The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-05-28
DANA SCHOOL
EXERCISES
The BaccaIaureate Sermon BY
Rev. Mr.. Sturges an Inspi-
ration to High Ideals.
COMEDY OF ERRORS" GIVEN.


The exercises of commencement
week at Miss Dana's School began
on Sunday, when Rev. Philemon Stur-
ges preached the bacculaureate ser
mon at the eyensong service at st.
Peters Church.
He took as his text st. John i; "A,
especially the question asked, "Can
any good thing come out of Nazareth"
Philip, Peter, Andrew and Nathaniel,
who were talking at the time, had one
thing in common that was a great ex-
pection. They were planning, long
ing hoping for great things and eager
to take their part in the delivery of
Israel and the leadership of the ma
tion. Nathaniel voices the natural
disappointment in his remarks about
Nazareth. Not that it was a wicked
place, but it seemed rather a common
place, dull place for the cradle OF
their expectation. There was some
thing unpromising about the little
country town aud unromantic to fol
low a leader, who was the son of the
village carpenter.
So we have a sense of disappoint-
ment. We long for delivery from the
duh doing of homely littleness, poy-
erty, and meanness Of the dull grind.
To expect great things is the quail
ity that makes the joy of the parent
in the child and all the fresh eagerness
as the child comes to itself. 1t makes.
the magic of life, makes the facing of
death itself. A large share of the
pleasure of the girlish life, as well as
of the boy, is just this expectancy of
things to be accomplished.
If all the dreams and plans which
surge through the head are delusions,
still it is a blessing. To maintain our
ability to be stirred by beauty is the
best of life, but requires more than
human help. If through the training
of home and school nothing has come
to add grace and beauty to life, may
God have mercy on your soul.
We find wherever we are placed a
Nazareth with its petty worries, So
cial Sights, and jealousness. We must
meet the patronizing superiority.
The preacher referred to his own life
in the difficulty of maintaining alive
the vision which he had, amid the
many hindrances which come to the
preacher. This is the condition to
which we are all called, and we are
bound either to conform to things as
they are, to compromise our faith in
what is right and true and beautiful,
to lower to that most uninteresting
thing, the commonplace, unless we
can come and see one who came out of
Nazareth. Keep before your thoughts
the power foretold, keep uplifted by
continuous contact with the spirit of
Christ, belief in him and a. loyalty
that stops at nothing. The vision is
the fruit of prayer aud stpdy. This is
the condition of individuality ami of
maintaining the expectancy. If weary
of the round, the slowness of achieve
ment, the failure to catch glimpse !;
if the littleness of the sphere make
you dull come again into the home of
Jesus Christ and see.
On Monday afternoon there was an
interesting studio exhibit while at
night the attraction was the render
ing of Shakespeare's COMEDY of Err
rors" by the pupils.
The dramatis persona was as fol-
lows:
Solinus, duke of Ephesus.
Mabelle Gardiner
Hgeon, merchant of Syracuse,
Mary Macnaughtan
Antipholus of Ephesus twin brothers and
Antlpholus of Syracuse sons ofEgeon and
Emilia.
Helen Bredin
Gladys Goodrich
Dromio of Ephesus I twin brothers and
Dromio of Syracuse attendants on the two
Antipholuses,
henTl6lLa DhDOlLI
Ethel Brown
Balthazar. merchant, Oressa Oonger
Angelo, & ldsmith, Ethel Slticher
First Merchant, friend of AnJIpholus
of Syracuse, Emily de Neufville
Second Merchant, to whom Angelo
is "a debtor, Katharine Grouse
Pinch, schoolmaster and conjurer,
Katharine Grout
Emilia wife to Egeon, Mary Swinburne
Adriana, wife to Antipholus of Ephe-
sus, CLARA Gregg
Luciano, her sister, Ellen Miner
Dowsabel, servant to Adriana,
Margaret Capstick
Lesbia, friend to Adriana,
Oornelia Cousins
First Officer, Agnes Ritche
Second Officer, Edna Selby
Flower Girl, Elizabeth Kyle
Mendicant, Marie Brewer
Violin Selections. Mr.. Thiele.
The commencement exercises were
held this morning in the gymnasium
of the school. an address being deliv-
cred by Rev. Newell Dwight Hills,