Evening High School - Owl Yearbook (Reading, PA)

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62 THE owl. Baccalaureate Sermon The We e end H race S Man B D Hope Lutheran Chu ch Read g Pen a EVER FORWARD Joshua 11 12a Now therefore gne me thls mountam One of Longfellow s famlhar poems begxns The shades of mght were falhng fast As through an Alpme vlllage passed A youth who bore mld snow and ICL A banner wlth a stange devlce Fxcelslor' He then descrlbes the confhctlng attractlon of the hght of home and the glaclers to be chmbed ahead from an 1 vr o . n, . . . r , ln, n. . cc , ', ' ' YY , ' .. . 9 ln ' ' 1., , . .I y y y 4 v ' an 1 . . 9

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THE owl, 61 Baccalaureate Program in HOPE LUTHERAN CHURCH Front and Greenwxch Streets Read ng Pennsylvania Our class has been very fortunate ln securlng the SGTVICBS of Pastor Horace S Mann whose message was one of the finest ever heard by a graduatlng class Many of the excellent pomts of hls sermon w1l1 11ve 1n our mem or1es for many years I . . -..,'o 'smgp3,1-.,-m - . Q.. , . . a. Q ' 4qa-eezw-- 'Q i , ' ' 1

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'IHF OVNI 1,3 old man comes a warnlng of danger a malden trles to entlce the south from h1s purpose and as the young man goes hlgher and hlgher the last VOICE that he nears IS that of a pc as mt far below who shouts a warnlng 'lhe next mornmg the monks of St Bernard hnd the youth froren to de 1th wlth the banner I' xcelslor clutehed 1n hls hands lhe youth s motto has been Hlgher and he h is gone as hlgh as he eould lt was 1 SlIT11l xr mtrepld sp1r1t Wl11Ll1 moved Caleb of old As a man of forty h had been one of the twelve Sp19S sent out bv Moses to search out the land of Canaan ten of these had brought in unfavorable report the story of grants and lIl1pY'Lg'Tl3bl6 fortresses but he and loshua brought m '1 m1nor1ty report of wonderful erops and a pleasant sltuatlon together wlth the eonfldence that these Israel to enter 1nto Canaan the natlon wandered ID the wrlderness for th1rtye1ght more years no adult of that or1g1nal group exeept for Joshua and Caleb was per mltted to enter the prom1sed land But now the land has been entered and eonquered and Joshua IS about to d1V1d6 lt by lot among the trlbes 'lhen Caleb backed by the leader of the trlbe of Iudah lsks that ln aeeordanee wlth the anclent promlse the mour t alnous eountrv about Hebron the stronghold ofthe gxants be g1V8H to h1m as a permanent possesslon Glve me thlS mountam says Caleb and adds that even though there be glants and fenced Clt19S he w1ll subdue the land by the help of God Caleb 1S a eomposlte of falth eoulage patlenee and ho11ness He has found the secret of perpetual youth ln g1v1ng hlS heart to God and l1v1ng m hlm Even though he 1S now elghty f1V9 years old he IS full of f1re and feels able to eonquer the glants of the mountaln The lord had prom1sed h1m thls mountaln forty f1V8 years ago and Caleb was eonfldent that he would reeelve lt ln due tlme He was '1 man who followed the Lord and beheved 1Il the W 7 wg X . .Y ' L , ' ' u sz ' t ' . ' - L . cc fu ' gy . 4 2 Y , J , ' ' 1 11 Y ' CS ' 77 ' z s z . - 1 1 . ' e ' - . N f Z 1 -- A rlc ' J 1' 1 r 8 C , giants could be overcome. As a result of the refusal of ' 7 - ' Z . s l v ' T I ' . , c Q , 2 , ., . , K ,, . . ,, V ' Y 9 L Y u , u Q , l K . . l u , . ,L V I . . - X J X K . I 1 . I