The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-06-23
ANNUAL SERMON
TO GRADUATES
Preached by Rev. Clark t.
BrOwnell at Baccalau-
| reate Service
TEXT: WHAT DO YE
MORE THAN OTHERS?
Largely Attended Evening Service in
First Baptist Church Marks Opening
of Commencement Week of Brattle-
boro High School.

In an especially well developed ser
mon by Rev Clark T. Brownell, pastor
Of the First Baptist church, commence
ment week of the Brattleboro high
school opened last evening in that
church A very large congregation was
present, filing the pews on all three
floors. There were handsome decorations
| of mountain laurel, cut flowers and
palms.
While the faculty and students were
marching in and taking reserved pews a
violin and organ number was rendered
| by Alison !. Dugan and Earl A. Braman.
/ The double quartet of the church, con
sisting of Miss Jessie L. Hawlev and
Mrs. c. Z. Farnum, sopranos. Mrs. W. b.
| Douglas and Mrs. A. L. Maynard, con
traltos, A. l.. Maynard and f. V. Morse,
| tenors. and Leland Covev and Fred s.
| knight. basses, sang two anthems and
led in the rest of the singing. Rev DIR.
IT, T. Woodin of the Centre Congrega-
| tional church read the scripture lesson
from Matthew ). Rev Robert A. Num-
Of the Methodist church offered prayer
and Rev Delmar f. Trout of the Uni
| versalist church offered the closing
PRAYER and pronounced the benediction.
i Rev. Mr. Brownell took for his text
Matthew 5:47: What do We more than
others He spoke Of the superior ad
vantages which young people have by
reason of their educational privileges
especially here in Brattleboro, and or
that account they should be superior
people In a time when large portion
of society seeks by every means to dc
less than others it is of great importance
that we give consideration to this high
er ideal of service The measure OF
ones service should be to do more thar
,, others, not to be content TO be as gooC
as the average. This is the ideal by
which all progress is made and is TIN
secret of winning success in any under
taking.
Custom is the enemy of progress.
says Gwen do Just as Others hav
! done Progress is the Accomplishment
of things that others have not reached
In this connection Rev. Mr.. Brownel
cited Columbus as an explorer, Lincoll
as q reformer, and the airplane as al
invention,
Then speaking directly to the elias
Rev. Mr. Brownel said:
Members of the graduating class 0
, the Brattleboro high school:
q congratulate you upon the advar
tages You have enjoyed, of which other
G perhaps have been deprived. | commen
You for your perseverance in the pun
suit of your studies. If YOU have bee
benefited more than Others by the spler
did opportunities which this town OF
c fers its youth, it has been according t
$ the measure that you have embrace
them. As you have improved your OF
7 portunities YOU have improved yoursel
and your equipment for life S dutie
!, and possibilities.
: : " Whatever the tasks to which vo
may give yourselves in the immediat
! future. let me urge upon you the in
$ portance of eager, earnest, intense e.
! fort in the early years of your life. 4
7 the morning hours are the best part
i !, the day for labor, 50 in any field of a
: tivitv, the best part of your lives
: those morning years when the respo
siveness and the resiliencv of your bod
: and soul are at their height.
Whose answers not God s earliest ca
Forfeits or dulls that faculty supren
OF lying open to his genius.
ne ditdlnincHIS OF any person
~ sixty are eclipsed by what he or 81
did or failed to do before he was thirt
O. more than by any other factor. Ever
hour that is wasted is so much SUI
s. tracted from the years that eonstitu
our mortal span. He that kills tin
n has taken a portion of his own lif
and is already committing the crime
suicide. The value of day is not mea
ured by the price you may receive f
your labor, but by the honest usef
toll which you may give to God al
hit man, and by the satisfaction you find
what you have done and what YOU ha'
become. Is not that day best in whi
er you have done more than others9
nd = have read that when the compc
on er. Anton Rubenstein, was in Ameri
in many years ago he was taken by
friend to church on a Sunday mornin
A week later the same friend invit
S" the musician to go with him to churc
of
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