Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1922-05-19
"The Assurance of Justice"
"As | Hear, | Judge

Il
uditorium, the Baccalaureate sermon
as delivered before an overthrow
audience and the graduating class Of
tho Keytesville High School by the
Rev. j. E. Wolfe, formerly the pastor
b, the Keytesville Christian church.
! The program started promptly at
III o'clock, with selection, "Come
Thou Almighty King" rendered by
the High School Chorus. Invocation
b. Rev. o. L. Hunt. Quartette,
"Moro Love, o Christ, to Thee. An
other vocal number, "Praise Ye the
the Father" by the chorus. The adj
dress Of the day by Rev. Wolfe, fol-
lowed by prayer by the Rev. G. E.
Barham. The chorus gave still an
other number and the Rev. d. M.
tockard dismissed the audience with
he benediction.
The Baccalaureate sermon was a
masterly address. one of the best ever
delivered in Keytsville. Mr.. Wolfe
needs no introduction to the natives of
eytesville, but his address was not
heard by many Of our readers and the
-ourier takes pleasure in reproducing
t, as follows:
In mounting upon the platform Mr..
Wolfe remarked as an Introductory
| n hfe hot sf rOf v.
here, as Strickland Gillian put it, Il
can look into more faces that need
looking into, than could if / stood
on the level with you.
81 am sure as we greet these young
men and women this morning that it
is q sight that is payment in full for
all mothers who have gone through
the laborious task of getting them up
in time to attend morning classes
these four years. 1t is a great pleas
ure to. me to be present for this SER
vice.
"With all the important things that
are on our hearts today; with all the
great things that lie out before men
Ihearts set on the realization of them,
our schools belong to those things to
which we give our greatest hope and
respect and of which we are expecting
the greatest and finest things. 1t is
1 real privilege, a real pleasure and
opportunity when we are trying to
speak to effect differences, to speak
before young men and women and TO
their parents, who are essentially
students. You don't have to create
eulogy, activity and purpose. These
things are already abounding in their
lives. We all have to see with them,
believe and hope with them, and with
them simply face the future to create
that for which our hearts pray.
"We have little boy in Independ-
ence by the name of Paul Allen.
Paul and his mother were at home
alone one day; the other children were
away at school. The mother was ex-
pecting the older. children to come
home for luncheon, but as it rained
the other children went to the school
cafeteria for luncheon. That left the
mother and Paul with a lot of hot
biscuits in true Missouri style, enough
for the whole family and only two to
teat. When they sat down to the ta-
Bile Paul ate biscuits and ate biscuits.
Finally his mother said: Paul, il you
don't quit eating SO many biscuits you
are going to burst Paul thought a
second and said: Give me another bis
cult and get out of the way
"You know if we turn our schools
loose and take the lid of tradition,
prejudice and greedy self interests off
of our great fine men and women who
teach in them, and the youth today,
with careful scientific training, with
all the purposes and noble aspiration,
with contemplation and hope for the
future, great new social world could
come to pass.
i eff some who are afraid they will
burst if they do anything different
would simply get out of the way it
would be a wonderful relief upon the
affairs of mankind. If a lot of
folks who sit tight because of caution
of age, the hold of established habit,
the control of finance, and because of
certain pride that goes with long time
control, would get off the lid and
turn things over to the youth that
must live in an entirely different world
from that in which men have lived;
this youth would move forward pos
sibly with entirely more confidence
and cleaness of vision, more humani-
tartan spirit, with more scientific
training of the mind, dealing with
realities. If a lot of folks would get
out of the way things would be diff
lferent.
"As we go along in life we pick up
a lot of expressions, the meanings of
which keep growing upon us. One
has said: In youth we earn a lot of
words; as we grow olderjone Of two
things happens, either our words
shrink to fit our experience or our
experiences expand to fit our words
Alfred Moves has written these lines:
You chatter in church like jackdas,
| Words that would wake the dead,
Were there one breath of life in you,
One drop of blood, he said
ssThese powerful words are the ex-
lpression Of the realities Of some
great soul and are to be appreciated
only by fellowship with that soul. AS
DR.. Foster, once said to class of
which was a member: DO not read
anything on this lecture. Go to your
room and null over it, We need a
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