The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-05-31
PUBLIC ENJOYED
REV. SPARkES' TALK
LARGE CROWD LISTEN TO BAG
CALAUREATE SERMON ON
SUNDAY EVENING
ALL PROFITED BY REMARKS
SINGING BY GLEE CLUB AND
ITS TEACHER ADDED TO
THE COMPLETENESS.

The baccalaureate services for the
thirty-seventh graduating class OF the
Sank Centre high school were held
in the Junior high auditorium, Sunday
evening, May 27. The auditorium was
we'll filled. Rev. C. S. Sparkes preach
ed the sermon, while the remainder OF
the service was in the hands of Rev.
R. w. Duel.
At eight o'clock the professional,
composed of the Glee clubs, the Senior
class and the high school chorus, en-
tered from the rear door and march
ed in the order given, up the center
aisle singing Jerusalem the Golden"
The Glee Club took seats on the
stage and the Seniors went into re-
served section.
After the invocation by Rev Duel,
the congregation and chorus sang
"Come Thou Almighty God" Follow
ing the scripture reading the Glee
Clubs rendered Kipling's famous Gre
cessional" in which ROLAND Nutting
took the tenor solo.
Rev. Sparkes then delivered his adj
dress. He talked to the Seniors ex-
clusively, explaining his purpose in so
doing. but his message was on each
listener could we'll apply to themsel-
YES. The text was from Kings GIT:
"And Elisha said, Lord, pray thee,
open his eyes, that he may see."' Mr..
Sparkes said that he wanted to show
the class that was about to graduate
little of what life held for them;
that all things had rosy tint now,
but that it could not always be that
way; that he wanted to give them a
chart and compass by which they
could find their way through all diff
culties. The sermon was in fgurative
language in which the speaker COM
pared life to sea. He pointed out
the wrecks that might be made Of
lives, and proved his statement in
bringing up the lives Of men who had
lived in vain. The causes of these
wrecks, said Mr.. Sparkes, were the
result Of doing evil, following the line
of the least resistance, serving two
masters, greed, desire for glory and
incorporation with God. He spoke
of the storms of the sea such as adj
versity, sorrow and trouble. He warm
D ed against the silent voices of the sea
of life-too great desire for wealth
and pleasure. Most of all did he warn
n the class of the "derelict ship"-the
ship without captain, a chart, COM
pass or port. Mr.. Sparkes asked the
class what port they were going to
n make and then pointed out that in or
der to make the right port they must
have their chart, compass and pilot.
In concrete terms these words were:
n for chart, the Bible, for compass,
their own consciences and for a pilot,
x Jesus Christ.
= The sermon was one that did not 20
= over the heads of the audience. It
= was penetrating and could not miss
3 its mark. Perhaps the utterance that
Il left the greatest impression on the
= minds of the young people to whom
= it was addressed was this: edo you
= realize, young people, that the world
i is going to be better, or worse, place
= for your having lived in it ?"In clos
= ing he gave them slogan taken from
= an English martial poem: "Play the
= Gamew
= Miss Marian Remington, assisted by
= B. Christianson, with the violin, and
= Miss Lynne at the piano, added q
= touch that made the service perfect
= in the singing of Handel's Largo
= The audience remained seated afte,
= the benediction while the occasional
= Coward Christian Soldiers, was
> sung.