The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-06-03
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8 sss,ate University Holds Forty
asp
" |, third Annual Service in
f' II Assembly Hall.
! .TTENDANCE IS LARGE
Raccalaureate Sermon by Rev.
IF. G. Brainerd and Music
. Are Features.
|11t.TTENDANCE Is LARGE

pjgnlficd and impressive were the cx-
Uses of the forty third annual COM
Sncement baccalaurcate service of the
uJlversity Of Utah, held last night in
NP assembly hall, beginning at Sit
iock.
Two solos by Mrs. Margaret Tout
ppning. who sang Tostrs Good bye
~ "Jesns, Lover OF My Soul" were
lures of tho service, and the bac-
Rureate sermon by the Rev. Frank
sanother. Mrs. Browning sang most
pbfully In great, round voice, and
h impressive expression and simple
y Zee. Squire Coop acted as accompan-
,Ieated In the first nine rows of tho
nter OF the auditorium were the young
IN and women OF the college class and
Fl normal students. Ranged in the pull
~ were members Of the university fac
M, together with the following named
= minent citizens: Anthon II, Lund,
per ]. Grant Lafayette Holbrook,
Hammond, S. r. Thurman, Richard
Morris. w. w. Ritter and Mathoniah
,ffnas. Tho assem- bly, hall was well
"a by an appreeiatlve audience.
tdience Sings America"
Syresident Hugh j. Cannon OF Liberty
'ke offered the invocation. and Prof.
ron Cummings pronounced the bene-
Hon. Near the close Of the service
Y audience, standing, sang America" "
p baocalanreate sermon by the Rev,
"Why the Unlversity-Her IMAM
9erable Argument" He took for his
~, "And Jehovah said unto Aoram-
Il thee out OF thy country. and from
" Kindred, and from thy fathers house,
b the land that will show thee. and
thou a blessing. Genesis 10; 1, =
part, the sermon was as follows.
r'Of all the facts revealed to us in
ke tale OF poet or historian. none is
q more unique interest than the ,
. }ernal truth threading the romantic
,.tpry OF Abrams great decision. Be-
tsnd him lay the camp of his father.
. Tn flocks and herds. with house
re him stretched the vast unknown.
GO. promise OF God and the hope OF
4. Hfviduality OF life.
y pth 8 Critical Hour.
III is critical hour is tho life Of
y nth when the call first is heard
t,lprove the worth Of being his faith
II son by using that Inheritance
y the establishment OF his own In
,nduallty. In the lack OF college
Ills. Abram sought his schooling in
- university Of nature, and for in
POI tts- .'f no ''Da 'a0 spirit Oh Lie III
.cjFe may well mark the similarity
proce6ure in the life OF a univer-
|, boy Of later years, He had been
y n in city on the shore OF the
er lat sea HIS childhood was spent
crying on the long beach and watch
1T the ships come in from all the
nFizon where the circles Of blue
"a tmed 10 touch.
les lay beyond the blue lines he
no-rame possessed OF a longing to
pw life. The horizon called him,
q after his studies in his own city
went 10 the distant city Of Jeru-
5Iem, and there became the pupil OF
~ only liberal teacher OF the day,
@ezkmaliel. For him life and howi-
I. s 6sds. e an' happiness ever had no
teeptional Men.
'ssLn this age OF the word we still
~ Fe exceptional men who, like
EsFam, find themselves and their
e6ion without the direct help Of
~ universities, We also have men
Ito. like Paul. are Inspired and
n~eipped 20 Incompatible usefulness
lsssH greatness by their university
NN-.Nning. Because certain degrees OF
~ minccess, particularly In commercial
90 60 are attainable without education,
NV because some university grad
lnr tes seem impracticable in the midst
the mechanical necessities OF life,
has pleased a number OF people to
ige tho rule by the exceptions. and
discount the worth and utility OF
. ,{her education.
:, pne may well be proud of having
;Isrs hieved results without an educa-
- ! n, one may well be proud Of the
= ,Hity TO get much out OF life with
.u.It eyeSight. But the blind man will
o. a. boast of his ipfirmity and count
y. tho loss never to have seen rose,
&c iBet or the faces of those he loves.
.ops the day will yet come when the
.ssr who mas surpassed bis limlta-
,,,bsanB will no longer boast OF what ne
~ IS not know and enter a defense
,ls y 1gnorance.