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duties he will ever find the knowledge he has acquired through ed-
cation not only of practical assistance to him but a factor in
his personal happiness and a joy forever.

It is through education that the possible future of man is to
be ascertained and attained. The Creator has not given man ration-
al wants without the means of supplying them. He has given us an
all bountiful earth that yields inexhaustible supplies for our use-
Men have only to apply their labor intelligently and learn to con-
troll the natural forces that mean surrounded them to have at their comm-
mand all that comforts and elegencies of life. Mans true happi-
ness is to be attained not merely by satisfying his physical wants
but in the development of his intellectual moral and religious
nature. It is through the expansion and development of these that
the high standard which the creator has made possible is to be
reached and when this standard is attained the result will be the
establishment and general practice of the golden rule and the real-
ization of the greatest happiness. I hope therefor that you will
ever keep before you the highest possible standard that you will
strive to attain it and fully realize that its attainment is the
object of education.

The high condition of civilisation to which man may attain in
the future it is impossible for us to appreciate. We
can best obtain an idea of it by comparison of our present con-
edition with that of preceding generations. Nor have we to look
very far back. A few years ago within the memory of a majority
of the adults here present in the United States whose very ex-
istence as a nation was justified by an inspired declaration of
human inalienable rights over four millions of humans beings were