Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1919-06-13
0R, BRYAN DELIVERS
STRONG ADDRESS
ra,,,er state College President De-
liyers Baccalaureate Address BE-
fore Capacity Crowd

Refore one of the largest crowds
,na+ ever jammed the college au-
a,,orinm. DR.. Enoch A. Bryan, for
90 wears president of the State Col
,ooe now commissioner of education
for the state of Idaho, delivered the
hoecalaureate address TO the grad
rating class OF the State College
sunday afternoon. DR.. Bryan took
The story of Cain as the theme of
his address, which was one of the
most practical and mastery ever
heard in the city. Aside from the
address by DR.. Bryan the program
Included several musical numbers.
The speaker was introduced by Pres
ident e. O. Holland, and said, in
part:
I'VE hear much these days of the
social conscience. There is no such
thing. The phrase is purely a fl
gure of speech Conscience is an
Individual thing, a sense of indiyidu
al wrong doing, "a source OF individu
al repentance, a feeling of individual
responsibility, spur of individual
right doing When many with like
knowledge of the facts. like sense
of wrong doing, and like sense of
personal duty in the premises think
aud act together for the general
good we may, as figure of speech,
speak of the social conscience; but
neither to king nor priest nor state
can we. turn over our personal re-
sponsiblity.
We hear much also of the gospel
Of social service BY social serv-
zee are We saved is the dictum OF the
day. Again. say |. it Is but figure
Of speech, in when the effect is sub
stituted fol the cause. Social serV-
ice Y II serves as II regeuerating
force, does not because of it's admin
istration to the object. but because
OF the welspring of service within
the heart of him who serves.
There is a law written in our
members which makes man respon-
slble for every other man. This law
within us not only would restrain the
hand of guilty Cain from shedding
the blood of innocent Abel; it would
not only impose on us the duty of
enacting and administering laws for
the maintenance of social order; it
mol only commands us to use brain
ana Drawn for the production of a
supply for human want; it not only
requires us to feed the hungry and
elotne the naked; but as an affirma-
ave aggressive force it can only be
satisfied by good will to man.
ihou shalt not kill. spake Moses as
ne decended from Mount Sinai. Love
'hy neighbor as thyself, said Jesus
as he sat upon the Mount of Olives.
IN all the institutions OF society
AoeFe can be no Place for hate, no
pace Tor the spirit of Cain. The
'iotheffood of man is vital human
" welfare and to the perpetuity ami
ue'eiopment of the race. Glass ana
ssa'e are essentially at variance with
'ne progress, il not the continued
e@islenee OF the race.
II is true that in it's brief history
'"e human race has seen much OF
e''et from purely physical causes
apart from tho wars, there have been
Aunsers, pinch and thirst, heat and
u' the biting wind, the fever-laden
swamp, to bring to man want and
and death. And there have
n accidents, the fall from the
' the tightening stroke. bringing
H bruised body, suffering anC
a'n' and there have been envies
Au Jealousies, loves and hates
,onsiags and fears, to wrench his
~ and fill it with dark forebod-
Jugs of the future.
sust now we are confronted witt
'ain strange new doctrines, wide
specious, which threaten
H. 70 the worlds civilization. We
H. much of the phrase the exist
tba. Oiaer' for it is fully realized
al a'foss all forms of government
tha constitutions. laws, religions
: III. are a very few Fundamental
aoa. ss as common to all. The new
WIT, aine assumes that all the ills Il
pins., Tie flesh is heir, ali politica
tiea,. ee' all social and economic diff
& Ara al human want and miser.
stra sue to this existing order, o
reme lure OF society and that the onl
- To be found in tho avar