The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-01
Dr. A. J. Dickinson of Birmingham Delivers 1 Baccalaureate
 Sermon
COMPETITION FOR
 ORATORICAL MEDALS WILL BEGIN TODAY
Tennet Lomax and Trustees Prize to Be Given-Alumni Day Tuesday and Trustees Meet Wednesday. ' Many Social Activities Feature
 Commencement Season
By LEON c. BRADLEY

H Tuscaloosa, May 31.-(Special )-Tha
 annual commencement of
 the University of Alabama began here
 today when the Rev. A. J. Dickinson, pastor of the First Baptist church of
 Birmingham. delivered the baccalau- able and masterly effort. dealing with 1.-the subject, "The Messianic Man, pr. Dickinson spoke of the cry of the an- Ecicnts for the messianic man. the new man. the man who was to be made lover and take the place of the old man. The coming of the Messiah, said E the speaker. was in response to this Ecry for the new man. Christ intro ducing himself to the world as the E Son of Man. Through the coming of Christ and through his work he brought in the messianic men wherever they would trust him to that blessed end and so the world was to be sat- fsfied, said the speaker.
 The commencement sermon was preached in the auditorium of Morgan hall and the exercises were attended by large crowd composed of students, visitors and citizens of Tuscaloosa. The members of the faculty, members of the board of trustees who are already in the city, and the prominent visitors were seated on the stage with Presi $ dent Denny. A beautiful musical pro- gramme was rendered, the choir being composed of number of local mus- clans and singers. A beautiful solo Fear Not YeI o Israel" was rendered by Mrs Cora Watson Foster.
 The members of the graduating classes were seated in the front of the auditorium and. were dressed in car uates in the different departments. ir with fhe usual custom. will not be made public until Wednesday on account of the conditions of several students who are candidates for de. lgrees
 N Dr. DickinsOn's Sermon
 N In spite of the heat Dr.. Dickinson held the closest attention of the large audience during his entire discourse. The sermon in full follows:
 
 Ii "Seeing that ye have put off the old man with his doings. and have put or the new man, that is being renewed unto knowledge after the image of him tha created him; where there cannot be Greet 1 and Jew, circumcision and mathematician barbarian Sythian, bondman, freeman
 but Christ is all and in all.' Col 3:9-11. The cities of thte Lycus valley Colos ! sac, Laodicea and Metropolis were cen ters of great learning; and probably nc churches to whom New Testament epis ties are addressed were more cultured anc educated in the current thought. They seem to have been specially captivatee ] with philosophy, as set forth in tradition 2 and observations of nature; and so tn, \ apostle warns the Corossians not to b, ] ''carried away as captivesv from thei messianic life by their devotion to thi. philosophy. When Christianity entered ' such a community, it brought in a new I element into philosophy; and set it be side that which was according to tn, 3 traditions of men and the elements o f the world. That philosophy is expended 4 in the Epistles to the Colossians ant J Ephesians, where we are given the Chris I tian view of the world as compared witt In the current Gnostic and Stoic views; ant 4 from the way in which the apostle treati Dthe current secular views of philosophy
 we are warranted in saying that he no
 only does not condemn philosophy ant
 philosophizings, but would Christianfz,
 
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