The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1912-05-24
The Baccalaureate Sermon
HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATING c,Ase

wrong just because we happen to be
nUrtnerners-nor would we CO.., a..
an things English are bad hecsyys 'nat
happen to be Americans-we 1--we we
thereby learn to temper orr snould
with things that are true r. !uu'ces
aroma 0 " nasty judgments of people
inv, I h Us ana OF people in public we
true-uh vi" 20 tnink OF things that are
1f uf e. VIVA; difference it would male
m, .o' instance when Abraham Lincoln
S. as erected president of the Un;ted
th;,,e' tne newspapers had thought of
rnn mes true rather than of the old n,r'
NV pre3udices that many had apainst
fne,: so-called common people. whst
s soons1 errors they would have been
h pa.eu. 1t makes us marvel when we
, .La 10. tnat even the leaders of his times
nv Lincoln incompetent-does i
not warn us for our own timesS T.
IS not the things that we hanner -
IKE or dislike it is not the littIe m,n
Mel!snh nor Is it the palitable f]atterv
tndt we should think of in iudo;ng
men, especially our leaders. Ief ms
earn 70 think OF the things about that
man that are true. What has he dow
l-what kind of character has he
what does he believe-these are The
facts that show the man. ~ TIC
| And not only would such an ,.+;4,d.
eowaru Things true free US as far as
secular matters are concerned. but i
would free us also as far as RELIGIOUS
lhatters are concerned. Sometimes we
ACT as IT our religion could not stand
tne hight OF the truth. But after ali
sNenglon IS true # it is worth anything.
NO scientific discovery, no theorvS
none OF these things can DESTROY our
rengion. We used to be afraid that
evolution was destroying the Bible
put we seemed to forget that the BIZ
PIE contaiped the whole truth of which
these little discoveries of man were
: Out parts. Experience will ever re-
veal to US new facts about life. but
the new facts that man discovers car
never change the eternal facts thai
t GOD has created. And this leads US to
another side of the things that are
t true, that We must learn to take into
S accou mt it we are to be sound philoso.
n pliers. There are spiritual facts
e there are eternal facts-these thing:
}. OF the soul and of God and of the
S hereafter are as the facts of time anc
e space are-and we must learn to thinl
+ on them honestly. In fact the revealed
4 truths are even more important in :
d right understanding of life than ar,
r the things Of the senses. There ar,
things that have come to us directly
o from God that should play great dea
3 larger part in our lives than any o
r. the things that come from man. N,
n child ever found by searching jus
e where his love for his mother, or hi
e longing for home came from-no
= has any man ever found out from
whence his sense of right and wron,
- or his dependence on God come
}. These are immediate revelations to tn
q soul of the individual but they ar
e facts nevertheless and they are a
al they are. Think then on things tina
a are true-starting with life as you Sc
'e it and it will lead you back to you
lie Utmost self and to God and you wi
m have by such thoughts the foundatio
E. for the wisest of all PHILOSOPHERS an
le the foundation of some of the bes
a. characteristics man can acquire.
~ Whatsoever Things are Honest.
IS And one of these characteristics
re set forth at the next station that W
I'd are to visit. Whatsoever things al
honest The honest and the true al
shoots of the same root. Honesty
re- truth in action. The man that is tru
must show forth that truth in pract
-. cal honesty. The man who know
!. how to represent a fact, will not II
-. to make thing appear what it is no
~ If we have really thought on thing
accounts to make them seem differel
he from what they really are-that is NJ
a. honest. Oh how we need honesty
ne our daily lives-honesty in bushes
~ What lack of it there is on all side
IT Embezzling, forging, misrepresent
ne ton of goods, Misrepresentation
he mines, of lands and of many 9th
he things, these are not the offspring
ali truth-these are not honest:
rel For every one of US the honest W;
of is the best. In the home we must
re honest with one another. How ca
to wander here. The father is n
lily honest with the boy and soon he b
er- lost his sons confidence and he q
US serves to-there is no need OF
AZ. in the relation of father and son. I
,ur the wife wants to spend more than h
to husband is making and he will not I
he but let's her 60 on in blindness-tl
om is not domestic honesty. And NJ
we hard il is for the doctor and the nul
&C. always to think on things that
honest. We so often think It Is I
be- pedient to tell a lie; but how rar'
ing do we think OF the larger consequent
ess of that lie-the lessened self-respe
arm the lessened confidence on the part
in others-the weakened integrity OF
ire. ciety generally.
pie Things that are honest are the or
ing bulwarks that are supporting socie
be- The truly honest man is the truly or
his social reformer. What our soci,
are needs is not more leaders--not
avs men who arc fred with the sense
he the nations sins--what we need y
ro- host of men with this sense OF hone
nts firmly rooted. Honesty is the 3
ngs ooi;rv II il hest of the mdivid