THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1916.
PLATTSMOUTH SEMl-WEEfcL JOURjjAfc.
PAGE S.
BACCALAUREATE
SERVICES HELD
LAST EVENING
Rev. H. G. McClusky Delivers the
Sermon A Very Charming Duet
Sung by Mrs. J. W. Falter
and Miss Vallery.
Last evening the baccalaureate ser
vices of the Plattsmouth high school
were held in the First Presbyterian
church and was attended by a very
large congregation that appreciated
to the fullest extent the beauty and
impressiveness of the services that
meant so much to the young men and
women just leaving the public schools
to take up their duties in life. The
members of the class were seated at
the front of the church, and made a
most pleasing picture as they listened
to the sermon prepared especially for
this important event. The meeting
was a union one in its nature and the
congregations of the Presbuterian,
Methodist and Christian churches
joined in the observance of the oc
casion. The prayer was offered by
Rev. C. S. Perlee of the Christian
church, while the scripture lesson was
given by Rev. F. M. Druliner of the
Methodist church. During the ser
vices several special musical numbers
were given of a very high standard
and were well given. The choir of
the church gave as the anthem the
soul inspiring song. "Onward Chris
tian Soldiers," which was given in a
most inspiring manner. The Platts
mouth male quartet, composed of
Messres R. W. Knorr, H. G. McClus
ky, Bert Knoor and Herman Hough,
gave a most pleasing number, '"One
Sweetly Solemn Thought" while Mrs.
J. W. Falter and Miss Mathilde Val
lery sang a most charming duet, "Oh.
Divine Redeemer" by Gounod, and the
sweet voices of the talented ladies
made the number most enjoyable. The
sermon delivered by Rev H." G. Mc
Clusky, pastor of the Presbyterian
church, was one of exceptional force
and filled with words of wisdom for
the young people who are now taking
up their part in the active life of the
community. The sermon was as fol
lows, and is without a doubt ore of
the best ever delivered in the city:
"The Forward March of Life.
Exodus, l-irlo. "Speak to the Child
ren of Isreal that they go forward."
and, Exodus 25, 40, "See that thou
make all things after the pattern
that was given thee in the mount.
Exodus 14. 1-18.
A young man in the Adirondeck
mountains reaching the wharf too late
to take the boat to his camp that night,
decided to walk the distance of three
or four miles around the lake. It was
a new route for him but he was sure
he could not lose his way. At first
the trail was easily followed. After
an hour it dwindled away and disap
peared. The bushes became thicker,
the mountains nudged him down close
to the swamps, darkness was fast ap
proacing, he was unarmed against
forest beasts, the mosquitos swarmed
thick about him, he became weary,
and slightly fearful. But he came to
this conclusion: The mountains have
kept me from going wrong to the
north, and the lake has guided me on
the south, the camp must lie ahead,
and to go back now is impossible to
night. I must go ahead. He gathered
up all his courage, broke through the
bushes, waded the swamps, the briers
tore his flesh, the mosquitos sucked
his blood, but he was soon rewarded in
finding the camp a-nd shelter. Simi
lar is life's march. So often our trails
fade away, our difficulties accumulate,
our enemies are numerous, darkness
of despair settles on us, then it takes
the courageous heart to face the sit
uation and do the only thing to do,
go forward. Think! on my left I have
been guided by the mountain of God's
righteous laws: on the right I have not
crossed the waters of dishonesty and
impurity, I must be on the right path,
I will not give up I will go forward.
You will win.
Such was the situation with the
Children of Isreal. They had been in
Egypt 430 years. Enslaved, they had
been robbed of their rights and lib
erties. They had made a break for
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freedom. They were headed toward
the land of Promise. Almost imme
diately they came to the Red Sea
which seemed to be a barrier too
great to surmount. It was here that
so- many of them gave up in despair
and wanted to turn back. Better be
enslaved in bondage than to be drown
ed in the sea. It was here that God's
words came to Moses, their leader,
"Speak to the Children" of Isreal that.tive
they go forward." They did and the
sea open before them. Later the wat -
ers that were bitter became sweet,
manna came to nourish them in the
desert, water ran from the rock, ene
mies were defeated, and when at last
they did lose heart at the giants re
ported ahead they retreated and they
lost 40 years of their life, until a
new generation of great courage
! could be amassed when they again
went forward and won the prize of
their march.
