The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-06-16
BACCALAUREATE
SERVICES PLEASING
SPLENDID SERMON BY THE REV.
]. E. OSLUND HEARD BY
LARGE AUDIENCE

The baccalaureate services of the
High School at the University aud
itorium, Sunday evening were very
well attended. The large room was
almost filled with friends of the 43
graduates
The program was carried out as
announced in Fridays paper, Rev.
Oslund delivering an excellent SER
mon to the young people, who have
completed one lap in their education
al pursuit.
Baccalaureate Address
Run We to and fro in the streets of
Jerusalem, and see now, and know,
and seek in the broad places thereof,
if We can find man; if there be
any that doeth justly, that seeketh
truth; and | will pardon her." Jer.
81.
Baccalaureate sermon in part:
In no earlier stage of human his
tory did the multiplying needs of
mankind assume such dimensions and
significance as in the present. These
wants are not new, as some would
have US believe; they are but the old
problems of humanity brought for
ward on the crest of events on a
more general scale and in greater
complexity.
So far have these needs clustered
about the demands for men and wo-
men qualified to meet the require
ments placed upon nations and IN
dividuals about to enter upon new
world era. And are present already
which indicate that the future is to
clamor as never before-for the men.
Our times call for men who are ed
ucated-all over, and who do not let
high schol or college education spoil
them for practical everyday life;
whose nerves whose nerves, brain,
hands, eyes and heart have been
trained, so that our institutions of
learning may not turn out memory
helpless instead of self-supporting,
sickly instead of strong. We want
men and women of conscious rectl-
tude; who have realized tht eternal
laws of nobler spirits in their per-
sonal life who continually strive
to honor God and serve their fellow
men because of life's greatest and
only purpose-men who are men;
women who are women, in the true
sense of the word.
Such men and women must have
had their hearts and feelings and SEN
timents also educated. Men and wo-
men who have realized that knowl-
edge does not comprise all that is
contained in education; whose feel
ings have ben disciplined; whose pas
sions are being restrained; Who are
inspired by true and worthy motives;
who have had a profound religious
feeling instilled, and pure morality
inculcated under all circumstances.
Men and women who realize that the
highest learning is to be wise and
that the greatest wisdom is to be
good, that the beginning of wisdom
is to fear God, and the end of wis
dom to love Him.
The men and women our time calls
for must, furthermore, be men and
women of faith. Faith alone can
bind together the entire fabric of So
cial economic, religious and national
structures and manage to create re-
suits where dispair folds her arms in
idleness. Faith stands sponsor for
practically all great things we see
done about us. 1t might almost be re-
garded as synonymous with life Itself,
because if faith is killed in the in
dividual and the nation all the stars
fall from the heaven of hope, and LIE
is gradually extinguished.
1t is faith in our government, our
institutions, in God, man, Christianity,
in our more than one hundred cosmo-