The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1917-03-09
ATLANTA, GA, MOREHOUSE
COLLEGE.

COLLEGE.
The celebration of the Fiftieth
Anniversary of Morehouse College
formally began Sunday afternoon,
February 25th, and closed Tuesday
night February 9th. ALI who at
tended felt that for the three days
they lived on the mountain top. On
Monday and Tuesday each meeting
seemed to surpass the previous one
in inspiration. More graduates OF
the college had returned than on
any similar occasion in the history OF
the college. and many distinguished
visitors were present. Among these
were DR.. Howard B. Grose, Editor
of Missions; Doctor Curtis Lee Laws,
Editor of The Waterman; DR.. Cliff
ton D. Gray, Editor of The Standard;
Mr.. Hale of Rochester, N. Y; DR..
Gilbert N. Brink of the American
Baptist Home Mission Society; Rev.
w. H. P. Faunce, President of Brown
University; DR.. D. W. Abercrombie,
Principal of Worcester Academy; DR..
Wallace Buttrick, Secretary of the
General Education Board; DR.. r. R.
Motion, Principal of Tuskegee Insti-
tute; DR.. w. e. B. Dubois, Editor
of the Crisis, New York; Mrs. A. E.
Reynolds of Boston, as well as the
presidents of other representative
schools and officers of all of the
schools of the American Baptist
Home Mission Society. The ami
versary sermon was preached on
Sunday afternoon by Rev. w. H. P.
Faunce, d. d. DR.. John F. Purser,
President Of the Board of Trustees
of Morehouse College, presided. The
singing of the students was very ef-
fective, especially their rendering of
the anthem, Seek Ye the Lord"
and the Anniversary Hymn written
by Dean Benjamin Brawley of the
college and set to music by Prof.
Kemper Harrled, Musical Director.
President Faunce took as his text
Luke 22:27: (Which is the greatest,
he that stitch at meat or he that
serveth?" The question of the text
he said was one constantly met with
in our industrial and commercial
life where there is a tendency for
great enterprise to swallow up small
ones The New Testament, however
lays emphasis on personality and
the members of family have their
differences that must be recognized
and developed. 1t was shown that
the graduates of Morehouse College
can render service in the twentieth
century, first through the discovery
of promising men and women; sec
end through helping to make PROV
sion for education, and third
through the conservation of all or.
binary labor. The distinguished
preacher was at his best and i'm
pressed his audience both by his fine
spiritual feeling and bg his excellent
delivery and clear enunciation.
On Sunday night DR.. Brink pre-
sided and greetings were brought by
the following representatives of in
stitutions Dean Adams of Atlanta
University; President Waters OF
Cannon Theological Seminary; Pres
Tapley Of SpeIman Seminary; Pres
King of Clark University; President
Fountain of Morris Brown University
Prof. Turner of Shaw University
and President Sumner of Talladega
College. The address of the evening
was the formal one by President
John Hope of Morehouse College, who
took as his theme, Fifty Years o.
Negro Education and the Outlook
President Hope reviewed the earl.
struggles in education after the Civi
War and emphasized the fact tina
the merit of a college like that of {
man depends not only on what /
does, but what it u.s. He showed thai
for fifty years Morehouse men hat
been at the head of all upward move
ments in Georgia and that their in
fluence had extended even into Africa