News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-06-14

Let each one serve where most ne
needed,
Each day to truth his pledge renew!
Then as one wings from morn to even,
The day of life shall take it's flight,
Well pass through sunset gates to
Heaven,
Where Joy abounds in realms of light.
Life. a Career or Mission.
e'What shall It profit a man TO gain the
whole aoorld and lose his soul?"-
Mark 8: SO.
With the passing days comes the
time of the year when June flowers,
June breezes, June brides, and June
graduates are very much in evidence.
We love the June flowers, their mes
sage is so sweet after the long months
of stress. We revel in the June
-breezes; we extend our heartiest con-
CALCULATIONS and good wishes to the
June bride, and we stand in awe of the
dignity and learning of the June
graduate. June is indeed the time of
beautiful, of wonderful things. 1t is
the time of promise, the time of OPP
portunity.
We congratulate you members OF
the Graduating Glass Of 1916 on the
fact that you have attained to this
place in your educational career. This
is the week to which you have been
looking with eager anticipation for
wears. This week will hold the full
filment of many of your dreams. 1t
is decidedly in order as the opening
exercise of Commencement Week that
YOU pause for a time at the parting
of the ways and consider some of the
great principles that are involved in
life, that haply an honest considera-
ton of them may lead to a worthy
choice that will inevitably have a vital
bearing upon the conduct with which
you fill that unknown realm into
which you are so soon to enter. The
responsibility for your welfare is now
undergoing an invisible transforma-
tion. 1t is being shifted from shoulders
that have hitherto borne it to your
own. Heretofore you have had par
ents to choose for you; experts to plan
your courses of study in accordance
with the latest and most approved
methods of pedagogy, teachers whose
training has enabled them to smooth
the way of learning and make the ac-
QUESTION of knowledge as easy and
pleasant for you as possible. Now
these in large measure will be with
drawn or left behind and you will be
required to think and plan and choose
for yourselves Having been taught
to walk, yours the duty of choosing
the paths in which you will walk; hav-
ing been taught the use of the pig
ments, yours is the duty of painting a
picture on the canvas of the years.
1t may be masterpiece of art, or an
unsightly daub betraying wilfulness
and wasted opportunity; a picture of
life upon which men may look to re-
ceive benediction, or a confusion and
discord of colors that will make the
world poorer by its presence.
Now at the point where the path
DIVORCES, the resultant paths leading
to so widely differing realms, it will,
/ am sure be time well spent to pause
and consider the question pressing for
an answer at this time, Shall l plan to
make of life a Career or Mission?
We are all endowed with the gift
of life. Few here this evening, and
certainly none among you Seniors,
who do not feel the bounding blood of
health and strength, who do not feel
conscious of the power of thought,
memory, hope, aspiration, all bound
together in the bundle called life.
As human beings we are the aristo-
Gratis of this planet. Humanity stands
at the topmost of the hugest and long
est fight we know of. Through count
less aeons, our ancestors, human and
sub-human, have waged battle which
has put us where we are. Through a
process which beggars our wonder
stories, we have come by eye and ear,
by cunning hand and bordering brain.
His is poor soul that does not thrill
at the thought of i'll Hers is a poor
soul that does not at times rise in the
queenliness Of her womanhood, and
say without the least immodesty, "Be-
held what being am 1, reality that
will outlast Orien and the Pleiades,
being made for eternity, a being whose
ultimate destiny is inextricably inter-