The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1912-06-21
FIELD, THE WORLD;
BACCALAUREATE TEXT
REV. +. E. OGLE DELIVERS MES
SAGE TO GRADUATES

Occupation and Vocation. Chris
tia nity's Program to Enthrone
Love in Human Heart. World
Glowing Better.
Iiord, what wilt thou have me
to tlo?-Acts 9:6.
Qbme over into Macedonia and help
u$ Acts 16:9.
frhe field is the world.-Matthew
1888.
kThese line constituted the text
ffom which Rev. +. E. Ogle preach
III his baccalaureate sermon to the
Qlio High School graduating class
Ast Sunday evening, and most
ntorceful message it was which he
ydelivered to the young men and wo-
men about to engage in earnest in
nthe battle of life.
II! is wonderful thing to be in
rested with a God-given intelligent
ife" said Rev. Ogle at the outset.
II is the all-importanl thing to
make an Intelligent God-directed in
Eestment Of that life. Living souls
ndowed with the capacity and
power To become like unto God. to
e given lives 10 save, TO invest, or
b waste and lose calls for a steady
ing hand of infinite wisdom and
every young man or woman VINO
desires 10 be true TO the highest pur-
poses of his or her life will seek a
vision of eternal truth and infinite
wisdom 10 guide them into all truth
as it stands related to the invest
ment OF life or rather as the invest
ment Of life stands related to the
\highest purposes of God
after touching on Pauis response
Ae---n form Macedonia after he
Yhad sought to know what the Lord
would have him do and receiving
the word that "the field is the
world, the speaker said that to
each active soul there sooner or lat
cr came a similar call and if this
soul has caught the world vision OF
Christ he will not fail to respond,
for "the first and supreme object
of every life should be to do the
will of 'Our Father who art in Heav-
en- and TO earnestly seek to know
what He would have us to do should
be the yearning desire of every
1Qul. .., ,,,o.,
o run athwart the purposes of
;iod for the happiness, the success
and the value of life all depend up
ON keeping in step with the lnfi-
mite. keping in touch with the pull
sating life of the great heart of the
Father, keeping in tune with the
harmonious workings of universal
law, especially the laws of God
which were given by the great law
giver, who fulfilled in himself all
prophecy and all law, and
the great law which he gave to the
world is the law Of universal love.
There has been law different
from this which has been opera
tive in the world and has governed
the kingdoms of this world to
very large extent. II is the law of
sclfishness and is somewhat an abb
rogated form of the great command
ment and might be given "Thou
shalt have no other God except
|ihyselfl Thou shalt set up they de-
kires, thine appetites and bow down
O them" These laws govern the
kingdoms of earth that have been
et up on lies, thrickery, injustice
nd cruelty. They have governed
the Kingdom of cruelty as set up
Herod; in the kingdom of force
SET up by Caeser, in the king
m Of ambition as set up by Ma
Ion and still retain Pickering
~ in the present day tactics of
ne e6litjci2Rs who will bribe, de-
We cajole and flatter to obtain
es. These kingdoms have per-
ed as will every work that is not
God, for he labors in vain who
rks not i'm harmony with the Bi-
he plan of the ages"
speaking of the foundation for the
ilding of "the temple beautiful,
'. Ogle quoted "Not my will but
as the cornerstone and con-
said: "To him who would
upon the rock, to him who
make permanent contribu- I
the world, to him who would
his life into the fabric of the
knant social structure. LET him