South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-05-31
ANNUAL SERMON FOR
GRADUATING CLASS
Sound and Practical Advice is
Given Graduating Class of
High School BY Dr.. Edwards
Sunday Evening.

The annual baccalaureate sermon
Tor the graduating class Of the high
school was delivered by Rev. DR..
Loren NJ. Edwards In the Methodist
Memorial church Sunday evening The
spacious ediflce was crowded, many
from the other city congregations be-
ing present, as well as a large NUM-
Der OF the school students. DR.. Ed
wards took his text from the words:
Truth and Life" and in an interesting
discourse referred TO the sermon on
the mount as the absorbing and admir-
ing study for all Christian centuries.
is principles have found place in
every historic creed, its epigTamatic
sentences have been enshrined in
many hteratures, its basic precepts
have been accepted by multitudes.
To get the theme before his hearers
in terms that are practical the speak
er asked the young people of the
graduating class and Of the high school
this question: What have you been
going 10 school for, anyway? What
are you going TO do with your store of
knowledge when you leave school,
out Of the mouth of q babe OF
school urchin the world may add TO
its store Of truth. Going to school and
the whole pursuit Of knowledge for
which the school room stands, with
several ends In view, has for the one
central and controlling principle TO
learn 10 behave" which after all,
means 10 articulate truth with life.
The speaker dilated on the three
ideals I'm education referred TO in one
OF his books by Dr. Henry Van Dyke
as the decorative, the marketable and
the creative, and in a mastertul man
ner eXpOunded on each Of the different
heads IN referring TO the custom or
going abroad 20 seek culture ne DIS
cussed generally the young girl, who
after having been TO some OF the
classic centers of Europe, returns
with her prOdigious learning, her ma
ture experience and her superior Gull
ture which she wears just as she
would wear her Partisan hat or gown
for ornamental purposes solely.
Truth for truths sake is selfish,
but truth for humanitys sake IS sac
rificial: scholarship as an adornmenJ
Is a flower that witheTs but scholar
ship as an instrument OF human veal
is a wreathe of immortelles; educa-
ton as a ticket OF admission into the
dress circle of mankind is a piece OF
contemplate snobbery; but educa-
ton as a sword of deGverance for en-
shaved humanity is the weapon OF
noble and knightly chivalry
Neither viii the ideal stand or
truth for moneys sake. brilliance LOT
the sake of wealth. knowledge Tor
what il will gain. education for it's
commercial worth-all this sinks with
the weight OF its own material dross
You go 20 school and read your
books. not simply 10 read them nor
lust merely to pass the recitation or
examination. nor just 10 increase your
salary or to extend your property
YOU read your books that the mental
stimulus will enable you 20 read 9TH
or and better books and then 10 Jhlhh
for yourselves. and as you do some OF
Your own thinking, TO begin TO con
struct your entire philosophy or ire
and then properly relate yourseH
thereto.
The reward for meeting and mas
tering any hard situation in life lies
in the power acquired TO meet ana
master still harder situations, ana
10 aid your fellows in that same hlSh
task by your sympathetic insight ana
useful experience. This creative luedl
education, this perpetual ministry OF
truth 10 life, this practical use OF
knowledge in making this human
desert To rejoice and blossom as the
rose-this is the only ideal worth the
consideration of aspiring youth look
ing toward Creditable goal for lie.
young people of this graduating
class. YOU are now at most significant
crisis in your lives, thus far the rOu-
tine OF your daily task has been large
IN the decision of others; often you
have not wholly agreed with those
decisions; YOU have not clearly un-
derstood tho bearing OF all YOU have
been asked TO learn and do. Now
however. the course thus far hesins
to straighten and the pattern emerges
from the weaving loom. What VIII be
,-our attitude toward these things
toward the truth you have learned and
toward the truth YOU are TO learn
truth is not a decoration TO be worn
for mere adornment. truth is not TOO
with which 10 chisel ones way "a
wealth. truth is the power Of creation
the means OF ministry. the FOUNTAIN ol
life Therefore, win truth ana 'ieie
Inv win life