This is the message that I think
God wants me to speak to you at this
time Go Forward. I want to add
another part to it, found in Ex. 25, 40,
and also quoted by Paul in Heb., 8, 5.
See that ye make all things after the
pattern given you in the Mount."
The Mount was where Moses received
his laws from God. They were the
guide for them in old testament times.
The Mount is the culmination of the
life of Christ and was from there that
He said " Go and Preach the Gospel
into all the World." The Gospel was
the pattern W at he gave to the wo 1 1.
Before we gon any farther in this
message tonight, I want to urge that
this is the only pattern that will lent!
jui in a successful march of this life.
Our land of Promise is Perfect
ion. Be ye perfect even as your
i":ther in Heaven is perfect, is oi.r
command. "Henceforth there is laid
up for me a crown of righteousness,
which the Lord, the righteous Judge
will give at that day; and not to me
only, but to all them that love His
appearing," is the promise. All
scripture is given by inspiration of
God, and is profitable doctrine, for
reproof, for correction, for instruction
in righteousness: that the man of God
may be perfect, thoroughly furnished
unto all good work, is our equipment,
knowing we can do all things through
God who strengtheneth me."
The Goal of our life's march is not
merelv the salvation of the soul-
when God shall come to judge the
quick and the dead. Some people
seem to think that Christianity is
getting to heaven by doing the very
least possible to gain admission into
the Pearly Gates. Chrisianity is 'a
struggle to make a men the very best
man here in this life. We do not
have to wait until we die to be made
perfect. Our goal of perfection in
cludes every phase of life. A young
man came to the mission chappel in
Korea to be a Christian. He had fing
nails six inches long. That was his
sign of high social standing. He was
tolcl to go to work on a stone pile if
he were to join forces with the others
to live at the mission house. He re
fused. It would break his nails, and
he by labor would lose his high class.
In a few days he came back, went
to work after clipping his nails. You
cannot be a drone and gain in the
march. The perfection of God's pat
tern in Christ is trying to accomplish
perfection in business, society, gov
ernment, literature, philosophy, art,
science and ethics as well as religion.
In this strife, it has to contend with a
power that is working through the
influence of Satan that is trying to
defraud, degrade and destroy. All
these parts of life's varied course, if
conducted from the pattern from the
Mount become honorable, successful
and inspiring. But where the pattern
is picked out of the valley of the mind
of man, they have been made the
means of dissention, blood-shed, and
despair. If you are to be engaged in
business, let me urge that you conduct
it on Christian princibles. Remember
the earth is the Lord's and the full
ness thereof. Be honest in your deal
ings and always fair. A christian is
not a molly-coddle. Christ's instruc
tion to his desciples was to be as wise
as serpents and harmless as doves.
Oh, the frauds in business and the
distress it causes. Society is good, but
needs to be made better. Its object is
to be sociable, but it is too often gov
erned by the pattern below. Just we,
and no more, is its motives so often.
You treat me and I will treat you.
It is getting no where, but going
around in a circle. The pattern from
the Mount is this: "If ye do good to
them that do good unto you, what
thank have ye? for sinners do even the
same. But do good to your enemies
and give hoping for nothing again,
and your reward shall be great and ye
shall be the children of the highest."
Luk. f,cc-ce.
Government oh, the selfishness of
government How it has failed in the
world. Nations envious, distrustful,
hateful, can but come to wars. It is
but the case of Isreal calling we will
have a king to rule over us. The
pattern is taken from man below and
not the God . above. The forward
march of nations will not come until
they take their pattern from the
Mount: "Bear ye one another's bur
dens." Literature go forward literature.
Tell me, which is the literature that
lives? The myriad minded Shake
speare lives because he best was able
to depict the human heart. His works
are a mirror of the times and in them
we can see the very thought and mo
tives, but he never took his readers
into the highest realm of purest mo-
Victor Hugo, has written per
haps the world's greatest novel, and
(he there nobly convicts a mean heart,
and inspires in it a desire for virtue,
the championing of the oppressed, pa
triotism and brotherly love. These
are high motives, but fail to reveal
as the pattern that of the Mount.
