Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-06-06
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REV. GUY w. CAMPBELL DISCUS
SES CHARACTER PROBLEMS IN
BACCALAURATE SERMON.

The following are few transcripts
taken from the Bacca4aureate Ser
mon preached at the Methodist
church Sunday evening by Rev Guy
w. Campbell
The subject of the sermon was,
'"Li-9's Triple Alliance" and the text
Was round in John 17:18-21
"Iy subject suggests to the mind
the many alliance of history that have
made for the peace of the world
And my text is a part of the great
praTa~ Of the Master in which He
pra.s fer the UnI' Of NON, men 2. /
Gc1 il lie u'nin1e triumph of right
We canrot but MCGEE in this te--
the :~' Independence ns the l, THEM
and THOU This is he create Of
all ripe alliances. u is these Indi-
vidual, Social and Divine units in
HOl" Trinty that I would call your
attic ion 10 at this farewell service:
tina in the league 81 these mighty
uni-s you may win 1ife"s greatest
bat-,es.-
The Individual Compact speak
of man as a ccmpact hat is an aggre-
cation of intelligence, sensibility and
will power; all of which ftfully
framed together constitutes a man or
forms a character. The fitfully franz
ing Of this aggregate is the supreme
art OF life. Make a man or woman of
yourself and you have done the great
est Feat of life" When Shakespeare
said, 'Know thvself and to myself
be true" he asked you to conquer the
world. The test of every religious
political and educational system is
the man which it forms-
1t is in the Individual that the
victory over the world 44lns. Man
was nade for mastery anil the mas
terry of self is his greatest acquisition
Il said that the individual was
com pact, and now, in order that we
may plainly see the nature of the
cOnpast, l call attention to the units
of which it is composed, and the ma
ture Of the battles to be fought in
order to possess mastery
The Mastery of the Mind. The
man who knows is the master-man.
He walks with a calm and patient
heart to the duties of life. The man
aspiring for congress, that does not
know, has but one chance in 24O, for
the senate, one in 345 for the presi-
dency, one in 487 for the supreme
bench, one in SAT
''T0 beat back Ignorance is no easy
task. Emerson asks, 'What is the
hardest task in the world?' and he
ansW ers, To Think
''There are three great enemies
one OF which usually ,besets the
scholars path The first in order of
importance is INCIDENCE. \ More
students fail to become scholars for
want of ambition than for want of
BRAHMS. A lazy man never became a
scholar. The great intelligences of
the ages have without exception been
prodigious workers.
The second enemy is IMPATIENCE
The road the scholar must take is
not only difficult to travel, but it is
also long. You should remember
that the great things of life are us
Ua,ly acquired by a slow process
These ARE days when the lure of in
dustry and the glamour of war will
entice many of the young to leave
their books before their student days
are ended. They will do we'll to heed
the advice of President and his adj
viseTs given to two hundred college
presidents few weeks ago, when he
advised the high school and younger
collegiate men to stay by their books
as the best way Of serving their
country
The third enemy is INTEMPER-
ANCE. Not merely the intemperance
yisOrs given to two hundred college
of the inebriate, but that of broad
er nature that is the parent of all
others. Dissipation, which in the stu
dent takes any form of exhausted
physical energy. Many students have
failed to win intellectual honors or
even to win reaonabl success in life
becare of the dissipation of physical
energy. The storehOuse from which
the mind draws it's enervating powers
must be kept replenished-
The mastery of the Heart. Anoth-
err member of the individual compact
is the heart. 1t is the center of SEN
timent; from it proceeds the affec-
tions of life. One of the greatest
contributions to life are the noble
sentiments that spring from the heart.
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