The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1908-06-09
PRESIDENT KILGO's SERMON

and watch the day close when til
Teutonic races rose and the Latin
fell. He couldn't so into the CALLER
les and see God manifest in the ar
nor read the story of the ages writ
ten in the work of the old word. H
wanted to hear what copper wa
worth. He could no more feel tn
artist in the presence of those won
drous paintings than he could by read
ing the first page of the New Yorl
American.
Young gentlemen, Il hate that
don't know more than one language
/ regret that the language of the mu
stefan is as unintelligible to me as thu
foreign tongues. That side of m,
life is lost. You can't be great un
less you understand more than one
language.
I'VE need men to take whole block.
of life, whole realms of humanity.
Ike a learned man who can sit down
on the curb with ignorant men and
talk to them without tinge of pat.
ronage. like a business man who
can talk to his minister about the
Sunday school. like to see a man
get down with the great stream of
humanity and not feel out of place,
We need that open spirit of humanity
in every direction in order to bring
about that solidarity that will b ind
men into an indestructible community
OF interests, into a bond of sympathy.
Can you do it, young men? Or do
you want to lead some clan, or fac
ton or go to war against your fellow.
men,"
AT this point the speaker made his
directest appeal to the graduates. The
college bred man is expected to illus
trate fine simplicity. He should be
able to discriminate, to observe the
genuine, separate the essential from
the non-essential. to know what Is
real and what is not, and to distin-
guish between them. | think there
is no finer lesson OF simplicity than
where the Master points his ,iisciples
TO the lily and says, consider this
On Its face. the statement that the
lily Is more glorious than Solomon. is
not true. In its fullest and deepest
significance, ii is. This simple little
Tower with one, or two, maybe three
solors, Is not greater than Solomon
IN all his glory. But dethrone him.
lnsceptre him, strip him of his king.
y raiment and all that these things
stand for. The glory of So ONION was
IN incidental glory, a perishable glory.
Yet take from the flower one of its
'olors ana it is destroyed as much as
( the lily is blighted. All of its es.
ientia' glory is gone"
He waded into cheap counterfeiters
n society and his bludgeon fell i'm
PARTIALLY upon men and women.
Avoid artifcialism." he said. THE
world Is full of it and il has been the
destruction of more of the ages OF
he world and more of its races than
my other one thing Shun the arti.
localities of society. The woman who
ponds her time studying whether
he shall wear her mourning veil for
Ter dead husband, rather than wheth-
r. Sc sail mourn at all, Il one Of.
hose. The girl who debates how long,
he shall allow man to sit upon the
.rm of her chair rather than whether
is improper at al, Is one of them.
Ind then there is the other girl who
ponds more time In determining at
What age she shall make her debut
nto society than in deciding whether
he has sense enough to come at all.
Laughter.)
"Artificialism appears most where /
I can be least afforded. Young men,
'ou are poor. | know you. laugh.
err / congratulate you upon your
'overty. You can't afford these arti.
lcalities and pretenses. And steer
lear Of the woman who must have
hem, or have divorce suit. laugh.
erl Better have a p ain meal than
dress suit to sit down at an empty
able. Better have credit at the beer
market and at the grocer's than en-.
rec to all the functions Of society"
He paid fine tribute to munlfl.
ence, yet the simplicity Of the man
whose magnificent benefactions had
'nabled the college to take a place In |
he world And he drifted again into
he derelictions Of modern society. |
again his club descended the same
ron the men and the women. He de.
AIRED that effeminacy has possessed
he men and that the women have de.
ed delicacy. He told the story o.
he Venus de Milo in the Louvre Of |
'aris and drew picture, not a p cas-.
NJ portrait Of the modern society
ady. an exquisite invalid with a peren.
iai headache and nerves. forever on
he rack. He smote hard the mod.
IN tendency Of raising Hannibals by
and and Napoieons on nozzles and
aid three fourths u the boys should
ot put OF dresses and kits until
bey were twenty-five years old"
Iaughter) And yet" he continued,
We wonder why We cannot be the
arents OF a great race. You can't do
b such an atmosphere az this"
In concluding DR.. Kilgo spoke Of the