The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-06-22
Numerous Arrivals Swell the
Great Multitude.
THE TEACHERS ASSEMBLY
SERMONS BY DRS. KlLGO AND
HOGE
TRlNlrx's ELOQUENT PREACHER
Or. Hoge Speaks Learnediy on the O'd
Testament Many Pleasure
Excursions and a Flow
of Reason.

OF Reason.
Morehead City, N. c., June 22.-tSpe-
ciaD-The Teachers Assembly has 80 far
| been an especially entertaining and en-
| ioyable meeting and good fruits will fol-
low therefrom. The sessions business OF
the same has received the cooperation
and support of the teachers present and
practical results have been attained. On
Saturday the question, What the city
public schools can do to promote patriot
ism and good citizenship was discussed
by Prof. Alexander Graham, superln-
| tendent of the Charlotte public schools.
He spoke of the intense interest he felt
| in the cause Of education and his desire
| to see the spirit of broad patriotism more
widely diffused among the people. He
gave practical statement of the manner
| in which he endeavored to increase les
sons of patriotism and good cluzenshlp
in those who came under his instruction.
He gave suggestions that can be proht-
ably used by others. His discussion of
the subject was full of the strong Scotch
common sense Of which the speaker pos
sesses an unusually large share, illustrat-
| brightness and appropriateness, in the
| use of which Prof. Graham excels. Few
have been heard in the assembly here
who have made so strong and favorable
an impression on the audience.
On Saturay night an impromptu must
cal entertainment was given at the
Teachers Assembly hall. Prof. Brock
mann, of the Greensboro Music School
who assisted Secretary Parker in ar
ranging the programme, secured the no.
tel orchestra and augmented it with 9th
err musicians present, making an almost
professional orchestra of ten pieces. De
lightful songs were rendered. by Misses
Hobgood and Hilliard, of Oxford, and
Miss Shrively, and Prof. Synnot, of
Reidsville, contributed that popular
recitation, "The Bobolink." Mis- Hob
good also played iszt Rhapsody for
piano in musicianly style and accom-
panied Prof. Brockmann's violin solo
| which brought forth storm of applause.
The sail given by DIR. Charles ID. Nc
liver, president of the State Normal Col
lege, on Saturday evening, was one of
the most enjoyable occasions of the sea-
son. 1t was given complimentary to the
| faculty and former students OF the col
lege. The college is represented here in
| large numbers, the following members
of the faculty have been attending the
assembly President G. d. Mclver,
Profs. F. p. Claxton, J. Y. Joyner. The
| former students of the institution at
tending the assembly who are now teach
| ing in various parts of the State, are:
Miss Lizzie Lawrance, Oxford, n. o.;
| Miss SaHie Davis, Oxford, N. c.; Miss
| Sudie Israel, Asheville n. c.; Miss Nan
| ME Cox, Greenville, n c.; Miss Annie
| Williams, Reidsville, N. c.; Miss Lizzie
Holt, Goldsboro, n c.; Miss Lizzie Nc
| liver, Greensboro, N. c.; Miss COrnie
Deaton, Mooresville, N. c.; Miss Kate
Moore, Granite Hill, N. c.; Miss Kate
| Styron, Durham, N. c.; Miss Gertrude
| Bagby, Wilmington, N. G.
DIR. HOGES SERMON.
| On Sunday morning a large and APP
| preciative audience met in the assembly
hall to hear Rev. DIR. HOge, of the Pres
| byterian church in Wilmington, preach.
| DIR. Hoge announced his subject as
sour Saviour's Bible, or the Great
Teacher and His Book" After showing
| that His Bible was the Old Testament,
as we have 1t, he sketched the methods
| by which he must have learned and mas
| tered its contents, not only in the YER
nacular Aromatic, but in the old Hebrew
and in the Greek translation. He told
how we might work the Old Testament
passages that our Lord refers to so that
we might study it as if worked by His
hand. He then discussed His use Of its
| history, of its law, of its Psalms of devo-
ton and powers of wisdom, the teach
| ings of its prophets and their references
to His life and work, His death and res
4 u Il
ment was woven into the very work and
way of His discourse. The conclusions
| drawn were:
1. The great value Of the Old Testa-
ment if even the Saviour-the Light of
/ the world-drew upon it so largely.
2. The necessity of familiarity with it
that we may understand the teachings of
| Christ and His Apostles.
8. The strengthened argument for the
| use of our completed Bible as the great
| text book-indispensable for the forma-
| ton of character, if even the partial
Bible of our Lords time was Of such inn
portance in His teachings.
4. The necessity of studying the Bible
as our Lord studied the Old Testament,
| with His person and work as the key to
| the whole The Bible was like cathed
raj " indow-meaninges if studied from
without, but to those who enter within
and view it illumined by the transmitted
rays of the Son of Righteousness, full of
beauty and meaning as it reveals the
| glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
The sermon was the production of a
| scholar-of a thinker, and it was clothed
in language of purest English and deliv-
cred in a charming manner. The people
were much pleased.
DIR. KILGO'S SERMON.
The sermon last night by Rev. DR..
John @. l<ilgo, president of Trinity Col
lege, was an earnest, stirring and or
iginal one. There were many new ideas
expressed and given out in the vigorous,
unique style that only DR.. Kilgo has.
Among other things, Dr. Kilgo said:
Our Bible is the history that contains
the biographies of the divinest men the
world has known. Behind every doctrine
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