Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-06-03
under ORDERS" ARE
GRADUATES OF TODAY.
Man Ever Hears InSistent Inner
Voice Crying Il Must"
Il Must"
CAPITALIZE YOUR PAST.
Sermon To Graduates OF Annap-
oils High School Preached By
DR.. H. w. Burgan At
First M. Z. Church.

/ FIRST M. l.. IhurCn.
Before a congregation that filled the
First Methodist Episcopal Church yes
terday morning. the pastor. Rev DR..
h. W. Burgan, preached an earnest.
forceful sermon TO the graduates of
the High School, full of practical
thoughts and timely application.
/ The church was decorated with
! ferns and roses, inside the altar rail.
and the music by the choir was of
special high order during the service.
The graduates occupied the middle
block of pews, and many of the teach
ers and undergraduates were also
present.
DR. Burgan took for his text Mark
viii chapter, 3lst verse; THE Son of
Man Must" His theme was Under
orders" DR. Burgan said in part
Five times Jesus used the word
Must about himself and each time il
is employed in the sense of obligation.
| The Son of God who was pleased TO
style himself the Son of Man felt that
he was Under Orders Must'-that
word sounds strange applied To Him.
| Here is the freest and mighticst life
ever lived under the canopy of heaven.
| but its very freedom and strength
placed upon il the demands of obli-
cation. Must rings through all the
channels of His being while he travels
the sin-stained and sorrow-soaked
highways of the earth. Christ was
Under Orders" He said 81 must
be about my Fathers business; the
| Son of Man must preach the Kingdom
of Heaven, | must work the works of
Him that sent me, the Son of Man
must suffer many things, He must be
delivered into the hands of ST nful
men"
The humanity of Christ would not
| have been of the normal sort had He
not felt the sense of obligation No
man ever becomes unlike his Lord i'm
| the sense that he passes out OF the
realm of moral responsibility. Man
ever hears the insistent inner voice
crying. 81 must. / must"
This sense of obligation grows out
of the fact that men are the sons of
God. Our divine origin-created i'm the
image of God-places mankind under
orders II puts the Must i'm his soul.
Men must not forget that they are a
bit Of Go, living for time in a mar
velous dwelling called the human
body
| Men are under obligation also be-
cause they are children of the race.
Z, We are children of God. but children
of men too. We are a deposit OF all
the past. Capitalize your past. Every
outstanding character of history, every
great world movement. every epoch
making age has placed the men of to-
day under obligation. Responsibility
rests upon us also becuse we are chill
dren of America Our history. our
struggles as a nation-these put us un-
der orders, they say, Must to men in
these stirring times. Americans are
compelled men, compelled because OF
what their fathers were and did. Our
bones and our American institutions
make demands upon us.
The second Must of Jesus dealt
with the Kingdom of Heaven. This
means that Christ saw an ideal state.
perceived the possibility of it's becom-
ing fact on earth, and with this Wis
ion stirring his soul he was under or
ders TO proclaim II, to preach It, that
all men might have the same vision
and work for its accomplishment. Wis.,
ion was the glory of the Old Testa-
ment prophets; it makes the closing
book Of the New Testament sublime. II
lifts Jesus out ofthe realm of the ordi-
nary man, IL exalts any man who sees
the ideal. Education demands that
men see what others can't see. and all
progress has come through those that
needed vision.
Jesus further said must work
the works of Him that sent me. See
ing is not enough. Men who meet
their obligatios must work for the
bringing to pass of the things which
they see in visions. Work accomplishes
wonders. We are to be workers.
The Son OF Man must suffer many
things, said the Master. He realized
that work, energy, life must be en-
ployed in the worlds behalf until it
spells sacrifice and suffering.
Lastly, Christ said, / must be de-
livered into the hands of sinful men
must give my life a ransom for
many. ] must pay the supreme sac
rifice. must die. No soldier on the
battle lines of Europe to-day is at his
best until he has said in his own soul,
must die to self.
The graduates of to-day are under
orders to see, to work, to sacrifice, to
surreder themselves. In the stirring
days ahead only such educated persons
as obey orders shall be instruments
! under God for the saving of the
world"