The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-05-31
BISHOP SPEAKS
AT GAINESVILLE
Noted Clergyman Delivers Bac-
calaureate Sermon at Uni
versity Commencement.

Gainesville, May 30-Friends and re-
latives of the class Of 1920, University
of Florida from throughout the state
constituting one of the largest re-
sligious assemblies ever known in this
itoriums at eleven o'clock this morning
when Bishop Warren G. Gambler, d. D.
L. L. D., of the Methodist Church
South, Atlanta, delivered the baccal-
aureate sermon to the graduates Of
the state Institution.
Bishop Candler's sermon, which was
declared one of the most mastery and
inspiring ever heard in this state was
taken from Acts 17:22:2 %: --''Then
Paul Stood in the Midst of Mars Hill
and said, Ye Men of Athens; I pre-
ceive that in all Things Ye are too
Superstitious for 1 passed by and be-
held your devotions; found an altar
with this inscription: ITO the unknown
God, Whom. therefore Ye ignorantly
worship, him declare I unto You"
urging the graduates to place the
spiritual things above that which Is
more material, the speaker declared.
'"The strongest things human nature
is religion, not necessarily christian
ity, calling attention to the fact that
while there are many religions, each
of which is believed by it's followers
to be the right, mistaken ideas, rather
then i'll intent are responsible for the
great variety in belief.
Suppose an inhabitant of another
planet-Mars, for instance, were sent
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preacher, asked the speaker, and ans
wering his own question declared, that!
this ambassador would not return with
the report that he had found the
preacher always clad in the same cos
tune, but in every mode of attice from
the scanty dress of the African native
to the elaborate custome of the woman
of fashion; not always speaking the
same language. not with the same
grade of eloquence, but from the most
Impoverished discourse to the most
flexible and that most elaborately con-
trived to express the finest shade of
meaning, not under always the same
governmental conditions, but from thu
freest Democracy to the greatest of
absolutism but that he had elwaysl
found him building altars to some God
and worshiping in the best mannet of
which he was capable, invoking the,
protection of that God upon his PEOPLE.
wherever the supreme sacrifice is
preached to men" he declared, "men
are pouring out vast treasures in build
ing places for his worship, and wher-
ever any belief whatever is held, there
will be found great places Of worship
that have cost fortunes, giving as AM
example the great temples OF Japan,
China. Korea and other places where
although the people are poor, great
fortunes have been invested III places
of this kind. AS exapmles of the same
practice among the civilized christians
be gave the Westminster Abbey in Eng
land the ST. Peters Cathedral in Rome
and other great edifices showing that
everywhere religious institutes navel
drawn from man, the riches frcm
which he declared. I'VE find it sol
hard to separate ourselves. All these
he gave as reasons for belief thai the
spiritual side of life has, and always
shall have, a stronger hold upon man
than the material side.
I'VE have reached our highest point
he declared, mot in conquering thel
sciences Of manufacture or other ma