Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-05
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH PASTOR
DELIVERS BAccALAUREATE
SERMON SUNDAY.
CHOOSES 1.-THE BUILDERS"
AS SUBJECT OF SERMON
"Have Your Vision and Build it Into
Actual Working Life Burden Of
Pastors Message to Young People
Teachers, School Board Members,
and Juniors at Service.

Have your vision--and build it into
your actual working life
These are the words and that was
the burden of message given by the
preacher to members of the M. II. 5.
'16, in the Methodist church Sunday
morning.
Commencement week was begun with
what was service of reverent worship,
notable in praise, prayer and spoken
word. The church building was filled
in every pew, on floor, in galleries.
Flowers and palms banked the pulpit
platform. A wavy line of the colors OF
the graduating class was festooned
from the balconies.
Before the hour of the service every
seat was occupied. save the pews Of
the two central sections reserved for
the senior and junior classes of the
high school. Their teachers, and teach
ers of the grade schools, Superntend
ent Palmer and members of the board
of education were in the congregation.
AS the court house clock struck
the opening notes Of the professional
Holy, Holy Holy" Bishop Heber's
immortal hymn Of the Trinity. as set
to melody by Dykes, were heard.
The combined choristers of Methodist
and Presbyterian churches led the
large graduating class into church with
solemn stateliness, voices and organ in
happy harmony. 1t was real process
sional traversing the whole church
n
regular members of the choir sat with
their classes in the pews.
Members Of the class Of IL wore COL
iegiate gowns and trencners and they
were seated alternate girl and boy in
the pews. The professional hymn was
sung twice over ere all were in place
The adjoining section to the west was
filed by students of the junior year
about to become seniors
At the close Of the service the con-
gregation remained seated while choir
and graduating class marched out to
the stirring strains and words Of Bar.
ng-Gould's Onward. Christian Sol
diers," the occasional. but If they lis
tened, they were still within hearing of
the preacher as he pronounced the
benediction.
Linn On THE Builders"
The preacher was the Rev. James
P. Linn, pastor Of the Presbyterian
church. THE Builders" was his theme.
AS the scripture lesson he had read the
thirteenth chapter of the first letter of
st. Paul to the Corinthian christians.
Casting about, he said, for a subject or
text for the service, he had selected
this chapter because it proclaimed the
truth that all men and women are
builders together with God, and we are
the builders of today" These are some
of the thoughts he expressed:
we often hear of the failures of
men and women to do the thing they
set out to do. I like better to survey
the successes Of men. From study OF
them you can get some inspirat ion for
your own task. 1t is possible today to
do what successful men in all ages
have done.
Men have advanced stage by stage
and have builded many things that
count. They have risen step by step,
from tent to cabin, to palace. They
have come from mud roads to great
railroads in the evolution of transpor-
tation.
Soon to Pass From Mud Road
I'VE in Iowa will soon pass from the
mud road. But we hope that which
ever of the men we choose for COVER
nor will work to produce something of
the needed thing we have heard so
much about during the past SIX
months.
Men have developed great material
things in life. but the human mind has
also been developed and in art music
and literature we trace the onward
march of men and the inner impelling
forces that have wrought for the
achievement. Back of all theologies
back OF ali intellectual building. are
things that make them worth while,
things that in themselves stand out as
the impelling forces. This power of the
life of the man displayed equips other
men in mind and heart. The life beau
tiful is the life inside.
Your ruling passion today should be
to make all your life, inner and outer
strong and beautiful and an Influence
for good to those about you. Let that
be your vision-not one of dollars and
cents or of some high place you should
occupy in the world.
THE men who fail have never
caught the real vision of what life is
and should be. So they haven't any
idea of where they are going.
"And some have caught a vision,
are very proud of it--but fail to build
it into their lives, and so fall short of
attaining it's realization.
II venture to say your teachers more
than once during the past four years
have brought to your mind and heart
some vision of what your life can be
made. Build it into your thoughts and
deeds. Make it and yourself a power
among men.
Fidelity, Sympathy, Patience
You go out and scan and consider
what has counted in the lives of the
successful men and women. You'll find
three things. They are fidelity SYM
pathy, patience.
BE faithful to your task wherever
set. ye:. may think you'll nave a pull
There isn't such a thing. You can be
recommended for a place or a duty but
II you haven't got the pull within
yourself to do the work you can't
hold it.
Cultivate the grace of sympathy
We are too much confined to the home
and the home circle Sympathy goes
out to all men. More has been and
by anything else. think
"Have patience. We want to go out
and conquer the world tomorrow The
great reforms of the world have not
been accomplished in a day. The great