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overtime."The Art of LivingDr. Robert Park's AddressFaculty-Senior Banquet, 1955, Geneva CollegePresident Lee, members of the Faculty, andseniors of the class of 1955 of Geneva. I have beenasked by the committee in charge of this banquet tonight to address you seniors in behalf of the Faculty.Hence, I speak to you not as an individual member ofthe Faculty, but as the representative of all of themwho are your hosts. I suppose that the committeeasked me because you and I are going out together.I do not think that any of you entered when I did.I have known some students who required five yearsto graduate, but I am safe in saying I have neverknown anyone who required thirty-three or nearlythat number of years.It has been the custom of the Geneva facultyfor some forty or more years to entertain their seniors at a banquet. This is a tradition at Geneva andis unique of the colleges of our country. Whereasmost of the colleges and universities have a seniorball as their last social function Geneva entertainsher seniors at a banquet. May this fine wholesometradition ever be retained by this college.Here tonight we meet you in a different capacitythan upon any other occasion of our commencementseason. This morning we met you in chapel in capand gown, but it was in the presence of the otherstudents of the college. On commencement morningyou will meet as a class but surrounded byotherstudents and your friends and relatives. Tonight wehave you to ourselves, by yourselves.Success Requires Tireless ApplicationSome fifteen or twenty years ago as I was passing through the dining room of my home, whichwas that old landmark just recently purchased anddemolished by the college, I heard a voice on the radio. I stopped and listened for a minute to that voice.The person talking narrated a story of a young woman who had been in a Chicago theater and had seenCharlotte Cushman act. This young woman met thegreat actress back stage after the performance wasover and asked her what she would have to do to become a great actress. Charlotte Cushman replied :"Art requires the most tireless application butit pays great dividends." I immediately wrote downthat statement on a small slip of paper and shoved itinto my pocket. I was thinking that that statementcontained a fine idea to pass on to the theologicalstudents whom I was then teaching, for preachingis a great art and it requires most diligent application and for such pays great dividends. I never usedit for that purpose, but I want to make it the basisof what I would like to say to you tonight. "Art requires the most tireless application, but it pays greatdividends."fist, which is now a strong position in Japan. The Liberal-Democrats will continue to favor strong ties with theU. S. If the two-partysystem can become established inJapan as it has in the United States and Great Britain,it will be a big step toward effective representative government. Multi-party states, such as France and Italy, tendto have weak parliaments.356A labor leader once asked Dwight L. Hillis whowas then pastor of a church in Brooklyn, New York,as to whether he believed in an eight hour day.Dwight Hillis' reply was, "Very much so. So much soday,"that I put in two of them every and then wenton to say, "the great achievements of the world havebeen accomplished in the unpaidHow truethat is. Men without watching the clock orthinkingof the payroll have given to their fellowmen some ofour finest blessings.It is said of Thomas Edison that he would slip asandwich prepared by Mrs. Edison into his pocket, gointo his laboratory, lock the door to shut out all interference with his task and spend hours alone trying tosolve a problem. Just think of the blessings all aroundus because he spent hours in unpaid overtime. LillyPons has delighted the music world with her voiceand Heifitz has done the same with his violin, butwho can count the hours of training of voice and offingers of these two that they might entertain theworld ?When a crisis comes in a victim's life thethought arises in many minds, whom do we have whowill lead us in our struggle to victory? Then cometo the fore men like Marshall and Nimitz and Eisenhower and MacArthur who almost unknown and seldom thought of but who in those previous years havespent a life in mastering the planning and techniqueof warfare.Whatever art you work at, art of music, ofteaching, of preaching, of healing or of writing, youmust make tireless application of your energiesin that art to gather great dividends. But tonight Iwant to speak to you concerning one artimportant of all arts, the art of living.The Possibility of Failurethe mostHow sad is the story of many great artists whohave achieved great dividends in some one art, butTHE COVENANTER WITNESSIssued each Wednesday by the Publication Board of theREFORMED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHOF NORTH AMERICAat 129 West fith Street, Newtan, Kansas orthrough its editorial office at 1209 Boswell Avenue, Topeka Kansa9to promote Bible Standards of Doctrine, Worship and LifeFor individuals, churches and nationsOpinions expressed in our columns are those of the individual writer,not necessarily the views of the Covenanter Church or of the Editor.Dr. Raymond Taggart, D.D., Editor1209 Boswell Avenue, Topeka KansasContributing EditorsFrank E. Allen, D.D.Prof. William H. RussellWalter McCarroll. D.D.Remo I. Robb, D.D.Departmental EditorsRev. John O. EdgarMrs. J. O. 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