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THE HYAK. 11 But I do not believe it, and I hope you will never come to believe it. Total depravity is a worn out doctrine,— wore out because it never was true. While life lasts there remains at least capacity for good and there is hope that the good may yet overcome the evil. Human life lias taken on a new aspect since our Great Exemplar entered into it and lived it. Think often of His courage, which we too may share. ‘Be of good cheer, I have over- come then ‘Hold fast the good,’ that following in His steps you too may overcome evil with good. I said but a moment ago that it was not my good fortune to be initiated into the mysteries of your sorority, and consequently I cannot know the meaning of those mystic letters, Delta Pi,— but I remember enough Greek, at least, to know that these letters in plain English are D. F., and I sup- pose I am at liberty to tell that whatever else they may stand for they cer- tainly stand for ‘Don’t Pout,’ and ‘Don’t Pine,’ ‘Don’t,’ because they never did anybody any good any where or any how. Possibly also they stand for Do, Patiently, and Perservingly. Do your part. And if this happens to be their meaning, or anything like it, then with all my heart, I say ‘Hold it fast,’— for it contains the true secret of the real success of life, — for it is what will certainly remain, though all else be taken from you. Then I must tell you if you are to hold fast this good you must some how manage to hold fast the enthusiasms, the bouyant hopes, and the ideals of these days which you are now leaving. In short you must keep young. And dear Oliver Wendell Holmes, who, somebody has said, was still young at eighty, has left us the secret of it. And this is it, ‘It is faith in some- thing and enthusiasm for somebody that makes life worth living.’ To which another, who was also still young, it makes no difference how many birthdays he has had, has added, ‘This faith may take on manifold forms but in essence it is always the same— the soul’s grasp of what is higher than itself, a conviction of a spiritual order, pure and holy, reg- nant in the universe, which though at present invisible, will in the end make its triumph known.’ But after all you do not have to go so far afield for a shining example of one who has drunk from the fountain of perpetual youth, and not only professes, but lives such a faith. You know whom I mean,— but I must tell you that a Commencement address here in this school with no mention of dear Mrs. Raynor, would be worse than Hamlet with Hamlet left out.
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10 THE HYAK. lion of being one of those I have sometimes heard called ‘Finishing Schools because they are supposed to put a little veneer and a little polish, and so make ready for appearance in society. I hope this school will always remain what it is now, a fitting or better still a training school where girls are trained to take a real part in the ac- tivities of life,— in advanced schools of learning, in the home, in society, in the church, in short in every place where their lot may be cast. Life is altogether too great a gift to be frittered away in aimless drifting with the crowd, or in shallow dawdling with accepted conventionalities. The world s work is to be done, and every one has his and her part to do and the place to do it in. Every opportunity that comes to us, and every ad- vantage we enjoy only adds so much to responsibility. I love to recall that splendid saying of Phillips Brooks which contains so much of the true philosophy of life, — that ‘The highest function of our humanity is to stand between the highest truth and the needs of our fellow- men and so to transmit the one as that it shall reach and help the other. After all it is only another way of stating the great law of influence to which we are all subject either for good or for ill. We cannot live our lives separate and apart from one another. Hold fast the good then in such way that your influence may be ever for the good, — and that when your work is done, you may leave the world a little better than you found it. It is not too high an ideal for any one of you to have, and it matters not where your place may be. If your class prophecy comes true, as I hope it may, even to the one who repented not at the eleventh hour, but at the twentieth vear, you are all to be married and have happy homes filled with children. I could not wish you a greater joy, nor a better sphere of influence, for such homes, so blessed, are the strongest safeguards and the bravest bulwarks which this beloved land of ours has today. Yet another counsel I would give you, when I bid you as you take ‘the paths of tomorow ' and follow them through life, keep both your eyes and your ears open to the good and shut to the evil which are both all about you. There will be many voices to tell you that the evil outnumbers the good,— for there are always pessimists in abundance, and the best definition of a pessimist I ever heard is ‘one who of two evils always chooses both Perhaps that is why in their eyes they always seem to outnumber the good.
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