St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-06-11

A very pleasant musical program
was given by the Boys Glee Club
and Boys Quartet and by the Girls
Quartet and Sextet. There were vo-
cal solos by Mary Carr and Ruth
Flint and two very pleasing violin
selections by Miss Helen Boynton,
| director of the orchestra.
| The tables were decorated with
flowers representing the class col
ors, yellow and green, and we're pre-
sided over by Mrs. p. f. Hazen and
Mrs. Henry Fairbanks.
The BaccaIAureate
The baccalaureate sermon was
delivered by Pres. Guy Potter Ben
ton, D. D., of the University OF Yer
mont. at the North church Sunday
evening. The church was filled,
some being obliged to stand. The
music was furnished by the Acad-
envy Glee clubs and formed a grand
chorus. The solo parts in the an
thems taken by Miss Mary Carr
soprano, Miss Ruth Flint alto, Noel
Noyes tenor, and Walter Cleveland
bass, were well performed. The
program for the evening follows:
Organ Prelude, "a Springtime
Song anthem my Soul Doth Mag
Nifty" Academy Glee Clubs; anthem,
Christian, the Morn Breaks Sweet
ly DER Thee" Academy Glee Clubs;
baccalaureate sermon by Pres. Guy
Potter Benton, d. D.; vespers, 1.-The
Shadows of the Evening Hours, !"
Academy Glee Club Quartet; organ
postlude, Finale"
The opening prayer was by Rev.
G. w. C. Hill, the lesson read by
Prin. Martin G. Benedict and pray
er offered by Rev. F. S. Tolman.
Pres. Benton took as his subject
The Dual Man." and read his text
from a part of the 31st verse of the
22d chapter of Luke. The experience
of Peter as given in the lesson at
the time of the last passover and his
denial of Christ is strong presenta-
ton of the duality of human beings.
The question now before each man
is are you for or against? Each
person must declare himself. The
duality of human nature is also
shown in the struggles between gov
ernments and between races. All
civil liberty has been attained by the
adjusting of struggles between con-
tending principles. Duality is
found even in the church and the
home.
The duality of the individual is
shown sometimes by the fact every
man and woman has a niche in
the world if they can find it but so
many give up the search after an
unsuccessful attempt to discover it.
There always has been the struggle
between God and Satan in the HUI
man character and if we are to abb
olish the duality we everywhere find
we must work with the man We
can never bring about the victory of
good until we have brought about
the victory of good over bad in the
individual.
In this struggle of the individual
we find some who make their own
standard of morals but they can
not expect to turn the victory be-
cause no man or woman has ever
been able to live up to their ideal.
The moral man needs Gods help if
good is to prevail and in this strug-
gle his character is really developed.
When Peter relied upon himself Sa-
ten conquered.
To the question whether man
could be brought into harmony with
God he gave an unqualified affirma-
tive answer because it could be
done through faith. He believed
perfect liberty also is possible be-
cause a perfect character tends
toward perfect liberty. 1t is pos
sible for man to acquire those things
which he sets his heart on. He has
what the divine. law demands and
it is by adjusting ourselves to the
divine law that we become free.
He then related instances to
show how it was possible after
repeated failures to win a victory
over sin and closed with an appeal
to the graduates to bring themselves
to a realization that the noblest and
best manhood and the sweetest and
purest Womanhood is attainable
only by Gods help. They should
join in the struggle to stamp out
evil by coming in full harmony with
Christ.
Plans for College
The following members of the
class expect to enter college in the
fall: Miss Merle Chandler, Bryant
Stratton Business College; Miss
Margaret Libby, Mount Holyoke;
Miss Lillian Dunton, Smith College;
Miss Marguerite beware, Smith
College; Harlan Tolman, Middle
bury College; Lawrence Doty, Bos-
ton University; J. M. Hastie, Univer-
sity of Vermont; Trott King, Dart |
mouth; Noel Noyes, Yale University; !
Ralph Smith, Pratt Institute; Will |
lard Ward, University of Vermont; |
George Human, Amherst College.
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