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RIGHTS AND DUTIES"
THE BISHOPS SUBJECT
B,ecaIaureate Sermon Preached in
St. Anne's Church by the
Bishop Of Lexington, Ky.
TET NO MAN SEEK HIS OWN" /"
Strength and Weakness Of American
People Lie in Their Insistenee Up
on Their Rights.

The ri. Rev. Lewis William Burton
D d. Bishop of Lexington, KY.
preached the baccalaureate sermon be-
fore the graduating class of ST. Johns
College in St. Anne's Church yester-
day morning The Bishop took for his
text Cor. x:24, Let no man seek his
own. but every mans another's
wealth" and for his subject Rights
and Duties
The preacher made 1t very apparent
from historic instances that the
strength and weaknesses of the Amer
lean people inherited withAnglo-S Saxon
traditions lie in their insistance upon
their rights. He also showed how GER
tain Continental peoples, notably the
Germans, stand for duty even at the
expense of rights. Then he enlarged
upon reciprocal rights and duties and
finished with a telling monastic le-
gend, OF the Monk who left the vision
of his glorified Lord given him in his
cell. to obey a call of duty and return
ed TO find the glory of the vision in
creased and to hear the words "If you
had not gone | could not have re-
NAMED"
The sermon was remarkable for
compelling attention to high stand
ard The preacher never stopped to
his hearers; but. like true master,
required his disciples TO rise to his
level He was never above their
heads the simplest might have gained
much from hearing him, but he made
no concession to ignorance or indiffer-
ence. Such preaching is stimulating
and with the high sense of duty, not
contrary to inalienable rights clearly
put before them the graduates of A. ID.
1916 have something to live for.
The student body attended the serv-
ice and was seated in the nave, just
back OF the Faculty and the Board OF
Governors and Visitors. The gradual
ing class sat at the head of the nave
OF the church. The President of the
College, DR.. Thomas Fell, occupied a
stall in the chancel, so did the Rev.
George Il. Savage, who read the first
lesson, the service being Morning
Prayer and also the Rev. James nj.
Masruder, who read the second lesson.
The rector the Rev. Joseph p. Nc
Comas' d. d., took the service from
the sedilia in the sanctuary.
A very large congregation was prese-
ent including several clergymen and
other prominent people. The choir
sang Stanfords TIE Deum in B fiat and,
for an anthem at the collection BLESS
ed be the God and Father of Our Lord
Jesus Christ" by S. S. Wesley.
On November 4, 1915, the preacher
said he had heard III convention on
civic interests. the President of Johns
Hopkins University cay that American
cities were more interested III their
rights than the German municipalities
which had more at heart their duties.
This had set him Bishop Burtonl 10
thinking. This sermon is the result
of his reflections. Americans think
more of their rights than they do OF
their duties Nicholas Murray Butler
said that the English race was born
but it has been brought face to face
with tyrants who have tried to take
these rights from them.
Magma Carta has been said to be the
greatest bill of rights ever written. 1t
did not make rights-it enunciated
them. a benevolent despotism has
been declared the best form of gov
ernment. Labor unions aave gainei
rights for workingmen' yet workmenr
by their violence and the invasion OF
the rights of others, have excited en-
nifty. When government becomes
destructive ii should be changed or
abolished. Duties should be consider
ed abstractly just as are attacks upon
the rights of others. We look upon
suffrage as an Unborn right Yet
some barter it. How great would be
the good il this country would only
undertake TO teach the value of sur
trage to its citizens, We are apt to
think more of our rights than cur
duties We should defend our rights
ST Paul stood upon his rights as
Roman citizen. Belgium stood for Its
rights in such splendid way that she
won the love of neutrals and allies and
the admiration of its foes.
The nation and race that would moi
stand for its rights, would lose its YER