The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-06-17
OPENING OF COMMENCEMENT
Large Crowd of People Attend Church
Service For Members Of the Senior
Glass at the Park Avenue M. e.
Church on Sunday Evening.

Urging high ideals as one OF the
greatest assets of the young man anG
the young woman the Rev. Peter Stair
pastor Of the Park Avenue NJ. E. church
delivered the annual baccalaureate ser
mon to- the students Of the Kenosha
High School on Sunday evening. A
large crowd of people attended the ser
vices. Many students of the high
school and their parents were among
the members Of the large congregation
Mr.. Stair said in part:
4 Four things a man must learn to dc
IF he would make his record true
To think without confusion clearly,
TO act from honest motives purely,
To love his fellow men sincerely,
To trust in God and heaven securely. y
We have defined for us in these
lines the four corner stones Of the tenn.
pie Of manhood, intelligence, moral con
duct, brotherly love and religious faith
I take it that the primary object OF
your schooling has been mental train.
ing. You have been learning to think
To know is secondary matter. It is
more important that you should devel-
op the power to use your brains than
that you should fill your mind with
certain kinds Of knowledge. After the
examinations and tests are past it will
not matter so much what you have &C
CURED in the way Of information as
how well you have learned to think
The mind must be trained to think
clearly and Independently. This is not
an easy task, and that is the reason
why SO many people do not think much
An interesting book ent1t.ed Who 8
Who in America, contains the names
of 9,643 prominent people, GIL have
had a college education or its equiva-
lent, s9e5 have attended college for a
time, $50 graduated from academies or
normal schools, 239 stopped with high
school training, 808 attended only com
mon schools, while 81 were self educ
ated. At the time these people were
receiving their schooling the college
population was one in three hundred
which would entitle them to furnish
only one-third Of one per cent Of the
successful men of the nation, whereas
they furnished sixty-nine per cent. The
colleges furnished two hundred seven
times as many successful men as their
numbers merited. Those below college
rank furnished less than one-third of
the number they were entitled to-. What
does this meana It means that the
possibilities of success among college
bred men are six hundred and twenty
one times as great as among those who
do not enjoy that advantage.
Following these statements, the
speaker urged the members Of the
graduating class to continue their
schooling at whatever expense Of time
and money, as a safe financial invest.
ment. HBut, the real riches of life are
not material, a man IS life CONSISTENT
not in the abundance of the things
which he possesseth. y The great OBJ
ject of education is not to enable you
to make money or to win fame, but to
teach you to live. The schools are en-,
gagged in the business of making men
not primarily artisans nor artists.
Moreover, intellectual culture is NO
guarantee of good moral conduct. A
man has conscience as well as head
and inasmuch as the ultimate values of
life are to be expressed not in terms OF
intellect, but Of character, it is essen
tial that to make the record true one
must learn to act from honest motives
purely
e To thine own self be true,
And it will follow as the night the
day,
Thou canst not then be false to any
man.
7 HStill if a man be no more than Just,
acting strictly according to all the laws
of righteousness, he may have heart
as cold and hard and unlovely as 8
Shylock. Service and brotherhood are
the watchwords Of our age. He who
would be great must be the servant of
all, loving his fellowmen sincerely.
II have marked out a great pro-
gram. The secret Of success in follow
ing this program is found in the last
injunction of my text, trust in God
and heaven securely Would you think
without confusion clearly? Think God Is
thoughts after Him. Would you act
from honest motives purely9 Place
your feet firmly upon the bedrock Of
God s eternal truth, the only sure
foundation of morals. Would you love
your fellow men sincerelya Learn OF
Him whose name is Love and who
taught the world that the whole law is
comprehended in this: Thou shalt love
the Lord thy God, and thy neighbor as
myself.
sThe attitude of the scientific world
ais that of the best in literature and in
art, is a reverent attitude. The great
naturalist Agassiz surrounded by his