Little Falls herald., 1913-05-30
ADDRESSED STUDENTS
REV. I. L. HARRIS GIVES EXCEL
LENT TALK TO GRADUATES
SUNDAY EVENING

Rev. L. L. Harris of the Methodist
Episcopal church delivered the
baccalaureate sermon to the high
school graduates at the court house
auditorium Sunday evening. The room
was filled to the doors and extra seats
were necessary to accommodate the
audience.
After the sermon the students were
presented with the same in printed
form, as remembrance Of the occas-
ion. The sermon as delivered by Rev.
Harris follows: "
The Book of Proverbs is a book of
maxims and friendly counsels for young
ever. a man had earned the right to
speak on the subject am and aqXlse yss yo9tH
ethics and a book on history. He was
merchant, n'amutaGtarer an r;oht o5 M nnIis lie
built and ruled an empire. Having
a hroqgh the Soa Of Of
counsels. gS sci i Calling @ th.e youth Of his time
bsfSre him. he fs canenr them Gw %%srt they Ss
1eff @fht off, Gespc character sasc cats % frend
erea en9a by H9nH foiowing @ t8e the ADVICE Of this
point 0 Success depends entirely upon
SGom SnSs for Ss him. %hef %he temps E6 Of IS
always crowded, but there is room for
the man who has a gift. Get ,, y31r e3
% strong ma1 Your snyar ser es M poe%s
viii come Get your Edison. theus-
and inventions arrive, Get you, Ste, Ste.
vensOn, the novels and essays Svlli HOW
in
ization we trace history and fin.i, 10 the the
Of Of" government %ts 1a9 e's we find Moses t.,iiing
with his gift for law-making. When
we gaze upon the wonderful archi tee
and find the great architect and scu.'p-
tor standing in the quarry. For the re-
6eS6d Se artist fT9 with the the @
When God wants to do ething for
ram fGsey Ms sG It s
out like rivers to enrich the land. -
His gift maketh room for him and he
man with gift. Obscurity cannot hide
him, barriers cannot prevent him, exile
room for Moses in Egypt, so he tended
t he sheep in the desert. but Moses had a
1T for law and se and ne
m ade room for him in the palace and he
ST. 'od before the king of Egypt. and today
s cour}s 9s Of the a% aed Of fs
ant ana I empesors: The II 'y youth David had
Sit and nd by y,;, sweet song he could charm
stooe before the, king. There was no
sSsm MssyS Ea esSs sSn IN had the inn e at Bette H.
men 11t" live Hs knew the paths that
lead to peace and prosperity. His
music was world music. And so they
made Dom for Him, and 10, all the
Kings Il the earth, the kings, Of. in
telect and b! beauty and goodness do
begins q. child in a mine but he had
on her Il Zone Of Influence.
a Rae' {a H a %sS SrGbs So pofE 9t 6 i've s
Sn bnt t%elhe he he, gift % ana $ he toled on until
of England !. Oliver Goldsmith wore a
blanket for coat, having first cut two two
holes for hi :. arms: he slept in barrel IRE
and poor al i'd friendless, living on
crust a day, wrote immortal verse. and
Goldsmith is not called upon to stand be-
fore. mean m. IN. These and others with
a gift have tormed their way up the
heights of diff, iculty until they stood be-
fore kings Fo one man with a gift can
enrich and glo rify his generation: A re-
hundred million is of people. Bring. one
hundred Milo, , stones together they
make fence. ome people seem to think
miilion ifi 'e Stones ; there will be, SO
less a"y there aa"peot be tn, diamond or ruby ma
ture in the stones and one hundred NIL
lions of people ma We great republic only
possessed of diane md-like qualities.
In these commen cement days we with
eager and strained look gaze earnestly
on the faces Of or; .duates to discover if
possible the indiVid, nal with a gift; the
FIT in eloauence or poetry or intellect or
art or liberty, for ,ome genius proph-
esying new era for THE generation. But
the gift is first Of al received from God
and ones parents: VI 1hether the gift be
large or small it was freely committed to
your hands, success / ,egins with asking
ones self this Guesti, IN: What is my
Gift, and how can I j invest it so as to
make the most out of It for myself and
my fellowmen? That W i'll be the way of
usefulness and happines s. OF course, the
youth with the new m essage. the new
art, the new reform, tt le new merry
must need have courage Men are I'M
therefore is self-relianct }, self-mastery,
With SSith'euSw one's own SOU soul, sS nov Walking the
cehauers himself" The w ", ,rld has never
should be on the watch fc r the coming
of the youth with a new vision. For
nothing is more certain tn: IN that we
cannot create genius. Mi ners do not not
create gold, they uncover it. Men 90 not
manufacture rubies, emeral Is and dla-
mOnds, they find them. Abili ty Is gift.
ScEcOl and college can chan &c the size
Gf your talent but not it's sort. Educauon
simply develops the seedlike ia cuit1es and
hugs them forth to trair 5ul I estate.
The man with a message is = free gift
from Cod God has not spent H imself and
somewhere there is a youth wi tn mes
sage Of happiness and liberty for the
people.
Your gift determines influenc, IS and
we have here the secret Of influ ence and
remembrance Every man makes his own
world What YOU give to society society
will give back to you When II ,e child
goes into the mountains and lifts up Its
voice and cries aloud the mount ain re-
turns the same cry that the chile ! gave
If the child filings out an oath, al oath
the mountain cliff filings back. If tht
! child gives out a song from cliff tC
cliff the song is tossed. and re turns
multiplied score of times Have \ ,Ou {
gift? Well, give it to society and SO
ciety will return it to you in good n leas
ure. The husbandman has seed an HI
gives it to the soil and the soil retur rs {
shock. The miner has gift of a 3icl
and he gives it to the ground and th'
ground returns the coal and iron ore t.
inventor has d gift in the form of al
engine and the water and the fire ret, r1
the gift by carrying the load. Y