The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-07
Greatness as Exemplified in Simplicity Is Keynote of Brilliant Commencement Address of Bishop
ALUMNI RAPIDLY ARRIVING FOR THE
 FINAL EXERCISES
Junior Class Orations Will Be Held Today-Governor Henderson on Hand to Review Battalion
nx RALPH R. SILVER

Auburn, June 6.-t iai.p-"ChriS- IT. Mccoy of Birmingham in preaching the commencement sermon In Landson hall today. 'is of the dead levels of every day life of the average man, it Is nothing of the mountain tops, but of the desoIate sun scorched plains thnt lead to shadowy horixon.-
 Bishop McCoy's sermon opening the real 1915 Auburn commencement programme. was heard by a large congregation, and Ia accredited one of the most illustrious ef- forts ever heard at Auburn.
 Commencement will strike it's full stride tomorrow with the junior class orations, the regimental review before Governor Charles Henderson and his staff, and tho annual commencement reception by Pres ldent c. c. Thach.
 Talk of Simple Life In the environment of simple nature made of the great campus shade trees. an Ideal June day, an ideal college town. Bishop Mccoy today talked of the sim
  tifurchapters of history were written in a very ordinary way.
 | Dead levels and grey, black skies arc | Gods places for achievement of high 1 est herosm," he said ''St. Paul. the most martial and heroic figure of hu- man history, was an understood, un- comedy Jew of halting speech and with a bodily affliction which he called a thorn in the flesh. Georgei Washington had face pitted with smallpox. St. John l Wesley, founder of the Methodist church. had an unremltting and nagging wife, l who probably furnished the original in- spiratlon for the present Methodist sys- tenn of itinerant preaching. 'The life of Jesus Christ from tho stable to the cross was utterly unro- mantle. He talked about women in hot kitchens, farmers sowing fisherman, lii- les, things of the every day life. 1 God tabernacle in the common places and character Is not thing of cataclismio achievement. but comes only from tire- some, toilsome climbing, step by step." The bishops text was 1siah 4o:3o, Sl.
 Vesper Song Service l Last night the vesper song service was | held in lanBdon nall al o.do o clock l Tomorrow morning the Junior class orations will be heard, the following be- ing the contestants and their subjects: | Samuel Neil Corsby, Baldwin county. | Prosperity with Justice;" Cyrus Edson l Newman, Coosa county. What Is An Education?;" John Hosmer Campbell, Clay county. Let the Philippines Go;" Edmund Mitchell Manning, Chiffon county, Universal Peace.' James War ren Andrews, Montgomery county, ] Against Immediate Independence of tho Philippine Islands Arnold Edmund Hayes, Jefferson county, "rhe Melting Pot of Nations"
 Many visitors already have arrived and the little college town has taken on a subdued, eager excitement awaiting tho annual commencement thrush of old grads which will be under way in ali
 it's glory tomorrow. The big alumni day will be Tuesday with the annual alumni oration by the Rev. Walter c, Whitaker , of Knoxville, Tenn, and the alumni bar becue-luncheon.
 Thomas Bragg. president of the Alumni association, is hard at work, and is writ ing an insurance policy for a good time
 on every commencement visitor that } strikes the town.