The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1920-05-28
THE UNION CITY
TRAINING SCHOOL
Baccalaureate Sermon by Rev. R. A.
Clark.

Baccalaureate Sermon by Rev. R. A
Clark.
A very large audience assemble
Sunday morning at the Methods
: Church in Union City. the com
T. mencement program of the Uniol
; City Training School beginning will
the baccalaureate sermon by Rev. R
A. Clark, Presiding Elder of tn
Union City. District.
Il The floral decorations were yer.
beautiful and attractive in profusion
Special music, reading of the scrip
ture by the pastor, prayer, song y.
Miss Ruth Griffin and then the ser
mon, was the order of service.
Rev Clark spoke from the twelfth
chapter of Ecclesiasties, first verse
Remember now thy Creator in tn.
days of thy youth, while the evi
days como not, nor the years draw
nigh when thou shalt say have nj
pleasure in them" Another scrip
ture quotation was used in connec-
tion with the sermon.
The minister felt degree of pride
in the fact that the class had voted
and made him their personal choice
to preach the sermon. He began by
saying that the young people consti-
tuted tower of strength to the
christian religion. Youth is bless
ing to the human race and the hope
of it's glory.
The achievements of great men of
all the ages belong in a great meas
ure to those who were in their youth
and entering maturity. Napoleon was
a boy soldrier and a Lieutenant lead
| ing the Italian army at the age of
sixteen. Alexander, the great was
a military leader at sixteen and q
great general a few years later,
leading the conquering army across
the Hellespont. George Washington
was civil engineer at the age of
eighteen and commanded an army
against the Indians before he was
twenty-one. Daniel Webster achieved
national fame as lawyer and states
man while yet a young man. Whit
field stirred England with the power
of his eloquence at thirty. Charles
H. Spurgeon preached his first SER,
mon at the age of sixteen and held
London spellbound at nineteen, be-
coming pastor of the Metropolitan
Tabernacle few years later. Glad
stone entered Parliament at the age
of twenty-three and finally became
prime minister of England. Dwight
L. Moody became as young man of
eighteen a clerk in Chicago and a
missionary among the poorer classes.
At the age of thirty-six he was
preaching in England, an evangel-
ist of international reputation. De-
mosthones of Greece and Cicero of
Rome were great orators in their
young manhood. Rubinstein was a
musical prodigy, and so on.
But with youth it takes will pow
er and strength of purpose and char
acter. Will power is greater than
talent. 1t overcomes stupidity, pow
erty and even physical defects. Will
power makes rulers and without will
power we must follow other leaders
The great lesson tnen is what |
shall we do with this power. Shall
we consecrate and dedicate our lives
to the great principles of christianity
and democracy? Shall we guard and
protect those principles for which
our men fought and fell on Flanders
field?
1t is for the young people to take
up this work, and the schooi is the
seat of preparation. How imror-
,ant then is the work of this large
lass Of young men and young wome
IN.
The address was heard with close
attention and interest.
The graduating exercises took
,lace last night, program OF which
vas published last week.
Those who will receive diplomas
re as follows:
Literary Department--Ladye Err
lice Latimer, Selma Carr, Ed Lois
Arr, Charline Isabella Everett,
lara Cathrine Whitesell, Virginia
,attle Steele, Iona Pauline Pruett,
'helma Rives, Franklin Irby Parish,
,aniel Joyner Scott, Charles Warren
,aldwell. Will Dixon Lannom, ChAs.
rocket Hudson, Marvin Owens.
Business Department-Mary He's
er Moore. George Moss, Winnie May
Drum, Ola Louise Akin, Carl Alton
'orrester, Paulyne Reeves, Ora Ven
.e Weaver, Sue Brown Moss, Lucille
inkler, Una Alberta Roland, Allie
! Pate, Elsie Frances Mott, Cecile
lf,e.