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RELIGION, THE SOLE SOLUTION1
He that Ioveth not abideth in death.
In this чае have known the charity of God, because he has laid down his
life for us: and vie ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. Let us
not love in vιord, nor in tongue, but in deed and in truth.—ɪ John, ɪɪɪ.
STANDING here within these cloistered walls where
“the very stones in beauty speak,” there comes to
me with the message of the epistle of this Sunday, the
second after Pentecost, the warning cries of the man who
visualized these architectural forms, and who in booklets
of large content presents his philosophic views, who takes
his position in the line by the qualitative standard of educa-
tion, and shows us how and where the great creative works
of philosophy, religion, and art have been called into being.
He traces for us the upward curve of human progress, and
I believe that Ralph Adams Cram’s “Sins of the Fathers”
and “Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh” stand out as prom-
inently in their vision and spiritual beauty to-day as this,
his exquisite creation of brick and mortar, amid the multi-
tude of merely ordinary buildings which mark the city of
Houston.
William Marsh Rice, who drew this beautiful structure
so far as its content is concerned, living upon the prairies
of Texas, had no university education, but he did have love
for his fellow-men surging in his heart. He had the
philosophy of John.
1 Baccalaureate sermon of the fifth annual commencement of the Rice
Institute, preached by the Rev. Father James M. Kirwin, V.G., of Galves-
ton, Texas, in the academic court, at nine o’clock Sunday morning, June 6,
1920.
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