Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 121, Decatur, Adams County, 21 May 1928 — Page 3

baccalaureate 1 SERVICE HELD (COMTINUK” Pin paoib two> marchan to the grave'." ~T III, truth of these Atnnzas were brought »° y°"' 1,1 a wuy ’ i numbers of th® wl,p " I ri , ni your classmates was called I irom time into eternity. 'Dust thou to <lns' returnest,’ thus we speak , the physical human body, but the author adds. 'Was not spoken of the r We do not. speak of the soul ’ dust, and that's what makes life so Ll and life so earnest. •■■Vot enjoyment, and not sorrow, is our destined end or way; nut to act that each tomorrow Finds us farther than today'." ■That should be the high ambition nf the members of the elass, that tomorrow will find you farther than vott are today. i |ves of great men all remind ns We can make our lives sublime. And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sand of time. • Your classmate left behind the footprints of inspiration, ambition, diligence and faith. What kind of footprints will you leave behind? ■The members of the class are without doubt looking forward to success, and rightly so, they should. The qu.stion that confronts the average Individual at the outset of life's caleer is —•What am I going to do?'; •How can I make life successful?'; •What is my duty and how can I fulfill it?' The question of a choice is uppermost in one’s mind. The question comes of the ‘either, or'—or of •this or that’—spending life either way or that way. But experience has taught us that a one-sided life cannot be a successful life. When man becomes conscious of tlie fact that he must supply his body with nourishment, he finds that he cannot choose between food or drink, but that he must have both. Man cannot choose whether he will sleep all the time or work all the time but he must do both. "And thus I would ask that important question, which is also the sub ject of my message to you tonight. 'What Constitutes n Successful Life’? There may be various ideas in the minds of men as to what constitutes a successful life. Is it a question of ■either, or’, or of ‘this or that’? Yes, it may Im? ‘this or that’ when you have a long list of callings and vocations from which you choose, but otherwise life is not a question of ‘this or that,’ but ‘this and that,' and what I mean by ‘this and that’ we shall see shortly. "There was a certain rich man clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptously every day.. Was that a successful life? Perhaps it was in the estimation of many of his fellow-citizens. They deemed him great and successful with a thought in their own hearts, ‘Could I only be so successful!’ We may perhaps see the same things today. The day laborer may earn his money in the sweat of his brow, honestly and receiving medium wages, as he goes home from work he gazes upon a palatial home of a very rich man. he is filled with disgust and says to himself, ‘0 that such success might come my way!’ But if that is our idea of a successful life, we are indeed badly mistaken. Even though we gather all the wisdom of a Solomon, and all the riches and wealth of the Vanderbilts, Astors and Rockfellers, and have a hundred darkies around to do our chores, wash our cars, blacken onr shoes and do a thousand other things to keep us in a constant whirl of pleasure and sensual indulgence, if that is all that life is worth it will indeed be a dismal failure, a curse to yourself, to God and your fellowman. Someone has well said that ‘life is not a stall to fatten animality, or to train for carnality, neither is life a ‘Vanity Fair dress parade’, but life according to the declaration of the Divine Master is, ‘SERVICE’ and successful services means successful life. “Thus if life is service, then let me ask—‘How is this service to be rendered that life will lie successful?'. Let me give you the answer in the words of the Master, just as He answered the scribes and chief priests —‘Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God's.' Jesus did not say. 'Render unto Caesar the things that Caesar's or unto God the things that are God's’ but Caesar and God. — not this or that, but this and that This then forms the text of my message to you tonight, which is found ■recorded in the gospel of Luke, the 20th chapter and the 25th verse. “Man’s mission in this world is ‘to do.’ The measure of man’s success is not alone what a man is, but what he does. Not being, but doing is the true aim and purpose in life. Being Is for the sake, of doing. I am, that 1 may do, not that I may merely exist. Riches in life consists of deeds well done. Listen to this, ‘Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; tor I was hungry and ye gave me meat; I was thirsty and ye gave me drink; I was a stranger and ye took me in; naked and ye clothed me; I was sick and ye visited me; I was in prison and ye came unto me’' That’s service! ‘Not everyone that saith, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven ,but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven’. “Knowledge is for the sake of doing. Knowledge should never bo ri| garded as an end. It should be coveted sought, acquired, but never

