The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-06
JACKSONVILLE COMMENCEMENT. Rev. l.. q. Hnmes of Demopolis Deliv-
 CTS Alumni Grafton.

Jacksonville. June 5.-(Special)-- The commencement exercises of the State Normal School in this city were continued Monday night by an address delivered by Dr. A. J. Dickinson of Birmingham. Dr. Dickinson has won the regard and admiration of the stu dent body by his forceful personality and his thoughtful manner of speaking.
 The evening services opened with an anthem, The Cross is in the Field. : sung by the Normal School double quartet. After prayer by Rev Not astine of the Jacksonville Methodist Church. Dr. Dickinson read al a scrip ture lesson the sixth chapter of Hosea. dwelling in particular upon the sixth sermon upon: For I desired mercy an dnot sacrifice" and the knowl- edge of God more than burnt of ferings. After another anthem. Tar ry With me" rendered by the double quartet, Dr. Dickinson delivered a most thoughtful and timely address. Israel, he said. was willing to repent if she might repent in her own way She was willing to give religions feasts, to build magnificent temples. willing to give religion a large place in na- tional life, but she was not willing to give her heart. Hers was a repen- tance that did not abide.
 Yesterday morning the exercises of the Alumni Association were held in the college chapel, Rev. L. c. Flames of Demopolis being the principal speaker of the occasion. His address was most earnest one and evoked many words of praise. Two great forces he said, have ever worked in the history of our commonwealth. and has given 1t its present stability. They are edu- cation and religion. We hardly realize how near the calling of the teacher is to our own temporal uplift TheRe never was a time before in the history of the world when education stood for so much as 1t does today. In geog- raphy. chemistry, history. in fact in all departments of learning, nothing seems to have escaped the vigilance of the teacher. It ig our privilege to study man in all his movements and in all his relations to this world and its clements I sometimes thin kthat the fantastic dreams of the age of myth ology have been more than fulfilled in modern discoveries. Not many year ago Sir William Gilbert wrote a book showing that the rubbing of amber and other substances would produce electricity. For a long time this was all that was known about the great secret. Today there is no limit to its uses and possibilities.
 Education isr an enlarged develop
 ment. and what possibilities there are in this development.
 What does it mean to the individual man? First of all, the man should be
 in perfect physical health. And yet
 this is not all in the ideal life. There should be a due proportion of all things and when this occurs earth seems a Heaven. There must be more
 over a new world revealed. The sen sual man says. Eat. drink and be mer- ry, for tomorrow you die" The world of the mind and of the heart is above him. The influence of these higher things can never be measured; and yet men live. eat, and drink and are almost unconscious of this world of the mind and of the heart. It Is your blessed privilege as teachers to lead the child into a new life and into a new Heaven.
 One of the most attractive features of the commencement work is the dis play of articles made by the Manual Training classes. Many kinds of carv- ed work. weaving. Venetian iron work, paper cutting. and painting are being
 exhibited. and many favorable com
 ments are being made. It is undoubt-
 edly the best collection of specime eas
 of such work ever seen in this State
 and perhaps in the entire South. Tonight the Presidents reception n
 the students of the institution will he held at Professor Daugett's home. To- morrow, Hon. Jesse F. Stallings of
 Birmingham will deliver the com
 mencement address, and with these ex- ercises the twenty-third commence l ment of the institution will close. A great number of former students are in the city. and much interest Is being | shown in the various meetings