Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1912-06-10
GIVES ADVICE
TO GRADUATE ES
Class of IL of High School
Hear Excellent Sermon in
Presbyterian Church.
BY REV. ]. H. N0RTHRUP
85 Per Cent. Select Wrong
Occupations Because They
Choose Without Visions.
" REV. ]. H. NORTHRUP

ana your daughters bnOil pGODuS Sc
your young men shall see visions, 3"
from Joel 2:28, Rev. James H.
Northrup delivered an interesting
and appreciated baccalanreate ser
mon to the class of 1912 Of the
Perth Amboy high school last night
at the First Presbyterian church.
When there is no vision the peo-
pie perish" Rev. Mr.. NoTthrup said
in conclusion, and urged every mem
Der of the graduating class of the
local institution to go out into this
world with a vision, OF an uplifting
and helpful nature. The class as
sembled In the ladies' room of the
church and marched in a body to
sittings directly In front Of the pull
pit.
Miss Blanche Grieve played a vio-
lin solo, by Offenbach, and Fred
BRIGGS sang a baritone solo, Praise
to Thee Glorious Father" The choir
sang an anthem, THE Lord is My
Light" in pleasing manner.
Sermon in Part.
Rev. Mr.. Northrup gave a prayer
for the class of '12 and then spoke
in part as follows:
the telephone to your chest and be
distinctly heard at the other end OF
the wire. In fact any part of the
body will with more or less clearness
transmit the sound. Certain lower
animals have no specialized parts,
any part will do for eye ear or stom-
ach. Specialization is only tempo
rary means of efficiency. 1t ulti-
mately becomes diffused Acquired
characteristics are not transmitted
from generation to generation.
'To lay another stone upon a pyr
amid you must lay a whole row
around the base and up the sides.
The superman must help the mira
man. The overman must lift the
underman. This world cannot con-
tinue to be very good place for
anybody unless 1t is a pretty good
place for everybody.
1--WE specialize an instrument for
general use and general welfare,
Concentration is for later expansion
and diffusion; focus is ultimately for
radiation; essence for dilution; we
get the extract from a lemon that
we may flavor a dozen pies and as
many dishes of ice cream, large
quantity Is favored.
This principle of specialization
for diffusion is seen in politics, art,
religion and education"
''In religion, the first process of
which we are aware Is Gods un-
folding, revealing AMI expressing of
himself. 1t Is like the unfolding of
tree from the concentrated seed.
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periphery of the foliage is the
breath, the lungs, the heart of the
tree. The vitals are in the EXTERN
ity Of the diffusion. God is most
manifest in the extreme point of his
creation.
Evident in Education.
"This principle of diffusion is
very evident in education From the
time of the education of only priests
and princes to this time when knowl-
edge is generally diffused. we see the
working Of this tend -ncy. And the
greatest means Is the public school.
Electricity was known at first
only in the lightning and recorded
by the thunder. Now we know that
1t Is everywhere. So Gods spirit is
not only transcendent, but imman-
ent and omnipresent.
Mature abhors a vacuum, de-
spises a monopoly and confiscates a
horde.
"The prophet Joel (2:28) an
nounces the same principle in relig-
| ion. Gods spirit shall be poured out
upon all classes, both sexes. You
have had visions, my dear young
men and young women, moments
Of illumination. If you have not,
do not think l am beating the air
but rather understand that you must
be deficient, examples of arrested
development.
"These are your most precious
gifts do not let them fade like an
old mans dream. Build up your
visions, clothe them with forms of
thought, speech and act. We may
get them from the Bible, book of
revelation. We may get them from
poetry. Henry James says Shell
ley is a light, Swinburne is sound,
Browning is an atmosphere.
Vision Makes Life Successful.
"Vision makes life understand
able and Interesting. Vision is like
map to location In geography.
Vision makes life successful. Eighty
| five per cent choose wrong occupa-
tons That Is because they choos9
without vision, but begin what will
pay best at the start, then find it ex-
pensive to change. Vision Will keep
man faithful when others give up.
Vision sees things coming, otherwise
| they are seen going. Live up to
your present growth, your present
faith. So and only SO do you take
the next straight step forward. Wis
ion makes life happy. 1t gives cour
age, which almost alone gives hap
piness. Circumstances cannot take
away your vision. 1t is Joy in con-
/ temptation. 1t gives an apprecia-
tion that opens to continuing joy,
in the words of the poetess:
"'As when a cloud its
silver face doth show,
A flower look up
Or blossom start to grow"
"And vision makes life eternal.
It is the opposite of the exaggerated
ego. 1t is the contradictory of sell
fshness. 1t is a positive starching
opposed to personality. Vision gets
man out Of himself. Vision
causes the personality more and
more to subside. When a man tries
to push his personality at me to sell
his wares, want to drive him out
Of my room as l would a snake.
am not willing to let his personality
count for anything at all, but his ar