The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-29
Rev. Chas. Nj. SheldOn's Sermon
to High School Graduates.
Warns Them Against One Sided
-, Development.
1Lnnn,c uNIVERSITY.o
GOODS UNIVERSITY
He Gives His Idea OF what IL
Should Be.
Importance of Labor In OaiiS
Life.

"rhe reason why there are not more
interesting people in the world ue-
clared DIR. Charles NJ. Sheldon IN tIie
course of the class sermon on Gou
TTniversitv" delivered before the seiI
Tors Of the high school Sunday morning
sis because so many people are
tent with a one-sided deVelopiIIieAi.. +be
What is an education! II ~ -
right development in the right olrec-
ton all the time of the Wnole pe.S
for the nrrpose of giving him as Inucl n
life as possible for himself anu u Sii''-
with others. nj -, he ,,,usi-
clans and nothing else but musicians,
They are willing to be newspaper me-
and nothing but newspaper mel MI
They are willing to be lawyers 90
nothing but lawyers. ana 80 and
range of thinking, of conversation 90 a.,
Of sction is limited. True educatioiti
taxes into account a whole being WIZ WIZ
MANY different possibilities a me Milto+ -
has in it the elements OF surprIe 10y, @l.S
an eagerness to know eVerytnlilS Ior1d
can he known about very great VIZ VIZ
in order 10 sympathize with ana enlet
into the thought so far as possible VI
ali sorts and conditions OF men.
Now with this thought of an eouca-
tion in mind, we go to school %
say; and we begin TO learn o. r educa-
which the school offers. Our ~,
tionaI system in America provinces a
1aTge variety from the grades up
through the university and the spec go
training schools; vast nurlDer -,
Ahcts for study is offered the sIuueIIt .
T5ts oil this system the one great
thing which is always OF suprente ,, ia
nortsnce is the teacher. MODERN puhu-
ings do not make grammar scIl p1-'l'.ote
high schools Brick, mortar, colI II 80
TThe only real factor which the thous!it..
mi student takes into account Is Ii4e
man or woman who is teacnlhs' .
"The greatest factor in the universe
is God himself. -. e oo1,-
+t,iro annroaching the familiar to say
,1otbipg Of the irreverent, we may SPEAK
nf the university of God and consloer
ourselves each ore as entitled 70 enIe s
this university, and place ourselves IN
der the instruction Oh one Mlo stands
Ioftilv in his power ana VINO status %'Iu.9
ready to teach his children in the mos mos
wonderful manner the most WonueTIul
things which we need to know. Who
is a teacher like unto MN
- rho Lesson of Life.
"Rut suppose we enter this Univer-
si+v If God, in a course which is not
prescribed by the public sch0oIs'
which is not found in the curriculum
of any school or university IN the e,, AZ
course and what are the lessons "nlcIl
cod can teach, and which he alone
does teach to those who enter thls
IT think the first lesson learned in
Gods university is the fact that lie is
q very great and wonderful thing; that
II is we'll worth living, and that II
should be lived with the greatest pos
sible amount of joyous enthusiasm
purity and power. M,
''The second lesson which GOO VIII
teach in his great school is that every
human being faces only two things
continually; and faces them with the
power continually to choose. THESE
two things are simply good and bad
right and wrong, life and death. rms
is q primary lesson in the divine uni
versity. 49,. 49,.
conscious existence, that minute We
have thrust upon us the fearful re-
eponsibility and privilege of choosing.
Row no one can choose to be either
Fich or distinguished at will. No one
can deliberately choose to be king or
an emperor or a president of repub-
lie and expect his choice to be fulfilled.
Vast numbers of things like these are
far beyond the reach of our choice,
but when IT comes to the choosing of
the most vital things in life, every hu-
man being has it in his power. There
is not a person in this room at this
minute who can not deliberately
choose from this very minute to serve
y God the rest of his life with all his
heart.
Uses of Labor.
"The third lesson that this immacu-