News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-06-14


trained souls as well, souls poised so
acutely that they may reveal to men
which way the winds of heaven are
blowing. May the roll of P. AS
alumnae and alumni be richer for the
presence of your name upon it!
And as we have noted the destiny
to which the career will head, it may
be worth while to note that the life
which is transformed into ministry
of helpfulness enjoys perennial
youth which breaks into the glow of
maturity in the beauteous atmosphere
of Gods country.
Now the choice as to whether life
be Career or Mission need not
materially alter your plans, if they are
conceived with an honest purpose at
heart. 1t will have to do more largely
with that inner Transformation that
will bring to bear a different motive
upon the things that you are planning
to do. Choosing to make life mis-
sion does not make you a blind VIC
tim of chance, or turn you into paup-
er berefit of ambition and aspiration.
Not by any means. 1t means that
you will bring to these same ambitions
and aspirations a conservation that
will strike them through and through
with glowing light. Do you plan on
life spent in pursuit of business sue
cess? You may do that with either
motive at heart, Are you planning
on life spent in professional service?
You can make that career or mis-
sion by the attitude of mind and heart
with which you approach its problems.
Remember this, whatever your plans,
that the motive that prompts your
activities will determine in large meas
ure the destiny these activities achieve
for you. Here's the electric energy.
1t may be turned into circuits that will
light cities and dispell the darkness of
night, or it may be turned into an
agency of destruction as it eXplodes
a mine, whose deadly mission is to
blow up ships and hurl thousand
men into eternity. So here you are,
young friends, in possession of some
thing with potentialities which even
the angels of heaven cannot fully
guage. The marvellous thing called
Life. You may bring to it a heart and
mind that will turn its opportunities
into poison, or you may transform them
into poisoning gardens, into minister
ig angels, into jewels that will glow in
the crown of eternal life. Vast issues
depend upon your choices.
All, young friends, yours is a glori-
Gus opportunity There are people in
this congregation this evening, many
of whom you envy, who would gladly
give all they possess to be where you
stand tonight, equipped with your
youth, your mental powers, your JOY
Gus prospect of the years yet to be.
If you were to enter some great old
world cathedral, massive and beauti-
full with the thoughts of great minds
embodied in architectural design, you
would do so, l am sure, with barred
heads and hushed voices. Bare your
heads and subdue your voices in the
attitude of reverence and pass rev.
erently and thoughtfully into the great
est cathedral the world knows, through
whose arches constructed by the great
God, surge the mighty sounds of hui
man endeavor, the Cathedral of Life.
Your tenure of life, young friends,
will be contemporaneous with some of
the greatest movements in the history
of the world. The opportunities of
today have never been equalled by
those of any preceding age. Every
where God is abroad in His world.
The divinity in man is throbbing and
burning. When the spring comes the
seed aches with the coming sheaf
And the world in this generation is
aching with new life. Christ has
spoken to the divinity in mans soul,
bidding him awaken from his long
slumber and come forth to his full
regency. The forward movement has
of necessity been fraught with up
heavals, tumult and the smoke of bat
tie. But no army can march to VIC
tory without some dust arising in the
road. God is the worlds leader. The
night of oppression is passing and the
new day is approaching the dawn-the
day of universal justice, the day of
the open school-house and education,
the day of self-government in politics,
the day of the Golden Rule.
1t is your glorious privilege to enter
the arena at this time to lendy our
strength, your trained minds, your
youthful optimism and enthusiasm
to those who are striving to solve these
problems. You will meet with many
discouragements, your difficulties will
be perplexing, your soul will often