The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-31
bACCALAUREATE
 SERMON PREACHED
 BY BISHOP MURRAH
Commencement Exercises of Birmingham College Be- gan Yesterday - Bishop
 Speaks on Education

Commencement exercises of the
 Birmingham Southern College, 1919-
 20 session, began yesterday morning at
 the woodlawn Methodist Church, when
 Bishop William E. Murrah, president
 of the general board of education ot
 the Methodist Episcopal Church,
 south, preached the baccalaureate ser
 mon at the Il o'clock morning services.
 The Woodlawn Methodist Church was
 crowded with people who had assem-
 bled there to hear Bishop Murrah. The
 speaker is himself graduate of the
 Birmingham southern College, class or
 1874, when the institution was known
 as the Southern University, and was
 located at Greensboro.
 The church was beautifully deco
 rated with flowers for the opening of
 the commencement ceremonies. and by
 the tine the speaker had taken his
 place every available extra chair in
 the church had been taken up.
 "I take great pleasure in having the honor of speaking before you members of this church. and also to those Of you who are not members. but who are interested in the progress of the Birmingham Southern College" said Bishop Murrah.
 WATCH THE COLLEGE "The Birmingham-S Southern College is not graduating as many members this year as the officials would like. But it was the war that set us back, as it did many other institutions in the United States But just watch the col lege next year. It's going to prove that it Is one of the finest colleges in the south for the training of the young man.
 "Colleges are the greatest organiza- tions we have in this country today. f>They teach the difference between the brutal, physical existence, and a life I in the spiritual realm.
 Sunday school training is form l of a college education. It is very sell l dom that a boy or a girl will deport from the way of God. if she has spent 1 the first ten or fifteen years of her life l in attendance a Sunday school. "The present day aim of a great | deal of people Is to make all the money l they can, then let the rest of the | things come as second nature. The | world is money mad.
 | But the Bible teaches us that if one wants to find the true God, to study in His ways, and all the rest of earthly l things shall come as second nature. l CERTIFIED DESIRE | Bishop Murrah spoke for over an 1 hour before the large audience that l was crowded into the church. He told l about the man who gratified every evi ] desire. and that when he died his l friends knew him only as brute l physical being, who existed on earthly | things.
 | There is no way to draw line be- l tween his better and his evil self. One | was both, and the same. We must bt | strong and not yield to temptation. We hove the same passions that
 Jesus or Moses had when they were or l earth But they resisted temptation l So must all of us.
 50, my friends a college education | Is the thing to draw a line between q mans evil and his better self. It is ! seldom that anyone forgets the early | training of their childhood. and If the
 child is started right in school; taught l to be a Christian. it is seldom that he 1 will do anything else except work for | the interest of that church.