Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-05-30
REV. DAY TALKS TO
THE GRADUATES
EDDYVILLE'S HIGH SCHOOL STUD.
ENTS HEAR TIMELY SERMON
SUNDAY.

laureate service for the class OF 1916
Doxology. ...
Hymn 81.
| Apostles creed.
Invocation and response from choir
Anthem-Send Out Thy Light.
| Scripture reading. ...
Solo-Fact to Face-Miss Dorothy
Shields.
Hymn No. 702.
Sermon by Rev. E. w. Day, subject
Crises"
| Girls trio-June Lafferty, Joe Thay
er, Dorothy Shields. - ..@
Hymn.
Benediction.
Rev. Days sermon in part follows:
! Text, Man shall not live by bread
alone" Matthew "A. -
| The crises of history are the crea'
tors of heroes. When mankind seems
to be the most prosperous, it is least
prosperous when granaries are full,
patriotism is poverty stricken; when
commercial credit Is the surest, moral
credit is bankrupted, and when every
man is guaranteed a fat stomach, his
soul starves to death. For human life
| is not so constituted that 1t can be
nurtured by full granaries, bank &C
counts, and plenty of bread. Humanity
starves on these substances. True,
they feed the animal in man, and up to
certain point are necessary for the
sustenance of life. However, they
have very little to do with the real
man himself 1t Is a gigantic miscon-
ception of life to look at its from the
angle of bread winning. Some take
this view, holding that all political
questions relate to bread and butter,
and that education's mission is to pro-
duce bread winners.
l have perused some history and
never have l found the mention OF
hero whose great mission was bread
winning. I have searched in the hall
Of fame and never have gazed upon a
picture within it's walls under which
was the glowing phrase, HE was
great bread winner" l have seen and
read of marble and granite slabs and
monuments raised above the dust of
heroes, and upon none of them have l
read an epitaph like this, He died
with full stomach" But thumbing
the musty memory book Of history, l
read of silver tongued Demosthenes
ideals Of freedom and culture might
be perpetuated in the face of the op-
position Of his fellow citizens who
chose to bow down to the voluptuous
Philip Of Macedon; of Caesar,
stabbed unto death by his friends upon
the rostra from which he had pre-
scented an appeal for many a law in
their behalf; of tinker of Bedford,
cast into prison on a bread and water
diet, dreaming out the immortal ALE
cory, Pilgrims Progress" Of abused
Columbus, lifting a hidden continent
from an unknown sea; of the Pilgrim
fathers, daring the perils of the waves
and starvation in the wilderness, that
they might worship God as they pleas
ed; of Washington suffering with his
valiant soldiers in the winter quarters
at Valley Forge, and Drawing the ice
laden waters Of the Delaware, that his
country, which he was destined to
father, might break the chains Of
English tyranny and oppression: OF a
Lincoln, presenting his body living
sacrifice on the altar Of nations
freedom. Aye, more! l read of one
nailed to a cruel cross of whom 1t was
said, "He saved others. himself he
cannot save" Indeed, it was he who
said, Man shall not live by bread
alone"
A bread diet never made possible
these heroes of history. Judged as
mere bread winners they were all fail
ures. Many had not even where to
lay their heads.
Let US consider then what has made
| possible these great lights OF history.
No normal man ever lived VINO mas
not had principle Of life. 1t may be
the faulty principle of the bread win
,, ner, or it may be the righteous princi'
pie Of the true hero. The path OF a
righteous principle leads up hill, and
that of the evil rambles downward. 1t
is much easier to follow the way OF
least resistance and "ramble down
ward" than it is to overcome OBJ
stacles and climb upward. Indeed, IN
the doing, it is infinitely harder to
serve righteous principle than BAD
: one.
In this dawn Of the twentieth cen
trry we face some Of the greatest
crises Of our national life, involving q
stronger patriotism, thorough prepar,
edness against war, the righteous. Goo
: fearing citizenship. The call Is clear
America needs sun crowned heroes VINO
will meet these crises whatever the cost
may be. II you want the flag to mean n
something to you, mean something tc
the flag. H.
We do not go to school to learn wha'
to think; we go to school to learn now
to think, I consistently contend Tor tne
classical in education. The studies OF
science mathematics English, and the
languages are the real essentials IN
educational courses. But says tne
breadw1nner, These are too difficult
and possibly will never be used IN the
maturer walks Of life" It is sure tna'
they never will, If the choice Is to live
by bread alone. God intends for every
one to render his ultimately highest
service. It was the father of transcen,
dentalism who said Hitch your chariot
to a start" All, my student friend, yot
may never reach the mountain peak
but if you get to the foothills, you have
done far better than he who stays II
the valley.
mean to say, choose the hare
things Many Of you Of this class o.
| Sweet Sixteen" will enter the halls o.
higher learning. When you select YOU
| .1,,,.> 90 study 40 not he temDted tt