Ad-daleel., 1946-06-19
GRADUATES OF 1916!

LAST wee you nave IoIC your ScnOOlS
as students for the last time. You have
come out of school to pledge your loyalty
once more to Your God and parents.
Today the eyes Of the entire country are
upon you. Your parents are proud of you
II was through their efforts, their sacrifices
that you lave attained the goal which is
yours. They feel that they have a right to
participate in the honors which are yours
today, tomorrow and after.
Your teachers are filled with apprecia'
ton. They have labored and toiled for
years in order to give you the opportunities
OF a good education, and they have not
failed Into your hands they have placed
the tools for success, a success that is judi
ged not merely by material achievement,
but a success which will CORY with eter-
nal happiness.
Your schoolmates and the younger chill
dren look to you with justifable envy. You
are for them ideals on this day and they
look forward to the time when they will
be sitting in these same chairs fillOwing
you into the world after a successful ca
reer at your school.
Though you are surrounded by friends,
the eyes of others are upon you too. The
world into which you are going is a world
neighter friendly nor holy. You are going
into the world and it is your duty not only
to uphold the standards of good fellowship
in your own lives, it is your duty to make
that known and loved wherever you 60
Their are men and women in this world, yes
in these United States, who have pledged
themselves to the destruction of beauty,
arts, good fellowship in the souls of the
innocent. The are using every means in
their power, the press, radio, entertain
ment and education. These are the people
whom you will meet in your world of to-
morrow and unless you are strong, unles
you preserve not only your w ideals, but
also make these ideals known to others,
you are failing in the duties which make
you as graduates of a Shristian System.
To be an apostle of good fellowship, to
carry out this command to make truth
known and loved everywhere certain vir'
tues must be practiced and though all are
of supreme Importance.
The first of these is the virtue of cour>
age, of the mind that dare to look facts in
the face, utterly opposed to the spirit of
complacency, that hiding it's head in the
sand, declares, call is well" and so shelves
the burden of individual responsibility
LITIGATION of mind and body, which the a.
wareness of thruth must ask of us.
The virtue of vision, not the rosy vision
OLA dream conjuring with his fancy to dis
til a drug for the mind. But the vision
which sees in the signs of the time, not the
growing darkness of the dusk of the world,
but the twilight before the dawn of a new
world.
Vision which sees in the marvels of
scientific invention and machinery, yes,
in the atomic age, not a man-made wea'
pom for our own destruction, but a gift gil
ven by God to be used to win the world for
love, peace and unselfishness.
Last but greatest of all there is the vir>
tue of love, love eager to prove its Chris
tan manhood and womanhood.
Love that is not turned back by hard
knocks, or by failure, or even by defeat.
You are entering the world which l hope
will be. proud of you as your teachers and
parents are proud of you
The thruth by your; graduates of 1916!