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considered as an end to life. “Coining back to the question—‘How should life and service be applied so that it reaches its highest attainment?' I could perhaps not give you a better answer than the words of the text. Service rendered unto Caesar and God spell su<*?ssful life. “Men cannot choose to be of service either to Caesar or God, but he must do both. He cannot choose whether he will be obedient to the laws of the state or the laws of God, but lie must be obedient to both. In other words, do your duty to your country and fellowman, ami do your duty to God and you will be successful. “In all fields of human endeavor Hie better you are equipped and trained, the more you are enabled to do. Therefore a true training for a successful life is of paramount importance. You will agree that secular education, the expansion of the mind, the development anil training of tlie human intellect is a useful and necessary prepartion for efficiency: but it is not enough, it is not satisfactory and it alone is not safe. Tlie powers acquired and the talents trained must also receive the right direction. A misdirected force becomes dangerous and destructive. Therefore a true stpiri(ual direction, an holy inspiration, an inner sancti fied impulse should accompany the secular training. Take for example Moses—God wanted to make Moses a great public servant, the emancipator of the Hebrews, the lawgiver of a chosen nation. Ability, humility, consecration selfsacrificing toil ami a supreme unshaken trust in God were necessary for such service. What did God do? By His overruling Providence He. brouifllt the death doomed child to the very courts ot King Pharoah. and as a royal prince was trained in all tlie wisdom of the Egyptians. We would say that Moses received a wonderfod secular education But was it sufficient? Not by a long ways! It made him conceited self-wilied and passionate to such an extent that he arbitrarily killed an Egyptian and stained his hands with murderous blood. Then God took him into His school of discipline. He took him as an exile into the desert of Midian and there Moses learned humility, simplicity, subordination of his will to God’s will. This combined education in the courts of King Pharoah and in the deserts of Midian under God’s discirfine made him the greatest public servant, of the Old Testament Let us think of (he Apostle Paul, he greatest outstanding figure in the* New Testament with the exception of Christ, had a wonderful secular education He was born ami reared in the citv of Tarsus, a university town, but not until he was trained in the things concerning God was he ready to go out into the world and live the kind of life that God wanted him to '''"Things civil and things sacred are essentially distinct from each other The arm of the state is force. It has the tight and power to overcome, by material strength, all resistance to its law The arm of the Church is persuasion; it has not the power to USP force for the establishment of any religious belief. The weapons of Hie Church are not carnal. Its sword i the Word of God; its instrument Ls triumph is the Cross. Yet even though things civil and things sacred ■ ir e essentially, distinct from each other, they are quite harmonious. Neither may overlap or intrude itselt

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into the sphere of the other. In the things of God we may not take law from men, while in honoring and obeying Caesar in bis own sphere we are rendering obedience to God Himself. "The scribes and chief priests tried to catch the Lord in the question whether it was lawful to give tribute to Caesar. They asked in such away as though tribute might, be a gift or favor; but Christ reminds them that it is a clue. You may ask, ‘Should we give our life as a gift or favor to others?’ Certainly you may, but more than that, you o,wc- it to God and your feilowman. You are dutybound to serve God and your fellowman. Render therefore tribute of your coin‘to Caesar and tribute of yourselves, coined in ttlie Divine mint and stamped with tlie Divineimage. Io God. ‘ -The text points out to us a twofold citizenship. The one type of citizenship points out my relationship toward my fellowman—the oilier my relationship toward God. If life is to be successful I must endeavor to follow the highest type of citizenship. The type of citizenship that I am to render unto Caesar reaches out into at least three great branches: 1. Citizenship in the home. 2. Citizenship in business. 3. Citizenship in government. Citizenship in Hie home calls for this—'Honor thy fath-, er and thy mother': 'What God hath joined together let not man put asunder’; ‘Fathers provoke not your children to wrath, but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord’. Cizitenship in business calls for this ‘Do unto others as you wish them to do unto you’. Honesty, courtesy, respect, honor, tact, integrity. Citizenship in government calls for this—‘Honor the King’- We are dutybound to honor him who is the head of our nation. Immaterial as to what our politics, we are to honor him for the sake of the office that he holds To honor the king means to honor our country: Who is there that does not feel proud of the land in which he lives and wihere he was born? It is home, sweet home, to him. To honor the king means to honor the flag. Who would dare to trample upon our stars and stripes without being mobbed? Oqr natural sense of honor and patriotism would prompt us to put a stop to the misdemeanor. To honor the. king means to obey the lavs of the land. Every citizen is dutybound to be obedient to its laws. Laws there must be, otherwise this would be a miserable old world to live in. If we are not. obedient to the laws of the land we may have the pleasure of looking through the bars instead of over them. “It is a shame and a disgrace that so many must be fed and taken care of behind the bars. It is only a num her oi years ago that my home state of Ohio had two thousand inmates in the penitentiary in the capitol city of Columbus. The state of Ohio is a good state, progressive, and Lite mother of Presidents, yet it also has its sore spots, like every state in the Union. But the truth of the matter is that the greater percent of those that ar, being housed behind the bars have not received the training, especially in things spiritual and religious. “Rendei unto God the things that are God’s—What tilings belong to God? I would say—our time, our talents, our influence. As the oak is the development of the acorn, so ou’’ eternity will be the outgrowth of our time. We come this way but once. History, they say, repeats itself, but our early life does not repeat itself.

fore the fracas. The left is Rep. James M. Mead of Buffalo. N. Y„ practicing on some high ones at first base. At the bottom Rep. Mead is getting ready to knock the cover off the pill and Rep. Chase of Pennsylvania is catching. (International Newsreel)

