The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1905-06-13
COMMENCEMENT SEASON.
Large Graduating Class-1nteresslng
Exercises-Many Visitors.

! in the commencement at NcWDcrry
COLLEGE. One class comes and goes.
Another follows. Each is new and
has its ties and friendships which
keep the interest ever alive and the
,, visitors continue to come.
The graduating class this year, We
believe, is one of the largest in the
history of the college, numbering 2o,
twenty-one young men and five
young ladies.
The college has had successful
year. the enrolment reaching 1885,
1t is proposed to take steps to put
up another building on the campus
at a cost of 5000 to be used as
gymnasium.
During the past session the new
Holland Hall has been dedicated. It
is one of the handsomest and best
equipped college buildings in the
state and cost upwards OF $4,000. 1t
is used for recitation rooms and has
large and we'll equipped auditorium.
The future OF the college seems
bright.
Baccalaurate Sermon.
The sermon to the graduating class
was preached by the Rev. c. A. Freed,
pastor of Ebenezer Lutheran church,
of Columbia. Mr.. Freed is graduate
of Roanoke college in Virginia and
associate editor of the Church Visi-
tor.
Mr.. Freed chose for his text Rom.
14:17. For none of us liveth to him.
SELF"
The Christian religion, he said, pro-
vided acceptable relation with God,
and also sympathetic relation between
man and man. 1t inspired love OF
God, and as we'll, love to the brother
hood. This alone met the needs OF
our sinful condition. There was and
could be no love of the brotherhood
when there was no love for God.
The gift of the decalogue condemn,
ed man in both relations. 1t taught
him the ideal harmony with man,
coupled with the ideal harmony with
God. Just as certain neglected con-
ceptions of Jehovah were written IN
these tablets of stone, as indellbly
was inscribed the fact that the cit-
cumfererce Of the individual duty did
not have its centre in SELF Our
Saviour put religion back On it's old
but true foundation by declaring that
the first commandment consisted III
loving God with all our mind,
strength and soul, together with the
second commandment of loving Our
neighbor as ourseif. This second
commandment was of like nature,
kind and extent of the first. because
love was the central factor in each.
T.'he peculiar crying condition today
was for more demonstration ot the
Christian spirit in temporal relations.
Each individual had the dominant
strength of selfishness so strongly
fxedin himself that any ideal for COM
mon benefit was of slow recognition.
The law of the survival Of the fttest,
which was observed among the ami
mails, continued upward through the
hieher orders of life Man fell under
it's principle in clearing his destiny
with no. thought or at the expense OF
others. In business it was seen today |
in the heartless combinations Of capt.
Il, which were designed to crush a
competitor and make the starving
World come to the Egypt Of their
bounty.
In the calm Of education the same
conditions had entered. With such |
conditions Christianity had ever wag-
ed a relentless war.
The Apostle gave the true solution. !
Every one must act from the stand
point of his own individual, but with |
broader aims than personal gain. As
broad as we're human needs should be |
the handspring of human action j. the |
world.