The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-06-01
FINE SERMON BY
DIR. E. Y. MULLINS
MASTERLY DISCOURSE BY
NOTED BAPTIST DIVINE
SUNDAY MORNING
SPOKE AT COLLEGE
Before Large and AppreciatiVe
Commencement Audience
Gen. Sykes Makes Valua-
BILE Gift to College.

In a sermon replete with fine logic
and wonderful simplicity DR.. E. \.
Mullins brought message of beau
tiful inspiration to the graduating
class of the Mississippi State College
for Women Sunday morning at the
annual Sunday commencement exer-
cises.
DIR. Mullins made profound I'M
pression on all who heard him, ana
his sermon wasone of the finest that
has been heard at the college com
mencement in many years.
Just before DR.. Mullins delivered
his sermon Gen. f. T. Sykes, an hon
ored member Of the Columbus bar
and one of the colleges staunchest
friends and champions, was presented
to the audience. He made 1ew
brief, but interesting remarks rela-
tive to the early history of the msti-
tuition. declaring that it was the vote
of the only negro member Of the legls-
lature in 1884 that made possible the
establishment of the college by the
State.
At the conclusion of his remarks
Gen. Sykes presented to the college
group photograph of the members OF
the legislature which established the
institution 1t was graciously re-
ceived bv President Fant with the as
surance that it would be placed IN the
archives of the college as valuable
contribution to it's history and pre-
served for its historic value,
A pretty feature of the exercises
was solo by,Miss Matte Lou Brown
and a trio vocal selection by Miss
Brown, Miss Hoke and Miss Mary
Finney.
DR.. Arthur Growden, minister OF the
Christian church read the scripture
lesson and the Divine blessing was m
voked by Rev. j. F. Sansing, pastor
of the Second Baptist church.
DIR. Mullins text was, "He has made
us to be kings and priests unto God'
Revelations 1:6. He said in part as
follows:
"Tbere is one striking difference be-
tween the, Old Testament and the New.
In the Old Testament the oftlces OF
king and priest were kept inviolaoiy
separate. No priest could serve as
king. and no king could serve as
nr;os+ To do so was to bring a heavy
poaalty. But in the New Testament
Tho two offices were combined, in the
person of Jesus Christ the Great King
and the Great Priest; and also the eie-
ments of kingship and priesthood were
united in the Christian. i
81 wish in this sermon to discuss the
ideal of the Christian character as
contained in this two-fold idea OF KING
and priest. The kingly element IN liie
stands for power. The priestly element
stands for love and sympathy. Inc
IDEAL Christian. therefore, is the
CLris+ian in whom power and love are
combined in due measure. VIII ap-
plv this principle, first of ALL TO tne
;rdividual life. We have as a current
ideal in education and general train
inc the production of mental power
and character.
"There are two groups Of words
which illustrate the kingly and the
priestlv elements. On the one SIDE we
have the words self-discipline, sell
DEVELOPMENT. self-directic', and self
realization They are the kingly ele-
ments of power. On the other side we
have the words self-denial, self-saeri-
flee. self-renunciation. These words
represent the priestly element IN NE
Now. any character which cultivstes
only the kinely side will become cruel
and heartless snd use all life as
means for self-exploitstion. Those
who develop the priestly side viii use
mower for the service of mankind.
Applied to Citizenship
again. l would apply this ideal to
the realm Of citizenship. Some years
AGO 7 read a series Of lectures sd-
dressed to a young American voter
lust arriving at the age to cast his
first ballot. They were entitled Let
ters to a King, and the writer essun'-
ed that the voter is a king and that
the ballot is his secptre. But there
should have been another series Of