The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-06-09
BY EMMA l. EETTA.

DO not potter; learn to do the or
binary things extraordinarily well. the
common things uncommonly well,
urged DR.. Elihu Grant, of Haverford
college in his baccalaureate sermon
before members of the graduating
class OF Earlham college. the faculty
and large number Of visitors yester-
day morning in Lindley hall. Both
senior students and faculty appeared
in caps and gowns. the latter display
ing degree eolors
Led by twenty yocalists of the col
lege, the faculty and members of the
dass of 1919 marched to the seats
of honor. The audience stood during
their entrance.
DIR. Louis Thomas Jones of the his
tory department of Earlham opened
the service with an invocation, proceed
ing short Biblical reading by Dr.
Allen Hole, yice-president of the col
lege. President David NJ. Edwards
introduced Dr. Grant. with whom he
had been associated in the graduate
school of Boston university.
Using a text given earlier in the
morning in the Biblical reading:
Times of this ignorance God winked
at. but now he demands every man to
repent" DR.. Grant said:
THE King James version which
uses 'winked' indeed expresses bet
ter the full meaning of those words
than a modernization would do" said
DR.. Grant
God has .winked' at many things
in this world. He has drawn down
the lid and overlooked much that
America has done. Look how we had
blundered, and plundered during the
past years. God has been pretty good
to America. Never did nation of
people start with such a large free
scope of the material and spiritual,
and see how we have stumbled along,
exploited our mines, forests, women,
men, boys and girls We have some
very apparent problems facing us ra-
cial. social, moral and religious. But
we can yet declare Jesus Christ! Phi
losophy and science have it not. The
word and the light rest with HIM"
DIR Grant pointed out that an Afri
can or Asiatic who having believed
in a material image has risen to be
leve that the image is merely the
house or symbol of a greater power
has risen more than we who worship
great God small
a little god said the speaker. Fol
if we can go no farther with our priv
ileges We have done but little. After
all life is something like mountain
railroad. 1t is troublesome to clint
and all to easy to slip back. Idolatry
is a station on that mountain rail, anC
when the station is reached in the
journey, the question to be asked i:
is not is it good but have / reached
here on the way up or am ! coming
down.
For you and for me there will new
er be an excuse for idolatry.
Age Holds Greatness.
In looking it over there has beer
no age at which it could have beer
greater to live and work than this ont
but the world is so quick at living
that it cannot see very far, and 1t !!
too real to be without new questions
In the heart of individuals is to b,
found the laboratory of al Thought
we have any hopes may be accom-
plished. The thing today is to d.
something better than you have don
whether it is making chairs, stree
cars, flower beds, buildings or what
ever it may be. ! do not see hoy
many of US can have much distinction
Who of us hopes to have the distinc
ton gained by President Wilson, VIII
is one of the most secure figures Q
history, but we can put forth our bes
efforts and fight the things which ar
hateful TO Christian spirit. Men an