Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1922-06-15
SERMON GIVEN
TO GRADUATES
Rev. W. w. Moore of First M. E.
Church Takes For His Subject
The Building of Life

The baccalaureate sermon was
preached by Rev. W. w. Moore at
! the Methodist church on Sunday
night. He took for his ubject, "The
Building of Life, text End Timothy
2:15. The speaker said in part:
Human life is so great that il takes
two to build it, God and ourselves.
God can do infinite things and man
can do marvellous things. Neither with
out the other can build a human char
acter. All that there is desirable in
the world is well constructed life.
The beauty of the world is meaningless
to sightless eyes. he music of the
world is meaningless to deaf ears.
Earth is crammed with Heaven and
every bush is aflame with God, but
/ only those who see take off their
shoes. The determing factor as to
what life means, is our own person
alfty.
The first requisite in the building
of life is self discovery, l am. Diff
ferent, set apart from all others.
Others success does not save me
from failure nor relieve me of res
possibility. Shakespeare went to the
foundation of life when he wrote, "To
thine own sci be tue, and it follows
as the night the day; thou can'st not
be false TO any man."
What our service is TO the world
depends on the character of our own
life Christ holds essential help for
us in character building. There is no
problem he does not understand, no
deliverance he cannot effect, no vir-
tue he cannot exemplify.
Value Of a Life
In the building of a life there must
be the recognition of the claims that
others have upon US. "a poor man
saved by thee shall make thee rich;
, a sick man helped by thee shall make
thee strong. and thou thyself shall
be served by every lease of service
thou hast rendered" We learn our
virtues by practising them upon 9TH
ers. The value of a human life is
WIZ oily determined by the number Of
lives 1t touches for good.
If We build our lives most perfectly,
our plans must be life plans. Great
lives are not the result of a few
great efforts. but the accumulation Of
wears and the combined results of
little things.
There is no end to the sky, and the
stars are everywhere,
And time is eternity, and the here
is over there,
And the common deeds of the COM
| mon day,
Are ringing bells in the far away"
But If we work to life plan, we
must make life Investments in pro-
jects that have more than a passing
value We must invest wisely our
moneys time and strength. Man is
known by the books that he reads
and reads, by the friends that the
J makes and keeps, by the work that
| he does that stays done as a part Of
Gods great plan for his own perman-
ent progress and the progress Of the
world.
Just Beginning the Voyage
! You are but beginning life's voyage
over a trackless sea, with a commerce
to carry and a haven to reach. Per-
nit me &c offer the following sugges-
tions: Do not put q plank in life's
bark that won't stand storm! Take
as your Pilot, the one who walked the
stormy waters of Galilee! Take for
| your log book the Bible, that contains
every needed instruction. For all
men alike, remember that character
+, is destiny. and we Meet not fear ad-
verse winds.
"One ship sails East and one sails
| West
BY the self same wind that blows
It's the set OF the sail and not the gale
That determines the way Il goes"
Your task is to take heed ITO the
setting of the sail"
We bid you God-speed In life's high
adventure, and trust that you may
drop your anchor close BY the gate
of pearl