Polk High School - Cub Yearbook (Polk, NE)

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 Professional- Invocation— Hyrcn--------- Scrip ture---- Mixed Octette Sermon—The Guide of Youth' Benediction--------------- Recessional--------------- ----------------Miss Lucile Sandfort --------------------------Rev. Bates ------------------------Congregation --------------------------Rev. Dixon ----------Doris Binford, Noma Lind Dorothy Eediant, Alice Marie Rcdine Johnny Nyberg, Leonard Jisa Charles Lytle, Bill LaVelle --------------------------Rev. Dixon -------------------------Rev. Bailey ----------------Miss Lucile Sandfort

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• i) (XC (UxJoCLlo M Baccalaureate Services for the 1943 Polk High Students was held in the School Auditorium on Sunday evening May 16th with Rev. Dixon as the s leer. The auditorium was well filled, as all the churches had dis- missed their evening services. kiss Sandfort played the Processional, and the graduates and fac- ulty, led by the Juniors marched in single file, from both sides of the auditorium, taking their places in the center row of seats. Rev. Bates :avs the invocation, and led the audience in the song, Onward Chris- tian Soldiers . The Junior Class Octette then sang two numbers. The speaker, Rev. Dixon, then spoke on The Guides For Youth . His text, How can I except some man should guide me was taken from Acts 8:31 and Psalra3 1 and 121. If there is a group of people that need a guide it is youth. If there was ever an age when youth needed a guide it is today. Today we have problems such as no other age has known. We have problems that even mature minds are unable to solve. This is a serious age to be living in, perhaps more so than the most of us realize. Yet it is an age of gr?at possibilities if wc but grasp the opportunities as they come our way. I congratulate you seniors for the progress you have made. You have reached the goal of the past twelve years. You have been helped and encouraged by loving parents and sympathetic teachers. Most of the important decisions here-to-fore have been solved by some one else. Now life takes on new meaning for you. You are facing the unknown and you are the one that must solve it's problems. It has been said that life is a 3tore house in which we deposite in youth and draw out in old age. And this is true to a large degree. We are what we make ourselves. Perhaps some of you realize the impor- tance of the gift of life that you have, and already want some one to help you solve the present and future problems. The rest of you will come to the place where you too will want a guide. There are three great factors in the making of a man: heredity, environment, and choice. Heredity and environment are mighty, fashion- ing, fixing forces that meet us at the very threshhold of life. But that third factor, choice, is by far the greatest in the making or un- making of a man. A choice is a momentous thing for a choice results last a character; and a character results in a destiny. We either sink of soar according to our choices. To be successful we must learn to say no with full meaning. Learn to say no to sin and Satan. Say no to the one that would cause you to discount God and the church. Say no to the things that would destroy your character or that of others. Say no to the one that '•?ould rob you of moral purity. God has a plan, a first plan, for ovary life and the sooner we find that particular place for ourselves the more happy our years will be. The great purpose then is to find that first plan. In that great- est of all sermons ever preached Jesus said But seel: ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these (other) things shall be added unto you . The important steps in life call for a guide: the choosing of a life work, the choosing of a life companion, the choosing of our church relationship, the choosing of the Christian life. In all other phases of life we choose the best guide possible. If we are ill we soe a competent physician or specialist. In matters of law we seek the best attorney. Evc-n farmers se :k advice from their