Arizona republican., 1915-06-07

of the blessings themselves.
 | If you have properly appreciated these experiences you are better qualified to enter into the more com | pleX life of the outer world, where self interest must give place to com munity interest. where, in fact, the community welfare becomes your own welfare-but more than that, 7 you~ opportunity, your responsibility. You must not forget the fact that opportunity means responsibility. As the opportunity to gain knowledge in the school has placed upon you ! the responsibility to study and to work. so the opportunity to partici- pate in enjoying the affairs Of busi- ness and social life, lays upon you the responsibility of becoming pro ducing citizen. The greater the abili- ty. the greater the responsibility. As the Savior has said, "Of Him to whom much has been given, much shall be required Your learning places you in a position of obligation above that of your uneducated com panions It is incumbent upon you to face the responsibility with joy Because you are inexperienced, garden of delight and your pulses 
 jingle as you think of the conquests that are soon to be yours. Your an ticipations will not be realized in the way that you expect. The world is place of work and he that is tc attain, aye even hold his own. must put every moment of his time to proper usefulness. There will be no time for shirking and for little sins. The place of the shrker. the careless and the indifferent will be filled by the more efficient The struggle is a joyous one to the man or woman who determines to give to it his very best But it is a mill stone about the neck of him who fails to put all of good that there is in him into his daily tasks. Always do your best. so will your best be always coming better
 All common things. each days
 events,
 That with the hour begin and end, our pleasures and our discontents
 Are rounds by which we may as
 cend.
 We have not wings, we cannot
 soar,
 But we have feet to scale and
 climb
 By slow degrees by more and more.
 The cloudy summits of our time"
 He that loseth his life shall find it" is the secret of successful meeting of responsibility and oppor- tunity as outlined by our savior. Poets. philosophers. scholars may ad- wise you, but that you may learn to live truly you must get back to the teachings of the Man of Galilee.
 There is. in all the pages of his tory. none whose life is such an ir- reproachable example of devotion to duty, of seizinG every opportunity and of meeting every responsibility with heroic selflessness than that of Jesus of Nazareth. Every moment of His life was one of ceaseless activity in the fulfilling of His mission that of uplifting all mankind through losing Himself in teaching and ser wing those about Him. Jesus came and met concrete experiences in such a full and complete way that the force and truth of His every utter ance and the significance of Hi. every act was filled with eternal life. A word spoken to woman who would draw water at a well two thousand years ago is equally true and necessary for you and me today But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst: but the water that I shall give him shall become in him well of water springing up into eternal life
 The inner consciousness of man is ever reaching out for the life giving ~ In the halls of learning and in the busy mart man is found reaching out for that which will give him eternal life-a life alone in which there is real power and strength. Through the ages though he has wan dered often far afield. his search has but turned him again to that Teacher who spake as never man spake," whose life was greater than the bounds of time and place and whose influence has made real the love of man for man.
 To meet the issues of the day as they spread out before you on your departure from the Garden of Eden there will be required every bit of ability. consecration and proper ap- preciation of eternal relations of which you, as individuals. are cap able. You are to live in a time when the attention of man not only l is attracted by world conflict, l the outcome of which is beyond the 1 imagination of man, but when the | adjustment of political, industrial 1 and social conditions is taxing the | ingenuity, ability and best thought l of every good citizen of this state | and nation. i
 Upon you young people a great | part of the burden of the immediate ! future of this state to depend and | by your counsels it's future destiny 1 is to be moulded. In your imparta- | tion of the fruits of your study and 1 thought to the. children in the class room, the people on the street, the citizens in their homes, you are to play a vital part in the drama of civilization. The solution of its problems will rest upon your shoul ders. In this task you must be guid ed by the inspiration of the divine mind of God Himself.
 As never before the task is a su