The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1905-05-24
?. G, 7. Commencement.

tended by the youth, the beauty
and the intelligence of Lexington
county. Perhaps on no other occa-
sion has there been 80 much Joy, hap
piness and pleasure in our little town
in the past as there has been during
the present week.
To begin with, the Bacculeaurate
sermon by che Rev. R. S. Truesdale,
of Columbia, last Sunday morning,
was the production Of ripe scholar
ship and the mature thoughts OF one
who had drank at the fountain that
rises and babbies from under the
great White Throne. His text was we'll
chosen and his theme was message
of the beauty and grandeur and love-
liness of the beatitudes the precepts
of which, if heeded are calculated to
make this good old world OF ours
more glorious and brighter and SUI.
shiny and the inhabitants thereof
more cheerful, more God like and
more thoughtful in that it breathed
the spirit of s'our Elder Brother and
set in motion the greatwave OF charity
that reaches out and gathers in the
whole human family and binds and
knits them together in bonds of Gym
pathy one for another that will puri-
fy our lives and make our bodies fit
temples for the indwelling of the
Holy of the Holiest. The enlarge
ment of the heart and the expansion
Of the mind are the essentials that
to develop, cultivate and mature the
true Christian character will re-
main firm and steadfast amid the
storms of life and the temptations in
cident thereto. Fresh from the fount-
tain spring come the gladstone news,
glistening like dew drops in the morn
ing sun and mo:e brilliant than the
sparkle of diamonds, open the portals
of the heart sn1 the avenues of the
mind 80 that the divine instructor may
enter aud direct and contrel and rule
our body and soul that our lives
might be open epistles known ard
read Of all men and others sseing
our good works might be led to the
foot OF the cross and the rivers of
living waters.
In the evening Rev. Mr.. Truesdale
preached another thoughtful and in
teresting sermon. His message IN
that occasion was ''The Dark Spot"
and impressed upon his hearers the
sin of social bigotry, religious aristcc-
rscy and other evils which We of this
day and generation are 80 familiar
With.
The exercise Monday event, &
consisted of the contest for the Her
dirk medal by seven young ladies of
the eighth grade. The exercises
were interspersed by instrumental
and vocal music charmingly rendered
by the pupils Of the music depart
ment. The young ladies participated
in this contest were ss follows and in
the order named: Misses May Boozer,
Earnestine Barre, Anna Martha
Meetze, Ruth E6rd, Laura Ds7i-
Wingard, Matte George, Anna
Smcak. The young Misses we're be-
comingly gowned and in their white
frocke, bright young faces and with
their eyes sparkling and cheeks
flushed with esger expectancy OF the
coming contest, they presented q
lovely picture OF innocent young
childhood when life lay before them
with all the beautiful colors of the
rainbow Of hope and joyous promise
Each one of them endesvored to ex-
eel the other in ennuciation, pronuu-
citation, expression and gesture that
it was an exceedingly difficult matter
for the committee, consisting of Revs.
W. L Keel, j. n. Nesse and J. W.
Ogilvie to come to q decision, 30 re-
markably well did each and every
one. They were certainly we'll
trained and were almost perfect in
all the requirements, of defamation