East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-06-05
LIFE OF SERVICE
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"The savior brought himself to the
sublime he ght of perfection that he
might min ster unto men. His eX-
ample needs to be followed in this
day and hour. What We witness so
often is not zeal without knowledge
as knowledge without ZEAL
In speaking of the need for cobege
training in preparation for service
the speaker declared that the only
true and worthy object of culture is
! service: the service of society at large
| and the service of the individual man
/ or woman.
Get Most Of Culture
| st is those,' said Rev. Lockwood.
! who give away their culture most
widely and freely through the life of
! service, through the work of the
| teacher. the professional man or wom7
an, the resident IN a coci:1 settlement
or just through the common con-
tracts of society and neighborhood, Of
friendship and family life,-these are
( they who get the most for themselves
| out of their calture. This Is the true
end and aim of all education. the
right attitude of all privilege, the only
spirit that can get out of 1t for our-
selves as well as for others all the
best that it holds, the spirit that
speaks in those words of Christ, for
their sakes | sanctify myself that they
also may be sanctified through the
truth. Young men and women of this
graduating class beg You to remem-
her that there are five purposes one or
the other or several of which men and
women commonly set before them
selves as the primary object of living:
Five Objects Given
There five are these: TO have, to
enjoy to know, to do, to be. To have
and to enjoy-these are the common
est aims of life. They constitute the
materialistic aim, the common ambi-
tion. To know-that Is the students,
the scholars end. To do--to do
something in the field of fame, per-
haps, at least in the fields of achieve
ment in this world-that is the ambi-
ton of every man and woman OF
energy and capacity. And to be--the
thing one was meant to be, to attain
the ideal of personal character, that
is the spiritual man or woman's goal.
Remember that these aims are all
equally wrong if pursued for their own
sakes only, or simply for your own
sakes only; they are all equally right
though not all equally high il brought
into obedience to the law of the per-
feet life, the law of culture in order
to service. Thus then / would sum up
my meaning. This, then I would say
to you graduates who stand on the
hither verge of life Enjoy all you
rightfully can of what life brings you;
accept thankfully and without hesi7
tation all the innocent richness and |
pleasure God gives you in it. There |
is no virtue in voluntary gloom and
self-inflicted meagreness, in self-de- |
NAL for its own sake, all the monks |
and nuns of history to the contrary |
Notwithstanding. only let your plea
sures never end in mere enjoyment; i
never make your lives absorbent, but |
rather let it make your life so radian'
that it may shed the light of gladness
into all the gloom about yo''.
Be Brightcner, Plea
"In the language of the new psy-
chology, be the euphorias, the bearer
of cheer, the transmitter of gladness.
the brightener of the world. Have all |
you can have, righteously and honest
ly, but have not merely to hold, but to
is the true philosophy
and purpose of wealth. Do all that
you can do, not simply that you may /
achieve, but that you may help. That
is the true purpose of all energy, the
goal of all ambition. Know all that
You can know, not simply that YOU !
may hoard that knowledge for youA
own aesthetic pleasure and enrich
ment but somehow that you may serve
therewith--that is the meaning of all
culture. And lastly be all that you
can be not simply that you may be
but that you may bless by your being
what you are. Make all you can out
Of yourselves but never for yourselves.
God grant to young men and wemen
for whom this school has done all
that It can do a life of culture the
of personality but only
for the purpose of service. May He
enable YOU to look ever through all its
processes not inward to the centre of
the Individual life, but outward to the
circumference of the larger life the
life of others saying after Christ. For
their sakes 1 sanctify myself that they
also might be sanctified through the
TRUTH"