Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1917-06-13
Or. RANDOLPH AD-
DRESSES GRADUATES
Dwells Upon Gods Gift To
The American Nation

BacCaulaureate services neld IN
Wolf Hall last Sunday evening
were largely attended. DR.. Her.
bert F. Randolph, DID,, pastor of
Grace NJ. Z. Church, Wilmington,
delivered the charge to the young
men. basing his sermon upon Luke
"Trade We herewith until
come" DR.. Randolph dwelt on the
+r9redv Of the uninvested talent
and urged the young men to make
use of the gift that God has given
them. He said in part: "To lose
the vision of the goal is the great
ner,I of the practical man. We
reed the vast inspiration which is
horn of the finished achievement.
Il man keeps his eye steadily fix
Ell on probable defeat he will
suuander his resources all along
the road of life. The anticipation
If triumph is one of the sure sec
-rtS of victory. In such days as
these we all need to cultivate most
assiduously the habit of the seers,
those men who see the triumph
from afar. But the second and
more apparent principle of the
text is the greater and more urg-
emit thought of the claim of the
Immediate.
The words of urgent exhorta-
ton, Trade until I come,' remind
US that we must be soldiers as we'll
as seers. Trade means capital and
interest. And what is life's cap
ital? What is the pound that we
are commanded to invest? 1t is
life regarded from the standpoint
of an investment. And what is
our capital as traders in the king
dom? We each have capital of
truth, of conscience, of ideals, of
ability. We are called upon to in
vest these gifts. The nation calls
for this investment. 1t summons
every man to do his bit for the
world conflict for freedom, for the
great boon of liberty and justice
in the earth, and any man who
heeds not that call will suffer the
memorable penalty of being de-
prived of the gift which he pos
sesses. The universe is so con-
structed that every investment
iustifes itself in the interest it re-
turns. The greatest tragedy Of
life is that which is here depicted
when a man having a gift from
heaven fails to use it for the COM
mon good.
The truth is a great truth in
history. The rise and fall OF ma
tons mark the movement of Gods
purpose. Nothing on the pages OF
history is more clear than that a
nation is invincible, so long as she
obevs the laws of her own destiny
When the day comes in which she
forgets her mission and wraps her
peculiar function in napkin and
buries it away in the earth, She
Is Doomed
The speaker cited illustrations
from history and declared, IN
some respects we Americans nave
been accorded the rarest privileges
without the gift of God. Sucn
talents have never been entrusted
to the other nations of the earth.
We are to be the feeders, the n
nances, the fighters for the whole
earth. Such ability no nation ever
had entrusted to it. But our re-
sourses will become our share un-
less we respond to the command
to 90 out and trade with it. we
are making history today with
such rapidity that it well nlgh
takes our breath away. God re-
vokes no resource so long as 1t IS
being employed for the uplitt OF
the world. =,
DR.. Randolph in closing applied
the truth to the spiritual life, urg-
ing the development of the higher
things which make of a man S
soul.