The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-06-20
POINTS WAY TO HIGHER LIFE
Annual Sermon Preached at the High
School Auditorium Opens Week Of
School Activities to Cu1minate With
Commencement on Friday Evening.


possible usefulness in life the Rev.
Peter Stair Pastor Of Park avenue
M. E. church delivered the annual bac-
calaureate sermon to the students OF
the senior class Of the Kenosha high
school at the high school auditorium
on Sunday evening.
1t was the opening event Of the
week Of commencement and the days
of this week will be busy ones for
the students and their friends. On
Wednesday afternoon the annual class
day exercises will be held at the
high school auditorium and on Thurs
day evening the members of the SEN
Nor class will give the annual class
play at the Rhode Opera House. On
Friday evening the annual commence
ment exercises will be held and the an
nual address win be delivered by Prof.
r. l.. Lyman of the University of Wis
consin.
The baccalaureate service is being
made every year more Of feature
and large crowd gathered at the
high school for the annual sermon.
Mr. Stair said in part:
In congratulating this graduating
class upon the fact that you have fin
ished your course Of study in the pub
lie schools l would simply remind you
of the purpose of it all. You have
been learning to think. Education is,
in the main part, a development of the
mental faculties. 1t is not cram
ming process, by which the brain is
made to serve as a repository for the
reception of various facts. You have
not been learning to know SO much as
learning to think.
Even from a material and com
mercial standpoint, the thinker s
chances for success are multiplied
many fold Little thinking is done
by many toilers. Some have had nc
opportunity to improve themselves
many are too lazy. It's hard work to
think. Employers can't hire brains
for $1,25 day. They hire "hands. =
An old man in explaining how he put
in mis- time, said; Sometimes I sets
and thinks, and sometimes just
sets. Some toilers work and think
and some just work.
But life is more than meat. Gov
Russell of Mass, once said: There is
an everlasting difference between
making living and making life.
That is true, there is however, a close
relation between the two Many are
failing to make a worthy life, because
for one reason or another, they are not
successful in making a good living
Many succeed in making good living
plus, and fail miserably in making 6
good life. 1t is true that as mar
thinketh so, in large measure is his
business, his trade, his livelihood, bu
our proposition is that as a man think
eth, so is he, he himself is the mail
consideration.
81 This is true physically. A mar
may not by taking thought add one
cubit to his stature, but he can by
taking thought add red corpuscles tc
his blood vigor to his nerves, health
to his body, light to his eye and
character to his countenance.
This is true socially and morally
The law, that the thoughts of a people
determine what they are and do, is
written large in the history Of the
nations of the earth. The greatest
inpediments to the progress of the
human race have been false thinking
erroneous views of the great eterna-
and fundamental truths of life
Christ said; You know the truth and
the truth shall make you Free In the
broadcast sense this is true. The
more truth a man knows and ap
plies, the freer he becomes.
Man is fashioned by his ideals. IL
the being who thinks the ideal is both
a mental and a practical necessity
Intelligence is inquiring, vision-seeing
The ideal is creative. The picture Of
higher truth, a worthier life, fnel
work is an enemy to ease and indiffer
ent peace.
Thinking of itself does not make
character. Aaron Burr was more
brilliant thinker than his grandfather
Jonathan Edwards, But Edwards wa.
a saint and Burr traitor. AS mar
thinketh. Choose your thoughts
Make for yourselves a thought-world
whatever your task, whatever your en-
vironment may be, thought-world
beautiful, rich and splendid. \