The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-23
ANNUAL SERMON TO
GIRL GRADUATES
Five Young Women Finish
Course at Noble Institute
PLAY WILL BE GIVEN
Exercises VIII Continue Until Wednes-
day Evening-AnnistOn Country
Club House Has Been Com
pleted-To Open Soon

Admission. May 22.-(Special.)- 1.-The
Church of St Michael and All Angels,
which was built by John w. Noble,
brother of Samuel Noble the founder of
the school, was crowded Sunday morning
when the Rev. DR.. j. H. Blackjack, rec
tor. preached the annual sermon, which
inaugurated the commencement exercises
which usher five sweet girl graduates of
life.
The musical feature of the service was
an anthem, Teach Me Thy Way" by the
church choir DR.. Blackjack chose as his
subject 1.-The Spirit of Truth" and the
veteran Oxonian dealt with the theme in
a way that greatly impressed his hear
ers. He is profound scholar, a liberal
reader and logical thinker. COUGHING his
discourses in select diction and beautiful
phraseology. Truth, he said, should be
the cornerstone of every life; it should
pervade the thoughts, and should be ex-
pressed in actions as well as in words,
for every life is immortal in its direct
and indirect influence, and as man
liveth, even SO shall others live after
him. Every man, he said, leaves foot
print on the sands of time, and 1t lies
with the individual whether his influence
shall be in the cause of right or wrong.
Attired in beautiful summary creations
of white, the sweet girl graduates at
tended the service in a body, followed
by the undergraduates of the boarding
department and large number of the
students, their parents and friends from
the city, the student body being under
the direction of Miss Moore and Miss
Gray, the retiring principals, and other
teachers of the institution.
Besides the fact that the school and
the church are memorials to the same
Noble family, among the founders of
appropriate that Miss Gray and Miss
Moore should have held the final relig-
ious service of their administration at
St. Michael's, for Father Blackjack as
he is affectionately termed, has been their
unfaltering counsellor throughout their
connection with the school,
On Monday evening the primary pupils
of the institute will give a play under
the direction of Miss Tones. On Tues
day evening the music pupils of the
Misses Stewart will give a recital, and
on Wednesday evening the graduating
exercises take place, the annual address
being delivered by DR.. w. F. Smith,
president of Randolph-Macon.
The Admission Country club building has
been completed and committees have been
appointed for the completion of arrange
ments for the opening early next MONTH
probably on June Z. when a grand open
ing ball will be given in honor of the
smith-Parker wedding part.
Mayor Wilxle has had the street gang
at work all the week in preparing the
driveway to the club for the opening,
and when it is completed this thorough
fare will be one of the finest in tue city,
1t having heretofore been the only draw
back to the club prospect. which COM
mands mountain and valley scenery of
unrivaled beauty.
The golf course has recently been i'm
proved at cost of several thousand dol
lars, a large amount of additional terri
tory having been purchased. and shortly
after the opening of the club it is pro-
posed to arrange a match meet with u
team from Rome, Birmingham or At
lanta. 1t Is also intended to entertain
the Birmingham and Gadsden auto clubs
there next month.
The club house is a two-story struc-
ture. built on the bungalow style. 1t
is situated on the east side of Tyler
Hill, short walk from the end of the
car line and on the outskirts of one of
the most fashionable sections of the city.
w. T. Boozer, while bringing cow to
the market In Admission recently, had the
experience of Teddy Roosevelt in pune
turing hides of rhinocerous thickness.
The COW got away anu being unable to
catch her he shot her five Zines with
a breach-loading shotgun in an effort to
impede her progress. Still she ran and
Ave bullets into her body from a 3S-calibre
Smith & Wesson.
DR.. T. w. Ayers, formerly of Admission,
medical missionary at Hwang-hien, In
Shantung,- and Norman H. Pitman, for
merly of Knoxville, Tenn, now teacher
in a government school near Tien-tsin, in
northern China, both of whom have rela-
tiyes here, state that the Chinese have
been greatly excited over the phenomena
attending the appearance of Halley's
comet while letter from lady mis-
sionary at Soochow, in the southern part
of the empire, states that the heavenly
rover has been the cause OF several in
cipient uprisings in that section of the
empire. This occasion, 1t is said, has
furnished another instance Of the neces-
sity for the teaching of science In con-
nection with religion.