The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1910-03-28
EASTER At THE BAPTIST CHURCH

A report Of the services at any one
Of the churches yesterday morning.
would fit in pretty welt az either of
the others, at least as far as the flow
ers and music Were concerned. AT
the Baptist church the display of the
former was very beautiful. at least to
those who sat in one of the first rows
Of seats, but back Of that limit the
only flowers visible were those made
of paper and rags, and used TO adver-
tise the milliner's art on some wom-
ans headgear, and incidentally 10 in
still into the hearts of mere man
something akin TO badness.
The singing. however. was superb.
and as the voices Of the choir could
not he obliterated even by q 4e-inch
hat, the audience richly enjoyed the
music of Schillong'S Christ Our Pass
over" The solos by Miss Eloise Smoak
and Messrs. Gates and Nash were ex-
ceptionally fine
The sermon was preached by DR.. II.
". Tribble, the president of Column bia
College, Lake City. The doctor has a
fine pulpit presence and is blessed
with a magnificent voice and as both
were under perfect control he had his
congregation intensely Interested dur
MS TIC ~ iiOAc VI HIS HlSCOuISt ne
took for his text Ecclesiastes 1913.
Because the preacher was wise he
taught the people knowledge" his
theme, Christian education. He began
by paying a glowing tribute to Flor
ida and her people and declared that
in all his travels he had seen no city
of its size TO compare with Ocala.
In Olden times, he said, the settlers
built church and then a school
house and today they are still in sight
of each other and the best work of
each is that in which they work hand
in hand. The two most active prin-
ciples of education are character MAX
ing and skill; that character To a
great extent was the result of home
training and that the school only en-
| phasized and developed it; that If the
home training had been wrong or vic
| ious till the boy or girl had reached
| the age Of 10 or 16 years it was al
most useless to send them to him and
| expect him to make a good man or a
good woman of them; that next &C
home influence was the ability and
moral standing of the teaCher-feW
grown men could recall the names OF
| their first spelling books or readers
| but every man could recall the name
| and qualities of his first teacher.
| He cautioned mothers and fathers
| againSt thinking their children duh OIL
| naturally unintelligent because il
| their younger days they had not shown
! a wonderful precocity in some direc-
| ton. for the fact was we'll sustained
| that some of our very brightest mer
! were very dull children; that the first
| - or IS years of a boy or girls life
| might be termed an incubatory per.
| iod during which time they We're alb
| Sorbing the elements of an education
| from their homes and environment:
| and it was the work of the school oil
! the teacher to bring it up to its high
| religion without education led t
| superstition, also that some of tn,
! warmeSt friends and supporters o
! education were men who had but lit
| tie opportunity for an education il
| their younger days.
| DR.. Tribble then told OF the work il
his own particular field; how they ha,
| to help many young men through col
| lege who We're without Sufticien
| means and that while they had SOM
of the finest buildings devoted to ed
vocational purposes to be found in thi
country or England, il cost money I,
keep them up and they Were trying Il
get up an endowment fund Sufficien
to meet every contingency. At tn
close of the sermon some two hundre'
dollars was raised for that purpose.