Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1922-06-09
URGES SENIORS To
BE USEFUL CITIZENS
Dean Edward Enery delivered Eo,
fui Message to W, 5. G. Grad.
yates in Baccallaureatc
Address Sunday

washington to make their
lives great and to become usefrl 81,
zens and helpful to their fellow mo-,
Dean Ellery of Union Couaaa
Schenectady. New York. delivered
forceful message on The CHALLENGE
OF Life, at the baccalaureate sary-
ices at the college auditorium Gu,
day evening
will lift up mine eyes INTO
the hills, from whence cometb NV
help
In these words. 5000 years ago b..
said Dean Ellery, Hebrew hara
epitomized and prophesied the ex-
perience of the race.
Great cities can get their wafer
supply from the lower levels bnt
bitter experience has taught that
untold dangers Turk there. Thew
now turn their eyes to the hills for
the clean waters with which the hin.
abound. With water from the hills
the desert blossoms like a rose
individuals look to the hills of
individualism for help in medicine
law, business and education.
Nations turn to the hills Of in.
diyiduals in the days of stress and
need. Washington leads a handful
Of determined men against the might
of an age-old empire and brings in
dependence to newly born govern
ment. Lincoln controls and defeats
the forces that work to unseat fed
eral authority. Roosevelt man of
physical strength and moral vigor.
with clean and clear mind never
falters in the struggle of the people
against monopolies. Nations through
the ages have turned their eyes to
the hills of individualism for help.
and help has come.
Our language today calls it the
search for superiority. The psalmist
called it help from the hills.
IF in nature and in the realm of
human relations our help cometh
from the hills, why not also in re-
ligion? Religion is an overwhelm-
ing passion for an eternal unchang-
ing purpose Every man knows that
in some form or other Man will
find no satisfaction of his desire, no
meeting of his great need, no respite
from his restlessness, except as he
turns his eyes to the supreme re-
ligious hill of all the ages-Iesus
who is called Christ.
In some of its aspects, our edu-
cational system is like a huge me-
chanical hopper, with the material
let in at the bottom. Here is a grave
problem. The superior student and
the inferior should not be taught
together. 1t is a leveling process
that is a menace to intellectual ads
yancement.
Here is the challenge of life
how to make life great. Greatness
,. life lies in struggle and restless
ness-in the everlasting pursuit oil
the ideal Who hath measured the :,
possibilities of the human spirit
Young ladies and gentlemen oil
the graduating Glass; he said as the
class OF PA members rose to It's
feet, you think rightly that you
have reached a height The world 4
at large looks to the hills OF your IN
dividualism for help. You Will give
it. Thousands and tens OF thou
sands have gone before you. The!
have given their help. Many nave
been lost in the valleys. Some nave
lifted the plane OF living to the le'e'
they had reached at the end oil inc
college climb. A few, very few nave
continued to mount.
What will you do? A most 10
about YOU at this height. You feei
its warmth. On the next height JuS'
above you there are not so many
Then you will begin to fell the lone
illness of the heights. You can 81
to the heights where you may e'oI
cry, as did the Great Saviour u
Mankind. My God, why hast Inou
forsaken me?'" =
The baccalaureate services openpp
with an organ number by A =
Never and the invocation was piO
nounced by the Rev. ]. S. Coie "
the Presbyterian church MUSE
numbers included songs by cnO,
from the combined glee clubs anu
vocal solo by Miss LaVerne AsA,n
The benediction was pronounceu
the Rev. H. ]. Reynolds OF the 0ni''
tian church. II