South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-06-13

coming into contact with hundreds
~ families. - is uy belief there ara
very few men and women who fully
appreciate the debt ~ gratitude they
owe 90 their parents
Il sincerity hope that every zradu-
ate IN this class viii realize today
how much you owe 20 your uothers
and fathers. and 10 all Other uenn-
bers ~ your family who have during
these years supported you. and per-
chance have denied -heuse Ives nla-s
pleasures that YOU might be Kept 4
school and be numbered with thcssV
who this year receive their diplomas
7 am sure II YOU give this matter
serious thought YOU viii say T am
debtor % ms family who have made
my education possible say as much
as in me lies. I am ready fCr utc's
work
In the third place, may remark
YOU are debtor 20 YOUR best mental
and moral self 20 make your lie
worth while FIN the world. You owe
IL 70 your best SELF 20 be ready for
the responsibilities and temptations
that lie before YOU. As YOU so outk
educa-ion-I do not mean the fcw4
gathered facts-but 7 mean the ~
best that is I'm you, VII be cha lengc
again and again.
''\ow how shall you meet that
challenge. In your life and en- the
life Of the young men and women Of
your generation. there IS the very
finest product Of America up 20 this
da-e. I do not mean the finest edu-
cation. or the largest knowledge ~
facts. merely. but 7 mean rather than
nature. or God through nature. has
deposited the very finest and best
there is II therefore YOU go down
YOU VIII first drop below YOUR besix
slef.
Debtor To God.
But YOU cannot afford 20 so be-
low your best self. You cannot az
ford 10 live Unworthily You are un-
der obligations 10 the very best that
is I'm YOU 90 be good and 90 do good
in the world. You are debtor 90 the
wise and the unwise % be ready az
all times 10 meet nohly the respon-
sibihues and temptations that may
come 10 YOU from day 90 day
May L now say in the fourth and
last place YOU are debtor unto God
I for what YOU are md for what you
/ hope 20 bee. You are debtor unto
Him for a fourfold blessing You
are debtor unto God for that fine
body with which YOU We're born and
( in which your spirit now dwells. You
are debtor unto Him. for the intellec-
tual nature which is yourself II
/ YOU can think clearly. IL you can rea-
son wisely. remember that IL was
/ God who created you with a mind
10 think and solve the problems that
daily confront YOU. You are debtor
/ 20 Him for your social nature. IL 4
( He who made YOU with a power 10
/ love and enjoy the fellowship OF
humans. You are debtor unto God
too for your spiritual nature II IS
/ this nature that lifts you up above
the brute creation and makes you
/ like unto Him who made YOU, and
/ in whom YOU live and move and have
your being
And now, graduates Of 1921, may
L say 10 you. if YOU viii make the
words Of the test of this morning and
motto and purpose of your life. you
viii be a credit not only 10 the state
that made possible your education
and your parents, who have sacrt-
/ feed in your behalf-but you viii all
so be honor To yourselff and TO the
good and great God whose YOU are
and whom you serve. May the
blessing Of heaven richly rest upon
you and yours in all your hfq'