Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1912-05-23
BAccALAUREATE SERMON.

The Emma Theatre was not large
enough 10 hold the crowd that desir-
ed admittance" last Sunday evening,
the occasion being the baccalaureate
sermon by Rev. Henry Van EngeleB.
The theatre had been artistically de-
corated by the Juniors the class
motto Character not Fame" being
prominently displayed. The singing
directed by Prof Nelson was especial
/ ly pleasing.
Rev. Van Engelen took for his
subject Symmetrical Life" ard for
his text John 1910 and dealt with
vital truth in a wholesome manner
that pleased both the class and the
audience. Rev. Van Engelen said in
part
When we boast of our fertile val
ley and our wonderful fruit crops,
let us not forget that our best and
most valuable crop consists of our
well-trained young people who year
by year graduate from our public
schools. Our greatest richest come
not from our harvest fields, our or
chards, our mines or our forests, but
our real wealth clusters around our
schools, our churches and our Y. NJ.
C. As, for these are the institutions
where mind and heart are trained an
they supply the pure gold of char
acter which is the greatest asset in
the world. Your clan motto is cor
rect, "Build for character not for
fame"
MAN is endowed with a three
fold nature, the physical the intel
lectual and the spiritual. To be
fully alive he must realize a sym
metrical development of all his Cod
given faculties and powers. To be
physically weak is a serious hGndl-
cap. Every one should strive to
be as healthy and strong in body
as it is possible for him TO be. Not
only should we avail ourselves OF
physical culture and athletics during
school life but we should cultivate
such habits of physical care that we
shall all through life maintain the
highest possible state of physical
well-being."
But fine physique unless accom-
panied by a well-trained, cultured
mind raises man but little above
the level of a brute. Hence a course
of study is mapped out for us, be-
ginning with the very elementary /
in the kindergarten and becoming
more difficult each year as we ad-
vance in the grades. Therefore in i
High School the difficult problems in |
mathematics must be mastered and
we must wrestle with those perple1-
ing idioms and troublesome trans
lations in the languages. This Is
not in order that we may have an
fund of information or
that we may become walking en-
cyclopaedias, but that we may have
well trained mind, knowing how TO
acquire information on any subject
and knowing also how to use the
when acquired"
But we may have a fair know
ledge of mathematics and Language
es and physical sciences and stil
our education may be sadly incom-
plete. Man is not only a physical
and an intellectual being but he is
also a spiritual being, and as such
he stands at apex Of the pyramid OF
life. able to commune with the God
in whose image he was created ana
in whom he lives and moves and mas
his being. If therefore his spiritual
life is left undeveloped he can not
live a full-orbed life, but is ill-oal-
anced. narrow. weak and superficial
and comes far short of living the
harmonious and symmetr--
cal life in harmony with the plans
Of his Creator"
''The end of all this physical in
tellectual and spiritual training Is
that we may render the best posi-
bile service. for service is the true
and only test of greatness. Ana
since we stamp our character upon
everything we do the value Of TINS
service which we may render viii be
largely determined by the quality oi
character we possess. When BAD
man does a good thing he eyne mars
the good he does by his evil char-
acter. Therefore above everything
make sure of a good character.
pREssYTERIAN CHURCH.