The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1916-05-26
Address of David Guyton

A00I OSS vi DQN1G OONIOH
Despite the fact that last Sunday was an unpropitiouS
day with its clouds and its showers, it was a wel-fIIed
auditorium that gather to hear David f Guytou deliver
the Commencement address for Houston High School.
And what an address it was;so fluent in flow o%feoqu-
ence Of words; 50 mastery in granduer of thouuht; so
wonderful incOmprehenSion; 50 sublime in truth.
AS the writer sat there under the enchantm9nt Of the
soft and Sently winning voice of this young orator Of Mis-
SlSSippl who stood before that large audience with blinded
eyes, for rather, we would say, with the windows of his
soul curtalned to the dark things, the sad thing, the bad
things of this world but opened to the white light of
truth-and spoke to that people as only he can speak who
has the true knowledge of life, she understood more fully,
and more greatly felt the thrill of that expression echoing
from adoWn the cons of time: Deep calleth unto deep,
for truly it was the deep wisdom of God that filled the
great deep Of soul of this mad and lowed forth in a living
stream beauty, tenderness, encouragement hope, deter
mination and truth. Every thought was a jewel thought
fitting to adorn and enhance the beauty an emphasize
the sweetness OF fair youthful, bOuyant, hopeful life as
perSonIheu ,7'the graduating class which sat before him
and heard him tell where runs the shining star-Strung
way, the flower-Strewn path, the Turing hidden trail that
leads to happiness and 10! it was of the way to the etern-
al hills OF glory, the way to that ife-more-abundant the
way to our God, for God is love and love is life and of a
truth, it is the broadway of love that men and Wemen
must travel to reach The House of Happiness" Love was
the keynote of Prof. GuytonS address and with the Masters
touch be nlaved oman the heartStrinds of his hearers now
soft and low and SWeetly altIring, now load and clear and
hopefully thrilling. Pride filled the heart when he urged
to that love itself that tends unto a pure life and higher
ideals and noble striviagS. Tenderness oyerHowed the
soul when he gently pleaded that we love Our Own" more
and more and that we tell them so that in our hearts may
never echo the poets SOrr0WfuI WaiIing.
I'VE have careful thoughts for the stranger,
And smiles for the sometimes guest,
But oft for our own the bitter tone,
Though we love our own the best
He pleaded for that b~rotherly love that makes all hui
manly kin and even given us kinShip with HiawathaS
little brothers. 1t was patriotiSm's thrill that stirred the
hearts red blood when he urged for most loyal love of
country. 1t was true christianity for which he spoke when
he argued for a love for the wide, wide world, and when
ne entreated for a greater love Of God it was a Soul-call to
those who heard it. But why say more for to really know
David E. Guyt0n one must hear him to catch the inspira-
tons of his own wonderful enthusiasm and feel the thrill
of his magnetic power. But this we can and do say, he is
just the right influence to crown the closing school work
of boys and girls who stand upon the threshold of life in
the sweetness and ShapefulneSS of graduation.
Miss EStelle Winter played the accompaniment to
the beautiful selections by the choir, also for Miss Lois
Atkinson who Sweetly sang a solo just before Prof. Guyton
spoke. Immediately after his closing William Scott sang
God is Love which was peculiarly appropriate for the
occasion. The closing prayer was made by Prof. Guyton
and then ended a most beautiful commencement Sunday
service.