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Bishop Lawrence preached the Baccalaureate Sermon to the class of ninety-four yesterday afternoon in Appleton Chapel. He took his text from the thirteenth chapter of Acts, "For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers." This, he said, was the best thing that could have been said of David, "he served his own generation;" and to serve our own time is the best that any one of us can do. We are not called upon to worry now about the questions which seem...
...best serve his country? What is his political duty? Here, as before, we do not consider the specialist, but rather the average man. We have here before us, in Memorial Hall, a perpetual reminder of the patriotism of our fathers who "served their own generation by the will of God, and fell on sleep." Now how can we serve our country, how can we too be patriots? Each one of us has something to do with the moulding of public opinion and the choosing of our leaders. Let us all stand for national honesty and for justice. If we hear...
...Peter Augustus Porter, being of sound mind, do declare this to be my last will and testament, feeling to its full extent the probability that I may not return from the path of duty on which I have entered. If it please God that it be so, I can say, with truth, that I have entered on the course of danger with no ambitio us aspirations, nor with the idea that I am fitted, by nature or experience, to be of any important service to the government; but in obedience to the call of duty demanding of every citizen...
...great deal of worry and trouble. The thing for us to do is to place ourselves, or seek to be placed, at some central point of view from which we can get the true perspective of the relations of life; and this we believe to be the hand of God. He alone is the good, the beautiful. So long as our lives are not in adjustment with the divine life the whole universe is out of order for us. If we adjust our lives to some central idea they will be simplified, and calmness will take the place of anxiety...
...third beast had the face of a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle," taken from Revelation. All the Revelation of St. John, he said, must not be taken as a literal description of heaven. It is an allegory, and all through the Bible we find God teaches His people constantly by allegories. They make the truth easier to comprehend. Some people find in a literal interpretation of the Bible much reason to scoff at Christianity. Who, they say, cares to look forward to a future existence spent in a white robe, with a golden crown...