The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-10
A STRIKING SERMON
BY DR.. S. P CADMAN
Henry Page Succeeds Dr..
Norman as Trustee.
MEETING OF THE ALUMNI
Senator Simmons Elected President Of rhe AS
sociaiion--- -0rations Of Trinity Graduates
Fraternity Barqustl- Busy Day
at the College.
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Durham, N. c., June 9-Today was a
busy one around Trinity College. 1t was
the third day of the commencement oc-
casion. Durham people turned out in
large numbers and joining with the thronG
of visitors now in the city they filled the
Craven Memorial hall on three occasions.
The exercises of the day consisted in
the baccalaureate sermon by DR.. S. Parlcs
Cadman, of Brooklyn, this morning at II
O'Clock. The meeting of the Alumni Asso-
citation and address by Congressman John
H. Small, this afternoon at 4 O'Clock. The
orations by four members of the gradual
ing class this evening.
! In addition to these events there was
another session Of the trustees this morn
ing at $50 o'clock and two banquets to-
night.
! The feature Of today's exercises was tie
baccalaureate sermon preached by DR.. s.
Parkes Cadman. At this exercise the
musical program was elaborate. The Sc
lections rendered were "All Thy Works
Shall Praise Thee" by Findley Lyon;
violin obligato by Mr. Reinhart, of the
Richmond band; soprano by Mrs. T. E.
Cheek; incidental solos by Mrs. W. NJ.
Yearly, Mrs. w. w. Card and Mr.. D. W.
Newsom. "Te Deum in F." Julian Ala
mora (quartette)-Mrs T E. Check, Mrs
w w Card, Mr. J. A. Ramsey and Mr..
w. K. Yates. "Gloria from Farmers
Mass. chorus
The choir was composed of thirty voices
from all parts of the city. Mr.. T. E.
ri IRE
w. M. Yearly. Mrs. c. G. Thomas, Miss
Nan Wood, Miss Nellie Rawls Miss Nan
ME Goodson, Miss Bullock, Mrs w w.
Card, Mrs. ]. ]. Pritchard Miss Leila
arkham, Miss Jean Holeman, Miss Eva
Crews Miss Louise Wilson, Messrs ]. A.
Ramsey, I. NJ. Carr c. L. Dickson, J. 1.
Hamaker, W. F. Hancock, r. e. Hoover,
A. w. Wilson, w. X. Yates. W. II. Over
ton. A. E. Lloyd, R. e. PEPPER, j. H. High
smith, D. w. Newsom and ]. l. Williams.
The accompanies were Miss Ella Peay
and Miss Kemp Carlton.
DR. CADMAN's SERMON.
DR.. Cadman spoke from the text I'm
all thy ways acknowledge Him and He
shall direct thy paths. Proverbs III; 6,
saying in part:
while it is primarily a matter of
revelation and must remain and ought
to be mystery, there are reasons which
devout men can perceive and which safe
guard our thinking upon unlimitable sub
ject. Here, if anywhere acknowledgment
and direction re necessary. But let us
delegate alone our duty for the mainten-
ance of this belief, nor Telnuish our hold
upon it in the least degre When I find
in the bosom of the infinite what Jonathan
Edwards did not hesitate to call the so
ciety Of the Trinity" it is more comfort
| ing to me than is the idea of a hermit
| God so self-centered that his unity admits
/ of no distinction. We see him. not soil
| tary and out of the possible states of COM
munion and love, but as summing up in
his being all true social progress and per-
fectness where life and law and equality
and dependence are alike ound and whence
| they flow toward man.
"In the clarified experience of history
! you need go no further back than the
world of Milton and Diate and you find
their world toy shop in comparison with
mans ascertained view of the universe
today Milton is valuable to us not only
as the first poet Of his time, but as one
of the chief scholars of Europe, a man
whose lore was only equaled by the
us in his epic a literary description Of
the making of the universe, he speaks of
jesus, the creator, find says that he,
Took the golden compasscs, prepared
In Gods eternal store, to circumscribe
This universe and all created things,
One foot the center, and the other turned
Round through the vast profoundly OBJ
scure.
And said. thus far extend; thus far th7
! bound,
This by thy circumference, world
81 submit that description as poetry and
nothing more. When Milton depicts the
rebe alrchange hurled from heavenly bat
1 tlemnts he gives him nine days to plunge
! from the gates of Gods house to the
depths Of hell. There is no doubt that
/ these conceptions were profound and i'm
/ prcssiv at the time they were offered and
/ that Millions world was stupendous 10
Miltons generation. But you can make
| the comparison now with figures which
cause the brain to reel, and figures do not
! lie, although falsfers sometimes use fig
ures DR. j. T Bixby is by authority for
the following statistics given in the fas
cinating volume, The New World and the
New Thought
Among the admitted results of science
is this. that beam of light will travel
1876, 900 miles in a second of time, and if
it were dispatched TO the nearest sun be
yond our own. three and half years time
instead of Milton's nine days, would be
required to traverse the distance inter
vening; twenty two years at the same
speed would reach the star Sirius ana
/ fifty years the Polar star. and that indes-
cribable star cluster we call the Milky
Way would require a ray of light to shoot