Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1919-05-22
THE BAccALAUREATE SERMON

The closing week exercises of
Trego County High School were op-
ened Sunday evening, May 18, at the
high school building with the bacca-
laureate exercises and sermon The
music for the evening was furnished
by Mrs J. H. Niesley at the piano and
sixtette composed of Mrs Ralph
Pierson, Miss Millholland, Mrs Chas-
Kellogg, Miss Ufford, Miss Drum
mond and Mrs E. J. Hey1, who sang
two selections. The Scripture read
ing from the 10th chapter of Matthew
was by the Rev Baker, of the Baptist
church and the invocation by the Rev
Wade of the Methodist church. The
sermon was delivered by the Rev. B.
| E. Parish, of Lincoln, Nebr-, who
breaches in the Christian church at
Ogallah.
The text used was a part of the
25th verse of the 18th chapter of
| Matthew: stWhosoever shall save his
life shall lose it." The theme was
along the line that duty and obliga-
ton should be the controlling forces
in our lives. Enlarging upon this the
speaker pointed out how Christ had
come into this world and had fulfilled
his mission in face of the fact that
his own personal power could have
| prevented him from doing so and that
| he sacrificed himself for the good Of
/ others. The affairs of mankind are
SO interviewer that a failure of our
| lives hurts someone else. Christ is
| expecting a great deal of each one of
US. Are we going to disappoint him
| A possession of worldly wealth and
| honor is not indication that our
| lives have been success but this
wealth may indicate how much our
lives have cost society. No life can be
| a true success without having been a
benefit to someone else by Tightening
burdens or by directing them to the
better way Some day we will stand
at the parting of the way where
there are two paths The one will be
smooth and easy at the beginning and
it will be easy to drift with the tide
but it will end in darkness and
disappointment. The other path is
the path of duty. It will not be an
easy road at the beginning but it will
lead upward to a higher and nobler
manhood and womanhood and the
travelling will be easier as you ad-
| vance. The end will be in a bright
and happy reflections on well spent
life and a home in eternal reward.
The motto adopted for the class of
1919 is "Be Square" and Rev. Parish
closed his address by driving home
some valuable pointers on the need of
being true to that motto, square with
each other, square with the world,
square with the people of this county
who have made it possible for them to
obtain their education and square
with God and Jesus Christ. Duty de-
rnands it.
The Rev. Parish is just a young
man and yet a student at the univer-
Sity at Lincoln, but he is an excellent
speaker and there is no doubt an ex-
cellent future in store for him. The
; members of the class and faculty OF
the school are well pleased with the
) sermon he gave them.
The services were closed by the
} audience singing America" and 3
5 closing prayer by the Rev. Parish
The graduating exercises and alumni
Z banquet are to take place at the Higl
5 School building this evening. F'rida,
5 will be the annual field day which il
open to all and in the evening will b.
3 the reception at the home of tn
fprincpa1, J. H. Niesley-