The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-05-30

! can hardly repeat those last words
without there comes TO ne
Sunset ard evening star
And one clear call for me-
And may there be 10 moaning If the
bar,
When I put out to sea
Too full for sound ard foam
When that which drew from out the
boundless deep.
Turns home q again
Twilight and evening bell.
And after the darE.
And may there be no sadness Of fare
we'll
When ! an barR.
For though. from OUT our bourne Of
time and place
The flood NAV bear ne far
I hope to see my Pilot face 70 faCe,
When have crossed the bar
In this beautiful figure 50 IA rniIiar
to US, I see the suggestion Of the
epochal and momentous fact Of your
graduation. You are tonight crossing
the bar I can but think Of those who
never cross the bar. who never grad
uate. whose lives must be content with
narrow and shallow bays, 7 cannot but
think Of the boys and girls who drop
out, who must never get 4 world Wis
ion. who must never enter the album
dant lives for which the immortal
spirit longs
Garfield heard the cal Of the sea
when q bov. but Providence led him To
the helm of state Thomas Marshal
4 man of power and genius expressed
a desire TO be buried in an open field
and not in a crowded cemetery, say
ing.
7 have been crowded all my life.
Give ne room for nv grave a Young
lawyer said, when in college, had
great ambitions, I planned TO make
myself authority on international law,
but here I am pleading mean little
heP me
No right thinking man can be sat
isfied with Iirtleness. II some men Of
genius have succeeded how much
greater their success If they had r-rcss-
ed the bar
GREATNESS OF THE HOUR.
7 have only touched upon this idea
IN order that ! might the more suit
ably impress YOU with the greatness Of
the hour to which Won have come, the
greatness d the position adhered,
and the world view that hes before
you I would arouse you from that
dazed confused state into which grad
VA ton NAV have brought --ou- OF from
a supplying satisfaction which our
past achievements may have brought
YOU by several suggestion worthy Of
thought.
% Your education IS a talent to be
employed. to be increased, TO be used,
not selfshly. Great is your respOnsi-
biIity here
"(2) The direction you take after
crossing the bar will determine the
port to which you will go, or you will
spend a good deal of your time tack
ing, steered by the wind and tides, in
which case you may never reach any
port.
"(3) The roughness of the sea and
the height Of its pillows will never
stop the handy seamen. The nearest
course to your success may lie through
difficulty
"CO Remenber that - shores lie
open to you now. Get world vision
of opportunity and duty AenoriZe
those INN 0rtal lines of TenrEsor:
SO many worlds.
So much to do.
So little done
So much to be
I must hasten to tell Of that which
shall be the burden Of my thought and
which in the inpressiveness Of this
hour I would riVet on Your thought
The strength of the great ship that
IS to ride the pillows and brave the
storms is not in the precious cargo
that fills her hold, not N the beautiful
furnishings that adorn her cabins, not
IN the polished brasses that form her
guard rails, and lead up her Statrways.
but il the tlintlike keei and steellike
ribs that constitute that very essen
ttal part Of the structure. 1t is not
what you have attained. but Your
character, that Is to be the power that
will utilize the forces committed to
you, but what is Chara cJeT. One has
truly said = IS not what YOU seem TO
be, nor what your friends think Of
you, nor what Your reputation paints
You. It is what YOU really are. Il IS
that Intangible, immateriai life that
YOU don't see bat feel. that you don't
handle but whose force is greater
than a sledge hammer 1t is that
which lives IL 4 man that viii meas
ure his success and perIEanenCy. 1t IS
as Emerson says mans certraItv
that cannot ne displaced or upset.
Here is the fountain from which flows
the springs that don't run dry. Here
is the unseen force that makes men
potent. The Duke Of Wellington as
scented to the estimate that somebody
made. tina The presence Of Napoleon
on the field was equal 10 30, 900 men.
Somebody has SAID thinking Of the
character q Washington and what il
has done for American and freedom.
1T would nave been better for Am
erica 10 have lost al Else than the
heart Of Washington His spirit lives
today in all her developments Thus
have men Of character Impressed the
world and wrought success for them
selves and others
a parting word 20 YOU or the in
mediate ana practical necessity o.
- @5a a You are RAISING from the re
stratrts and safeguards that hitherto
have chaperoned You from the land
locked harhor which has shielded vou
from the storms This = very I'M
conventional age chinese walls have
been broken down. doors are all open
Clustered. schools and yelled women
are things IF the past and freedom.
free access are the orders . he day
Il is an oNer sea. What : now our
Sc curtty How shall W. preserve NJ
furnished ard unsrotreG the trust that
God mas given u.s. ! answer more than