The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-06-09

others to do just now, that the choice |
of subjects is an embarrassing one. !
There is so much uncertainty as to-
the future, so many traditions that /
have been and are being overturned, !
that what lies beyond our day socially
and industrially is beyond the faith
Oming of man. These are times, as
you, my young friends, must soon
realize, of stern, awful duties and
sacrifices for the common veal, that
you should and must in conscience
| share, and you will be made beUUer by
/ them or not as you meet them cheer
! fully or in bad grace. 1t is not likely
/ our schools and colleges will ever
! send out their sons and daughters to
| grimmer or more glorious duties than
/ will be waiting you and other grad
yates of this year, or 20 a fuller real
ization that 'life Is real, life Is
earnest"
If I can help impress on YOUR
minds the significance of this conflict,
so that YOU may realize all that our
part in il moans-What defeat would
entail on this land of ours, on cur
continent, that until now has peace
fully gone its own ways; what caIaln-
ity it would bring to the world-then
should indeed be thankful for this
opportunity. For I could feel that l
had help lend an additional fervor to
your prayer when YOU say, "my cOun-
try, God bless her" and had caused
you even more reverentiy to bow your
heads before the Star Spangled Ban
ner.
> 1t is we'll that YOU should realize
the fearful necessity that has
dragged us. a peace loving peOple-as
all republics are peace loving-inro
the meshCs of this horrible carnage
which is beyond our imaginatiOns
even to conceive 1t is we'll that you
should recall our forbearancc, the un-
eXampled curbing of a nations wrath
the seeming compromise of natiOna
honor, for the sake Of peace, that We
might not kjndle the fire Of war still
higher It's we'll that you REGAL
that long before the blow had strucl
us directly in Ene murder Of on
citizens WHO were pursuing thei
peaceful ways, the world had alread,
been appalled, and outraged by tn
ruthless destruction Of a little uatiOI
whose only offeuse was being in a pc
sition desirable for the execution O
the plans OF g cOnQuerOT, q natiO
that demanded nothing more than t
be allowed to pursue its own thrift
course; by the desecratiOn and de
stuctiOn of homes; by the murder c
hostages that would have brought
blush to the faces Of those barbar
German iedueIS OF I"e p'e-~',' - = Id
era D. LAe 'iue' 9ePa[aLlcH Oh lam
lies; by the uneN2mpled atter2Pt L
iorce the conquered TO forge the Dol
IhaI were 10 oeStFoF VheIr own GouI
JfNmen; ny INC d.sce&ato' we VIII III
say OF the Huies OF clVlIIzed Wafl q
Oul OF every dic'..Ie OF !o'"3ILI! VlI'
STOOD oeI"een II,e -1'oeil"I HOS
ana thcf AIMS. one OF IHe mo
humane advances OF Ghri5ten3o
since IneIt l'9 D,., d G-lrl Is 81 u II
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"I9H CouId picture Tor YOU t
Tanl ION wreck That has been made
5 faf 9 i, OF c!FILIz2tton' that ha
n le-t me |t 4l non OF th' world l
t tS,'roii I, Iuat you might see tn
t ti,ete "eS pfeH no SHRINE so sacr
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t6a ~ III soEeti.,Ile,'I2 undet VIM
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'''r ", '''i ''Vi's,
me world knows that clvilizati
IS at death grips with the HOhenzC
fern. And to read the history of tn
family Is to read prediction of t