Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-06-12
INTELLIGENCE MAKES
WHEELS GO round
Stirring Baccalaureate Sermon
Preached to High School
Graduates at First M. E.
Church.
REv.DR. H. W.BURGAN,S SERMON.
Mind is Matters Motor Power---Push.
Pull. Progress. Onward and Upward
---Make Little World Of Your
Own and be Worth While.

Wake Little world OF Tour
Own and be Worth While.
When commencement DAYS are but :
vague memory to the Glass of 1916
there will yet linger the impression
made ON that class, by the preachine
OF their baccalaureate sermon by the
>tey. DR.. Harry W. Burgan. pastor OF
the First Methodist Episcopal Church
whose stirring sermon yesterday car
rled with it truths, and forcibly i'm
pressed lessons that will not soon be
forgotten.
me large congregation that filled
the church was also deeply impressed
and gave attentive ear throughout the
service. Within the altar rail were
floral decorations of red roses and
daisies, heightening the effect The
music by the choir was special feat
ure of the service, and the congrega-
tlonal singing formed no small part.
The High School graduates marched
into the church with the corps of
teachers, the County Superintendent of
Schools and undergraduates and occu-
pied front seats. The pastor con-
graduated the Glass of 1916 upon hav-
ing finished the course. and admonish-
ed them to be mindful of their school
and grateful to the teachers who had
trained them. DR.. Bugan took the fol-
lowing text:
sand when the Living creatures
went, the wheels went by them:
and when the living creatures
were lifted up from the earth, the
wheels were lifted up for
the spirit of the living creature
was in the wheeIs.--Ez. 1, 10, 20.
DR.. Bugan said in part:
The text is a bit of the vision given
to the Prophet Ezekiel as he stands on
the banks of the river Chebar in far off
Chaldea. In the vision he sees wheels
and living creatures. He discovers
the absolute dependence of the wheels
upon the creatures. When the creatures
move the wheels move, when the crea-
lures are lifted up, the wheels are lift
ed up. In fact all movement by the
wheels he attributes to the spirit of
the living creatures being in the
wheels.
The wheels represent matter. mani
mate the lifeless world that lies at our
feet The living creatures symbolic
mind intelligence. AS the wheels of
the vision only moved as the living
creatures worked upon them. so the
outer world is dead thing until pur-
pose. force, will moves it. 1t is a fall
lacy to suppose that mechanism can
produce motion-to attempt to derive
the working of the wheels from some
power vested in themselves. The en-
gine always implies the engineer. ALI
form is inert until force fills it. The
spirit of life is the only dynamic ex-
planaton. What | mean is this that
you can only explain the universe on
the ground that back of it and in it is a
Supreme Intelligence. In other words
God is and because He is, He spoke
and the universe came into being. The
more you are educated the greater will
be your appreciation for the beauties
and wonders of this world. but never
for a single moment be guilty of for
getting that back of creation there is a
Creator to whom you owe everything.
This Creator--God-w wanted co-work-
ers in making the wheels of the world
move. He willed to share the respon-
sibility and Joy with intelligent crea-
lures of His own making So He
breathed into the nostrils of man the
breath of life, and he became a living
soul-a sharer with God in making
the inanimate move forward and up
ward. II is true that there has been
no progress anywhere in this world
except the human race took the initi-
atiye and blazed the way Wherever
you see movements change, progress
you may know that man is somewhere
near The wheels of the engine are
seen to move and you know at once
that live engineer is in the cab What
a glorious privilege is ours that we can
endeavor. and can see as a result. the
moving of the world toward better
things. 1t would be a pity if the
young women and men of the gradual
ing class of 1916 felt no desire today
to do a real part in making the wheels
move. Surely. you are fired with an
ambition to play vital role in the
progress of the world. How can you
do it? If l can help you answer that
question shall be satisfied. The rest
of my task then is to tell you the kind
of creatures that compel things tC
move before them as they rush toward
success and God. / shall do it under
three headings. 1. The trained crea-
ture. >. The creature with inspired
Imagination. 5. The crature with SOU
power.
II. Such a creature is trained one
The child has hidden within it the fac.
ulties which,to become effective in sery
ice must be developed through train.
ing. 1t is the function of training tc
develop these so that there shall be q
healthy body. clear and well-inform-
ed intellect. sensibilities quickly sus
ceptible to every right feeling and