Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-06-13
Student APPROVED"
DR.. WACNER'S THEME
FOR BACCALAUREATE
High School Graduating Class
Hears Appeal For Service.

Hears Appeal For Service.
"The Student Approved" was the
subject for the baecalauraete ad.
dress delivered last night TO the
members OF the graduation class Of
the Martinsburg High School by nr.
1 f. r. Wagner. pastor of st. Johns
| Lutheran Church. at the Lutheran
Church before an audience which
! filed completely the auditorium
and In which number of persons
| were unable TO find accommodation
DR.. Wagner stressed the Importance
of character and responsibility in
training for life but laid special
emphasis on the necessity of SER
vice In the successful life.
The members of the class. accom-.
lanied by the Board of Education.
some of the High School faculty and
some of the grade school principals,
occupied reserved seats In the con.
trail part of the auditorium. the
graduates wearing the gray caps and
gowns. The choir OF the church
sang special music, including nm
anthem with solo parts by Misses
May Siler AMI Carrie chamberln
and Mr.. Harry NJ Grove. and duet
as an offertory by Miss Siler and
Chamberlin, - u
DR. Wagner's sermon, based upon
I'd Timothy, ELS. study to show
theyself approved unto Gods
workman that needs not to be
ashamed" follows:
About one-fourth of the populap
ton of the United States are now In
school. or between twenty-five and
thirty-miIlion people. including thoss
in colleges and universities. To
teach these students requires more
than one million trained students.
and costs the United States more
than ono billion dollars n year OF
these students about two million
are high school students. You arc
among the many thousands about to
be graduated from the high schools
of the United States. and we con-
graduate you forty-three members
OF the Class of 1921 of the Martins
burg High School that In your stud
les you have shown yourselves ap-
proved by teachers and by standards
of work. You have passed. you have
been approved, and you arc now
ready to be graduated.
Study Essential
AS students there liz perhaps no
word more familiar than study.
The first word OF the text this even
ing, Study. the all-absorbing task,
the keyword to approval and ac-
co9plishment From the primary
gradc to graduation In high school
II has meant study" often hard
york
The goth Century New Tesla
ment puts the text thus: Make 1t
Your ambition (keep on studylng)
to win Gods APPROVAL worker
not ashamed OF his work.
The proper kind Of ambition Is
great and good thing. Not selfish
ambition built upon pride and seek.
ing preferment, but unselfsh ambi.
lion to be approved, built upon ser.
vice and rendering excellence,--am.
bition OF a workman OF which he
to study. 10 keep on studying, so
that you may win commentator
and others need not be ashamed OF
your work. that you may satisfy
your own conscience and make
yourself satisfied with your work,
and that God may not be- ashamed
Of your work, shouldering the duty
u character and responsibility be-
fore Cod. We ought 10 be able to
pass in these standards before we
graduate finally into eternal life.
Let us permit the sainted Scotch
university student, Thomas Guth.
RE, to give us the real idea OF what
we ought TO be studying to accom-.
plish and what we ought TO live
for:
i live for those who love me.
For those who know me true,
For the heaven that bends above me
And the good that I can do
For the wrongs that need resistencs
For the cause that lacks assist
ance.
For the future In the distance.
and the good that can do
Yes, let this be our ambition,
he object Of hard and constan.
ldy. Then your lves Will be great
Successes.
"5e Somebody"
Every student should be anxious
70 be soucbody' and amount to
cuctt,u2 Many life goes 10
.a-'" and ruin because there is no