The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-02
ADVICE Of BISHOP
TO GIRL GRADUATES
Rowland Hall Commence
ment Week Opens at St.
Marks Cathedral.

Commencement week opened at Row
land hall yesterday with the preachln,
OF the baccalaureate sermon at st. Mark:
cathedral by the Right Rev. Charles San
ford Olmsted. bishop OF the diocese oi
Colorado.
a large audience heard the bishop II
his advice TO the fourteen girl graduates
This evening at o clock a musical pro
gramme Will be given at the Consoli-
dated music hall under the direction o
the music department OF Rowland hall
tertainment, consisting of Indian legends
VIII he presented at Whitney hall
Wednesday morning Bishop Spalding vii
confer diplomas upon the graduates a
st. Marks cathedral.
The text for the baccalaureate sermon
was from John Me-: Beloved. L wish
above all things that thou mightest pros
per and be in health, even az thy sou
prospereth.'
Bishop Oln,sted said In part;
Sir Thomas Browne In one Of his
most beautiful books said that a
good man could never see another
pray without wanting TO pray him
self. This expresses the longing all
good people have to help their fell
lows, and our happiness depends upon
our trying TO help them. When we
feel helpless as TO methods OF SER
vice we can always pray for others.
Even good thoughts have a way OF
making themselves felt In needy
hearts-and 1t is in this way that
st. John would help his true friend
Gaius. He wishes him health and
prosperity even as his soul prosper
eth. While it is true that spiritual
goodness may not always bring phys
ical and material prosperity, still we
do feel that # all Christ's followers
were In spirit what he wished, the
world would be far happier world
than il is.
Indifference and sin weaken every
thing. The best Christians are only
half Christian. But we must not take
too gloomy a view. The more en-
couraging way Of looking at life is
to consider il from the standpoint
OF Its divine source. rather than It's
human results, The soil Is bad even
for a heavenly husbandman. If God
had better human tools He could do
better work. And then, too. the SOL
idarity OF the human race makes prog
ress slow. We are not separate per-
sonalities, but we inherit traits and
traditions, bad as we'll as good But
In spite of all the difficulties the
world is getting better-more chart
table-and we can all help it toward
finer types in the future
There must be more justice and
less charity. But II we are to help
In the social uplift we must have
put UP a respectable appearance are
really subtle danger though they
always ultimately give them
selves aTay Being helps NOR more
motive which depends on wheth-
er the soul prospers. ruined soul,
In spite Of fair appearances, means
n weak lifc. What right have we to
thousands Of )uxurles while thou
sands OF our fellows lack lifes neces-
stiles? We all need more sincerity.
more enlightened consclences. We
IL ~, t1
matching UP to the standard o, Jesus
Christ The soul that prospers is
one sound in its purpose and Wis
The sounder people are in soul the
less their temptations to artlhciality
Of life, We must look UP TO the
clouds. the blue sky and the noun
tain peaks; not on the low-lying
nocence. The kingdom of heaven is
only promised TO them who become
as little children, Ambitions are good
If they are for spiritual, not ma
terfal values. though we must try To
pass on to our children good health
and a moderate degree of wealth
rather than debts We cannot be re-
formers, unless we are reformed our
selves.
It is our duty to leave the world
better than we found 1t. To do this
requires a prosperous soul. Such a
soul takes hard things as II they
were easy and easv things as n they
were hard. II briGlltens the world.
1t pleases God and it can be taken
with one into the eternal life OF
peace and JOY
What more appropriate thought
could occupy the minds Of a gradu-
atng class than a prosperous soul?
1t means the cultivation Of the whole
life and then the imparting OF those
attained values to others
Just as It has been the privilege
Of the scholar to have known great
and good men and women. so by
Gods help thew will keen their own
souls from all untruthfulness and
dishonor and share their lives with
others. Like Daniel God will send
his angels to strengthen them and
spiritual prosperity and ma aterial pros
perjty. too, Will he theirs