The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-06-07
THE GRADUATING CLASS OF THE
COLORED HIGH SCHOOL HEAR
COMMENCEMENT SERMON AT
BETHEL A. M. E. CHURCH, SUM-
DAY, JUNE FIRST.
The Open Door Made a Basis for the
Sermon by DIR. H. A. Carr, Pas
tor Of Bethel. The Glass Consisted
Of Twenty-Five.
By N. w. Harllee.

DIV ~. w. ftaTlle6.
The graduating class of the Colored
High School hear commencement SER
mon at the Bethel A M. e. church on
Sunday, June 1st, after four years
seeking Caesar, Cicero, Virgil, and
the exact sciences and Qualitative
Analysis, and the distant Of the stars
and the sun from the earth, and the
cause of the Milky Way and its cause,
shooting stars are displayed more
on the 18th of August each year
than on any other months. They
been accustomed of carrying books
scrolls with them and compasses and
measurements with to the Colored Hi,
on Sunday morning it was strange
that they carried to the House of
God but their empty hands, wearied
minds, seeking for years for the
hidden treasure which wise man has
found in full, but had just learned
at learned at his death only re-
moved few pebbles from the noun
tains through which he was endeayor-
ing to pass. Now the class of twenty
five came not to hear about Caesar,
nor Kepler, nor Cicero, but to hear
the wonderful story of the Cross, to
prepare themselves for that school
where charts and compasses were
of little value, but where the pure
in heart, and the peace makers, and
to have unfolded to them the value
of the soul, and instead of the book
containing the story of the stolen
Helen they are to be advised in the
Book Of Books. They took their
seats in front that they might hear
every word, thus changed places with
their parents for the first time who
had always occupied the front seats
in Gods house, and now what did
all this mean?
In the first place it meant that
they must take of the divine favor,
the only place of honor. for which
they had been prepared by their
teachers. 1t meant that they needed
further advice and to be lead to that
Rock that is Higher than I, to be
lead up to Christ.
The Rev. H. A. Carr had been Sc
lected to have heart to heart talk
with them, and he did. He opened to
the place in Revelation at the third
chapter and the eight verse where
it was written, know thy work:
behold, | have set before thee an
open door, and no man can shut
it; for thou has little strength,
and has kept my word, and hast not
denied Me. The Rev. Carr made
the Open Door the basis for his
timely sermon, and moral advice to
the young graduates who needed to
learn of an open, one that required
the pure in heart to enter. You may
have perfect health cultivated
mind, and high standing, but you
must be able to cutter the open door,
that no man shut, such a
door is now opened before you as
you are about to enter the cold
and selfish world where you are
to be an honor to your mother who
has suffered for you, denied her
self for you, she has borne the heat
and burden for you, she has been
praying for this day for you, and
she is still praying that success shall
be ours, she is still praying that
success shall be yours. she is still
praying that you may not mar our
character, may not defile ourself in
any manner but that, you may al
ways enter the straight and narrow
path that leads to that open door
which man can not shut My young
friends, said the preacher, be an
honor to your parents, be an honor
to your teachers. be an honor to your
city and state and always stand in
the light of the open door. Be
light, be man, be a woman, quit
We like men, be star of the first
magnitude, shine on through life,
shine on till that perfect day. Much
responsible rests upon you, and you
are to be all that is expected of you.
Stand In the open Door at all times,
stand on character, stand there young
ladies in the purity and sweetness of
virtue. Now my last word to you
take the God Of your mothers Sal
walton and make your way through
life. Many amens were heard in all
parts Of old Bethel that brought
tears to the young graduates eyes
as an omen that the open Door would
be their goal in all their ways.