Show I STRIKING PLEA FOR HIGH IDEALS Rev Father F ther Gueymard Delivers Baccalaureate Sermon Before Pupils of All Hallows I GUIDES FOR THE FUTURE POINTS WAY FOR LEADING OF USEFUL LIFE i ih fh ho Rev Re Father E EP P Gueymard dell rr rd d tile baccalaureate sermon yesterday before l tor the pupils Hallows college Father address was wa an on un sunny Interesting and inspiring dl i jr S He spoke as follows An Impressive Lesson M J Dear Dar Young Gentlemen Reading i i L fi that great eat mystic fund fun I of poetic ht the elaboration the fruit of an d mind the th poems of Tennyson Tennon Tenn ron I rotating relating to the th valorous deeds of ot King i s 11 we may ma draw dra raw a lesson WhiCh on nfl this gladly memorable day dav should itself thoroughly on your ni mory 1 I Voting Yoting Youn Gar th who yet et had lial never ner kown fin nor pang pan of I or fir broken limb and 1 who Vho In his good mothers hall hail lingered 1 with vacillating and kept and coaxed whistled d to 10 would nov HOW journey with strength st wit it to anti and tourney falls and Jousts and aars in Arthurs court ourt and so o 0 bess beis b s his hk precious freedom Croin rom com his lils mother but hut sh she with mothers cares and mothers oars ars and mothers love would haw haL him follow the th d vr b h these tall tail pines nines nd mak his manhood mightier day dav by ly day ny would seek Ii him out some slim comfortable t comfort mf I Irid rico and anti fair to grac n his climbing nf or I prid f o bids him stay a beIng yet vet t more mor toy boy han Ihan 1 man hut but he lw with a soul tinged by ly I till sacred fire thAt hu hurts i s in hi Kins Ar Arthurs 1 thurs knights answering her h r so ends his I Doch Man la am am I grown rown a mans work I vust I do tb Follow Follo the leer deer Follow the I the th king Live TIve pure sneak true truo right wrong follow the king else where wherefore fore forc born Filled With Sound Advice pI I 1 select not these words in preference to 10 the th many lx beautiful passages Es from frou sa sacred sacred sacred cred Scriptures with any intimation that they the th snored sacred texts are arl not n t replete with withas as sound advice and as fine a sentiment but to show that the till substance of Chris Christian Ban tian ideals the very vry v r essence of purest Christian thought and the Hie most Immaculate Immaculat Immaculate late lat Christian feeling can bloom and cast fragrance from the mind of a man of the flue world a n man who made no pretense or of professedly professed teaching Christian doctrine md and yet t who with a delicate a sublimated was able to grasp its most lofty loft teachings and to come camp into sympathetic touch with its finest feelings s sIt It is not my m purpose here to enter into a detailed description d of oC all your arious duties In life nor lor to crowd your jour memories with Christian admonitions There are ar certain things s which you ou are ar expected to have so thoroughly imbibed and so made part of yourselves ourselves during luring your our stay sta in this school of Christian mor moral al nl science and art that it were super flous to rehearse them here It suffices to draw for tor you ou a general sketch of oC the spirit of your conduct to present to you youn youa ou oun n a few of the ideas and ideals hIe lI that I 1 hope hopp will dominate that conduct in the life that thatIs Is ia before you ou Ideas you know are the Indicators of human progress In pro proportion proportion portion as Ideas or principles prin are more morer or er r less in accordance with the canons of or justice and virtue In that proportion are they more or less persistently held by b good men in that proportion are their advocates more morl or less lees fearless and un nfl uncompromising compromising in that proportion do they the live 11 and eventually triumph in that pro proportion proportion proportion portion are they less timid of exposure sure more willing to confess their value In Gods Creation But ideas in hi a mere general way do donot donot donot not exist they are embodied somewhere in Gods Cods creation Ideas as a mere men po 00 potentiality a latent energy ener not located not developed are of no practical us use to tous tous us in this world but incorporated as the motive power of oC human actions they be become become e elome come lome a living an active a useful reality It is j then that they the become the soul of human actions and communicate to their possessors energy spirit life the dynamic force forc of a personality When hen virtues cease as to be abstractions says Webster and become embodied in human character and md j exemplified fied l in human conduct it