The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-03

had to be done before Montgomery's hopes could be realized. The task to which the Methodists set Montgomery was eagerly done. What the two con fernces required was done quickly and more than done For the city Is pre- pared to do even more than 1t was asked.
 It is proud of the honor. It is even now making the Methodist college it's pride and It's boast. The Capital City of Alabama. great in the past. but still greater in the present. a city of more than 50,000 people, always famed for its culture 1t has never had great institution of learning. It is therefore prepared to honor. support and glorify the institution which will mean so much to the culture of the city
 Another Year at Tuskegee.
 When will the removal take place? Hardly within a year. The site. and one of charm and convenience. has been selected. The committee are ready for the building preparations. but a great undertaking like the re-estab- lishment of a college is not done in a day. It may take two years.
 In the meantime the Alabama Con- ference College will continue the la bors at Tuskegee which have been so fruitful in its half century of life.
  Methodist College at Montgomery. whatever may be It's growth. its build ings, it's endowment and its student enrolment. the city of Montgomery and the Methodists of Alabama would be ungrateful. if they ceased to remember with pride the work and life of the Conference College at Tuskegee. They would be ungrateful if they failed to cherish with pride the memory of the o,,la ntrfhnfinn ta tho culture and the moral influence of the State. The influence that the thous- ands. for their number goes into the thousands. who have been trained at the college could not be gauged or weighed in any way known to man. Nor could the homes they have bright ened be counted any more than the ways in- which that influence spread itself out in conscious and unconscious help.
 The new class of them, the class that is to go out Tuesday, enjoyed a de lightful senior class dinner at the col lege Friday night Several of the par ents who are visiting Tuskegee during the commencement were guests at the dinner.
 The pupils of Mir. Leon Sampaix gave an excellent concert at the college last night. A large crowd was in atten-
 
 given deserved praise.
 In full the program follows:
 A. Sonata~op 2S No. 2. 1st move ment, (M. Clement); b. By the Brook side (S. Karganoff)- Miss Virgie Rus sell.
 a. Sonata op ?. No; l, 1st movement G. von Beethoven); b. Mazurka Mel odique op. 55 ~. Dolmetsch)--Miss
 a Nocturne No. 5(John Field): b. Etude in F, (J. Raff) Jessie No len.
 a. Sonata in flat, 1st movement (Jos. Haydnl; b. Minuet from Quartet in D (W. A. MozarD--Miss Edna Laz- enby.
 Rondo op II c. N. HummeD- Miss Moselle Hill.
 En Badinant- Waltz (victor Abeile) Miss Julia Lightfoot.
 Rondo Capriccioso in E op. 14 (F. Mendelssohn) Miss Mary Brooks.
 Sonata (pathetic) Ist movement b. von Beethoven) Miss Stella Chapman
 The Commencement Sermon.
 At the religious exercises this morn- ing attending the delivery of the com mencement sermon. Rev. J. s. Frazier presided and read the opening Scrip ture lesson. A choir from the college wearing the academic cap, furnished the music.
 Dr. Bowman announced that he would peak upon the complements of char acter as they were described by Paul. He chose therefore to speak on that sentence of Paul in his letter to the Colossans. And in Him you are made full"
 Character, the minister declared, was that which was most worth thinking for, most worth striving for and most worth laboring for. And without Christ 1t was incomplete. Wealth, riches and honors might fly away. They had flown away, but character, Dr. Bowman declared was the only thng we could carry with us It Is the only thing that lasts. Under the benefcence of God 1t was never finished but 1t continued in growth and in develop ment. It was something that was nev- CT finished.
 'cYou sneak of a finished education" said pr. Bowman, your diploma only marks a process of development and the adjustment of 1ife's activity
 One of Dr. Downan's epigrammatic def1nitions of character was this. Char acter is the result of the combined activities of God and man"
 The life of Jesus, he declared, was the model by which character was made. The character of Jesus grew and developed as 1t was shown by his entering into the activities Of man upon mat HlOtltl d S'iehi ''N'' "e1' NN be built in which Jesus could come and live and which he must make full Dr. Bowman spoke for initiative per sonal effort. "If you are going to be educated" he said, you must have a hand in It."
 Not only was the character of Jesus a model for man, but it Is model for nations as well. Nor. could humanity or civilization be complete without It.. Tn closing he gave them the beau tiful vision of Joseph Cook as outlin- ing those influences which should guide. lead and uplift mankind. And he pointed out that even as man was incomplete without Christ, the Savior was also incomplete until his char | acter affected man.