The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1915-06-03
BACCALAURBATE
SERMON DELIVERED
TO the Nigh School Pupils at the
High School Auditorium sun
day Evening
BY The REV. G. F. SEWRBY
who Delivered q Practical and
Foreeful Sermon to tho Glass
Of 1916

'uutoo dAu SeHIlemen
OF the graduating class of 1915.
We are here this evening among
other things, to congratulate Won
on the degree of success you
nave attained in regard to know
ledge as pertains to books. In
graduating from the High School
you stand distinct among your
fellows, for if an article publish
ed IN one of the leading periodi-
Gals is true, only five per cent of
those who enter school life, ever
graduate from a high school.
But if the percentage is double
that, it would be small compara-
lively, and you would still be very
dlstInct among your fellows in
regard to education as pertains
to books.
The Scriptures ask the ques-
tlon, How much then is a man
better than a sheep" Sometime
ago was going down to James
town, N. d., on the Leeds branch
OF the N. P. and when we came
to the bluffs near the river we
saw very large flock of sheen.
some said that there must be full
ly 1.5OJ in the drove, the train
halted, and as we sat looking at
them quietly feeding, an old fell
low came and looked over steep
embankment fully twelve feet in
height, now do not know what
he saw down at the bottom to
entice him, but down he jumped,
another sheep saw what he had
done. and over he went after him.
and this was the signal appar-
entity for the whole flock, lust
then the train began moving
slowly. and we ran to the rear
platform, and as far as we could
see there was a streak of wool
going over that bank. Now there
was only one sheep which had
any idea why they We're doing it
only as they hlindly followed a
leader. So i'm human life. only
few lead and others blindly fol-
low. If you would continue to go
up the ladder of success, you
must stand out distinct from the
great majority of your fellows.
and learn to think and act for
yourself. or else you will be as;
the sheep. who i'm ninety cases out
of hundred has no individuality
of action.
The text which l have chosen
for this evening is a very signif-
icant one: it is found in Paul's
Epistle to the Galations 6-7 BE
not deceived, God is not Knocked;
for whatsoever a man soweth
that shall he also reap.'
Someone has said that the
earth is natural mother to the
thorns, weeds, and briars, and is
only a step-mother to the herbs
and good fruits, so that in order
to eliminate the obnoxious in the
soil, we must cultivate the good.
So the same is true in human
life, man is never a nonentity, if
he does not cultivate the good,
the evil is bound to grow, and
that without much cultivation, so
it stands to reason that the good
must be cultivated in human life
in order to grow. You young men
and women are in the spring.
time of life, the time when the
evil or the good is most likely to
be cultivated.
Now l would live to mention a
few things that are good to cul-
tivate? In the first place look
we'll to that body of yours, for as
the Psalmist says, we are fear
fully and wonderfully made, and
in regard to the body, very often
our sins of omission are even
greater than our sins of COM
mission; we find that men are
just about as prone to neglect
their bodies as they are to ne.
glect their souls in regard to the
highest good For example, i
your usual occupation calls 70,
to a sedentary position, remem.
ber that the nice easy spring
4 swivel chair in regard to success
may be more deadly than
Il plauge. God never intended tina
q man should occupy one o
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