ABSTRACT
I want to impress upon you this evening the importance of continued growth. I very much, wish that each one of you might imagine, this evening, your father and your mother to be looking at you and examining into every act of your life while here, I wish that you might feel, as it were, their very heart throbs. I wish that you might realize, perhaps as you have never realized before, how anxious they are that you should succeed here. I wish that you could know how many prayers they send up, day after day, that your school life may be more and more successful as one day succeeds another, that you may grow to be successful, studious, strong men and women, who will reflect credit upon yourselves and honor upon your families.
