The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1920-05-27
Bacealaureate Sermon for
Seniors Sunday Evening

graduating class of 1920, Heppner
high school, we're held at the First
Christian church last Sunday evening,
and were attended by a large number
Of people. Flowers we're used in pro-
fusion in decorating the church. The
members of the class marched in and
took their seats up in front, with their
parents in the seats Immediately back
of them. Special music was furnish
ed by mixed chorus and Mrs. Ches-
ter Darbee as soloist. The baccalaur-
cate semon was delivered in a most
able and pleasing manner by Mrs.
Cassie D. Livingstone, outlined brief
ly as follows:
Text: l press toward the mark.
Phil. 3:14.
That which must envelope our
thought and the matter of greatest
interest is the question of our mark.
Our lives do not remain stationary,
we are always pressing toward some
mark, the choice is not ours, we are
children Of tendency, the decision of
our goal is left to our own personal
being.
Efficiency is the call of the hour.
Today I'VE bemoan the fact that our
institutions are so poorly equipped
with men and women.
In our factories, our electric
plants, our mills, If our machinery is
not adequate we see the work to be
done shall have the best machinery
and the best equipment; and the jobs
of our schools should not be handed
over to small and inadequate leaders.
If the call Of the hour, then, is
efficiency, then that essential is need
ed nowhere more than in our public
schools.
The children of today are the men
and women of tomorrow, SO our
plans and considerations must be for
the future so that our children shall
be prepared to meet the need of the
coming hour. The call of today is
for leaders but the call of tomorrow
Will be greater for leaders, and unless
We give more thought and more pre-
paration to education and bring out
more clearly the principles of our
land, the future will hold, for us,
more restlessness, more dissatisfac-
ton than we, experience today.
Religion and education have al
ways been companions; the one has
always been the prop for the other.
Parents and children have realized
that attending school has meant a
position and a salary with a future,
and where communities have stressed
this they do not lack for capable
workers and their citizens stand firm
for our Democracy.
Business is getting ready for a new
day. Education is putting on a new
program, and the world is astonished
at the foundation that is being laid: :
That the principles of Jesus Christ
must be placed in the lives of men
and women and as they go out they
must incorporate those teachings in
their dealings one with the other.
There was never such opportuni-
ties for our youth as today gives
them-as our statesmen, poets, art
lists, business, educational and relig-
ious leaders step aside their places
must be filled with men and women
better equipped and with a larger
vision.
The vision Of America as it was
born in the heart of men was that
they should be free and the govern
ment should be the will of the major
ity.
The church and the school have
always fostered these great ideals
and now the school calls for teachers
who believe in Almighty God and in
our Democracy.
My prayer for the class of 1920 is
that as they press toward the
mark they shall wear the badge of
service.