The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1910-06-16
Definite
i. Reference
TO THE VALUES OF LIFE HAS
HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION
GRADUATES ARE TOLD
Many Diplomas Given
at the commencement exercises OF
the Baltimore Colored High School
Mrs. Cummings, wiEe OF former
pastor here, dies.
(Franklin F. Johnson.)

| (Franklin F. Johnson.)
Rev. DR.. L. q. Johnson, delivered
the commencement sermon to the
graduating class OF the Colored
High School at Madison Street
Presbyterian Church Sunday morn
ing.
| He said in part:
High school graduates cannot be
classed as ignorant, the education
| they have received has been plan
ned and given with special definite
reference to the values of life, to
| what is, to what is not of, real
practical and enduring worth for the
| life of the world, the students is
70 prepare himself to enter, for If
science and Industrial arts are in
tended to fit him to make a. living;
| history and literature, the record
and philosophy Of human experience
IN Its results Of bane and blessing,
as man and nations have followed
I one or another line of moral prin-
c1ples and conduct, are intended anu
~
! No student therefore, Of history
and of literature with the moral
teachings and examples Of the one
and the moral sentiments and
precepts of the other, can be ignor-
ant OF the higher and lower values
or human life. He knows what
makes worth for character and USE
1 tulness In the world and knows
that character and usefulness. in the
world are by the story and moral
or human experience, the only
things that make for rea' and abb
ding blessedness in life.
| -. we. bid you welcome among the
FRANKS of graduated and workers in
the world and wish you success in
Whatever line Of effort you shall OK
Ipect to follow. We are hapny to
tell you and eager to encourage
you, that there is plenty of room for
you in the field of achievement
I Some where you can find a. place
and therein can achieve the good
and worthy thing your heart NAV
wish
| IT only needs that you be will
ling to exercise that same spirit of
industry and perseverance and self
control with you faced, and by which
you won the victory over the diff.
cult1es of school life. For Of truth
there Is only one path to the prizes
or life, the effort of struggle. It is
on up through difficulty to success.
Brave the difficulty, bear the bur
den of its struggle and denial. Be
heroes and heroines in the strife Of
life and achieve"
The commencement exercises viii
be held at the Academy oe Musc.
this Friday night. The address to
the graduates will be delivered bv
Prof. w. e. Burghardt, Dubois, the
sociologist. Rev. DR.. Henry John.
SON will deliver the invocation.
| The following will be the gradu-
ates:
Bertha Bennett, Alverta f. Berry,
Mary II. c. Bragg, Daisy B. Briggs.
Carl Briscoe, Eugene Carter, Cor
rlnne Chew, Carrie A. Cooper, Ariel
n. L. Dorsey, Milton O. Dorsey,
Leonard Drewry, Ellen A. Dutton,
Susie A. Elliott, Edna M. Ford
Josephine Gaines, Leonard U. Glib
son, Florence e. Cuttings, Nettie p.
Harris, Violet Holmes, Helen H.
jackson, Florence s. James, Noel a.
Johnson, Mary V. Johnson, Ardella
Il. q. Jones, Aurelia S. Laws, Edith
V. Lynch, Edna A. Maddox, Hattie
A. McNeal, Laura Mason, Mary X
owens, Casper, n. Pigott, John F..
Robinson, Lottie l.. Ruff, Edna NJ
Scott, Eta r. s. Seger, Clarence
Ihomas, juliet A. Thomas, Mary NJ
Thomas, Hattie A. Tyler, Elsie NJ.
Warren. Walter r. Webb, Maggie +.
west, Matilda Edna Williams, F..
Mabel Williams.
Miss Helen II. Jackson will re-
receive the alumni medal for making
the highest general average.
Mrs. Grace e. Cummings died at
the John Hopkins Hospital last
lIuesday. after an illness lasting
six weeks. She was the wife OF
Rev. G. Gilmore Cummings. forme:
presiding elder Of the Wheeling dis.
trict ! of the Methodist Episcopa
lChurch. and pastor at Charleston.
w. Va. Her funeral took place last
THURSDAY at Asbury NJ. e. church.
Rev. DR.. Harvey Johnson, pastor
OF the Union Baptist Church, this
lcity. in address last Thursday before
the thirteenth annual session Of the
Colored Baptist Convention of Mary
land, declared that this country Of
fered no hope for tho Negro and
said that Texas should be secured
for the establishment Of separate