Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-06-19
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| is to be found in any conflict between
these two forces. The very phrase
| carries with it an appreciation OF the
! principle that law and liberty are not
| in any sense contradictory. For the
one is passing into the other. Great
preachers, like Phillips Brooks, have
taken this text for their theme. They
| have cited examples from human ex-
| perience to show how true the phrase
| is. The engine speeding along the
| ties at the rate of sixty miles an hour
| rejoicing like the war horse in its
! strength yet doomed to destruction if
it leaves the rails. is an illustration Of
the general principles of freedom I'M
der a law. The planet in it's course
with all the apparent license of a
mighty visitant of the heavans is kept
TO its orbit by the greater laws of the
universe. Or. to use an illustration
which the great preacher gives, the
/ child obeys his mothers will: finds
| restraint in his mothers authority
Twenty years later grown to manhood
that same child anticipates his moth
er's wishes. honors himself by bending
| to her authority. "The law Of re-
strant which was necessary in their
early relations passes into the law
Of liberty which has it's source in his
free. moral character. If for our spe-
cial purposes we think of the college
in her maternal aspect. the same for
mula applies. Our Alma Mater has
Kept us under discipline. has put some
restraints upon our conduct and our
| intellectual habits. As freshmen and
! as under classmen we have oboved
! partly because we were under some
restraint TO do so; as graduates we
serve her gladly because we have be-
come free.
In our consideration of the law Of
/ liberty we must think constantly of
! the individual in relation to society.
The individual has not the right TO
DO exactly as he chooses: nor has
society the right ruthlessly to re-
! press the individual. The only free
dom which deserves the name"
writes Mill, the great modern apos
lie of liberty, sis that of pursuing
| our own good Isl our own way. so
long as we DO not attempt to deprive
| others OF their freedom or impede
, their efforts to obtain it" Clearly
we have the right to pursue our own
good in our own way. to make the
very best OF ourselves as God gives
us light to see our capabilities of
| service. But we can not make the
most OF ourselves unless we are able
| to recognize both our Obligations to
society and the rights OF others.
! Some one once asked Daniel Web
| ster what was the greatest thought
! that had ever occupied his mind. 1t
/ was seemingly a foolish question;
! but there is meat in his reply-"The
TACT OF my personal accountability TO
| God Freedom and conscience"
| wrote wise preacher, imply ac-
/ countability, accountability implies
! rendering account; this is the factor
( that stands between freedom and
! law. Freedom of the Will is the
! right to choose
/ Members of the Gradu atinn Class
! You are going forth from tho COL
+, legc into world that is much more
/ uifficult and much more complex than
| IT WAS even Il decade since You
/ have the inspiring knowledge that
! the tasks before YOU are not to be
easy, that they Will test all the at
| tributes Of q man. The College can
wish nothing better for YOU as YOU
| leave her halls than that YOU should
! nave IN some measure at least
/ proper understanding Of the rela-
J =
| ions between freedom and service
! law and liberty. Every one of you
| mas a soul and a life all his own
! TO mar or to make. If you pledge
| yourselves TO the highest conceptions
! of life and of service that your in
tellisence can find and then serve
| Loyalty, YOU will be free indeed. In
| such service all the routine Of life,
/ all It's disappolntments and hard
| ShlpS Will become sOftened rs z
| rocky landscape under the glow of
| The sunset becomes part and parcel
! OF beautiful and unbvoken scene.
| You will find as you go on in life
| that knowledge is good and riches
! are pleasant; but that freedom is a
! greater boon. There are SO mony
, slaves still left in the world. slaves
| " Ha'Sloii anu vi CDiN tllIO1 ana or
wealth and OF sloth. Search out
| your own way to liberty, and walk
| therein with head erect and fearless
gaze. Do not like the ultra conser-
Vative feel that all virtue is in the
strength of the law. DO not. like
the radical, eXalt freedom selfishly
and spurn the restraints and conven-
tons of nation and society But in
Your dealings be the liberal man, the
the generous man, the good man who
gladly serves because he is most free
ana who is free because he has looked
into the perfect law of liberty and
abidcth therein. May God bless you.
every one of you. in all your work
ana in all your life and help YOU
II live up to the high traditions and
real freedom that become the sons
OF this ancient Christian college.
The program for the remainder Of
| the week is as follows:
Monday, June 10, S =. N-Thc
Alexander Prize Speaking in Memo
rial hall.
Tuesday, June 20, 3 p. M-Class
Day exercises of the graduating class
urder the Thorndike Oak: p. NJ
Annual meeting of the Maine His
toricai Society in the lecture room,
Hubbard hall; s p. M.-Senior dance
in the Gymnasium.
Wednesday. June Il. $50 A. M