Perth Amboy evening news., 1914-06-15

AS the big organ, under the skill
| full touch of Mrs. William II. Hesser
| pealed forth the strains Of Gounod't
! March Vollennelle," the class oi
1914, led by their honor pupils
President David Peterson and Miss
Bessie Brody, entered the church
having assembled in the lecture
room. The class, being the largest
which has ever attended a bacca-
laureate sermon in this city, made
an imposing sight as they marched
down the two main aisles and filled
the eight pews reserved for them
The scholars remained standing
while the twenty-third Psalm was
chanted, this being followed by an
invocation by Rev. Palmer Princi-
pal e. H. Kleinhans and Prof. Glen
worth Sturgis accompanied the
members of the class. Hundreds OF
the friends and relatives of the grad
yates attended the esrvices, the
church being filed.
Following the anthem, Now the
Day is Over" and the offertory ITO a
Wild Rose,' DR.. Palmer began his
sermon, first making a few intro
ductory remarks as follows: II am
indeed proud, for the second time in
my life, to welcome graduating e
class of our high school, their fac
ulty and friends. l think we may
congratulate ourselves and our city
in having SO many reach this stage
of development in their educational
sphere, and / want, If l can, to tell
them some of the things that may
prove helpful in their future career.
| am going to say some things which
even your excellent teachers may not
have said. Probably they may not
have had the time. Certainly the oc-
casion is different and the place is
different, the altered environment
and atmosphere making it well and
proper for you to hear what | am
going to say"
Rev. Palmer then quoted the text
81 will now turn and see this great
sight" reading a number OF verses
of scripture to show the occasion
which wrought upon Moses on be-
ing called upon to deliver Gods
people out of bondage, to make the
declaration.
Moses" Rev. Palmer declared,
turned aside to see the cause for
the burning bush and thus the Great
God was revealed to him through the
burning bush, calling upon him to
set out in the important work of his
life, to lead his people out of bond
age. This was done through his
willingness to turn and see the
great sight-to ascertain the reason
for the phenomena. We are, l am
afraid, apt to take these things at
our own conclusions and thus miss
many of the great and beautiful
things in life. We all have eyes for
something that appeals to the senses,
but do we try to delve into the cause
for the greater things? Dear young
people, who are about to finish your
high school course, l want you to go
out in the quest of the deep and
hidden treasures of life and knowl-
edge. Just now as you are going
out to enter upon your life's duties,
want you to see these things.
Some of you will, | expect, pursue
the studies which you have begun,
while others will enter upon business
careers. Whatever you do, don't pass
the deeper things of life by-they
mean so much.
The sermon was interesting In the
extreme, the attention of the hear
ers being held from the first to the
final word of the discourse, DR.. Pal
mer being an especially forceful
speaker. He urged upon the gradu-
ates the necessity of paying atten-
tion to the conditions of their envir-
enments and to make practical
study of the big things Of life that
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