Divine Guidance, the Baccalaureate Sermon in Lebanon Valley College

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Excerpt from Divine Guidance, the Baccalaureate Sermon in Lebanon Valley College: Delivered in the College Chapel on the 10th of June, 1875 A. D. 1875 No subject of contemplation possesses more of thrilling interest than the future of a human life. Though veiled in that darkness which covers all the future, its vast possibilities, its certainties and uncertainties sometimes rise before the imagination in pictures vivid and impressive. There are, with all of us, certain periods in life peculiarly calculated to awaken in the mind anxious inquiry respecting the future. To such a period have you arrived, my young friends, and God only knows how many anxious inquiries respecting your future lives even now are taxing the mind and heart of those you love. Into that dark future, which our knowledge can not enter, the imagination peers with wistful eye, and with fond affection traces for you the paths which buoyant hope suggests. As experience casts its light upon the picture thus drawn in fancy, many of its most attractive features are darkened by doubt, and vague uncertainty flits like a specter o'er the scene. A world of anxious inquiries arise in the mind respecting your future career, which fancy has vainly sought to sketch. What will your future be? Will it be peaceful or tempestuous, will it be darkened with sorrows or radiant with joy, will it bring a realization of those fond hopes which now warm your hearts and nerve your arms, or will disappointment verify those anxious fears which ever and anon arise, will it be a success or a failure, a blessing or a curse, will it be protracted or brief, will it be prematurely closed or will a v)Q old age rejoice in the treasures of a life well spent? How will these thing? be? Who of all the sous of men can tell? Where shall we look for an answer? If we consult the records of the past we learn that while all desire to make of life a success, its pages are burtbened with the story of utter failures. Though true success is worthy of the fondest desires and most vigorous efforts, it is not alone by fond desires and vigorous efforts that such a result is reached. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.