Show STUDENT LIFE at least let us behold him as the perfect Before all ages he stands match- - man less in the majesty of his purity unequaled in the grandeur of his purpose Make His life and character your guide and you cannot fail He measured all heights and widths and depths exploring every snore of human thought Between noting the sparrow’s fall numbering the hairs of the head and attuning the music of the stars to the harmonies of the universe there is nothing pertaining to human endeavor or to human activity that He has not weighed in balances or measured in scales Comprehending the mystery of all hearts He fathomed all human hope and through the straight gate made the way so plain that the wayfaring man need not err therein He demonstrated His calling when driving the money changers from the house of His Father denouncing Scribes and Pharisees feeding the multitude and raising the dead but not less when preaching that incomparable Sermon on the Mount The glories of the world its allurements and temptations its ambitons thirst for fame and power its ease luxury and intense desire for wealth and influence were before Him as before you He too had to choose what He would be Gave He no thought of the fundamental qualifications that go to make life successful? Note how He expressed Himself on that subject: “Behold the lilies of the valley they toil not neither do they spin yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these” Is there naught in that but the philosophy of a dreaming idealist? Who is able to discern in it the key to the door of supply equal to all demands of right human requirement and of all proper human necessity? The great Shakespeare voiced the same thought when he said: poet-dramat- ist 143 “There is a tide in the affairs of man which taken at the flood leads on to fortune” From circumference to center of that thought we may trace all ebbs and flows floods and tides to their source there to find not only the arbiter of nations but the shaper of all efforts human and divine Paul may plant Apol-lo- s water but God alone giveth increase While esteeming it of the highest moment to impress upon your minds that an g Providence shapes all y yet I would not have you overlook the free agency of man limited only by his personal responsibility Human life is but a school in which by act and word observation and experience characters are formed and of each individual becoming the bookof life outof which he shall be judged and out of which succes or failure comes Nothing so quickly develops inherent qualities as responsibility But it is well to remember that it is always accompanied by personal accountability Being free to speak and act we are nevertheless bound to respect the rights of others While shaping our lies so as to conform to these facts and while ascertaining the qualifications most necessary to success in life every young man and woman should remember that the most wonderful thing in nature is the infinite variety characterizing the creations of God It is said that no two blades of grass no two leaves no two flowers no two grains of sand are exactly alike How unwise then to expect special rules to apply to you the higher creations of the Almighty Alan being wonderfully made as to his physical organization we stand amazed in the presence of his mental scope and awed before his spiritual being Knowledge is power but wisdom to use it is of infinite importance Without wisdom no person can have been over-rulin- des-tin- |