The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-06-01
DIPLOMAS TO
BE AWARDED
AT EXERCISES
Thirteen Young Women Tt
Be Graduated From Hos.
pital Tonight

| The commencement exercises at the
Bismarck Evangelical Hospital will
be held tonight at the City Auditori-
UNI at eight o'clock and will be fea-
| tured by an address by Rev. John G..
Schwab Of Freeport, Ill.
The list of graduates include:
Marie A. Andersen, Laura o. Meland,
Selma f. Nilsson, Bertha L. Leegard,
Matilda R. Hagerott, Anna G. Bloc
! dau, Johanna h. Kramer. Anna NJ.
Brown, Bertha O. Boehrnsen. Oline
Braaten, I. Annetta Lillestrand, Inez
b. Johnson and Pansy G. Etling.
The remainder Of the program will
be as follows:
The Program
Selection-High School orchestra.
Processional-High School orches-
ira.
Song: "Come Thou Almighty King"
Audience.
InvOcation-Rev. Paul s. Wright.
Duet-Dr. and Mrs. H. C. Anderson.
Address,. l.. Conklin.
Song-High School Glee club.
Address-Rev. John G. Schwab.
Presentation of diplomas-Dr. ]. O.
Arnson.
Song: America the Beautiful
Audience.
Dsnediction-Rev. A. A. Holmes.
Rev. F. H. Brockmueller, president
of the Board of Trustees, will pre-.
side as chairman.
"She hath done what she could"
were the words Of the text from
which Rev. John G. Schwab, of Free
port. ILL.,, preached sermon to the
graduating class Of the Bismarck
Hospital Training School for Nurses,
Sunday evening at the City Auditori-
UNI.
Mr.. Schwab has been identified
with the Deaconess and Hospital
work of the Evangelical Church in
this country ever since the church
took definite steps to enter this spe-
cial field of Christian service. He is
now the secretary of the General
Board Of the deaconess and hospital
work OF the denomination and has
had large part in promoting the
development and progress Of this no.
BILE cause.
Appeal For Service
His message to the nurses was an
appeal for consecrated service
prompted by fervent love Of Christ.
Telling the story Of the amounting
at Bethany as recorded in the Cos
pels he depicted the scene in the
guest chamber Of Simon the Leper"
so realistically that the attentive au-
dience felt transferred to that an
cient oriental home. 1.-The breaking
of the alabaster box of precious oint-
| ment over the Saviour's head, by
Mary, was an act of absolute devo-
ton. There was nothing cheap or
commercial about it. She gave all she
had. Her act was prompted by love.
Love is the greatest of all virtues.
Not only is it the greatest but it is
eternal said the speaker.
| Wherever the love Of God obtains
there is present also a readiness and
passion to sacrifice he continued.
| Referring to the work of the Chris.
tian nurse he said:
! For the ministry Of nursing wo
man Is by nature best adapted. Her
finer nature, her deft hands, her gen.
tie touch, her gracious smile, her in
domitable will, her faith and pa
thence, her ability to suffer and
therefore to. share in the suffering
OF others, and sympathize with them;
all these make her the natural nurse.
Angel Of Mercy
Woman herself may be compared
to the alabaster box and her conse.
Grated service to the sweet spinkenard
very precious" The consecrate
woman may become an angel of mer.
cy. 1t should be woman's ambition
to minister to the sick and needy,
to soothe and calm the apitated
minds of the sick and sorrowinp and
to lift up degraded humanity to a
higher plane Of living"
| After congratulating the class up.
on their choice Of the profession of
nursing. he appealed to them to
pour out the ointment of consecra.
ted service upon suffering humanity
in the name and by the grace OF
Jesus Christ, our great pattern and
example,"
About five hundred persons were
in the audience.
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