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112 THE OWL BACCALAUREATE SERMON The Rev. Arrhur H Naugle Saint James Lutheran Church St. Mark 12:80-31 Thou Shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength, and thy neighbor as thyself. We are presented here with a test for character which is not easy to meet. For while our moral stamina un doubtedly is expressed in the aggressive and militant vir- tues with which we tackle life, most of us feel a severe strain on our spiritual quality when life tackles us. He is a great man indeed who is great, not only when he makes his mark upon the World, but when he bears with grace and love the hostile, irritating impact of the world upon him- self. If a man fails here, what a vast number of resent- ments he can collect in a few years. If he allows criticism to irritate, if he cherishes insults, ingratitudes and wrongs he soon finds that his life is little more than a mass of thorns which prick him at every turn. Yet how very many people there are who are continually peeved, miffed, provoked and incensed. Unless we live a life of forgiving love we will soon find ourselves to be as the hitching post which had many nails driven into it. One day a man decided to pull out the nails because they looked so ugly and were dangerous. Alas, each nail left its ugly hole in the dead post. The water and frost soon decayed the post. If those nails had been driven into a living tree and had been removed again, nature would have healed over the marks and the tree would be sound again. Blessed indeed is the man whose life is not filled with ugly scars, who does not col- lect nails of resentment, for his life is a life of love. It seems almost a natural thing to collect grudges, envies and prejudices, but even those who defend it upon the natural basis must admit that Whenever we meet a character that does not indulge in resentments we recog- nize moral greatness. Stanton called Lincoln a low, cun- ning clownflnicknamed him the original gorilla. Lincoln
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THE OWL 113 knew of Stanton's feeling toward him, knew with what terms he described him and yet he made Stanton Secre- tary of War because he was the best man for the place. Years later as Stanton stood by the bed of the martyred President, looking at the silent face, he said, There lies the greatest ruler of men the world has ever known. School girls who are easily teased are soon discovered and made the butt of tantalizing boys, so also all conceiv- able irritations soon find out the touchy and resentful per- son. When annoyances come, our greatest danger lies, not in the wrong done us, but in the wrong We shall do to ourselves. Christ says, Love your enemies, and pray for them that persecute you. This at nrst seems impossible and yet as a matter of fact, it is the most practical and rational rule for daily living that could be laid down. The old Adam cried, Vengeance An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. The new Adam, The Christ, cried, Love,' Love thine enemies, do good to them that hate you. All of us deal with three types of people: folk less prosperous than we are, less capable, less infiuentialg equals, whom we easily meet upon a common level, super- iors, who easily surpass and overshadow us. These last consiitute a critical moral problem for us. They are more earned than We are, more fortunate, more charming, more influential, they achieve what we aspire to but miss, they receive promotion more swiftly, are rated higher in school and receive more praise among the public. All these things we desire for ourselves but superiors receive them. How very diflicult they make it for us to love them. Most folk can get along real well with those who are beneath themselves and whom they can lead. They can get along tolerably well with those who are their equals, but with superiors there creeps in that green eyed demon of jeal- ousy. To be sure, superiority in others is not always a cause for jealousy. We are not jealous of Livingstone, Florence Nightingale, or Philip Brooks. Persons like them awaken in us aspiration, not envy. The reason for this is plain.
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