Evening journal., 1903-06-08
MILITARY SCHOOL
Commencement
Begins With Baccalaureate
Sermon Preached in Rod
ney Street Church
.DECLAMATION CONTEST TONIGHT
Military Field Day Will Be Held To-
morrow and the Class Day on the
Following Mornins-eeneral Wilson
to Make Address.
to Make Address.

Commencement exercises of the Will
mington Military Academy began yester-
day when the baccalaureate sermon was
preached by the Rev. w. h. D. Lewis, in
Rodney Street Presbyterian Church. In
Wyckom Hall at $50 this evening the dec
lamuton contest for the j. Y. Morrison
prizes will be held. Those who will try
for the prizes are Manning Pitts Brown, OF
New York city. How the Old Horse Won
the eBt" Howard Preston Mnligan. St.
Georges, "Horatius Macaulay," Edgar NJ.
Hopes, Jr., Wilmington. "sparticus to
the Roman Enjoys;" Robert Henry Stein,
Baltimore The Sleeping sentinel;" How
ard Patrick Fahey, Wilmington, Supposed
Speech OF John Adams" and Frederick G..
Clemence, Wilmington, "shar We Give
up the union?"
The committee on award is composed OF
Archdeacon George c. Hall, Librarian
George II. Bowerman, of the Wimingtor
Free Library and George b. Hynson, edi-
tor of the Evening Journal.
The exercises will be interspersed by
music by the college orchestra, and big
crowd IS anticipated.
Tomorrow viii be Military Day. At 10
o'clock In the morning a competitive drill
Will bo held and at l0.i5 the military ex-
hibit. These exercises have proved TO be
one Of the popular features OF commences
ment week and this year they promise to
be better than ever before.
on Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock the
class day exercises win be held at which
time General James il. Wilson Will make
an address.
There is but one member in the grndu-
ating olass-Horace Emmons.
In Rodney Street Presbyterian Church
yesterday morning the Rev. W. f. ID.
Lewis, the pastor, preached the bac-
ealaureate sermon to the students OF the
Wilmington Military Academy thereby in
auguratng commencement week at the
institution. The text was: "And Ye are
Complet IN HIM" Colossians 2:20. In
part the speaker said:
'The apostle is speaking OF the richest.
fullest life our earth has ever seen. In
that life we are complete. 1t IS Christ's.
No one ever had within himself such set
tiled peace and supreme satisfaction as He.
Wherever He went His life flowed forth
full-volumed to the world. He was a
source of heipfuiness. The hem Of His
garment brought cheer and health. What
was the secret Of such completeness? The
W"+tN - RAA'N'lA'Aa HAtrinN 10 iNt WOIiu
two theories of life. The one Is that every
man should make the most Of himself
The other Is that every one should empty
himself for the good Of others The one
IS cgousm. The other Is altrulsm. Christ
believed in each and lived both. He took
care Of Ills own body. He slept, He ate.
He rested. think He was one in perfect
condition of physical health. He took care
pf IIiu nj 10 ft.4ft L. a. f.f-
ly and accurately along the lines OF truth.
He found the best possible men to help
Him, even though one had ITO be a Judas.
But he was such In order that he might
give the strongest proof to the world in
anter years OF the innocency Of Jesus
Christ He made His own life consecrated
that others also might be consecrated.
Every subsequent step IN life has its
important relations ITO life's beginning. I
was once impressed with the words of a
great preacher IN speaking once Of how
very largely life was determined In the
relations TO the life to- come by youth
and its joys. He said with Lord Beacons-
field that bhe history OF greatness is the
history of youth. Give me a frivolous,
careless, indefinite, undetermined youth
and 1 will show you without the gift OF
prophecy the prohtless the poverty-strick-
en- old age. Show me, on the other hand.
a life that begins by dedicating itself TO
the service Of God and humanity and that
life, though it be ever so humble. will be a
life that, with clear conscience, with open
face, with broad forehead. can say: I have
glorifed Thee nearth. have finished
my work o. magnificent life Of the Son
of God. How complete, how fun It was and
{ Is and ever will he