The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-09
The Meetings Sunday.

Especial to News and Observer
High Point, n. c.. Aug. S.-Sunday
the big day of the North Carolina
yearly meeting of Friends, brought
tremendous crowd to this city. REQ
pie came from all directions ana III
all manner of ways Except IN an
ships) and by noon there were at leaS'
six thousand visitors present. ne
trains from the North ana Soutii
brought large numbers of people
while private conveyances (Whlcn pc
gan to arrive at Sun-up ana continued
all the morning) were mere py the
hundreds Sunday of Quaker meet
ing always draws a large crowd ana
the thousands present yesterday gave
evidence that the record ShouIu not De
lowered in attendance, despite the tact
that dark clouds hung overhead dur
ing the day and a drizzling rain COM
menced to fall inthe afternoon and
continued until dark. The large
church and tent were ful! to over
flowing at all the services Sunday.
1t is a matter of interest That TINS
is the first time TN SO hlttIiS years
that memory fails to serve us) that it
has rained on yearly meeting Sun
cav.
The services Sunday were for wor-
shin only No business OF any KIND
beng transacted. There were four
services i'll the church and three at
the tent. In fact it was almost
continuous service from $3.50 in the
morning till closing service at night,
between the services some OF the most
prominent Quakers present MAD
charge of the services. The singing
during the day as we'll as all during
the meeting was in charge or ReV.
Eli Reese. pastor of the Friends
church of this place. who is one of the
best singers any where.
President Isaac Shorpless, of Haver-
ford College, gave most thoughtful
address Saturday night, on
the subject: 'Who Should go TO Col
lege." He said in part:
THE reign of the individual TO a
large extent has passed away, because
organization is more efficient vet an
organization cannot manage itself. 1t
demands leaders of higher ability than
heretofore. Where shall these leaders
be found? We naturally look to the
higher institutions of learning to-
produce them
Those should go to college who
have the qualities of leadership. This
age demands service. and education
must be of n sort that can be applied
to the problems of the present or the
near future in a practical way. l do
not believe that every one should go
10 cOlltSe. II Is uOI DdI
desirable to get more than one In every
one hundred to go to college, if we get
suitable ones. Leadership depends
more on them than on the other nine
tY-nine.
college training must do more
than give one a knowledge of science
and literature. 1t must help the stud
ent to meet life intelligently and with
Il moral basis that we make him Scorn
wrong. lit must give him, devotion to
some worthy object and resolution to
stand by his choice of wo\ THAT
makes one q leader. and that is the
sort of boy or girl who should go to
college,
The Guilford College Alumni was
banquetted at the Elwood Saturday
evening in grand style. There were
plates for 100, and a very neat
souvenir menu card was presented
with the cut of the Elwood Hotel on
one side with the following inscriD-
ton: "Guilford College Alumni Ban
quet, August 9th, 1904, Hotel Elwood,
High Point. n. c. On the reverse
side was the menu.