The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-05-26
THE SWEET GIRL GRADUATES
Hear a Beautiful Baccalaureate Sermon
by ReY. Dr.. Walter Moore

Church = The Music Unusually
Fine-An Abstract of DIR. Moore's
| Sermon.
Thirty-seven sweet girl graduates in
bright spring costumes, on the plat
form, about the center of the venera-
BILE Moravian church-2OO faces look
ing down from more elevated seats
and thinking of the day when they
too will be sweet girl graduates, a
vast audience, mostly young ladies,
filing the main floor and galleries oil
the amphitheatre like auditorium
with continual galaxies of beauty,
the brilliant scene made perfect with
tasty floral decorations,-such is a
faint idea of the picture that greeted
DIR. Walter W. Moore when he rose to
deliver the Baccalaureate sermon to
the graduating class ofSalem Female
Academy Sunday morning. And
| doubtless there was in all this much
| inspiration for the beautiful and ap-
propriate sermon which followed.
Notwithstanding the inclemency of
| the weather, the church was early
filed, and as the clock in the tower
struck eleven, the notes of the organ
pealed forth, and Bishop Rondthaler,
Prof Clewell and DR.. Moore came
from the pastors study to the tenn
porary platform that has been con-
structed for the commencement exer-
cises
The following, m p n g the
gradua ting class, occupied seats on
the front of the platform:
Anna d. Adams, Hattie A. Adams,
Daisy E. Brookes. Mary Y. Clark,
Lillian L. Crenshaw, Ollie L. Fain,
Edna E. Fisher, Agnes A. Fogle, May
Franklin, Alice E. Gillespie, Ella F.
Hege, Cleora C. Henson, Emma A.
Kapp, Francis Leach, Mamie r.
Lewis, Christiana McFadyen, Eldred
l.. Mallory, Blanche Morgan, Ethel
M. Morris, Carrie P. Ollinger, Fannie
Lou Pace, Lizzie E. Patterson, Annie
W. Penn, Bessie D. Purnell, Alice G.
Rawlings, Annie May Schoolfield, Sue
E. Siceloff, E. Louise Siddall, Mary S
Stillwell, Tilla NJ Stockton, Ava E.
Stroup, Lenaie NJ. Terrell, Florence
Tice, Blanche P. Wood, Mary f.
Wood, Hessie l. Yancey, Lille M.
Yancey.
The preliminary services of the
Bishop Rondthaler.
The music was unusually fine. The
orchestra and part of the Philhar-
Lo ,1oy
church choir, and the music was di
rected by Prof. Smolchk.
At the morning service 1.-The Haydn's
are Telling chorus from Haydn's
oratoria, "The Creation" was
rendered with beautiful effect. At
the night service ''Unfold Ye Portals
Everlasting" from Gunod's ''Redemp-
ton" was rendered in an equally
artistic manner.
Miss Matthewson, the teacher Of
vocal music in the Academy sang
"Forever with the Lord" at the
morning service, and her strong
voice, rich in melody, filled the audi
forum.
After the opening service Principal
Clewell arose and said that it was I'm
necessary to introduce DR.. Moore, as
he was SO we'll known here and
throughout this section, but he was
glad to express the great pleasure of
all interested in having him here. The
Academy he said was fortunate in
two of the commencement speakers,
and it would be difficult to find two
more acceptable.
DIR. Moore and President Winston
are men of sterling qualities who are
doing much for education in the
South.
DR.. Moore is a pleasing speaker. He
is yet a young man, of handsome APP
pearance and gentle and persuasive
in his manner His sermon was
more in the style of confidential adj
vice to the young ladies. but was
rich in the gold and diamond of
thought, FURNISHED and polished with
classic language. He was eloquent
without attempting oratory and a
more beautiful and more appropriate
Baccaulaureate sermon was never
heard in the ancient church.
DIR. Moore said: "In accepting
Principal Clewel's courteous invita-
ton to preach the Baccalaureate SER
mon to these young ladies, I wished
if possible to select subject which
would touch the aesthetic side of their
nature at some point and would at
the same time afford me the oppor-
tunity to impress upon them some of
the more solid elements of character.
In other words, l desire to choose
text which would indicate the true
scriptural basis both of beauty and
strength in woman's life. And
perhaps the most suitable passage
for this two fold purpose may be
found in the 31st chapter of Proverbs
and..30th verse, which reads as fol-
lows: Favour is deceitful and
beauty is vain, but a woman that
feareth the Lord shall be praised
When the inspired writer made this
statement it was no part of his pur-
pose to disparage just appreciation
of beauty. The love of the beauti-
full is natural to man. 1t is in itself
innocent and even praiseworthy, for
it is refining and elevating Indeed
it would be no error to regard it as
-the reflection of an attribute of deity.
"That God himself delights in beau
ty is clear, not only from his charac-
ter as revealed in his word, but also
from the profusion of loneliness with
which he has adorned the material
universal. HE has made everything
beautiful in it's season. Yes, God
loves beauty, and he wishes man to
love it. Therefore it is that He has
placed him amid this environment
of loneliness. But man himself is far
more beautiful than any of the OBJ
jects around him, and it is universal
lu cOnnedad that the most aftronf;uo