Newark post., 1911-06-21
Commencement Began On Sunday


He illustrated his idea with bit of
personal experience. While conversins
with a friend who had recently cele-
brated a birthday, he remarked upon the
fact that they were both advancing in
the forties, to whic hthe other replied:
''Yes, it exeites me, makes me indignant
to think of it. | am afraid | am not get
ting all ! should out Of life"
The Bishop said he expected to broach
the subject again and talk to his friend
in this wise: Suppose you were about
TO make an investment. You would in
quire about the company, and all the de-
| tails to be sure, but before seriously con-
sidering the returns would you not first
have to settle the question, How much
shall | put into the concern"
Le- these words OF truth and soberness
be the question tina. absorbs each young
life-what shall l put into life for the
ansyer to how much I shall get out, hes
in the prior fundamental question of the
amount to be put in
The proyidential workings of Almighty
God are as inevitable as the law Of
sravtation. Put in broadly, confidently,
earnestly and get all the joys of this
| life and of eternal life. There is no Joy
comparable fol one moment to the JOY
of service. 1t is the great principle up
on which is builded the civilization Of
centuries. Whenever one exclaims with
/ Browning over the wild Joy of living"
We know that one is an earnest worker
somewhere among Gods material world.
Service has been the means by which
| he has been expanded, multiplied, en-
larged, transformed and shot-through-
with divine content and potentiality.
! IN one of Writers sweetest poems
| he talks of the dear delight in doing
/ good" Thus We gain the transcendant
| dignity of living.
| There is a fallacy among men that the
highest place means the place where
| there is nothing to do. In conversing
/ with a business man of sixty, the speak
er was told about the years of hard
! work and the ambition TO retire. Bishop
Anderson sccrned the idea of being past
usefulness at sixty, saying j, man had
only then his best equipment derived
from accumulation of experience and
years of wisdom.
/ The speaker, in closing, beautifully
| tod the story Of The Toiling of Felix.
d
dent In the winter Of 1897. a fragme Mt
of a papyrus book was found in the rub
I bish heaps of Egypt. This single Leaf
contained short sentences itroduced by
/ the words, Jesus says.
| Henry VanDyke with his fertility of
! imagination and versatility of genius, has
| elaborated on one of these:
Raise the stone and thou shalt find Ne;
, Cleave the wood and there am l."
| The poem tells of the Egyptian boy,
! yainly seeking for Inspiration from the
sight OF the face Of Jesus, until he join
ed the brorherhoc1 % labor and served
his fellOwman. The speaker gave the
beautiful closing words as an impressive
summary:
/ This Is. the gosPsl OF Iabour-ring it.
ye tel.s OF the kirk
/ The Lord os Love came down from
| above, to live with the men who
| work.
This is the rose that He planted, here in
the thorn-cursed soil
Heaven is blessed with perfect rest, but
/ the blessing OF Earth is toll"
Almighty God is the greatest toiler of
the universe. "eaTe introduced TO Him
IN Genesis as a mighty, infinite worker.
There is only one condition OF fellow
slip with Him, one means by which We
can make Him our Daily Companion and
Elder Brother earnest work in q worthy
field. Let US labor and make our lives
deep, rich, divine, glorious. Then We
shall have immortality OF influence and
personal immortality with God through
out Eternity.