The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-06-07
URGED GRADUATES
TO KEEN EFFORTS
Pres. Shanklin of Wesleyan Delivered
Address to Graduating Glass of
Montpelier Seminary
Sunday.

PRESIDENT William Arnold Shanklin
d. d., of Wesleyan university, Middle
town, Conn, delivered an inspiring bac
lcalaureate sermon to the graduating
class of Montpelier seminary at Trim
ty church, Montpelier, Sunday morning
being assisted in conducting the serv
ices by President j. w. Hatch of the
seminary and Rev. William Shaw, pastor
of the church. There was special mu.
sic rendered by a quartet composed OF
seminary students, and the church was
decorated with the graduating class col.
ors and motto.
President Shanklin brought greetings
| from Wesleyan and spoke of the init
mate and cordial relations which exists
and have for many years between the
school and the Connecticut university.
| He took as his text, the first verse.
second chapter from Ezekiel, and said
in part:
Spiritual manhood and womanhood is
| most needed in the world to-day and
the young men and women are not in
clined 10 look with seriousness upon this
important phase of life. We seldom
stop to take stock OF ourselves. or to
look our morals squsrely in the face.
Are you going simply to accept this beau
tiful country of ours. or are you to go
out 10 make it better one? The old
New England Puritanism has a message
for you to-day, it is for you to emulate
those noble men who lived in years
past follow that Puritanism with the
grossness and uginess eliminated.
Not only is there lack of seriousness
among the young people of this era, but
too much OF an inclination for pleasure,
the yielding to so-called weakness of
human nature, to our animal passions
Character is built not on what you do,
but what you think If young mans
life is clean, earnest. strenuous, he will
come out all right with experience, these
being the fundamentals upon which to
base the better life.
Fitness to survive does not lay in
mere strength and the nation that lives
BY the sword. dies by the sword. Our
idea is not dominance of race, or of a
nation, but of a world of persons. While |
: great world war is raging we should
be and are devoutly thankful that at the
head OF our nation is statesman who |
has clear perception, man who has
behind him the entire nation as one.
This moment, on the eve of your GO
ing into the world as men and women, is |
Of no common significance and my wish
is to bring worthy inspiration. Many
voices are calling You; keep your trust
in yourself, in God and in your fellow
men and so shall you reap your reward,
The present time il the greatest oppor-
tunity for a successful life, in the great
.st country in the world.
BE brave enough 10 choose a task for
which you must strive nightly 20 sue
'eed in and do not despise what most
men call practical
Nav yours be full rounded personsli-
". Let no one but yourself be- master
II your brain and God the sovereign
# your conscience. With self knowledge
md self control. NAV you face life with
determination, as servants
+ the nation. and of God of truth and
nth faith.
Yesterday afternoon AZ O'Clock. YES I
YER service occurred on the seminary !
ampus with Rev. Stanley r. Bloomfield. Z
sstor Of the Congregational church, in
barge. This evening at s O'Clock the
concert will BE- given in
he chapel. and this afternoon from four
ntil six O'Clock. the principals recep-
ION to the graduating class will take
lace