Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-06-26
when tho dove shall warm his bosom
~Beneath the eagles wings,

| WntH lne uONa SHALL warm MS DObOul
~Beneath the eagles wings
| when memory OF battles
AT last Is strange and old
when nations have one banner
And creeds have found one fold,
when the hand that sprinkles Midnight
with It's powdered drift suns
! Has hushed this tiny tumut
"Of scots and swords and guns:
Then Hates last note of discord
'ln all Gods world shall cease,
I'm the conquest which is service
I'm the victory which Ia peace"
Frederick Lawrence Knowles.
Into the age which IS some day TO
realize this. you young people are about
to 60 II may not, probably vii. rot,
come In its fullness during your lifetime
but the plain duty Of each one of you Is
to speed It's coming. Whatever your life
work is to be domestic. mechanical. scien-
tiic or professional, let It be borne in
mind that the purpose Of the home, the
shop, tho laboratory, the hospital and the
doctors office Ia to improve physical con-
liberty II behind the work of your hands
who fashions materials, hoping that they
will contribute to spiritual amelioration,
you will fulhn tho high purpose Of your
creation.
When this day Of the perfect spiritual
/ ity shall come. no man dare predict. SUI
fee II to know that we have now entered
| - Niryt nd a
day will! witness its contamination in abb
solute perfection. Its coming will depend
altogether on the attitude OF the univer-
sal human mind When mon of the world
have the mind that strives after the day
OF perfect spirituality we shall see the
glory OF its dawning, The conflict may
continue for years and centuries to come,
but having entered tho age OF the spirit
ual sp.r1tualiues are bound 20 have the
ascendency III constantly increasing
strength until Gods plans are fulfilled
and the throne of his spiritual kingship
| is established forever and secure.
congratulate you. then. members Of
the class Of 1918, that you arc TO go out
into active responsibility in the morning
| Of this new age. DO not imagine, how
ever, because you are to live in this new
More opportunities are open to youth to-
day than have greeted any other coming
generations since the daybreak of time.
| Opportunities are perhaps not 80 garing
as formerly. They are here. however,
and the great need Is for eyes to see
them. The purpose OF your educational
| training has been to give you the dis
corning vision that you may see your OPP
| M nj nd Ia, hoi
success. 1t matterS not in what particu-
lar life work you may engage in order to
succeed. you must understand fully the
fact that you live in this new era, and
that all you do of work. either physical
or mental. should he made incidentally
and directly contributory to the perfec-
ton of spiritualized humanity. You will
find the battle a nard one but you will
find the world ready to-day for the &C
ceptance of spiritual truth as It has
never been before. Men. through the
weakness of their corruptible natures
may cling to the sordid and the carnal
MANY will not he torn away and uplifted
without a fight. Yet gradually but surely
the human race is TO be pushed up tow.
ard spiritual perfection and you, whose
God given powers have been trained by
responsibility for the glorious achieve
ment must largely rest. Make money II
YOU can. hope many of you will. but
in the making, l pray you TO regard
money not as an end hut as means to
the larger end of spiritual perfection.
Your fight, though spiritual will often
be harder and more trying than the con-
nicts of the old physical age. You will
',,,iS NO ,t.b no oh ,o fa ont
and the battlefield but You will be
brought face to face with the necessity
Of lighting human greed, the lust of
power, and the flames of unholy ambition.
You are to play your parts on the stage
Of human effort in a day which will dem
onstrate that "the battlefield Is not the
only place for the display of heroism.
The worlds great need to-day is bap-
tSm of genuine heroism in little things;
in the inch to inch battle OF life. The
world looks for heroic leadership. This
is her salvation the rock Of her de-
fence. Men in science are needed who
are not pedantic. but patient. God-fearing
and truth-loving; men in literature who
will not cater to the grosser instincts
and passions OF human NE for com
mercial gain but who, forgetful Of self
of their higher nature. Heroes are want
ed among capitalists who will understand
that money is one OF the worlds might
lest levers of power and that mans great
est temptation is the wrong use OF that
power. Heroes are demanded among la
Dor leaders who will he able to discrim-
mate between a real grievance and q
petty cause FOR strlfe-thoughtful met
OF the right spirit and not cheap time
servers with selfish ends.
What will the world see when this spir-
itual age has ripened into the rich fruit
age OF full perfection? II will see a
race.o Of mon intellectually free, men nc
longer enchanted by the superstitons
handed down from barbarous ancestors
1t will see race OF men morally free
men who have dethroned passion and ap'
petite. IT will see 9 perfect social sys
tenn. every man performing his full duty
to society and granting TO every othei
man the right to DO likewise It will set
a perfect political system, mon govern
ing Alright and that with the fill con
sent and approval of the governed.
This new spiritual age has already be.
gun to write its history and you who &c
out into tho world now, go with the
inspiration of the shining examples IN
the accomplishments OF men who have
pushed the race a long way up the road
toward the spiritual goal, You go into q
world where men Of achievement have
already proven that the mountains are
full Of horses and chariots OF nre round
about him who nghts for civic
.