The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-05-21
GRADUATING
CLASS HEARS
GOOD SERMON
Rev. E. E. Rice.OFers Strong
and Valued Advice to
Muscogee Graduates.
SERMON GIVEN
Offers Encouragement TO
Young People Starting
Out on Lies Sea.

Graduates OF the Muscogee high
school last night heard the bacca-
laureate sermon, offered by Rev. F..
2. Rice, of the West Hill Baptist
church, Pensacola. Practically the
entire class was present, and the ad-
vice offered by the Pensacola minis
ter was Of a kind which if followed
will mean no mistake for those who
do so. "What Is TRUTH am the
truth" was the basis of the dis
course. which, in addition to the
large numper of pupils, was also
heard by many others, strong sup
porters of the excellent school at
MusCogee.
Rev. Mr.. Rice said in part:
Rev. Mr.. Rice's Sermon.
you are tonight sailing out into
the open sea, you should not be sat-
isfied with past achievements, as you
are passing (more or less) from the
restraints and safe guards that have
hitherto chaperoned you, remember
there is something to be found
farther on. To illustrate the de
grees of development in education,
one has said A worm that crawIs
up out of the ground looks around
and says, this is a great world / am
in, and it is; the rabbit gallops Off
up the side of the hill, looks around
and says, TINS is great world |
am in, and it is; the squirrel on the
topmost branch of a tall tree looks
away across the fields and forests
and says, this is a great world l am
in; the old eagle yonder soaring
above the trees and toward the
clouds looks down and out on the
surroundings and says, this is a great
world | am in Each one is correct
in his conclusion, but because of ad
vantage in viewpoint one sees more
than another. What is truth? Wait
upon the Lord and you shall mount
up with wings as eagles. for He of
whom It is written Never man spoke
like this man" said j am the truth
by the material we may seek to
find God, and not altogether in vain.
BY the sciences we may march on to
higher ground-AnatOmy, Physbol-
ogy, Biology and Psychology con-
verges into God. They correlate and
are attached TO one center. Kepler
when studying the stars cried out,
% God | think after thee The
psalmist said SThe heavens declare
the glory Of God and the armament
sheweth his handiwork, day unto
dav uttereth speech and night unto
night sheweth knowledge. The Wis
ible points to the invisible, the tenn
poral tells US of the eternal, and the
immortal lOngings in us tell of a
world to be as the pilgrims hear the
pillows roll before they reach the
sea. But if left alone with this
knowledge, with no other key in our
hands, we would be much like the
heathens. Compared to the other de-
grees Tor realms) Of light we would
be as the worm that said this is a
great world | am in, not knowing
it was at the foot of the ladder and
could not see afar. Only IN the
light Of another revelation can we
understand better what is truth, [
do not agree with the poets method
when he said,
When my boy with eager questions
Asking how and where and when,
lakes all my store of wisdom
Asking Ger and Ger again,
Questions oft to which the answer
Give to others still a key,
l have said, Wait my child and see
see.'
LET us not wait, but march on UNI
til we can wait upon the Lord and
mount up with wings as eagles.
There is another vision and more
truth revealed higher up. There is
book I would have you. study. One
| has said There is but one book, bring
me the book, the Bible There is a
man in this book, He is the ideal
teacher. That man is Christ the
Saviour. who said, 4 am the truth
You tell US Of the war-Yes-
Careless seems the Great Avenger
History's pages but record
One death-qrapple in the darkness
'Twixt false systems and the Word,
| Truth forever on the scaffold,
Wrong forever on the throne
/ Yet that scaffold sways the future
! And behind the dim unknown
| Standeth God within the shadow
| Keeping watch above his own.
! There at the cross bring tns