Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-06-12
CLASS OF III
GIVEN ADVICE
Seniors Hear Sermon by
Rev. Dr.. William E. Palmer
Last Night.
life" HIS SUBJECT
interesting illustrations TO
the Coming Graduates OF
the Local High School

Life" was the subject spoken
upon by William Z. Palmer, Ph. D.,
in his baccalaureate sermon to the
graduating class of the high school
In the Simpson NJ. E. church last
night He took for his text, What
is Your Life" from James, IA. He
gave remarkable instances of sudden
and unexpected things in life, illus
trating the thought of the sacred
writer when he uttered the words OF
the text He went on to show the
uncertainties of life and asked,
What is your life?"
He said no one knows what life is,
but 1t is one of the great forces Of
the universe, known only by results
or in its expression. Life in express
sion has the differentialities of the
| living animated form from the cold
! inner clay. I'VE only know life as
We find 1t expressed and worked out.
Every one of US in his physical life is
/ made up Of what he has eaten and
| drunk in the past and so in the in
! tellectual life, life is made up of
what We think and do. Life Is the
resultant Of your doing that which
| becomes a part of you. Everything
you do is woven as a web in your
| life"
Gives Illustrations.
| The pastor went on with illustra-
tfons and said "A rod set up and put
in motion soon produces sound. Heat
and light and what else We have not
sense to perceive, we know not. A
little child placing a hand on a hot
stove gets burned badly, but an ex-
perienced person takes it away. The
musician begins laboriously, but in
times acquires ability with ease to
execute more than a hundred sepa-
rate orders second, until music be-
| comes part of his very being. So
what We do becomes more readily
done till 1t becomes a part of US and
answers the question, What is Your
| Life" What we think, we are. If
we may not always be what we
think we are and this result of our
| doing and thinking becomes cumula
tive and fixed and crystalizes into
character determining your life and
becomes an answer to the text.
| 1t is for you to determine what
your life Is to be. You may make it
what you will. One of the services
is to be a blessing to mankind in
| contrast to life of ease and center
ing of self-indulgence. The ore of
the earth may be made to castings
worth penny or two pound, or TO
rails or tool steel thirty, sixty dol
lars or even more pound, to high
duty tools or cambria needles worth
more, or to delicate hair springs of
watches and other purposes wherein
it becomes valued at thousands of
dollars a pound.
Acquiring Of Truth.
Zone of the real secrets Of success
Is preparation when the hour of op-
portunity strikes. There is scarcer
greater Joy than of acquiring truth
In its widest and best sense and i'm
parting 1t to others. I speak to Won
young men and young women enter
ing upon life's glorious opportuni-
ties, full Of hope and promise, In a
! day when peace and promotion of
peace rather than the sight of the
battlefield Is in the air. l do not
covet for you achievement on the
| bloody battlefield, so much as a VIC
tory in the fight of best human en-
deavor. There Is no hope on this
side for the boy lying dead in his
uniform, but measurably for the boy
ready to step forth and do his share
| in making this earth a place of
peaceful labor and happy life.
| Il want to talk to you out of my
heart and wish for you a long and
happy life that may be strewn with
roses in which you may find few
thorns, but you will meet with sur
prises and disappointments; but If
| rightly accepted they will develop
and perfectuate. Reverence God,
womanhood and all life in all your
dealing with fellowmen, be fair. Re
member a rule that is golden. Play
| fair and do right. A wrong never
paid in the end and so many have
tried it that l recommend you to do
the right and reap its rich reward l
shall be glad at any time our paths
may cross in life to have you speak
to me and tell me how you are work
ing out the question of this text and
remember this:
Who Faulters Fails Though he
Touch the Prize,
Who Strives his Utmost Wins
Though Dead He Lies"
Members OF Glass.
| The members of the class of 1911
| al IiCISn DdI agnes
| Brown, Elizabeth Brown, Margaret
Booz, Florence Ciani, Thressa eager,
Edith Gallagher, Dorothy Goldber-
ger, Sarah Goldstein, Ruth Heg-
strom, Kathryn Herbert, Esther
Loyenberg, C. E. L'Hommedleu.
Honora A. Martin, Eleanor Meade.
Mary Mcintyre, Grace O'Brien. Lydia
Oksen, Clara Petersen, Dorothy
Sher, Lille Singer. Marguerite
Strandberg, Mollie Roth, May Tighe
and Margaret Wight. w. Gerald
Barnes, Victor E. Benish, J. Scott
Burns, Edward Dreibelbies, Alvin
Jacobson, Harry Levine, Joseph Mas
sopust, Earl Mullins, Francis Nc
Cormtck, Fred O'Brien, John Pfeif-
| fer, Kenneth Pierson, John Pollen
sky, Hans Roessler, George Seaman.
| Harry Schwartz, c. Hallam Skeen,
Wallace Sofield, William Wilson and
Russell Woglom.