The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1911-01-14
PALS vALEDIcToRY
Preached az Center Street Methodist
Church, Jan. =, 1911. 1900 a. m.

SNNAAh jan ~ AbAAt AAHNV ~ "s
&c am now ready io be- offered up. the
time nf my departure h, At hand, I have
fought a good fight, | have finished my
course. have kept my faith; hence
forth there j. laid up for me u crown of
life. .ud Timo'hy, I:G.S.
rhi, is. ut the same time, an apitomc
Of l'Hul's life aud character, with u cuu
else summary Ut his conception Of 1T"
aud conduct IN general, Having reach.
cd the summit, he LOOKS back On the way
whittier he has rome, The end was van.
tagc point 10 Paul not q "yallcy Of
shadows aud mists, 80 ~ from it, ,cr"n"
heights he secs hi life clearly. In thu,
passage, without vanity, without eN
cusc. .iu q trruchaut syllabus, he de-
scribe, his own life, aud forecasts the
life aud achievement, the struggle and
conquest Of every true man, who should
follow after.
Ia this unique old hero, 4, was uo' q
,lcath.bed adicu, but u valcdictory ON
the occasion of his graduation FROM his
earthly scholarship 10 the celestial Uni.
vcrsi,y on the other side of the vale.
Notice he says nothing about death;
rather does his tcrsc resume throh
with tho pulsatioUS Of a larger life,
breaking It's bands and scoruing its ten.
poral limitations,
Shall not we make this study one of
life aud not of death for, after all,
death j. not the consistent study Of the
true uunj but rather the limitless op
porWuitirs, possibilities and develop
m"nts uf God all Astounding life, here
aud hereafter. Looking hack ~ Il life
married hy mistakes, red with the blood
of self sacrifice, dim with the tears If
suffering aud dark with doubts and
fears, the trial. and tolls Of many days;
Paul IL y that life has means, aud
,iill means much To him, What il the
significance of his view 81 life1
l.. Life il q conflict. ~ have fought
t. good fight" Time is the battlefield
of c,crnitics. 10 every one who seeks
the right aud shuns the wrong; who
strives to attain and maintain the high
cst in ideals aud conduct; lie ~ n CON.
bat, This does not mean cnmitv with
my fclluws, nor hatred ~ the physical
world God has made for my good, We
must not think that = heliggerent atti.
iude toward others, means n warfare
IN the evil aud injustice. Paul's great
hattie, and our grca, battle j. within
Who ronqucrs self, conqucrs all, When
the conflict with self II won, thorough
~ won, then all the principalitics NJ,
nine. ole that ovcrcometh shall In
bcrit al things" lie who is rcgnani
in will and purpose over the desires oi
self ~ King aud Ruler, be he ever =,
&. poor and unknown.
m greater than all outward things,
Would ! hut claim my own;
shame on the slavery that brings
, Ne sclf.rcproach and bitter stings,
For evil deeds upgrown.
) II slave I he, ! am self hound,
. To passion, pride or pelf;
=. No mower, the universe around,
Z Hath Heaven revealed, hath Wisdom
D found,
;. To do me harm-but SELF
{ Q, Life Is progressive. at have Az
ished my course" Someone has sal
"Lifc is not n terminal, II l. a thor
oughfnre." This same Paul wrote 90
r count not myself to have at~iaincd,-..
r hut forgetting the things that are h
hind ...-.--T press toward the mark.
. Christianity is no, any one definite thin
. alone. II is the life and essence Of e'
n cry 0Od'given experience projected ev