Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1903-06-15
BACCALAUREATE
SERMON BEFORE GRADUATING CLASS or
ST. JOHNS COLLEGE
By Rev. Leighton Coleman, D. o., Bishop
Of Delaware, Al St. Anne's
P. {. Church.
EVENlRG SERMON TO YOUNG MEMS
CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
By The Rev. Or. 7. N. Baldwin At The
MaTIand-Avenue N. E. Church
Church Large
Audiences

ed yesterday morning at St. Anne's +.
+. Church by the Rt. Rev. Leighton
Coleman, ID. D., Bishop of Delaware
The altar was beautifully decorated with
white flowers and roses, and the church
was filled with a large congregation,
composed of members not only OF St.
Anne's Church. but OF the several other
denominations OF the city.
The singing of the vested choir oil
boys, under the direction OF the organis.
and choirmaster. Prot. X. Otto Stops.
was unusually good and the morning
service OF the ritual. conducted by the
rector, the Rev. Joseph p. McComas,
was most solemn and impressive, the
lesson for the day being that of the first
Sunday after Trinity. Bishop Coleman
preached sermon full OF Gospel teach.
ing and practical truths, which gave food
or deep thought and which was worthy
OF careful consideration.
Bishop Coleman took as his text the
oo.h verse OF the IIoth Psalm Teach
me good judgment and knowledge" He
presented the practical phase Of religion.
he said culture alone cannot satisfy our
longings; that even ancient Greece with
an her culture did not satisfy because
there was not that religion which alone
is deepening and satisfying to the human
soul. He defped instruction and educa-
ton which, he said, are not by any
means synonymous terms.
He said there was no limit to the
credulity OF children, who ought, there
tore, to have trustworthy guide for
instructor. That education can be dis
connected from Christianity, the preacher
said, was fallacy, and had proved a
stumbling block to many. All schools,
approaching to truth in their teachings,
have long since recognized that life is
compose OF two il fiuences-the human
and divine element. Even Mohamme-
dams, the Bishop said. will not send their
children TO school without first having
them instructed in the school If their re-
ligion. while we Christians permit our
children to go TO school without a care
Tor the life or character OF those who
~iil guide their instruction.
"No nation Can survive the loss of its
religion, said the minister, ''for Christi
anity Is something that enters materially
and essentially into education; without il
we may carry on certain sense of book
lore, but not that self-satisfying result
that education without religion brings"
he told the young men of the college
that they are to be congratulated upon
being under religious and competent in
struction. and he spoke OF the deep in
terest he felt in St. Johns College and
Its welfare. He said /: "We are all
deb ors, one to another. We must not
only be true to ourselves. but we must
make 1t easier for others to be true"
The Bishop deplored the state of affairs
in California, where a law had been
passed to prohibit the reading of the
Bible in public schools, which he charac-
terized as the Constitution of California
reversing the Constitution of the Almie hiy
God. In closing, the Bishop admon-
ished the young men OF the graduating
class to become, like Saint Barnabas.
1.-THE sons of consolation" that each
may bring Christianity into the homes
OF those in doubt, distress and agony,
enabling them 10 walk in the way of
eternal life. that they may enter into
that life more abundantly.
SERMON TO THE YOUNG MEN CHRISTIAN
ASSOCIATION.
Last night the Rev. T. M. Baldwin,
d. D., OF Baltimore. preached TO the
College Y. M. c. A. and large congre-
CATION at the Maryland-Avenue M. E.
Church, the Rev. T. E. Peters, pastor.
DR.. Baldwin is native of this county.
having been born at Severn Cross Roads,
where he spent bis early boyhood. He is
Presiding Elder of West Baltimore Dis
trict, and is a preacher of ability.
From the text-Psalms 78, verse O.
"The chiIdien of Ephraim, being armed
and carrying bows, turned back in the
day OF battle" he preached a forceful
and practical sermon. He said he ad-
dressed himself to young Christian men,
college-bFed, well equipped for the battles
OF Lie. That to be a young Christian
man. well bred, was magnificent herit-
age which the young men Of today have
inherited fIom the best race on earth,
which God has been training for centu-
ries, in the saints and those gone before.
DR.. Baldwin said college mans asso-
citation with his fellows Is form of train
ing for the work OF the world, and an
o her great benefit TO be derived from
his college life. the Doctor said, is the
college mans close association with the
lrarned Christian gentlemen who are his
instructors. The preacher told the young
men that 8 diploma was a splendid
equipment fJr the work of life ssif you
/, ossess the equipments of a Christian
character" He said ssin a country
like ours any boy or girl with good
sense and fair share of good health
may have college education
DIR. Baldwin said education is a rare
equipment for the battle Of life which is
tefore rs all. but It's misuse was possible,
and he cited illustrations where educa-
ton had been put to'base and unworthy
uses by traitors; by men In pursuit OF
wealth and for the fransitory praise of
men. ITO make any one Of these the
supreme object Of your endeavor."
said DR.. Baldwin. els 10 turn from
the eiver to the gift-a crime against
ourself and against God"