The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-06-15
STIRRING TALK
BY REV. RICH
Graduates Listen to Inspiring Ad.
dress Last Evening

d, q body last evening when they lis
toned Ia an inspiring baccalaureate ad
a,ags delivered by Rev. u. G.. Rich
,ostur Of the First Congregations
cburrA The baccalaureate exercise!
rsrc a great success and a larse mum.
hor of local people was in attendance
The talk given by Rev. Rich was espe
tally pleasing and his auditors enjoyed
II immensely
The subject of the address of Rev
Rich was "Wisdom's Appeal" Matthew
e2-21 In part Rev. Rich said.
III IS the National Flag day and tn,
annual observance of this day and the
OCCASION that brings us together to-
night speak in eloquent terms of priv
fege and duty and how we may attain
rrto greatness in a character intlu-
ence that will leave behind us not an
pnhealng wound or a recording scaI
hut a record that will stir every latent
into a useful activity.
Long ago, while bacchanalian
feast was in progress Belchazzar saw a
hand writing "A message to him on the
wall Of the banquet hall. 1t read in
part. Thou art weighed I'm the bal
ances and found wanting
Great privileges and opportunities
had been forfeited and lost through
lacl, of devotion to high ideals and of
progressive effort to be worthy OF the
obligations resting upon him.
The words traced by the finger of
God were 2 final message, "a message
that has written in enduring charac-
tcrs the story of monumental failure
where there might have been written
the story of high honor and deserved
success.
The words of our text are spoken by
the lips of Jesus and present their APP
peal and frame their reasonable argu-
ment at the threshold of all responsible
careers Many have endeavored to Sc
cure entrance to the palace of success
by some other way than the divinely
adequate testimony to the fact that he
who disregards the words of God
closes by his own decision and with his
own hands every possible door that
leads To the real success of life.
Great responsibility and great obli-
CATION rest upon each of our lives.
But they are such as are common to
all humanity and therefore appeal to
us with all their possibilities of happy
and helpful fruition.
Two great opportunities for the
most worthy application of our re-
sources are placed before us. First we
are to be true and loyal in our allegi-
ance to and support of the National
Government under which we live.
You have journeyed thus far be-
cause of the way prepared before
You, way that has been kept open
and up to the present high standard of
promise and efficiency because of the
laws Of love and the laws Of country.
The flag that has waved over you in
its message and declaration of protec-
ton and blessing has been held in po-
Sition over your lives by the united
love and strength of your fathers and
mothers and the loyal and true coop
Grafton of friends and neighbors.
In the progress OF life the Lord
asks YOU to consider your privilege to
be standard bearer; To be as loyal
and true in defending and maintain
Ing all the powers and blessings of
our government as have others before
you.
Should you ever dishonor the flag
Of our nation you will by the same act
dlshonor Yourself and fix upon your
heart and character stain that viii
be hard To remove.
Benedict Arnold washed his stain in
the bitter tears Of his very soul, but
ihe stain had burned so deep that no
IeIhorse no self condemnation, no
"llIlnsness to make amends were ever
able to reinstate him in honor beneath
TIE folds Of the nag he had dishonored
and betrayed.
our obligation To patriotism is one
VI the greatest obligations in our lives.
IL Is the obligation to freely give OF
ourselves that the civil future of our
na'lon may be an unbroken record OF
honorable progress and uplifting power
at home and abroad.
within us is the mighty power of
"'uhlng our lives speak by every means
VI expression the message that first
"ouhded more than century ago. that
'hoed and re-cchoed a half century
ago ana today reiterates with an au-
'"ori'y of utterance that commands
Oor attention and allegiance-be true
"'u loyal To the constitution, prnci-
'''s and flag of our country.
Daniel Webster said-'The world
WI cry shame upon us If we show our
IVES unworthy to be the descendants
- 'nose great and illustrious men who
,'osnt Tor their liberty and secured 1t
,heir posterity by the Constitution
'" the United States
g. Inc Constitution of the United
''es is not n Bible but Il is text
VON OF good citizenship which be-
use OF its orderly and exalted pur-
makes IL easier and more natural
W. " ooey the laws of God as they are
pose
r,. Tue second admonitlon of Jesus
tn. our thought to the largest opptr-
mites Of life--oppor,u nities that may