The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1914-05-28
ANOTHER WHITE STONE MARKS THE
CALENDAR OF THE KINGSTREE SCHOOL
In the Brilliant and Beautiful Com
mencement Exercises.
Auditorium Filled to "S o. R"-Ten Pupils Are Gradual
ed--The Interesting Programme.


spacious auditorium was filled to its
capacity with an interested audience,
and all present seemed to have been
delighted with the message from the
gifted divine.
The services were opened by the
singing of the Doxology, fte r
which Rev D A Phillips offered an
appropriate prayer. Following this
Rev w E Hurt read the Scriptural
lesson from the 18th and 18th chap
ters of Hebrews, which formed the
nucleus of the sermon that followed
the singing of hymn by the audi
ence.
Special music, under the direction
of the accomplished teacher, Miss
Estelle Campbell, was beautifully
rendered by choir composed of
Misses Selma and Rubie Thorn,
Elma Kinds and Mrs l. w Gilland;
Messrs R N Speigner, Hugh McCut-
chen, P H Stoll and Percy Hutson.
A violin solo by Mr. David Silver
man, with piano accompaniment by
Miss Campbell, was sweetly render
ed and especially enjoyed by all
music lovers present.
Mr. Thayer's sermon was an able
exposition and perhaps one of the
most appropriate discourses of its
kind ever heard in Kingstree.
The preachers subject was The
Successful Race" and he took his
text from Herews, Chapter IL,
verse l: Wherefore seeing we also
are compassed about with so great
a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside
every weight, and the sin which
doth so easily beset US. and let us
run with patience the race that is
set before us"
With flow of beautiful rhetoric,
so simple that the least school child
could easily understand, the speaker
held his hearers spell-bound, as he
applied the words of his text to the
everyday problems which beset
young men and young women
ofttimes, when they 90 out into the
world to take up the responsibilities
of life.
The speaker illustrated his dis
course by likening the young gradu-
ates to the great athletes of ancient
times, when it was customary for
them to practice for their running
and jumping events with weights in
their hands or cumbersome robes
about their bodies, which they would
throw off when they entered the
arena Cor the great prize contest,
that their bodies might be lightened
and their agility increased.
Mr. Thayer sub-divided his subject
into three headings: INSPIRATION
Preparation. and Aspiration"
which were essentials to success in
! the great race of life. And make
straight paths for your feet lest
that which is lame be turned out of
the way; follow peace with all men
and holiness, without which no man
shall see the Lord" he said in clos
ing.
At $50 o'clock Sunday evening
MIR Thayer preached to large audi
ence in the Baptist church, taking
his text from the sixth chapter of
St Luke. Again his hearers listen
ed with the closest interest to a
powerful discourse of the truths set
forth in the text.
MUSIC RECITAL MONDAY MORNING.
For some time it was expected
that Congressman Lever would ad-
dress the school Monday morning,
but at a late hour word was re-
ceived from the Congressman stat
| ing that he would be unable to keep
his engagement. so the faculty ar
ranged for a music recital by the
pupils at 10 o'clock Monday morn
ing, and a highly enjoyable pro-
gramme was carried out.
GRADUATING EXERCISES.
The one time in each of their lives
! that had been looked forward to
with anxious hearts, through peri
cd of ten long, weary years had at
last arrived, and on this beautiful
Monday night in May ten pupils,
splendid looking specimens of King
stree's youth, sat upon the rostrum
facing an audience of six hundred or
more people, who had gathered in
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