The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-06-01
AN ELOQUENT ADDRESS
TRIBUTE TO TIE MEMORY OF
TIE LATE RECTOR.
A GREAT SCHOOL HIS MONUMENT
The Commencement Exercises viii be Held
This Morning al Il O'clock.
A Splendid Art
Exhibit.

"And we also bless thy holy name for all Thy
servants departed this life in thy faith and fear.
Like Il bright autumn afternoon were
The services at St Mary's School yester-
day.
The sadness as of the dying year and
falling leaf and fading flower was there,
but there was also the golden sunshine
the rrcned harvest and the song OF
Teapers.
There was sadness because one--the
most loved of all-had gone out from
among us. There was JOY for the rea
son that his life had been so noble. SO
self-sacrifcing and so fruitful of good.
1T was Il service held in memory of
Rev. Bennett Smedes, late rector of the
school. Simple, sweet and unostenta-
tious the exercises were, in keeping with
the character of him whose life they
We're to commemorate.
I'm addition to the teachers and
the two hundred students there
We're also many alumni and other visitors
from the city present. The students,
headed by their teachers, attended in Il
body. all dressed in white. Face and de-
meanor of even the youngest of them
bore Testimony to the loss they felt in
the death of him who had presided over
this school for - years and whom each
one of them had known personally and
loved
The order of exercises was as fol-
lows:
Professional, 396-Dykes).
Psalm Ii.
First Lesson-W Wisdom of Solomon,
chapter LII to verse 10.
Magnifcat-( Brown)
Second Lesson Revelation, chapter
III.
Nunc Dimittis-{NincenD.
Creed
Versicles.
Anthem am He that Liveth"-
tSemrer).
Hymn, lola Mack.
Address. by the Rev. William NJ.
Clark. rector of st. James church, Rich
nlond.
Hymn. 1T6-(Barnby).
Recessional. 179-(Sulivan).
The lessons We're said and the prayers
were read by Bishop Cheshire, assisted
by Rev. DIR. NJ NJ Marshall. Rev. A.
b. Hunter. Rev. T.. A. Osborne and
Rev. Mr.. Marvin.
The Memorial Address by Rev. Mr.
and service of DIR. Smedes. He spoke
without manuscript or note. the words
buhbling up from a heart only too full of
love and tender memories.
II say these things" the speaker ex-
plaine,l '.for that l loved him.
The speaker hogan by saying it had
ever been a custom of all the world that
they. who have lived or given their lives
fhoir
their God shall be held in remembrance
by their fellow-men and their good eX-
ample handed down from generation to
generationhe helping the weak encourag
ing the strong: holding up the failing
hands and melting to greater cndeavor
the mighty.
This is the customs of thinking men
and thinking nations-to commemorate
heroic deeds in all walks of life. How
we recount the life and deeds of him
who. stands in the breach at his coun-
trys call. risking all, even life, for the
nation and the cause that has appealed
to him.
How much more should this be true
of the church and its saints! If Il man
shall be held in loving remembrance be-
cause ut sometime in his country's dire
need he held native land better and
greater than himself and was more
ready to suffer for his people than pros
per himself. shall not we also, of
Gods church, hold up the example of its
saints and thank God for the life and
services of those who held the cause
s greater than all else?"
We should hold them in loving re-
membranes Mr.. Clark said. first be-
cause they have glorifed God in the
world and in their lives. That is the
first duty of man and of the church--to
ylorify God, to exalt his holy name.
Again we remember the elect be-