were re false to our nature did we WI not in in the spontaneous effusions of gratitude and admiration It lt is my m purpose this morning to pro pre present pr sent fent you ou with Ideals that though fanciful having hain found their birth m in fl the mind of a poet po t have nevertheless undoubtedly found their expression thou thousands thousands sands of tim times s In human characters The ideas Idea and ideals that led King Arthurs knights to such sueh heights of pure purl resolve rohe are exemplified in the words I have quoted quo od Id They are summed un no In that soul of honor which these words so o 0 beautifully depict in that of righteousness n ss which so grandly open to human vision whose hos horizon is not the narrow bound boundaries boundaries aries of ores ones inherent selfish aims alms but that triumphantly embraces s with the dut duties duties ies lea we owe ourselves the sum of duties j we owe to the world Live Pure Speak True Live pure speak pure right wrong follow follo the king Live pure which means that In your our inspirations your our daily dally ac actions a your general conduct your endear endea endeavors ors your soul should be dis disengaged engaged from the tile base and humiliating from the dross the dregs the tue slag of all unmanly sentiment all nil unmanly feelings felin all unmanly affections and untarnished seeks its affinities in what is pure and elevating and ennobling Live pure not only In the restricted sense in which w it itis is 18 understood but pure in every overy relation of a n mans matis complicated life standing before the world worl in that attitude In which you ou were proud that men would recognize you casting off hypocrisy h as you ou would a mask masl walking through life with an in n open a t rank frank a sincere and clean heart h art the tho center of whose affections is a thing really loved and worthy worth to be loved Live pure with the frankness of a genuine coin and the clearness of ot the flawless diamond car ear carrying carrying with you wherever you go goa a real realand realand realand and intrinsic value alue and reflecting In your conduct the purest and ahtI loftiest Ideals In all things live pure live honest Let never In the avocations of ot life let never neverin in any an dealings with your fellows any man brand you Ou with dishonor In every social rocial relation of life liCe lot let your our affections drift towards tO who stand within the tte range of your our best ideals anI an be b true unswervingly true uncompromisingly faithful unerringly steadfast to those who arc worthy worth of your our regard and who lean leair on your sacred honor for Cor com comfort comfort m fort con or support As A a citizen be true to those duties that have com corn commended commended mended themselves to you u as the sub substance substance subStance stance of most unselfish patriotism As Asa s sa a man cherish all actions that would per permit permit permit mit you ou while reflecting over your con conduct conduct conduct duct to lay hay I a your hand upon sour jour our heart and say pay I 1 have done all that which could be expected eol ted of oC me a man Tongue Expresses Thought Speak SI ak true nc Let all hii ll men know that whatever r your Jour tongue utters is the spon spontaneous expression of ot the thoughts of your mind and the sentiments of your heart h that your our word is your bond your our promise the determination of a strong strongman strongman strongman man to redeem red cern a binding pledge Speak 1 true rue hold hod lying in abhorrence and dece deception tion thai a fit as the th subterfuge of weak minds and anI wavering will Speak the tho truth not compromising not with a weak a he hen I a n cowardly tongue but speak it with tit tJi the tone of conviction ar and l the tho I accent of oc one who ho is I ready really to confirm his 1 worth wonIs even eien by heroic deed If there Is la j jany I any aJI moral teaching that you OU wil wll wi have hay temptation to disregard it is this one I Circumstances Clr will constantly present oc ot to here hero from the tho th direct line of right conduct In your our business relations the dilemma between truth and falsehood will frequently confront you I In society Oitt it will meet you yon at every o turn To speak the truth of all moral obliga obligations obligations is the one that will draw most fr on your our fund CuntI of honesty hon st and ana 1 honor and more mor so o because the will be b small Emall amounts But If you yon are a and a Christian gentleman at that with a deli delicate cate rate sensitive sense of honor it will be bl I r to 10 those finer feelings of an honorable man and the th