The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-06-01

p, e6ed TO examine them, one by one.
I found some of them bubbling ana
boiling with the energy of the action
going on within, literally flashing ana
tuning, but that very energy was all
used up in overcoming the internal
existence. Scarcely enough was be-
ing NJ out, to. move telegrapD'c
needle at close range, and others were
working quietly with scarcely a bub-
Bile. Under the concentration o.
their action and, under the energy
that clnanated from those cells, was
power sufficient to send forth mes.
suge from continent to continent
So with men. Some men work III one
way. some work in another. Big NOR
are generally fussy, generally noisy
generally demonstrative, calling 9th
ers rames. Great men, whether they
be rich or poor IN this worlds goods,
are duicter in thei: action, eentlier IL
their methods. I drew another lesson
from mat battery. After had IN,
proved somewhat the condition in the
case ~ a few of the cells, they were
more fussy than they were efficient.
1t was still not quite satisfactory.
There was one bttery that had been
short circuited; 1t had violated the
laws Of its being; 1t had corrupted IT,
self. 1t was not only to produce the
energy to benefit the world or itself,
but II had interfered with the energy
of the rest. could do nothing else
than to take 1t out. When had time
| took that battery and separated 1t
into its parts and gave 1t thorough
baptism in a cleansing fluid, submit
ted 1t to severe treatment, and after
time 1t was able to do a little in
hat very field in which It had in.
tended to do damage.
Cleanness-I will not say cleanli
ness-cleannes Of thought, cleanness
of aspiration and of action are ele-
ments of greatness, and there never
yet was a great man who was vile.
This is commencement time" AMI
in spite of the objections that are urg-
1 ed by some who call themselves "pur-
ists," do you know I ike the name,-
for verify, indeed, 1t is q season of be.
ginning rather than an ending. It Is
the time at which you begin to 40
that for which you have been so long
preparing, when you are ready to
enter upon the course Of work and not
retire therefrom. But then, what are
all the endings of this life but begin.
nings? What are all our examinations
but commencements? The great con-
mencement, the great examination o!
all, that crowns this life, or that
: which we call death" Is rather 8
commencement than finishing. II is
the entering upon work in another
} school, or the beginning of courses IL
, another grade. And into which schoo
: are you going to take this post-gradu
! ate course SO essential in your work
! Bear in mind that the greatest lesson
of life. after all, are not to be oh
, tanned within college walls. All tina
, there you have learned( all that ther'
you have done, can only be consider
, ID as preparation for the days thu
> are to come.
, Moses, the leader and law giver II
, Israel, received his preliminary edit
7 cation In the palaces of the Pharaohi
: clothed, housed and attended like d
\. became tn son of q king, and hi
|. preliminary education there lasted no
b for four, but forty years, and afte
5 he finished it, he was left, or NOR
strictly speaking, he was driven ava
y from the palace that he might ente
o another school and for another teri
of years, not for four years but 10
(; forty years, he was schooled and trail
/ ed in the University of the Egyptians
d and not until that work was finishe
e was he counted fit to begin; not III
d til after the two terms of forty year
n apiece was he allowed to enter upo
II his work, or rather to hold his con
g mencement, to graduate. For HI
a. work was that of leading natio
X, from bondage, not only bondage (
n serfdom, but from bondage of mir
ID and darkness of heart. 1t was h
,s mission to lead them out and sta
ID them upon the road that should brir
le them back to their God. And v
Is who have been privileged to sper
D, some few years in institutions offe
lie ing great facilities and professir
'e many arts, We, too, are al least reat
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