The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-26


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TO you young people of the gradu-
ating class, let me say that you will go
out into life from your alma mater with
one of two views. You will either see
the world as an appalling place of
mysterious and inexoriable forces; your
life will be empty of all inspiration and
as time goes on you will submit more
and more to the reign of the senses
and become a pessimist; or else you
will go through the rest of your life
seeing the beautiful things of the
world. and the holy. Everything you
come in contact with will appear sacred
in a certain sense and your entire life
will become transfgured by a divine
glory.
1--WE preach, and write. and talk of
truth, and yet truth is term which is
probably the hardest in the world to
analyze. No definition as long as th-
world has lived has ever been given
for truth. 1t is something that cam
not be defined with a mere definition of
words and yet in that immensely dra-
matte spectacle when the trial of the
Gallileean took place in that historic
hall of Judgment and the Savior was
asked what was truth the answer has
come down to us through the ages.
There is only one definition of truth and
that is a life; truth can be found only
in Jesus
Science travels road of darkness and
the end is nowhere; philosophy goes on
and on and becomes despair: the only
solaee man can find for the yearnngs
of his heart is in the teachings of God.
Signs are many today that the teachings
of Jesus are advancing. Every man is
tt,n Low, lot n
of years ago The man who becomes
educated and then becomes a recluse. the
man who dares to ignore the social or
ganism. the man who has been taught
that which is right and does that which
is wrong. is the man upon whom the
most bitter antathemas of the twentieth
century fall.
when the populace was turning against
the Savior and He looked all sides
and saw them turning their backs? And
then He saw that His disciples alone
had remained with Him and He turned to
them and asked, VIII ye, too. go away?
"Oh, the meaning and the import which
made to that question by the outspoken,
that man of initiative, Peter. Where shall
we go?' asked Peter Thou alone has
life :"
Bishop Mccoy closed his sermon with
remarkable tribute to love and the
power it held over human Ire. 1T is the
one thing in every man and woman that
calls loudest for God" he declared. Feel
ingly, he portrayed the love of a mother
for her babe, the love of surviving ones
for the dead the love of the Christian
for his God. The audience sat spellboun6
through the eloquent periods of the en-
inent speaker. The house was crowd
g and many were standing and uncom-
Portable, yet as the distinguished minis
ter rounded out his words with touches
of oratory and expression they sat and
stood as quiet as one man and when the
speaker paused and the spell of his words
broke, the audience caught its breath au-
dibly and then lapsed into silence again.
The last words of the sermon was an
admonition to the graduating class to go
out into the world from their college
career as worshipers of the God about
whom Paul told the Athen1ns and to
make of their lives beautiful and useful
careers.