The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1921-05-13
Baccalaureate Sermon, Glass Night
Receptions, Graduation, Etc.

Receptions, Graduation, Etc.
Anothers years work of the Union
City Public Schools finds us enjoying
the opportunities and pleasures OF
commencement week. Last week the
grade pupils were resented-first
the Westover in the Rose Dream,
then the Central School grades in
"Snow- White and the Seven Dwarfs. "
On the night of the 21st the senior
class presented the Average Man, .
a comedy drama. All of these and
the receptions, etc., were highly in
teresting and delightful.
On Sunday morning last at the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church a
large crowd assembled to hear the
baccalaureate sermon. The seating
capacity of the church auditorium
and Sunday school rooms was taxed
to the limit. Rev. Baker, pastor of
the First Christian Church, was pres
Z ent to deliver the address. His text
was from 1 Cor. 6:19:
What? Know ye not that your
body is the temple of the Holy Ghost,
which is in you, which ye have of
God, and ye are not your own"
The idea suggested in the text is
that man was not created as an in
dependent being, that he cannot live
unto himself alone. The minister
emphasized the suggestion that we
are debtors to God and responsible
to him for the talents he has given
us. Therefore we are commissioned
to improve these talents and to use
them for the benefit of mankind and
the glory of Cod
Everyone must exert an influence.
That influence must be shaped +.
the evolution of the mind and spirit.
The weak must be governed by the
strong, and that strength should
come from God and the work he is
preparing us to do.
The highest forms of expression in
literature and music should guide US.
Jesus is the highest expression of
righteousness.
Now and then the reformist comes
with a new doctrine. We are asked
to find our mental and spiritual in
spiration in culture; others seek the
standards of economic science to
solve the problems of the human
race. These things ell fail to satisfy
the longings of the heart and soul.
The standards which fail to recognize
the spirit and presence of GOD are as
straws in the wind or the sands of
the shore.
There is no culture, no science nor
human invention which will com
pletely clothe the mind and satisfy
the soul. The minister employed in
his discourse language of sentiment
chaste and beautiful, like n
thought: "It is right to live and to
love as Jesus lived and loved"
Another characteristic expression |
of the sermon was that "Out upon the
golden seas there are millions Of op-
portunities." We are the architects
of character. Everywhere the call
of duty is beckoning us, and we pause
to resolve, Where shall 1 go and
what shall I do?"
Wealth and talent are as valuable
assets only when they are employed
to serve the human family with the
things that endure, strengthen the
mind and body and fill the soul with
the spirit of Christ.
The minister turned to the class in
closing with an expression of grati-
tude for the honor of addressing
them.
The class is as follows:
Senior class, 1921-Louise Sprad-
lin, valedictorian Farrar Parish,
Wilma Parish, Jake Caldwell, John
Caldwell, Curtis Ruddle, Sarah Pick
ard, Kathleen Arnold, president; Ru-
bye Caldwell, Helen Garth, Gladys
Wheeler, j. c. Nash, Edward Mead
ow, Hugo Almond, Louisa Peery,
sec. treas, Elizabeth Southworth,
Ramona Dietzel, Kath-
crime Taylor, Ruth Caldwell, Musa
Brewer Katherine Bryan, Bruce
Kirkman, Thomas Bransford, Marv
Lee Pitzer, Mary Jessup, Georgia
Rhoads.
The fourth and fifth grades were
presented Friday evening at the