Devils Lake weekly world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1911-1914, 1913-05-30
HIS SERMON WAS FILLED WITH
SOUND ADVICE FOR COM.
MENCEMENT TIME,

of the baccalaureate sermon delivered
by Rev. Albert Torbet of the Pres.
byterian church at the Grand opera
house last evening, when the graduates
of the class of 1913 gathered at the
opening of the commencement exer.
cises.
The program was especially we'll
carried out and participated in by
Rev. A. E. C]attenburg, Rev. G. L.
Wallace and Rev. A. G.. Barron.
Musical numbers were rendered by
Felice DeGiardini, J. NJ. Haydn, W. B.
Wallace, the high school orchestra and
high school chorus.
Rev. Torbet said:
Acts 1:24-25, "Whom thou hast
CHOSEN, to take the place in this min.
ist1y and apostleship from which Ju-
das fell away, that he might go to his
own Place.
Judas unworthily occupied a holy
place in this world, and he went to
his unholy place in the terra incognita
beyond the grave and his name will
ever go on in history having its own
peculiar place unique in infamy.
Upon the momentous theme of hui
man destiny we should avoid the realm
of speculation and hug close to III
vinely revealed truth, always having
spirit of reverence and sympathy.
All inanimate things gravitate to.
ward their proper places, as do also
all vegetable and animal life.
The smoke from the chimney rises
into the air, while the stone which a
boy throws falls to the ground.
Mercury sinks in water, while oil
floats on top.
Tropical growths are not found in
arctic climes, the polar bear does not
roam through the torrid jungles, the
tiger does not prowl among the gla.
ciers of Greenland, the bald eagle does
not lay her eggs in the desert sands,
and the ostrich does not inhabit in.
accessible cliffs.
And not only for every things is
there a place, but for every person,
there is place, and we may properly
call it his own place, for we make our
places as much as our places make us.
We cannot but see that there are
foreordained gifts and conditions not
dependent upon ourselves.
A child can ask questions which
philosopher cannot answer.
Why were we not born privileged
children Of crowned heads or Of moa.v
kingsf
Why did we not have our childhood
along the Congo, under 1nd,a,s palms
or in the huts Of Chinaf Some have
dishonored God by teaching that no
arbitrarily dooms these children of
meager advantages to endless woe for
Ignorance Of what they could not
know-This is NOT glad tidings.
Aside from our election to enjoy cor
tain opportunities and to FIJI certain
positions, we are free agents and must
build our own destinies, and we are
responsible for the place Of honor or
dishonor to which we come in this life
and in the beyond.
Two boys enter school on the same
day, one by obedience, courtesy and
diligence secures not only an educa.
ton but many friends; and in due
time is elected to the position of dis.
trict judge; but the other by idleness,
selfshness and being unruly leaves
school without either an education or
friends.
In after years the judge has the
painful duty Of pronouncing sentence
upon his schoolmate who stands a da.
graded criminal at the bar; and one
is as much to be commended AZ the
other is to be condemned for the place
to which he has come.
Two students enter college, one hav.
ing influential friends and money: the
other friendless and penniless.
One is less than his outward seem.
ing, and he fancies that whatever Gilt.
ters is gold, and he cannot distinguish
between cream and scum in society.
and he relies for success upon h;s
noble ancestry, not realizing that fam.
lies are sometimes like potatoes j.,
that the best of the mare under the
ground.
that the best Of them are under the
standing their sheepskins from col.
leges where their fond parents had
large bills to pay, for their shepherds
are not sound enough to endure the
knocks which everyone must receive
in coming up, and therefore they
must stay down in lower places.
The other student is substantially
great in himself and more +b.n r..