Arizona republican., 1911-05-29
COURAGE AND CONFIDENCE
Tucson Hears Masterful
Sermon by Episcopal Bish-
op-Crowd Fills Auditor
ium- Speaks of Service
to Church and State.

\ baccalaureate address that will be
| long remembered by the graduating
class of the University of Arizona was
delivered in Tucson last night by the
Rt. Rev ]. w. Atwood, Episcopal
bishop of Arizona. Preaching from the
text. Where there is no vision, the
people perish; but he that keepeth the
law. happy is he" from Proverbs 29-1S,
| Bishop Atwood spoke of the response
4 bilities Of modern life, and of the duty
of living so as to serve both church
and state.
At exactly 7:30 o'clock the gradual
| ing class marched to the auditorium in
| a body. where they took their places
| in regular order The interior was
beautifully decorated with flowers and
class colOrs, and every available
seat was taken. DR.. Arthur II. Wilde,
the president of the university, oc-
cupied a seat on the rostrum with
Bishop Atwood, and the members of
the faculty were present.
Bishop Atwood said:
1t is a great and noble thing to be
glad and willing to die for ones coun-
try. We all feel our blood tingling
and moving more swiftly in our veins.
as we read the story of the Greek youth
who ran all the way from Marathon to
Athens to tell of the victory won which
saved Greece, and fell dead before the
gates of the city with the glad and
eXultant cry upon his lipe: 20. rejoice,
for we rejoice with you; or that 9TH
er youth in a later age. who. in one
of NapoleOn's campaigns. rushed to
tell him of the victory won. The eye
and the cOuntenance Of the great COM
mander shOne with a wonderful light
and glow as he rejoiced in the news
brought him, but looking upon the
young man. he exclaimed. You are
wounded. my boy" Not wounded.
sire. but dying" was the reply, as he
sank dead at the feet of the emperor.
the tragedy Of his own life lost sight
of in the joy that brought triumph to
the army of France.
Every American rejoices and vener-
ates the memory Of those men at San
Antonio, who, a generation ago, re-
peated in the defence Of the Alamo,
the experience of the Spartans at
Thermopylae. until not a single sur
vivor remained to tell the tale; as he
is proud of his own countrymen, the
fame of gallant deeds and heroic sac
rifices wrought in the war of the revo-
luton, and repeated in the great civil
contest, and not lacking i'm the recent
struggle for Cuban freedom. which
shows that the love of liberty, the self
conservation to the fatherland. that
may demand the laying down Of life
itself. is still laten+ within us, and
that courage and sacrifice are not
lacking i'm our own day and generation.
But if il is n duty sometimes TO die
for ones country, we should no. forget
that il is no less a sacred responsible
ty to live for ones country l think we
sometimes forget that living may some
times demand more courage ard self
sacrifice than dying It is compare
lively easy and simple TO face death.
when it is shown to be inevitable and
that God. or country, or duty. demands
the sacrifice. But amid the divisions
of cOunsels. the contradictions Of pur-
poses, the risk of unpopularity and
contempt. the appeal OF money and
power Of sense and pleasure, it is no
easy thing to live straight. clean and
honest lives.
1t was said sometime ago BY a dis
tinguished member of the United States
senate. not upon the floor of that house
where is might well have been said,
that what congress most needs is cour-
age and conscience. We might take
these words for our text and say,-nOt
alone what the representatives of the
people need,-though God knows they
need them sadly enough. but what we
all need. my brothers, are courage and
conscience, not alone to say the right
thing. but to do it.
Are we all in danger in these soft
days. when we have come to be afraid
of pain and suffering, when senti-
mentalism has got possession of the
world. and we are told there is no hell,
no judgment to come. that capital pun
ishment is a relic of barbarism, though
the darkest and most hellish deeds are
committed in the land, are we il, danger
of forgetting that the Supreme Father
| is a God of Justice. as well as of love
and mercy, and that ii is beyond His
power to make wrong. right: that He,
with all his omnipotence cannot do
away with the primal and eternal law
of Nature and of the ages, that what
soever man sows, that shall he ahss
reap
The only tragedy in human life is
| human sin. The only thing that ex-
ialteth nation which is made up of in