The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-06-05

am approaching my Iotu oii 'nu"'
Be that as it may, 1 meet the require
ment of President Eliot for gooo
teacher. as quoted by the preacher III
his sermon on Sunday, if am not
voung man am one of those VINO
never grows old and never expects ID
grow old.
And then DIR. Harms got his facts
rather mixed and when he undertooA
to straighten them on Sunday ne was
still mixed. as to dates and the preacn-
er q5ho delivered the baccalauTeate
sermon to the class of 1893,
have been writing these Nm-
meneements at Newberry college al
most consecutivel! now for nlgh oneo
40 wear, and have some RECORDS ol
the things that took place, ana !
reckon if all the words that l have
written about the college ana the
commencement were enumerated they
would equal the war loan IN num-
Der. ,ooo
The sermon before the ella IS OF 1881
was preached by the Rev. j. b. Relm-
ensnyder then of Savannah Ca Due
now a living pastor and preacheS I'D
4he CITY of New York, and the sermon
WAS delivered in the old Lutheran
church which stood in Boundary street
on the spot where now is tie residence
~ Nr. J. R. Davidson. His text was:
esThe race is not to the swift, nor the
. hattie. TO the strong" And another.
thing in26onnection with that com
vosrcement is that DR.. Reimensnyder
Z also preached the sermoi on SUNDAY
might. as DR.. E. J. Meynardle VINO was
TO do it failed to come. 'Tne text VI
the night sermon was: "The TOOL nath
said in his heart there is no Goa.
DR.. Reimensnyder also delivered tne
address before the alumni ASSOCIATION
fbecause the Rev. Levi Busoy VINO was
TO do that also failed to come:
There is another thing remember
,bont that commencement. In those
davs 7 thought that some day I might
he 2 great orator, and I tried twice
to get a start by taking the medal
in oratory. It was open then to the
entire college and any of us could go
in went in twice and failed Dotn
times. but on this occasion a1ter the
graduating exercises the next morning
DR.. Reimersnyder came to me ana saio
if had made that speech the nlgnt
tafore my chances for the meaal
would have been better. MeA' l
never made a great speaker, and
have noticed that those who usually
fake thes medals neer become great
orators either, and I reckon it is all
right. I had two good citizens OF tnls
comfy within the last three or tour
years to tell me what the subject OF
nv speech was on graduation day. |
ann mot vain enough to think that II
was what I said or the manner In
which il was said that made the i'm
nression on these men, but rather the
subject itself. But all this has MOTH
ing TO doewith this commencement.
Or. L.. A. Gotwald did not preach the
baccalaureate sermon in 1893, put II
was preached that year by the Rev
M W. HANNA, D. d of Baltimore.
His theme was, '-Suprene faith in
God secures highest success in life"
and his text Gen. 22:14. The sermon
10 the young men at night was deliv-
cred in 1898 by the Rev. L. A. Cot
valid. D. D., of Springfield, Ohio. His
text was John 1924: Verify, verify
I say unto you: Except a corn or
wheat falleth into the ground and die
it abideth alone, but if it die it bring
eth forth much fruit" The theme as
drawn from the text was: ''The divine
law of self surrender as condition
to the attainment of true life" Tns
sermon of his son on Sunday morning
was in some particulars along the
same lines taken by the father "a
wears before from the same rostrum.
7 am going to quote a closing para
graph from DR.. Gotwald's sermon To
the young men "a years ago 1--WE had
onlv bows then): Live unselhshly
onlv to do good: to lift up the fallen,
to reclaim the erring, to comfort the
sorrowing, to instruct the ignorant, TO
GLADDEN. the distressed, to help the
needy, to befriend the friendless, 10
dispel the darkness of' clouded homes
and breaking hearts, to wipe, with
loves soft hand, the tear OF grief
from weeping eyes, to pour the sun
shine of kindness and sympathy over
4he pathway of earth's struggling
ones, this is the way to get the most
ont of life and to enjoy it to the full
est" Beautiful sentiment this, and
GOOD admonition to old as well as
|,oung. And true todSE as it was "a
years aso. And the son on Sunday
morning in his baccaladreate to the}
graduates emphasized the same
thought in beautiful and eloquent AMI
sender and delicate language.
DR.. Harms subject for his gradua-
zion speech was Fiction, A Force.
Another thing about this commence