The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-13
A NOBLE MANHOOD.
Captain R. B. Glenn to
the B. B. B. Class.
Eloquent Address, Splendid Music. a
Great Audience and the In
staIlation of the
Officers.

a feast of music and veritable foun-
tain OF eloquence was provided last night
for the splendid audience that assembled
in the Sunday School room of the Taber-
nacle church.
The event was a meeting of the B. B.
B. Class of the Sunday School, the splen-
did body OF young men over which is
Major j. j. Bernard as president of tha
class.
The special feature announced Tor the
evening was the address to be delivered
by Captain r. B. Glenn, OF Winston, WHO
is known to be one of the most eloquent
speakers in the State. In addition to this
veritable feast of music was on the
programme for the evening.
The Sunday School room was elabo-
rately decorated the color scheme being
worked out in old gold and purple, these
being the colors OF the b. B. Glass. The
roon was crowded in anticipation OF the
pleasures of the evening, and bright ex-
pcetation glowed on each face.
The meeting was presided over by Ma
joe ]. j. Bernard and the first number
on the program was a vocal solo by Mrs.
Horace X. Dowell, a sweet singer whose
songs have sung the charming artistic
straight into the hearts of the people of
Raleigh. Last night she rendered in e.
quisite style Jerusalem and the solo
was thoroughly enjoyed.
Then came some remarks from Mr. n.
B. Broughton, who in happy words told
of the history of the B. B. B. Class In
this he told how Major Bernard had or
ganized a class OF boys of eleven or twelve
years of age, OF the sticking together
OF this class after it was formed into
brigade, now they grew out of boyhood
and some into the estate of young mar
ried men and fnarriageable men, and how
this class of forty-five members hat.
proved in average attendance and i'll cor
tributions the leaders Of all classes in the.
schocl. 1t was a graceful tribute to Major
Bernard and to the class and it was Trace
fully done.
Then the B. r. B. Quartette made
melody that was melody. The kentucky
Lullaby was sung with splendid effect
by Messrs. Novel;, Upchurch, Adams and
Dicks. This feature OF the evening was
greatly enjoyed for the young men seemed
10 excel themselves.
The officers were next installed the
ceremony being performed by Rev ]. C.
Massee, the pastor OF the church The
officers are Major j. j. Bernard. presl
dent; Henry NOVEL; and Clarence Mitch
ell. yice-presidents; Clarence Howell, sec
rel&ry; James Adams, treasurer, and
Tromas Wyatt, press reporter.
Then came the Introduction Of the ora
to- of the evening. This was ably done
by Mr. Henry Novel;, vice-president, who
in most appropriate words presented
Captain R. B. Glenn, of Winston.
Captain Glenn received a most fiatter-
ing welcome, and at the close of the ap-
plause he began an address that COM
pletely captured his audience and demon
strsted again that he is among the most
eloquent and forceful speakers of the
State. His theme was "a Noble Life
ard in it he told of the requisites for
the best manhood and the best woman
hood and how these should be developed.
re said that in life the true develop
1nept was not along one line, hut WAS
three fold, this being mental moral, Or
spiritual and physical, and that in these
three things could be found the best edu-
cation of man and woman.
III this connection he held that the moral
man and the mental man both need physi-
cal development, that a strong body and
strong, true mind should go together,
that one developed at the cost of the
other left us handicapped in the races of
lie. To develop the full fedged man and
Christian he said that athletic exercise,
football baseball, walking, riding, all
played their part, and that the homely
labor of saving wood or of hoeing the
garden was not a bad things in which to
engage. He told of the need of the physi-
ca!ly perfect woman and in humorous
vein told of the blessings that came from
sweeping the floor and making UP the
beds. He held it to be true that '@the
hand that socks the cradle rules the
world and his plea was that the owner Of
this hand be triply perfect in mental,
spiritual and physical attainment. 1t was
a most beautiful and happy reference to
womanhood and his audience was stirred
by it's eloQuence, while laughter came as
he told of the society woman who neg
lected her children and deyoted herself
to society and her poodle dog" l could
almost see the society woman carrying
her poodle in her arms as he talked"
said one of his delighted hearers.
The truest development of all life. he
declared, came in the physical and men
tally equipped man or woman who ex-
emplified Christ and Christianity in Their
lives, for spiritual life was necessity
for full and complete life. He told OF
the successful men and women of all
apes, and in his talk of Christian manhood
referred to the warriors, leaders and
statesmen told of in the Bible. ''If the
skeptic doubts these, or believes them &c
be an old womans fairy tale l will come
to more recent times he said, and then
told OF the Christianity in the lives of
Gladstone and Queen Victoria. IF it is said
that these are beyond the seas | will
crcss the water and at home 1 will tell
the skeptics of great lives of great Chris
tians' and then he talked of the Civil
War, of Jackson. and the Lee enforcing
tho strong points of this address by most
appropriate illustration.
In concluding his splendid address Cap
tain Glenn referred to the great growth
Of this country and told that because of
its mental. spiritual and physical man
hcoG it today stood first among the ma
items in influence and in Christianity He
urged upon his hearers that they emulate
the best to be found in the lives OF the
best men and women, and that Tor them
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