Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-06-19
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RUTGERSCLASS
Commencement Exercises
Started In New Brunswick.
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Special TO the EVENING NEWS.
New Brunswick, June 19:-Rev.
Malcolm Mcleod, Of the St. Nlcho-
las church, New York city, in the
baccalaureate sermon to the senior
class at Rutgers College at the First
Reformed church here last night,
declared that there was much decep-
ton in society these days and that
this was a world Of veneer and var
nish. Money could buy a seat IN the
United States senate but could not
bride peace OF mind to make that
piece Of furniture comfortable,
In the sermon the preacher said;
THE mind Of a man Will never be
satisfied to be forever chasing a
mirage. Hunting game Just for the
pleasure Of seeing the birds fall IS
q more or less degrading sport.
Truth Is the meal Of the mind, The
mind calls for food Just as truly as
the body,
Fortunate thing for some of US,
is 1t not, that some things of real
worth IN the world are beyond the
reach Of bank accounts? Some
blessings we cannot buy with bull
lion. Bullion cannot buy brains; 1t
cannot buy self respect. 1t cannot
purchase a good woman's love nor
the faith of a little child, 1t can buy
a seat IN the United States senate
but 1t cannot bribe peace OF mind
to go along with It and make that
piece Of furniture comfortable, "A
good name Is rather to be chosen
than great riches but bullion can
not clinch the bargain. Can money
purchase happiness? II you were to
walk down Wall street and enter
one of those tail sky scrapers and
ask for $1,000 worth Of happiness,
think you could negotiate the ex-
change? The good kind Father
writes on some Of the best things
what we sometimes write on
checks, not transferable" by sale
or delivery or Endorsement, All
legitimate purchase is getting some
thing for an equivalent in return.
Society Is builded on this system of
reciprocal exchange. How often,
alas. the exchange Is ill-adyised and
sh~ort-sighted. How often We fail to
appreciate the priceless.
But the thought I am particularly
anxious to burn into your hearts,
dear young people, Is that 1t Is truth
are to purchase, Because II you
to ask me what the trouble
the world today is I would say
with Carlyle, It Is falsehood. We are
In a deceitful age. Society Is
honeycombed with deception. 1t is
getting fashionable today to
make light of the moral perpendfcu-
lar. There ls more misrepresenta-
ton and cunning and o~utreachlng
and overlooking than there used to,
be.
The daily paper Is the diary of
the oyerdraWn. When two news-
papers in a certain city each make
the claim that their circulation is
than all the other dailies in
that city combined then there must
be a mistake somewhere. The world,
I take it, has not as keen a sense of
honor as it once had. We used to
ask Is 1t rlght2 Now we ask Does
it pay2 1t is an age of vanish and
veneer. We claim to make good
but the blades the old Saracens
made will cut one of our blades like
We cannot build as the old
did. The secret of their
mortar and cement IS lost to US. We
live for show and seeming. The sur
face is good, the rind is rosy. And
the ringing cry of the old Hebrew
prophets is for reality. for sincerity,
for truth in the inward parts, for
soundness through and through. 1t
is the loud call of the times-in pol
itics, in economics, In the church.
What our country needs today more
than anything else Is men of truth,
men who are not for sale, men who
would no more think Of selling their
vote than they would Of selling their
children.
Young graduates, this I repeat Is
the need of the hour. 1t IS d fine
thing to be rosy at the surface; that's
morality. But it Is a finer thing to
be rosy and ripe at the centre and
that is spirituality. Some One says it
is a grand thing to pray and com
mune with the Saviour, but it is a
grander thing to be true. Great en-
dowments do not make great col
leges. Great buildings do not turn
out great men. You may teach
chemistry and turn out bomb throw
ers. The aim of all culture is char
acter and only truth can give US that.
Just as surely as -four il needed to
make bread so truth is needed to
build up character"