The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-06-10
EARNEST ADDRESSES
BY EARNEST SPEAKERS
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R4CCALAUREATE SERMON By DIR.
HARRIS SUNDAY MORNING.
Y, M. C. A. ADDRESS Sunday Evening
by Rev. Theodore G. HartWig-
Large Audiences.

At the earnest request OF Ine 1dcu4-
ty and graduating class of Newberry
college-numbering % young men
and ten young ladies, the largest in
the history of the institution-the
baccalaureate sermon was delivered
Sunday morning by President ].
Henry Harms. 1t was an eloquent
and inspiring exposition of a great
theme. The opera house was crowd
ed and DR.. Harms held the undivided
attention of his large audience.
The annual commencement of New
berry college is always one of the
biggest events in the yearly life of
Newberry. The college-the pride
of the Lu5herans of South Carolina
draws its students from number of
States and the commencement brings
in a large crowd of visitors. The
crowd is expected to be unusually
large this year.
The weather was threatening Sun
day morning, but the inclemency of the
weather had no effect upon the at
tendance Sunday morning. All the
churches in the city were closed.
Appropriate music was furnished
by a select choir.
The following is a list of the mem
bers of the class of 1913: Junius B.
Bailey, G. Heber Ballentine, Jesse B.
Ballentine, E. Leola Bedenbaugh, J.
Monroe Black, Ira T. Black, James
David Caldwell, GLADYS Chappell, Har-
ry E. Copeland, Sudie Dennis, ellen
Duncan Edison, Mabel Fellers, Hern-
don Connor Jones, Furman B. Long
shore, Rachel McCrackin, Samuel
Carlton Paysinger, Walter Allen Refs
er, Dorothy Renna Reeder, Addie
Lillus Rikard, Eddie ! Wilson Rentz,
John Claude Sease, Nettie Setz-
Ter, George Breaker Settler, Jacob
Webster Shealy, Joseph Alonzo Shea
ly, George Baxter Sigh, Bernice JOS
ephine Sigh, Herbert Wellington
Smith, Louise E. Taylor, Clemson
Mayer Wilson, Daniel Ira Wingard,
Muller Rawls Wingard.
DR.. Harms chose his text from
Joshua /: 2: 'Now arise, therefore,
and go over this Jordan"
The following is brief synopsis of
the eloquent and forceful sermon by
DR.. Harms:
1t was a day of great beginnings in
the history of Israel. A long and
weary pilgrimage was passed. By
many and devious ways by waste and
wilderness, by heat and hunger, by
swift penalty and soft persuasion, by
the bite of serpent and the scourge
of war, God had brought them on
their way, and now at last they camp
upon the banks Of Jordan and across
it's rolling tides they cast their eyes
to Canaan. 1t was the hour OF great
beginnings. It was commencement
N1ay in Israel.
For all the years God had trained
i nem in the wilderness. They had
b cen to school to Moses. Out under
$inaFs shadows, out under the desert
sun, the nation had learned the craft
Eof government and the higher craft
Iof a divine religion.
Now at last nothing but Jordan's
raging waters roll between their camp
and Canaan, between their dream and
the land they dreamed, between their
education and their career.
Much the same thing is happening
to you, my young friends, that hap
pened to the Hebrews thousands of
years ago. The scene is typical. In
three days, now after your years of
training, you will pass over, and
please God, pass over to some good
land of your youthful dreams, which
the Lord your God will give you.
Permit me this morning in all the
earnestness of our concern for your
welfare to urge you in the language
of God to Joshua: ''Now, therefore, oh
young men and women, arise and