The Alaska daily empire., 1915-05-18

second by living a good life by right
 use of the Knowledge it enabled you
 to obtain The first payment was complete in creditably passing your
 final examinations. The second is al-
 ready begun In the exemplary char
 acter you now sustain. but the mass
 of 1t lies in the future and can only
 be met by the character of the com
 ing years
 The past furnished tonight is of
 vital importance to all Of us. How dit-
 ferent our future would be- to say nothing about our present. if we had
 only realized how vitally important
 1t was while 1t was stil with us. But the past is something we can never get back of. In your case we be- lieve. the past has little fl anything to regret. Much on the other hand is fraught with wonderful possibilities the possession of which tonight al you with great confidence. It may be too much We hope not And gives you great eagerness to reach your future We share this eagerness with you.
 Here is seen the proper relations of these periods in your life Your past to be powerful, of value to you, must be connected daily through the present with your future The future Is. Of course. your greatest period.
 Someone has said Man is born a long ways from home.'
 The cub has not far Co so to reach it's majority and independence For few days it is a helpless thing, but in a few weeks it can shift for itself and do very well indeed The clam may be said to be born in it's own house. It never increases in intelli- gence from the day Of it's birth. It may grow a little larger and get little tougher but from the beginning it can take care of itself, feed and clothe itself But man the summit of all created things. starts down with the lowest is the longest helpless, and works it's way upward through a long period of development
 In the midst of this he finds mem ory stretching away Into his past; the present affording him only stand ing room, and all of life stretching out into the future, filled with won- derful possibilities. opportunities. re responsibilities. longings. hopes. The past is of little value to him, of course If wisely used of inestimo- ble value, but its value is not to be compared. in his estimation. with his future.
 Very truly 1t has been said of man that it is his future that guides and leads him That other life is govern. ed from without and behind; man from within and before. The robin does not build its nest where once it | was destroyed The dog does not commit @ misdemeanor because of he punishment received The horse iastens to the stall because of the memory of grain. The team Is driven rom behind But with man it is hope coming to him from, before, out of lis future. by which he is both led md guided forward.
 And when black storms sweep t Town on him. plotting out his envir- ,nments and plans it is not from be- lind that succor comes, but hope rom before that fills him with new outrage and zeal and strength.
 Tt is in the future of our night that he stars are hung by which weguide ! 'ur way forward" It is hope the , 'atron of the future not memory, the uardian of the past, that has pro- s uced our civilization It was hope, { .ot memory. that led Columbus across [ ncharted seas. It was hope that ! tayed the Father of our Country q