Weekly journal-miner., 1916-06-07
RELATIONSHIP OF EDUCATION ID
 OUR LIVES
SUBJECT OF BACCALAUR- FATE SERMON DELIVER ED BY REV. SHIRES TO 1916 HIGH CLASS.
(From Tuesdays Daily.)

The Class of 1o16 Of the Prescott High School, parents of the gradu- ates and friends crowded the Congre- gational church to its doors Sunday evening, the occasion being the bac- calaureate sermon delivered to the class by Rev. H. H. Shires. rector oi St. Luke's Episcopal church. The Relationship of Education to Life, was the subject chosen by Rev. Shires, who spoke in part as follows
 Education is not the oramming of the mind with facts. It is not the absorption of book knowledge, all though ono must, of course retain a certain residuum of the contents Of text books. Education is, rather, as the derivation suggests, drawing out of the potentialities, the possibilities of a life. It is the development of the body. mind, and soul. The edu- cation of an engineer, for example, is not in taxing the capacity of his memory with statistics and facts; it is the developing of those character ' istics which enable him to grasp problem and supply method of solu- ton.
 "So education considered in the | light of a development. demands a guiding principle, but since education I is education for life, there must be the same end and purpose for educa- ton as for life.
 "What is the purpose of living? Why are we here? For what cause were we born? What IS the end of life?
 That definition which defines life as Correspondence with ones envir- onment' is woefully insufficient. Liv- ing is something more than the satis- 1 faction of fish in water. Life Is Of 1 that character which Christ came to give more abundantly. Life IS first of all physical Religion has no quarrel with cnjoyments. physical enjoyments of the young. There is nothing religi- ous in denying the glory and beauty and dignity of physical life Religion says life is I breathe and life also is | I think I pray Life is to be vitally alive, mentally keen and spiritually awake. But even so, why am l alive physically. mentally, morally? What is my reason for being? It brings us back to the question which Aristotle pondered over in his 'summun bonum'. It is the question asked by modern philosophers who ask: What Is the human ideal? And 1t is the question which Christ solved for himself and for us when he said: To this end was l born. for this cause came l into the world. to bear witness to the truth That is the end, the purpose 1 of life. to bear witness to the truth There arc certain supreme values in life. certain verites, the ulti- mate realities. To align ones self with these, to keep in touch with the things eternally true ,this IS the pur- pose of life. To be more concrete. 1 Christ said: I am the Son of Man; in other words, I am the perfect man the perfect example of perfect life. When anyone asks: Am I attaining the purpose for which l was born: let him look at Christ. the perfect man. Let him say, day by day: What would Jesus do:' Bearing wit ness to tine truth is keeping an un- compromised moral ideal; it is affirm ing tine tremendous fact Of the incar- nation.
 "When Mary sat at Jesus feet and | Martha was becoming fretful with much serving. Christ said: Mary Hath chosen the good part. There lis but one thing necdful.' There is but one thing needful in life, to bear witness to the truth. to keep the su- preme purpose of life constantly be- fore us.
 In the development or cducation of our lives, there is the one guiding principle to keep before us. that is. a loyalty 10 those things cternally true. tfc realities of life"
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