The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-05-28
try and her king.

try and her king. "
Florence Nightingale and Clara
Barton, early in life, consecrate6
themselves to lives Of service in the
Red Cross field, giving themselves
entirely to caring for wounded bod
les and encouraging wounded spir-
Its.
Philips Brooks, the Episcopalian
bishop, known and loved all over
Massachusetts as"Our Bishop" dedi-
Gated his whole personality, his
whole being to the service of his
people and all people, and the
greatness of the peoples love for
him was witnessed by the attend
ance of the whole population of
Boston when the last sad rites were
spoken. The highest and lowest
mourned alike for their loved
Bishop"
The service of the poets, Shake
speare and Milton, is found in their
great legacy of poetry to mankind.
Mozart and Schuman left a lasting
service in the form of music. Frances
Willard performed noble work
along the line of temperance.
All these have served and we'll
has their service been performed,
but there is yet another, the great
est of them all. There is one whose
love "passeth all understanding"
one who laid down his own life that
all might have eternal life. That
greatest example of service is the
lowly Nazerene. His was the serv-
ice of loving sacrifice, the giving of
himself for others, however poor and
humble.
We, the class of 1915, with so
many examples, SO many forms of
service before us, hope some day to
receive the praise due those whose
best effort, whose greatest love has
been spent in behalf of those about
them. However, should we fail to
startle the world by our deeds, or
never reach the Halls of Fame, let
us at least find comfort in the words
of the blind Milton, "They also
serve who only stand and wait"
Classmates, this idea is en-
bodied in that new memorial left by
us in Alma Matters Assembly Hall.
Notices may be forgotten. Monu-
ments of brick and plaster may
and decay, but the memory
of life well spent in service can
not be destroyed. The pebble drop
ped into the ocean makes a ripple
which is felt on the farther shore
even though not consciously per-
ceived.
Hebe was but a cup bearer in the
spacious halls of the gods, a myth;
and yet, were all the statutes to be
destroyed, were all the printed pages
to be burned, that stored service is
so stamped in the universal mind of
nan that it cannot be obIiterated
so long as a single memory exists.
Your lesson and mine is plainly this.
Hebe's was a lowly service, and
yet her reputation is world wide.
Hers but creation of the mind
)urs may and must be a force, not |
for the pleasure of gods, but for
he uplift of humanity and the en-
lobling of world.
Remember Hebe-emblazo above
his fancied form of service our mot
%, Perfection" and 1915, true to
Ter concrete ideals, will become the
of all that even parents,
Board of Education, instructors, or
he Superintendent could ever hope
,r dream.
Superintendent Mute made some re-
marks, speaking of the percentages
made by the different grades, which
IAN very high for the year. He referred
o the fact that of the present class Will
lam Baxter Forester and Kate Lee
Kirkman had finished the four-year
course in three years. He in the course
d his talk referred to some criticisms
Of the superintendent and school as
newspaper lies. This, he explained to
rs privately, had no connection with
anything the papers here had said on
he subject.
The exercises closed with the award
ng Of diplomas by DIR. c. w. Miles,
who was very complimentary to each
one Of the young ladies and young gen.
.lemen, extending them the kindest
wishes for the benedictions and the
of a munifcent Providence.