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whether the Influence of hone, the years of Instruction In the public schools and the kindly counsel of your instructors have entered into your soul, or whether all has been In vain. A soldier of Athens who was lane In one foot, was laughed at by the others on account of his lameness. I an here to fight , he said, not to run . So you nust face life. 3. And you itfill need to be persistent: many a nan without influ- ence, without friends, without great ability, has achieved great things by sticking to the chosen task until victory was won. We night lay before you' an endless nunber of rules and suggestions; we night give a great deal of counsel and advise but it would be of little use unless you acted upon then. The great truth we wish to loaor with you is that you stand on the threshold of a new world tonight. Your life is in your hands. You nay do several things with your life. You are free moral agents. You nay choose the pattern and plan of your life. But with al] our thinking about rules and our choosing we need to renenber that God is the author of life; that we are responsible to Hin as to how we live our lives; that only He can safely guide us in all of our choosing and in all of our living. And with all of our learning, talents, opportu- nities and seeming success in life we shall be failures in life if we leave God out. Consider carefully your training and background, the opportunities and possibilities; look carefully and prayerfully to the pathway you choose; invest your life wisely under God and the returns will justify all the labor and tears that faculty and oarents have expended upon you.
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A LIFE TO INVEST—Rev. Bailey We are to talk about life tonight. Young people of the Class of '43 you are going out into life to taste of new freedoms, to shoulder new burdens and responsibilities. You have come to an hour when you ought to seriously and earnestly and prayerfully consider life Life is a gift from God and a very precious possession, xhere are several ways of looking at life; one may be an optimist or a pessimist. A schoolgirl's blunder will perhaps best illustrate the meaning of the words. She was asked in an examination to define these two words with this result; An optimist is a man who takes care of the eyes, and A pessimist is a man who takes care of the feet. 3ut she was right after all. The pessimist i3 concerned with the obstacles in the path, while the optimist has eyes to see the plan oi the Journey and the goal at the end. In other words, the pessimist has anxious prudence ana tne optimis . has vision. And one need not be impractical to be an optimist in life But now as we look at life we see great possibilities in the -al- ents and gifts and the personality of individuals. All men are not gifted alike, but on the other hand we are at times amazed at the use some have made of the talents they had. One of the greatest men of modern times was Thomas A. raison, -how much the world would have missed without the inventive genius of such a man.1 The electric light is a household necessity in almost every home in our land today, and electric power is being used more and yot more every year. The misuse of those talents bestowed upon him by a benevo- lent Providence would have been a great loss to society. But it is tremenduously Important that we all do our best and con- tribute our part in life. There are peoole who dawdle through life. They find themselves out of step with others and out-stripped by t.ielr fellows, with little to show for their efforts, discouraged and down- hearted, sour and disappointed. We must put something into life if we expect to get anything out or accomplish anything worthwhile. You have set for yourselves a high and noble ideal in the notoc adopted, Service, not serve us. You are going out into life to spend and be spent in service for others. We all want to be successful in life. And if we would be such there are certain simple rules to guide us. 1. Manifest a kindly, generous, unselfish attitude toward others, it has been said that competition is the life of business. 3ut even that can be carried entirely too far. The Mexican War was not a popular one with the American people. Abraham Lincoln, then a member of congress, opposed it, declaring tnat . those who 3aid that the war was not one of aggression made him tmnx the Illinois farmer who said, I ain't greedy ’bout land,, ™ljr ,vanth . what Jines mine. The road to a happy, useful, successful life does no include a desire for the world with a fence around it. 2. Face life courageously: he who hesitates is lost is a well- known saying, as true in life as in love. There are oroblems of life that try the soul, that try the very metal of your beinsr. And these very hours of trial will show whether y:u are made of the right sort of stuff. These very hours will show
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