Browning, Tennyson, Cowper, Wads
worth, Schelley, Keats and many oth
ers have scintilations of Divine (Mil
ton) wisdom, but its brilliancy is not
such that radiates the soul with Di-
vine Love. (Lowell) What can we
say of the present literature? It is
the product of modern thinking and
acting. It is too materialistic, and
also too sentamental. It is romantic,
it is socialistic, it is ephemeral and
colloquial. The world has yet to see
a great writer who combines great
courage with a deep spiritual life,
combined with literary genius able
to lift modern thinking into the mind
of Christ, thus to lead this mind to
know God. So much of our shall
we call it literature is searching the
sunlight of true down in the valleys
of the wisdom of the mind of man in
stead of on the mountain top of God's
eternal truths.
Science. You have done wonderful
things in the last century. It seems
as though you have been the voice of
God speaking to us from out of na
ture. But science has a still greater
mission. It is to go forward until it
confirms the God of Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob and the father of Christ
our Lord, and will aid in bringing
this world to its knees before God.
Philosophy. We admire your
mighty efforts. We praise your un
dauntd courage; we marvel at your
depth of wisdom. But philosophy in
all its power has not taken us above
the clouds. It has not reached the
Invisible. Like the tower of Babel it
has taken from the earth to build into
heaven and it has not succeeded. Ar
istotle, Plato on to Fichte, the ideal
ist, Shermacher, the pantheist, Strauss,
the rationalist, Herbet Spencer and
his psychogy, and the logic of John
Stuart Mills, all including the evo
lution of Heckel and Darwin are
mighty exemples of mighty minds.
but have failed to produce an infinite,
immanent and personal God. Drum
mond has come nearer the true phil
osophy of life when he says we can
not rise to the heights by propelling
from below, but only as we are pulled
up from below. As the flower finds
itself being moulded into its various
beauty of color not by a power within
itself, but by the rays of sun from
above infusing its life and being lifc
ed, and as the rain that comes down
from above has first been pulled to
the heights by the same power of the
sun. so man finds that he is not lifted
unto God by that power that is within
him, but realizes that the completeness
of his life comes from above, and ther
is the greatest philosophical truth in
the words of our Savior, "I, if I be
lifted up will draw all men unto me."
Go forward philosophy, but do so be
taking your premise from the Mount,
instead of the valley.
Religion. We want to go forward
to the very best religion there is on
the face of the earth today. Man
needs religion like the flowers the sun.
Are you satisfied with your religion?
What is it? Are you bowing down to
idols of wood and stone? So do the
Confucianist, the Brahamist; but here
we see manhood in a very low ebb.
The Mohamedan worships Alia, but
has murder in his heart for the gen
tile. He that bows to a fetish is slav
ishly bound in superstition. Let us
turn to Europe and see their religion.
Thev are cultured. Just now one look
takes our breath in horror. God for
bid that I adopt that religion. To
America, I read its literature, I view
its plays, I study its corporations, I
behold its city life and see and am con
vinced that America, too, is dwelling
in the valley of greed, pleasure, and
egotism. True religion, where are
you and how may you be found? 'Tis
true, you will not find it as the out
standing quality of nations, today,
nor does it impress itself upon you
from the vision of public life, but it is
here. There are those that have
not bowed the knee to Baal. We have
the homes such as Burns tells us in
his Cotter's Saturday Night. How
the father comes in from the field.
At length his lonely cot appears in
view, beneath the shelter of an aged
tree; the expectant wee things, tod
dlin stacher through to meet their
dad. The simple home, the mother
wi her needle and her shears, makes
old clothes look amaist as weel's the
new. How a strappan youth raps and
brings the sparkle to Jenny's eye, af
ter the supper of halesome porridge
at which guest also shares:
The cheerful supper done, wi' serious
face,
They round the ingle form o circle
wide ;
The sire turns o'er with patriarchial
grace,
The bid ha' bible, ance his father's
pride:
His bonnet reverently is laid aside,
His lyart haffets wearing thin and
bare; Those strains that once did
sweet in Zion glide,
He wales a portion with judicious
care :
And "let us worship God," he says,
with solemn air.
Tis true that "From scenes like
these old Scotia's grandeur springs,
that makes her loved at home, revered
abroad," and such scenes as these are
the factors that are stabilizing Amer
ica, but we need more, and religion
will not go forward until more of our
homes will make it a part of their
family daily worship.
Thus we have outlined our goal.
Let us urge this class now as you are
looking out upon a world a life
that you recognize this goal, and may
I speak to you that you go forward to
attain it.
