Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-16
CLASSES HEAR
BACCALAUREATE
Youths and Maidens to be
Graduated This Month
Attend Services


Baccalaureate services Tor tne
tgraduating classes OF tee Cen.l q,
and Technical High schools were
held last evening, the Rev. Dr. ROD
-ssrt Bagnell, preaching to the CEN
trial Seniors, who attended services
IN the Grace Methodist Church' anu
ifhe Rev. DR.. Henry w. a. Hanson,
who spoke to the Technical class at
kthe Messiah Lutheran Church.
More than 200 students of the two
/ schools, wearing caps and gawns' at
| tended the services, marching INTO
| the church auditoriums in a oody
land occupying reserved sections oi-
rectlv in front of the pastors.
DIR. Bagnell. in his address TO the
4 Central High school students, USED
las his subject, The World IN So
tIution." taking his text from IL
Corinthians 2:17, "Old things nave
[passed away. behold all Things nave
become new" He related the RAPID
development of modern improve.
tments and devices during the last
houa rter century, the rapid improve
ments and devices during the last
.ouarter cntury, the rapid changes IN
Europe. the result of the World
War. development of emma ana
Africa, completion of the Panama
canal, organization OF success VI III
igovernm ents in South America
Ecountries and similar Developments
lin the world.
Continuing he told of the changes
ain morals and religion, social ana
Dolitical life, the advancement and
Intimate success of the prohlpltloh
movement, extensive missionary
I work by churches, political up
tbeaveIs in China, Korea, the Balkan
Estates, Russia and Germany; uh-
! sparalleled unrest everywhere III the
ksociaI life of the world with the
| complete breakdown OF classes anu
! class privileges.
DIR. Bagnell said that young men
and Young women from 10000
schools and colleges are facing the
world to-day a world hlled with SO
many conflicting conditions. He
warned the students that the situ-
alton was not only startling put
changes will continue more raploly
in the future than during the last
twenty-five yiers and that they will
come so rapidly that there can be
ino delays.
DR.. Hanson's sermon to the Teen
class was a development of the
thought expressed in l Timothy $40,
Keep that which is committed to
= the trust"
He said to the boys that they were
70 entering lDe NOTlu dN d biiiAC
! every man has an important work
TO do, and at a time when a man is
, Judged not by the size of his task
: but the method in which he exc
cutes it. He warned against almless
living .aimless walking, almleSS
building and told the students to
aim at something definite,
That ii is necessary TO ann young
was another point brought out by
thaf ha eyFnaf-
est musicians, artists. physicians.
: statesmen. surgeons, writer's ex-
plorers and men famous in other
! pursuits became so before they
reached thirty in the majority OF
instances.
Forming of god habits helps to
shape the destiny OF man, DR.:
Hanson declared. Having an ideal
in life is another important thing:
He said that it is not the pullet OIL
, the gun. regardless of its size, but
the eve behind the gun that deter
q mines its value because of the ac-
curacy of the aim.
That success would not be hand
ed TO the graduates in package,
tied with a blue ribbon as ol-
ploma- but vii come only after years
of work, DR.. Hanson told the class.
He warned them to beware of dis
couragement. for more men have
failed because they STOPPED than
any other cause in the world.
In conclusion, he said: Il only
pray for You that you go through
life steadyirE yourselves. marshal
ing your talents. governing your
tongues, controlling your tempers;
always idealistic. always at your
Job: always remembering that 1t Is
not the applause o fthe world. 1T is
tNIxy
worth, real homes. real happiness.
At the end OF your 1ourney-and
, care not what faith yours may be
at the end your journey may you
kneel by your task and hear the
world say, well done:" for that
which the world honestly says is
that which God teaches it to say"