Arizona republican., 1913-05-19
FIFTY SEVEN
 GRADUATES
Preparedness Keynote of Sterling Address on Sub ject of Definite Purpose in Life-Weck Full of Happenings

Before an audience that well filled the large auditorium of the Phoenix High school. the Very Rev. William Scarlett, dean of the Episcopal dis
 trict of Arizona. last night preached the baccalaureate address to the grad uating class of the High school. The speaker chose for his subject, "A Defi- nite Purpose in Life." and based it upon those words from the gospel of St. Matthew. found in the sixth chap ter and twenty-second verse: If thine eye be single, thine whole body shall be full of life"
 Dean Scarlett is an easy speaker. and for d full half hour held the in terest of not only the class of fifty seven graduates who were seated throughout the large congregation, but also of the four hundred friends and relatives of the graduates gathered there.
 Mir. Scarlett dwelt first upon the necessity of preparedness for life. He showed that the measure of success, as it is estimated in the world with which one comes into everyday con tact, is much greater for the one who has made particular preparation to- ward a single aim. Life. he said, is made up of steps, of which the grad uation from school is but one. He ! spoke of the necessity of an educa- ton, and told the graduates that none | of them would be just to themselves were they to stop their work of prep ' aration now. Rather what they had :. gained so far was just the entering wedge to a broad outlook on life 1! and useful career in the world. He T <,.11- one. a higher power than his must do that, but having the vocation chosen each must press forward with the eye single. the ambition to accom- plish, the aim for the goal. not with i the desire to do ill to fellowmen, to triumph through bad fortune of others, but with consideration for their existence and a helpful presence for each one met in the journey of life.> His gentle touch along this line could but help the hearers to vividly recall the beautiful couplet of Tennyson: T hold this true with him who sings, l
 To one vast harp of divers tones,
 That men may rise on stepping
 stones, Of their dead selves to higher things" !
 The second and the most serious topic of the discourse was that which , related to doing the will of God. ! He spoke of the Lords prayer, and : the ever murmured, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven" He 1 suggested that more often this thought 1 came from the heart in the pres 1 ence of calamity, but he adjured his i hearers not to consider this phase 1 Of the lesson. but rather to think | of the will of God in connection with l the progress of the daily life, in the enjoyment of the riches of life the | actual daily contact with the world |. The ancient idea of the will of God. 1 he said was fatalistic almost alto gether; that there spread out before 1 each life a settled path, and it was | the will Of God that the particular ! set path should be followed until the | bitter end, that all was for the best. |
 The modern conception, however. is l vastly different in that it contains ! . challenge to the world a challenge | that sounds as the ringing words of 1 Joshua must have sounded to the | men of Israel As for me and my house we will serve the Lord" To l get the best out of life, to bring about !, justice, and righteousness, and God | Iiness. and right living, and peace, l and comfort. and last and most inn i portant of all, salvation, the life must 1 be dedicated to the will of God, for through Him all things are made possible" The larger life for the men and women of the present day, the greater good to the community in which each must live. move and have their being, is bound up in the propo- sition of dedication of life to the will Of God. Each man and woman must, however, carve out his own place in the world, in the fear of God, which is the beginning of wisdom, and in doing this the larger good will have been accompliShed-the- world will have been made better because of the life lived.
 The opening invocation was given by Rev. J. C. Wander Las, Presbyte- rian missionary instructor at the United States Indian school The music was conducted by Maitland Da- yies and the full choir of the Epis- copal sang Mrs. Leecraft also rem dered Hammond's beautiful Behold, the Master Passes By in most ef- fective manner.
 The entire week will be. taken up1 with activities incident to the close