Iron County Record | 1969-05-29 | Page 1 | Speaker Exhorts Grads "Not to Deal Lightly with Yourself" at Baccalaureate Sermon

Speaker exhorts grads "not to deal lightly with yourself" at Baccalaureate sermon You ought not to deal lightly with yourself; you have reason to respect yourself, your-self, Reverend Grayson H. Gowen, minister of the Cedar City Presbyterian Church, told College of Southern Utah graduates here Tuesday night. Speaking at Baccalaureate Services, Reverend Gowan said, "You are the end result, re-sult, if you go back only two generations, of eight family lines. Eight different streams of blood have come together... to bring you into being. You are somebody. Your life's no least thing." Basic to our respect for our- live in your backyard now. We cannot escape concern. I-solation, I-solation, if not dead, is impossible im-possible impossible for nations, na-tions, for people, for you. You are involved." Your respect for yourself can be expressed only, in this hour, by your respect for others. oth-ers. But respect for yourself and respect for others is possible pos-sible only as it is rooted in respect for God. You, whoever you are, making mak-ing your plans and dreaming yourself to greatness, are not your own. You belong to God, Reverend Gowen said. selves is respect for others. Any respect for self that denies de-nies the right of others to respect re-spect is false, Reverend Gowen Go-wen said. "There is no way to shut the world out. The world comes through the cracks in the windows and doors. No one has the right to behave as though this life were exclusively ex-clusively his own business. The ingnts or our astronauts are good illustrations of this mutual obligation." Over a billion dollars flew with Stafford, Cernan and Young; forty thousand people were involved in putting these men into orbit around the moon. "This is the most exciting development in the world today to-day our common concern for people scattered to the far corners of the globe. All men