The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-26
Contest in Oratory Today

Coy, was artistic. Mrs. Eddlns mas full
voice; strong and clear.
Contest in Oratory Today
| Tomorrow morning at II o'clock will
occur the annual senior contest in ora
tory for the Lomax prize in Morgan hall
| The three debaters will be David III. Ham
ner of Nathan, Eugene II. Strobe of De-
mopoIis and Bryant Is. Nann of Gadsden
Tomorrow afternoon at 4 O'Clock will
occur the first baseball game between the
| University and Vanderbilt and tomorrow
evening at o'clock the presidents re-
ception will be held at the Presidents
mansion City Commissioner James
| Weatherly of Birmingham will deliver the
oration before the society of the alumni
| Tuesday morning at II o'clock. Gov
ernor Hall of Louisiana was to have de-
| livered this address, but could not come
on account of the flood situation in his
state The matter was then taken up
with s j. Bowie of Birmingham and Mr.,
| Weatherly, the latter being prevailed
| upon to come.
| DIR. Denny Presides
| DR.. George Ii. Denny, president of the
university presided over the exercises to.
day, ii being the first time he has ap-
peared in public since the runaway acci-
! dent few days ago, in which his arm
| and shoulder We're severely bruised and
wrenched. DR.. Denny suffered consider
ably. he stated. on account of the strain
of having to sit still so long through the
exercises His arm has been giving him
much pain and he states It is four eolors,
| black blue, green and yellow. Up until
last night he has been able to sleep but
very little.
The injury is mendng, however, and
DR.. Denny stated his afternoon that he
would be on hand for all of the COM
| and
In introducing Bishop Mccoy. DIR. Den
nv asid: Whatever we hope TO make OF
the University of Alabama. we hope to
make II place where God is king and
His law is supreme, and in after life !
think the college man comes TO look back
upon the baecalaureate sermon as one
of the most important and influential
events of his college days"
MY heart thrilled as | heard DIR. Den
ny lift up God" said Bishop Mccoy, and
place Him at the head of all things, |
thank God that pr Denny Is the head
of this institution.
Bishop Mccoy spoke as follows
Bishop McCoy's Sermon
"The altar which Paul found at Ath-
ems" began the bishop, land upon which
was inscribed TO the Unknown Cod was
the supreme effort of paganism to answer
the yearnings of the human neart for a
| real Goo. 1t 1ufnlSneu tHe text Tor one OF
the greatest sermons that has ever been
preached to mankind. Whom you iy-
norantly worship. said Paul, Is the real
God whom I have come to tell you Of.
THE discovery Of the unity of nature
| is the biggest discovery man has ever
made. for in it lies the basis of the great
! faith which the human race has built mp
! in savior. Man has found that every
thing in nature il bound together and
| rela ted and upon that structure he has
proven he is different from the other an
! imals of the world-that he is immortal" +"
/ At this point the bishop entered into Il
beautiful allegorical argument in which
he pictured first pebble. then a flower,
| then a bird, then a dog and last a man,
showing how each succeeding one was on
u higher plane in nature than the one
preceding, although all were closely re-
lated and that finally man was the hign-
est of them all in intellectual, spiritual
and moral attainments, and therefore was
related to them. but at the came timi
was different from them in that he was
immortal and had Il soul.
mo man can explain tree or de-
velop tree" he continued, until he
admits that the tree must be nourished
both through its roots in the ground
and its branches in the air. And in the
same way every man remains a frac-
tional man until he develops himself
morally and intellectually and spirit
ually as well as physically. Everyone of
you must remain fractional until you
fit yourself into Jesus Christ. A God
less philosophy never has satisfied the
human mind. You can't complete your
thought life without a conception of
God.
"All this theory of life by which
the first cell is formed in dark place
in a pool of slime and that from that
the being grows and develops and