reward will be bethe bethe the highest esteem of your fellows f who I will detect Idt in n your jour our character a capability to appreciate as worthy worth of n a noble mans man I attention what the less scrupulous and II the loss los lo honorable Ml HI deem a triviality Never confound prudence with untruth wisdom w dom with hypocrisy but stand on a fair fall field armed like King Arthurs knights and ready to bear the conse consequences consequences of oi your jour our own convictions Duty to Right Wrong I Right Hight wrong I would not have hae you on on the day da of your departure to a wider and more mor serious life leave leae the doors of r this institution with a pessimistic esti estimate estimate estimate mate of your our fellow men It is an un unwholesome Unwholesome wholesome thought and an unworthy Judgment to deal with your our fellow men in the frame of mind of one who can see naught but dangers and lurking en enmities enmIties before beCore him You will meet with thousands whose minds are as sincere whose sons soils are as noble as your own thousands who habitually are arc guided by b rules of righteousness and whose hearts are open to those feelings that make all men brothers men and women wom n I who desire to s ste so o their fellows happy and andI I whose charity charit moves them to generous gen rons I impulses which is the crowning beauty of o a useful life hike Scenes That Are Bitter I And yet lt boys bol you on will come with scenes s that if you on have a heart I will make male it bleed that if It you ou have feel feelings feelIngs ings will cause them to rise in anger and if you ou are brave brae will make male you jou OU stand to the moral height of ot a powerful man with ready hand to the tile defense of the deceived the downtrodden the op oppressed oppressed pressed pr sed You will see the gold of oC a de depraved prayed heart offered to virtue with the reckless disregard of honor and reputation reputation reputation tion You will see human toys toS in in innocence I deceived and then heartlessly cast aside You will III see violent passion pa si n cunningly wear ar the beauteous mask of true affection You will see the ruthless abuse of power grind under its it damning heels h ls tile the weak and unprotected By B the clink and glitter of golden coin you will WIH set see 5 the unworthy sometimes seated s In high place basking in the sunlight of f I public esteem and honored by the thoughtless applause of the multitude i You will wI see S e the smile of satisfaction seat seated seated ed on the countenance of the corrupt when worth and antI honor innocence love loveliness loveline I liness hiness line s and antI sweetness arc are peor poor and unprotected unprotected and amI disheartened Then it is for you to right wrong TAen it is for you ou to lift with a manly hand and to cheer and sooth with a kind kindly kindly ly h heart Not obtrusively and with blare of f trumpets and the sound pound of loud in indiscretion indiscretion discretion but with the persistence of courage with the thc determination of con COIl conviction conviction and the gentleness of human love hove Follow the King KingI I Now ow follow the king Not your our own unruly unruh passions not the dictates of oC a aI I cool and calculating selfishness center centering centerIng centering ing all upon itself t elf but follow the stan standard standard standard I dard raised by straight conscience fol lot follow follow low what your sense lense of right declares to you to be the best follow In the foot footsteps footsteps footsteps steps of those who in your years ears of study have been presented pres nt d to you ou as the stan standards standards standards dards of oC noble conduct follow those thoe who claim your loyalty 10 to whom you Oll have sworn allegiance who expect your our devo deo devotion devotion tion follow the light on whatever wh teer high highpeak highpeak peak It has been beon placed for the valorous to attain but hilt above aboe all follow the king God your father your our friend your our coun court solo your strength In adversity your consolation in sorrow your our never ncr jealous companion in joy j and prosperity Keep close to those thoe you ou love loc and yet never neer I far from all to whom your our heart should go And AmI th n if IC it should be as it will willI I sometimes be b that the night winds of adversity howl around on Oil and the cold coldness coldness ness n s of desertion blight and wound your yourI heart eart if IC it should be b that fiose no e whom you love prove faithless if IC all men should I neglect or deride bride you then leading oth others others I ers follow God your king |