The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-05-22
SERMON is DELIVERED
AT COLLEGE
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years; each was peculiarly fitted for
his especial avocation--fitted by God,
but finished by education.
"The great commonwealth of Okla
homa has provided in the Oklahoma
College for Women an opportunity Of
acquiring an education without COST
and without price; the students of'the
college who have ayailed themselves
of this opportunity, owe to the COM
monwealth a great debt; the common
wealth has an investment in each
graduate and the graduate should
elect the course, the pathway, to be
pursued in life in order that that
debt may be fully and we'll and faith
fully repaid.
| DR.. Van Horn then showed the diff
ference in the earning powers of the
| educated and the uneducated man or
| woman; he showed that the one who
had not the advantages Of an educa-
tlOH udu lnS dNcid5c SdiHiHB SdpdCl-
ty of $1.5O per day; of $3.50 per year
of $4,000 during the entire span of
life; that the educated person had an
average earning capacity of $1,000 per
year; of $4,000 for life, an advan.
tage in the course of life, from a dol
lar and cents point of view of $22, 900
over the uneducated one.
"Girls, your diplomas are invest
ments; each diploma carries with it
a guaranty Of your ability. Now, what
return are you going to make to hui
manity? The purely animal human
is known by the amount of benefit
he derives for himself and the amount
of injury he does his fellow; the part.
lv human animal is known by the
greatest benefit he does for himself
with the least destruction to his fell
lows; the spiritual human is known
by the forgetfulness of self and the
great good done for his fellows Now,
which will you elect to be? Will you
elect to emulate the example of Mo-
ses, who passed by the throne of
earthly power in order that he might
lead the people of the mother who
bore him from the bondage under
which they toiled into their just re-
ward?
1T is your duty to make the elec-
ton; it is your duty to remember that
you owe humanity a debt; it is your
duty to remember that you owe to
the world the making Of your own
life one long, sweet song; it is your
duty to remember that the greatest
good in life may be accomplished
through perfect harmony; it is your
duty to remember that all things are
rough and filled with friction unless
a-tuned to harmony by the efforts of
the individual; the wailing sweetness
of the violin is but the harmonizing
of a series of sounds made when the
bow wanders over the discordant
strings; the touching of the fingers OF
the one whose heart is softened with
thoughts of harmony turns the walls
Of discord into sobs of harmony.
touch then the harmonious chords in
your nature; touch the strings of
sweetness with the bow of realism;
don't be a crouch, don't surrender to
the weaknesses of the flesh. don't sur.
render to the hand OF adversely. Rob
ert Burns, the sweet singer of the
Scottish highlands, died a drunkard
because of adversity; Edgar Allen
Poe, the weird singer of America. told |
the world that he could not withstand
the blows of fate when he sobbed
forth the song of the Raven.
All virtues may become vices if
carried to extremes. Elect to make I
your lives that which the good God in I
tended them to be. Make that cleo |
tion now 1t is up to you to say
whether you will ascend the throne
OF the Pharaohs or turn to the deliv- /
cry from bondage and to the uplift-
ing OF all the weak and erring mem
bers of the human family
Following the benediction, pro-
nounced by Rev. G. Lyle Smith. the
Recessional was rendered with feel.
ing by the college club.