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LEWISTON, june %. Commencement exercises
at Dates College opened this Sunday afternoon,
al o'clack, with the Baccaaureate discourse by
President Cheney, which was made memorial
service to the memory of the late Benjamin Ed
ward Bates, whose benefActions gave existence to
the College. Pres. Cheney selected for bis text
the words. ale being dead yet speskeh.' First
was considered the home life of Mr.. Bates. He
was born in Mansfield, Mass, July IL, 1903,
spending his early life in the mill and the farm,
his only opportunities for an education being sf-
forded by the town school. He had a good father
and pious mother, and the advantages and bless
ings OF christian home. lie was member of
one of the first Sunday schools established 10
Mansfield. secondly, when at the age of Il be
left his home for Boston, where he became clerk
in of the first mercantile houses IN the city.
Step by step he a-cended the ladder of mercantile
success, entering business for himself aud his
house standing always first class. In May, 1882,
Mr.. Bates being not quite "a years old, he made
public profession OF religion, under the preaching
of Lyman Beecher. Thirdly, was considered bis
life in Lewiston, not living there personally, but
being deeply interested in all lis affairs, and walk
ing its streets monthly. lie became interested IN
the town in lSi1, when it was but a small hamlet.
lie with others, in 1919 took hold of the immense
water power, Interested other parties IN making
Investments, and formed a Water Power
Company. The pioneers in this enterprise passed
through many endorsements, and these were
detailed at length in the address. Mr.. Bates
made his first subscription to the college which
bears his name, in 1862; these subscriptions were
multiplied until be had given the large sum of
$4,000 review was here taken of the rise
and pi ogress OF the Fee Baptist demon mat ton,
aud the address closed with glowing and CRATE
full tribute to Mr.. Bates, closing with these direct
words to the graduating class In bidding YOU
farewell, simply leave with you the life which
have made my theme on this occasion one al
ter which you may pattern. 1t is not pei feet
hfe for then it would not be human-but 1t is a
life, pure, honest honorable, and consecrated TO
the work of removing ignorance, bgotry and ev-
cry form of evil from the world thus to bring in
the latter day glory of the Iord-a life which the
Lord himself will accept when he shall make up
his jewels in the day OF his coming.
The graduating class is composed of the follow
Ing young gentlemen
Adams, John Quincy, Bowdoinham
Adams, Morus, Bowdoinham.
Bartlett, Frank Hewitt, Lenox, Mass.
Benner, Delbert Matthias, Monmouth
Briggs, Frank Herbert, Auburn
Brockway, Clarence Elwood, Gilbert Mills, n. Y
Daggett, Willard Fillmore, Athens.
Flsgg, Alden Marshall, Auburn.
Gatchell, Amaziah, Monm outh.
George, Frank David, Augusta.
Hurd, Benz min Sumner, Lebanon.
Hussey, Charles Edwin, Pennington, n. ii.
Ilutchins, John Wesley, Dover, n H..
Mower, Francis Oliver, Monmouth
Pessee, Charles Fremont, Augusta.
Rundett, Henry Albert, Dover, n. IL.
Scubner, Ernest Valian, Lewiston.
Nining, Ezra Bonney, West Acton, Mass
The sermon before the Theological class was
preached this evening, by Prof. b. f. Hayes. d. ID.