The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1904-05-26
DIR. HUFHAM IN RALEIGH.

LIZ L. 11u1AAu DIGdCuOu GA0 SOL
mon before the graduating class at the
A. & M. College in Raleigh Sunday.
Following is partial report taken
from the News and Observer:
1.-The services before the graduating
class OF the A. & M. College on Sunday
morning when the Baccalaureate SER
mon was preached, took place In Pull
len auditorium, this being the first
time the hall has been used.
"The sermon was preached by Rev.
Or. J. D. Hufham, of Scotland Neck,
who is perhaps the most highly IS
teemed Of all the Baptist ministers Of
the State. He is loving and loved
man OF God, and his words of admoni-
ton come from heart and a. mind
rich with the golden stores garnered in
life spent in the service OF his Master.
"The auditorium seats a thousand
people and it was filled to its capacity.
1t is an airy, light room and the con-
gregation that gathered in it Sunday
was handsome one. There were
many young ladies present, these add
ing to the charming appearance. The
cadets were seated in a body at the
front, the thirty-six seniors occupying
the two front rows OF seats.
"The services were under the direct
ion OF the First Baptist church, and
Rev. w. G. Tyree, the pastor of that
church, was on the rostrum with DR..
Hufham, while large part of the con-
gregation of the First Baptis: church
was present, the music being rendered
by the choir OF that church.
"The preacher announced the text !:
2 Coz. 8 IS. But first gave their own
selves to the Lord, and unto us by the
will of Cod
eater brief introduction he said !;
You see the truth which lies on the
surface. 1t is, that giving ones self is
the condition of all heroic living.
IL. The Christian life begins with
the giving of ones self to God through
Christ. It is the one thing which, if
you do it makes you a Christian, the
one act by which you pass from death
unto life.
%. This absolute complete surrender
is the condition of all larger knowledge.
Nature reveals her secrets only to him
who has given his life to her. Art, lit
erature, the professions open their
store-houses and give their treasures to
such as prize them above everything
else and seek for them with singleness
of heart. Even 80 Christ gives the
larger knowledge of himself and the
Father, of life and truth and duty, to
those and those alone who have
accepted him as their only hope
of salvation, as their only Lord and
Master. ---~-e S.
80. This entire surrender is also the
condition of happiness. Christ was
called the man ct sorrow. But it is
true also that He was anointed with
the oil of gladness above his fellows.
His lite, notwithstanding its sorrows,
was the happlest life that has ever
blessed this earth. Those who walk in
His footsteps with loving, trustful
hearts and unwavering purpose are
made sharsrs of His joys.
~. The giving OF ones self is the
condition of power. You may recall
description of the Puritans.
You might smile, he said, if you had
seen them prone on their faces and Ia
menting with sobs and tears, their sim
iu:ness and unworthlness, but no one
who had met them at the council
board or on the field OF battle, had rea-
son to smile when they we're done with
them. The consciousness that they
we're Gods children made them indif-
ferent to danger or difficulty. Like
man with an iron fail they went about
dashing in pieces everything which set
itself in opposition to them.
"Young gentlemen of the graduating
class, you are going out into the world
to fight life's battle. Give yourselves
to the Lord and unto your work by
the will OF God. So shall you be pure
in the strife"