education does
not segregate aud make one exclusive
but amalgamatcs, and makes one "A
better servant of the whole,
IN 1loSing the most impressive part
: OF the address was especially to the
class and while they we're standing
- Mr., Tompllins referred 10 the class
I motto vil Tonight We Launch.
| Where Shall We Anchor" and said "a
r man with the genius of poet in his
t vains one day sat on the shore OF the
g rolling sea and while he watched the
4 white capped billows roll before the
= driving of the wind, ami the waves
a roll higher and higher, he spied in the
}, distance sailing vessel tacking for
+ the harbor.against the gale, and as he
e watched her great fact of human life
s swept his soul and he wrote;