The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-06-02
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Most Forcefpl Sermon In Glirty
One Years. Delivered a
College Commence
ment

server makes the following eosansIts
ON the sermon delivered by DEL. =.
RICE at the State College comfnsnce-a
.meut: :
Four baccalaureate sermonsS before
the graduating classes Of four eoaeees
IN Raleigh began the comm neneenent M
.season yesterday for State coliege, ST.
Iiary's Peace Institute and MeredfIn
scoI.ese. For the first time an the re- re-
cen. history nt these iastitutio rs, the.
et,sing eyents. OF their years work cc-
CTR at the same time. Today and To-
morrow will witness the final chapters
OF the year with graduating exercises,
and other: formalities that accompany
the completion of four year college
work and launch the young people
upon the serious business of making
a, life. &C., e
4 Dr.. John A. Rice preached the bac-
scalaureate al; State College last night
before an audience that crowded Pull
len Hall to its doors. Dr. Wallace p.
Rollins spoke before the graduating
class, students, parents and friends at
ST Mary's yesterday morning; 40 the
absence Of Rev. c.. E. RaynaA, D.,
DR.. w. McC, White preached the SER
mon to the class at Peace Institute in
the First Presbyterian church, and at
Meredith College, DR.. W. Il. McGloth-
lin delivered the sermon.
DIR. Rice Powerful Speaker
State Colleges senior class was
brought face to. face with an eloquent
challenge when DR.. Rice addressed
them las. night, a achallenge toS take
what God had given them threugh the
college and use it for giving back TO
the State a service that seeks nat self
but the realization of the Kingdom OF
God as-Christ planned. No more elo-
ouert. no more fprsefsi fsi2g sermon haS
been delivered in the 31.years Of the
history of the college, President Rid
dick declared after the service.
Dr.. Rice possesses atpower that his
audience did not guess when he arose
and began to speak quietly, taxing a
text as other preachers take texts, and
LAYING down a. proposition that he in-
tended to prove. Before he had been
speaking five minutes something OF
his power began to be felt and at the
end of his so minutes the 500 people
present were spellbound under the
driving force of his oratory.
He brought the seniors new Christ
a living, fighting. inspiring reveaier or
God, with a plan for the salvation OF
the world. not for final use in heaven
but for making the earth, through
the billion years that are to come, a
place such as Christ would have 1t. he
challenged them to grasp the reailza-.
ton. of God and pour their lives into
it.
sIf you are going out from this coll
lege to aggrandize yourselves into
power, you are menace to the clvlh-
zation of this State" he told them:
do not gather yourselves up in your
'holier-than-thou' robes. and be blind
to the cry Of the hungry world about
you. See to it that they eat OF your
flesh, and drink OF your blood, and
they will crawl across the world to
you.
g Then came powerful picture-of the
militant Christ, who, through men,
VIII create Tie WOl AZ, lioG e1i'S"b NSS
as a continuation of the process that
began billions of years ago. He des-
cribed Christ as the greatest lawyer,
the greatest doctor the greatest man
of letters, the greatest statesman, the
greatest teacher. the greatest preach
er, and the greatest walking delegate
and agitator in the world today.
land the challenge of the hour, to
you men here before me. is the terri
BILE risk of being alive with him." he
exclaimed. There are two ways OF
accepting the challenge; stick to the.
old individualistic philosophy that
made 10000 millionaires in America
and turned four million soldiers back
to their homes with not enough TO
buy a suit Of clothes I challenge you
to stand with Christ, who is the only
hope