The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-05-31

winism. That specie of evolution
that finds your origin where God
places it tends to the development
and the maturity of your noblest
powers.
The progress of the individual
means the progress of the race, for
our lives are circles charging into
the outer circle until the shore of
life be reached. An ascending ener-
gy is in the human race and the
whole moves forward with one
mighty idea and anticipation. Every
advence of conscious intelligence
sounds the death knell of old inven-
tions, sciences and forms of political
economy and rings the bells of glad
ness over the cradle of the illustrious
child of conscious freedom.
Every true idea is permanent and
imperishable in the history of man
as are in the inherent atoms of the
universe. The achievement of to-
day will be history tomorrow. AS
our development so our progress.
Our life is an apprenticeship to
the truth that around every circle
another may be drawn; that there
is no end in nature but every end a
beginning. There are no fixtures in
nature. The universe is fluid and
volatile. Permanence is but word
of degree. Our world as seen by
the Almighty is transparent law.
That culture is but an idea which
draws after it all this train of cities
and institutions. Let us rise into
other ideas and these will be sup
planted by others. You admire the
granite built by wavering hand,
but the hand that built it is greater.
Better than the hand and nimbler,
was the invisible thought that con-
ceived it.
And now let me suggest some
things to you which l conceive to be
of highest importance for your flu
ture we'll being. Some of you will
pass on to higher schools of learning
and from thence to your various vo-
cations in life. Let me advise you to
always adhere to the dictates of COM
mon reason; and never suffer your
minds and hearts to be perverted
with the modern false light of high
er criticism. Remember the old and
tried forms of social, political and
religious systems and do relegate
them to the limbo of vain magma
tions.
l would also guard you against
to neglect the opinions of
others. Indifference to censure or
applause is the index of heart
stubborn in it's own pride and hard
ened in it's wickedness. You cannot
stand alone in insulated solitude. |
You have no moral right to sunder
the ligaments that bind you to the
social body. No one is fortified with |
such a mound of majesty that can
need no aid, and fear no danger from |
his fellow being.
Do not allow yourselves to believe
the established customs of society |
and the times in which you live can
be subverted without the destruction |
Of every valuable thing. Never |
censure those on the heights above |
you, nor condemn those in the vale |
below Remember also to cultivate
your moral natures. Neither the
mind nor countenance can be truly |
beautiful unless suffused with that |
mild light, that ineffable resistless |
glory that beams from an uncor-
rupted heart.
To this end let me direct you to
the study of the Holy Scriptures. |
Here you will find the highest truth |
gushing from the pure fountains of
eternal love and mercy. If you ere
ate in your mind a di5respect for
this sacred volume you will soon
find your frail bark in wind-tossed,
shoreless ocean engulfed in despair
and ruin. Thus early in life learn
to derive all the Importance of time
from eternity. 1t will dart its efful-
gence thru the gloomy vale of death |
and display to your astonished vision
he Celestial Paradise blooming and
Frightening under the smiles Of in
finite love.
You will soon matriculate from
The school where in the blush and
bloom of youth your happy feet
nave mingled in classroom and
study. You will say farewell to
your Alma Mater. 1t will be sweet
rs it will be meet for you in ripper
years to go back in memories hall
% scenes of these early days. Faces
hen wrinkled with care and brows
licked with snow will be seen and
known as the ones you loved in the
1eyday of youth. Some will have
turned to dust and their memory is