What then is there for us to do? Redeem the time! Make the best of our pre. ent opportunity' Make the best of our talents and gifts’ We may not all have the same talent. It is a good thing that we haven't. We might want to all choose Hie same vocation. Even though there be a world wide (liffereiieA hi what v"? do we are utter all doing the one and same thing. As the blade of grass, the flower, the tree, the animal, ea ’h m: y appear to do a different thing, in jw.llty they are doing thing—namely serving mankind. And thu - there may i>< a groat difference in the callings that we choose yet if we do useful things, we are d'-ing the sarie tilings—serving God and fellowman. "We are here for deed: and c:: 1- ' justification for seeking knowledge will le found in the things we -,l 1. If we fail to do good, we will deserve p; aise for what we do and know. The Bible even teaches that it is better not to know, thaff.to know and not to do He builds on sand who hears and. does not. He builds on rocks who hems and dots. He Hint knows mid does not shall lie beaten witl, many stripes. Do work—serve ■for this von have come to the present moment. This is the meaning of all your study, of all your discipline and of all your schooling. "Let your influence go out into the world for the honor and glory of God. This may be performed in the most humble service. We need not be great leaders of nations nor builders of empires ir order to serve. We read of a young widow named Ruth who gave up the land of her birth, her kin and religion in order to.serve her mother-in law. Tlie Bible tells us of a woman who anointed tlie feet of Jesus and wiped them with her hair. The Lord considered this little act of service so important that it should be mentioned wherever the Gospel is preached. “You may have heard of the beautiful chimes of St. Nicholas in Amsterdam. One day a traveler went to the tower of that church to see and hear the beautiful chimes. There lie found to his surprise a man whose hands were encased in wooden gloves, thumping mid hammering on the keyboard. He heard nothing ' but the clang of bells above his head and Hie rattle of the keyboard. He went away in disgust wondering why people spoke so enthusiastically about the beautiful chimes of St Nicholas.

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The next day the traveler wa.-t in some distant pari oi the city and sud denly Hie air was filled with the me lodious tones of the chimes. ‘We hear the chimes of St. Nicholas’ tli guide said. No more did the traveler wonder why people spoke o onthuslastieally about the beautiful chimes of St. Nicholas. Hut the trnv eler also wondered whether Hie man in the lower knew and realized how beautiful Ids work became in (ho far away distance. ‘.So young graduates when you go out into, life choosing your various vacations mid when there coijp> moments to you when you feel gloomy and blue; when you feel that your work is enclosed in a Hl He place where’it is noj appreciated, let the story of the beautiful chimes cf St. Nicholas teach you better. "To render unto God the things that are God’s means to render unto Him ourselves —our life —onr substance —our all. ‘Know ye not, that the Lord, He is God? It is He that hath made us ami not we ourselves. We are’ His people and Hie sheep of His pasture. In Him we live amt move and have our being'. We have been tonight with a price and we belong to Him with body and ; oul

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Tim Apostle I’aiil wai'l I beseech you therefore brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bod les a living sacrifice, holy acceptable unto God which la your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world, hut be yet transformed by the renewing of your miml, that ye, may prove what is the good ami acveptable will of God’. I have In my hand an American coin, it has the American imprint and 111 Hpilon. It was made l>v I nile sam. I can go anywhere In , Hie I'nited States and it will he ac 1 cepted at Hs face value. Should I deface It. it will lose its value. If this coin is to l-.e of service it is to remain In clfl ulation. Tills coin was ■ made In 1842 and it is still good. My I'rlends, the life ami soul of every Individual has Hie imprint amt inscrip1 tion of the Divine mint. God send > the lives wth His imprint into the - woilil for circulation. Eventually ■ these lives and souls will be recalled t and*p’a( cd into the •hands cf tile man- . ager of the Divine mint. God Himself, f There is many a soul wlui will have t lost the Divine imprint. Many a one ? v, ill !> • defaced and blotted with sin. God will say. I cannot use if. "My friends, we have entered this

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world us little children, with souls, pure, i le,’in ami crystal. How will they >eturn ’ Only those whose life here below has l>een a life of uervlce given to t'aesar Inasmuch as It was due him, mid foremost a life of service given Io God, will receive that reI ward o fwhlch the Master Himself sjx nks Well done, tbon good and faithful servant, thou bast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee a ruler over many things, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord'. "Let me cloze with these words-- ■ the words of a distinguished educatjor ‘The end of education Ih, that the i student shall learn to know God, to know himself, to know his age'. “Young graduates, we congratulate you and wish yon God's blessing whatever vyemion you may be engaged in. May your lives become lives of service rendered for the good of I 1 man mid Hie glory of God. Our sub- • I ject was. ‘What constitutes a successi ful life’’ The answer is, ‘Service rendered unto Caesar and God, pro- • 1 perlv. means a successful life’. J “‘Let us then lie up mid doing, 'I Witli a heart for any fate; ‘I Still achieving, still pursuing. ■[ Lernn to labor and to wait!” ....— o —— , Get the Habit—Trade at H<xne, it “ays