1. A forward march calls for sac
rifice. People will live contentedly in
stifling quarters, during the erection
of the new spacious home. You will
endure bravely the present cramped
school house; next fall you will see
the newer and larger erected near
you. That is those that have not been
honored as you by graduation. I or
dered a child's wagon sent to my house
one day, and when it came I saw that
it was too small, but the little girl had
gotten into it and was so delighter
that I had a hard time trying to con
vince her that she must let me take
this back and wait a week for a nicer
and larger one. She believed the time
to take pie was when it was passing.
In the winnig of Barbara Worth, in
the 2d chapter is well described the
journey over the hot sands so long on
shortened rations of water. Pat, the
Irishman, raving with thirst and un
able to stand it longer, jumps for the
canteen to drain its contents but as
he did so he looks into the barrel of a
huge 45. He had to sacrifice that
drink for the good of the whole party,
or drink ond die in the act. The
children of Isreal failed to look ahead
at the blessings of the land that they
would occupy, but with eyes riveted
on the present, they saw only gloom
and hardship. They complained
against God and Moses. They did not
care to sacrifice. Every successful
man that you see before us today, if
you will read his life you will find that
he endured years of curtailed pleas
ures with work and labor, arduous
and prolonged. It does seem that to
live a Christian life in this world, it
is to give up much of the pleasure that
we find here. "Moses chose rather to
suffer affliction with the people of
God, than to enjoy the pleasures of
sin for a season." It pays, in good
conscience, in a life of honor, in love
of God, in everlasting life.
2. The forward march says, "Good
bye" to the past. Whatever the past
has meant to you, either of joy or of
ease, it has gone. He who thinks over
the past and lives in it is a dreamer
The future is what you have to meet,
Think over it. clan over it. meet it
prepared. This is one thing I do, for
getting the past and reaching forth
the things that are before, I press on
toward the prize of the high calling
of God in Christ Jesus.
3. You go forward by love. Love
in the highest sense. How much of
that we call love is merely the sen
sual and the selfish. Love as that of
Christ where says, "Love your ene
mies love your neighbors as your
self." The love that hates no- one,
the love that cannot be downed by the
enemy, the love that makes you see
the good there is in people, and makes
you want to give everyone a ray of
cheer of sunshine.
"When you see a man in woe,
Step right up an say hullo;
Say hullo and how do you do,
How's the world a usin' you.
Slap the fellow on the back,
Bring your hand down with a whack
Walk right up, don't go slow,
Grin, and shake, and say hullo.
Is he clothed in rags, O sho,
Step right up and say hullo,
Rags in but a cotton roll,
Jut for whappin' up the soul.
And a soul is worth a true,
Hale and hearty how do you do.
Don't wait for the crowd to go,
Step right up and sal hullo.
When big vessels meet, they say,
They salute and sail away.
Jut the same are you and me
Lonesome ships upon the sea.
Each one sailing his own jog,
To a port beyond the fog.
Let your speakin' trumpet blow,
Lift your horn and say hullo.
Say hullo, and how do you do,
Other folks are as gjood as you.
And when we leave this house of clay,
Wanderin' in the far-away.
When we travel to the strange,
Country together side the range:
Then the souls you've cheered will
know,
Who you be, and say hullo." Foss.
That is going forward by love.
4. You will need faith. Faith in
things; faith in man; faith in God.
If you make a deal with another, do
not be afraid to let go your end un
til you get a hold on the end of the
other. We must trust and go ahead.
A boy had a dream : A rich man came
to him and said "take my riches and
use it and take my place as the rich
man of the community. A doctor
came to him and said, I am going to
give up my practice and I want you to
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take my place and be the doctor of this
town. A judge came to him also and
said you take my place on the bench.
An the town drunkard came to him
and said, I want you to take my place
in the town." The boy awoke. It
was a dream, but he realized that some
day he had to take the place of some
one, and you are going out to .take
the place of some one whom you have
thought of before as part of the city
life. Prepare yourselves and have
faith, and when it comes you will be
capable to . serve in a good capacity.
