The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1909-05-14
WAS That Of Rev. ". {. Henry
! Last Sunday.
SaCCalauTeate Sermon 10 Graduates o.
Kentucky Normal College Enjoy
ed by Large Audience.

The Commencement season was
happily and appropriately inaugu-
rated on Sunday evening last with
q yaccalaureate services IN the South
'oupn Methodist church The building
Vas full to oyeruowtng with thd
students OF the Kentucky Normal Col
lege and the representative people Of
this city, every available seat being
taken long before the beginning
Of the interesting features which Ihar
acteriEed the service. The church IAoi
increased by members OF the choir Of
the NJ f. Church began the exer-
cises with the singing OF an anthem.
4 Prof. Kennlson, who had charge Of
4 the program. then announced the
hymn AN hail the power OF Jesus
name" which was heartily sung by
the choir and the big audience. The
Rev. DIR. Hanford, of the NJ. i. church
followed with prayer. A solo and
chorus were then sung by the choir
Mr.. VIII Cain rendering the solo Iart.
After this the 53rd chapter OF Isaiah
was read by the speaker OF the even
ling. the Rev. w. Il. Henry, of the
iBaptist Church, Parkersburg, w. Va
lThen a duet was sung by Mrs. f.
=. ID. Wallace and Mrs l.. S. Johnson,
1Oncluding the Introductory ex-
crcises The Rev, w. e. Henry was
Then, In few appropriate wordA
presented TO his waiting audience Mr..
Henry made n few remarks by way
1of introduction, and in these re-
marks b made his intelligent audience
feel that the faculty OF the college
had made no mistake in securing
the speaker to deliver the sermon
en- this interesting occasion. Mr.
Henry said that there were tmea
when he felt the college fever rise
IN him. and the commencement sea-
sen was one Of them. Hence, he,
Iraid. when the request came from
the Kentucky Normal College that
he would come and speak TO the grad
batting class he found It easy TO give
bn affirmative answer. He said that
)he would take as foundation for
his address or sermon the llth verse
of the 18th chapter OF st, Johns
gospel: These things have spoken
Unto you, that my JOY might remain
lin you, and that your Joy might be
full"
III Although II has been said Of the
bovior that He was a man of rorrow
Iand acquainted with grief, the speak
er had no doubt that Jesus found Joy
1 while on earth, He believed that
He found q JOY in simply living. His
human nature loved the song Of the
birds, and the beauty and fragrance
OF flowers He found pleasure In
boxing at the mountain and the
sea. the beauty of sky and field.
Jesus also found Joy In knowing
Much OF what We know only I'M
.part, II at all, Jesus knew wholly
and this knowledge must have been
source of great JOY, But the JOY
Of living and knowing was small
compared with what Jesus must
have felt in doing and giving. What
delight He must have felt in say
ing to the dead, Arise in COM
handing the lame and halt to
walk, In giving sight to the blind
What must have been His joy when
He touched the foul unclean leper
who groyeled at his feet, and the
loathsome outcast became again
whole; and what must have been
His supreme delight when he took
those few small loaves and fishes
and after crumbling them with His
fingers fed that great multitude,
\ Fhe young men and young women of
q he graduating class might easily IN
or from the speakers remarks along
Ibis line that they, too, could have
y fhis Joy in living, in knowing, IN do
ing and in giving.
In speaking of self-denial as a
Gait OF character Mr.. Henry made a
nice distinction between Belf-denial
and denial Of self, beautifully IL
mstrating by incident the nobility,
and grandeur of charact of some
who that others might } life 'tar-
Ral, laid down their lives. He
also strOve to in,..v dhe young