While crossing Lake Michigan one
dark night, I went up on the deck to
the pilot's wheel. All was dark except
for a light that lighted up the com
pass. On the side of the compass dial
there kept flashing continuously this
word, ahead, ahead, ahead; the cap
tain said nothing, it was all dark out
over the waters of the lake, but he
would turn the wheel now and then,
look at the compass and all the time
there kept flashing the little word,
ahead. He was running that boat on
faith. That trusting to the rules be
ing right, that the compass spoke the
truth about the location, and that the
flash spoke the truth that they were
going ahead, and after a few hours
the lights of the great city of Chicago
came into view ahead, and we were
landed safely into the harbor. Is not
life with us the same? Our future
all unknown. We are guided by the
rules "Obey my voice and I will be
your God." This is all we have to do,
and God will take charge of the fu
ture. I do not ask to see the distant scene.
One step is enough for me.
Finally. All progress you make in
life will count you little if you have
not concluded in it Efernal ..Life.
"What does it profit a man if he gain
the whole world and lose his own
soul?" We need personality today in
all avenues of trade and knowledge.
But if it is the personality of a mere
man, than such will not help one very
far, but if be that of a man plus that
of God in a man than such personality
will give others an inspiration for
eternity. "He that believeth on me,
the works that I do he shall do also,
and greater works than these shall he
do." I care not how a man has risen
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in material power today, he cannot
gain the confidence of todays people
for high public office unless he be a
Christian man. Friends gain a per
sonality; let it be a Christian person
ality, and then impress that person
ality into every place you go and
everything you do. J. G. Holland in
his poem "Kathrina," which I hope
you have all read, nicely portraits
how a man tries to succeed without
pledging his allegiance to God. He
tells of a life that "began in years of
sinless hope, and merged maturely
into hopeless sin." His mother whom
he loved dearly and all the parent he
knew was taken from him by death
in his early life. It was a wrong he
felt that was unjust. It affected his
whole being. He became antagonis
tic. Yet when he married he wanted a
pure Christian girl and found one
who had bestowed her love her life,
her goodly self on heaven and had
been holy earnest in her gift. Before
all lovers she had choosen Christ; be
fore all idols, God; befor all wish and
will of loving man, her heart and hand
were pleged to God. Could she be a
wife he asked, Would she not be giv
ing all his money to charity? But his
good thought said: "These pious wo
men make more careful wives than
giddy ones." They married and he
had the best love that woman could
give a man. But he became discon
tent. Life was incomplete. To be
successful he would labor. He would
become renouned in literature. His
name would ' be emblossomed in the
halls of fame. He gained that he
brought home a paper giving him
great praise. Then I tossed the paper
to my wife, and bade her read. I
watched her while she read, but failed
to find the sympathy of pleasure in
her face I had expected. She said,
"You like this I suspect." He replied
"Well, truly since it seems o be the
first installment of the wage, which
you suggested might come grudging
ly, Ay, it is sweet to me." In his
course she kept the constant vision be
fore him that he was not on the right
way. "Drive on, my dear, drive on,
and over me. You're on the old high
stepping horse tonight; so give him
reign, for exercise is good." But he
tired of his fame. "I left it there
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and sought recreative rest in scenes
that once charmed me in society
where I was welcome; but the com
mon talk of daily news, of politics and
trade, was senseless as the chatter of
the jays in autujiin forest, and cries
in these words:
O, man who begot me! O, woman who
bore me;
Why, Why did you call me to being
and to breathe?
With ruin behind me and darkness
before, '
I have nothing to long for, or live for
but death."
His wife was taken by sickness to
a bed where death was to be her con
stant watch till the end. The despair
that he had from his own moth
ers death was again a thousand times
overwhelming him now. He had loved
his wife as any man can love. He
'heard death say: "This casket here
suppose we loose the clasp. These
are her jewels pretty gifts of yours,
those slippers on the rug, the time will
come when you will kiss the soles."
He knew he had done her the wrong of
always refusing to accept her God.
How pure she had always been. Her
last request was, as she had had a
pre-mrrtal conversation with his de
parted mother who said she must once
more speak to him and he would be
saved. "You have now but one re
source you are shut up to this you
must bow down and worship God; and
give your heart to him, accept his love
for you, and feast your exeellance
in Him. Pray said the spirit of my
mother and of God and of my wife.
O, God be merciful to me, a reprobate,
I have blasphemed thy name, abused
thy patient love, and held from thee
my heart and life, and now in my ex
treme of need I come to thee." Mul
titudes responded with, Amen. She
died. He kissed her with calm, say--ing,
"The Lord hath given, the Lord
hath taken away, blessed be His
name." He had attained the goal.
Let me speak that you 1916, go for
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