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COMMENCEMENT AT HAINES INSTITUTE
Tuesday evening, May 22,
at 8 o’clock, 43 Seniors marched
up the aisle of the beautifully
decorated chapel to receive di
plomas of graduation.
The ' commencement address
was delivered by Dr. George
Cleveland Long, of Chicago. His
beautiful tribute to Miss Lucy
C. Laney, the founder and pres
ent head of Haines, and his ap
peal for co-operation of the com
munity with what he terms the
greatest secondary high school
in the country . were forcibly
made.
The commencement speakers
were Martha Whitehead, who
spoke on ‘The Tragedy of Ig
norance;” James Mason, “The
World Opportunity,” and Sadie
Green, “A Forward Look.” Each
speaker crowned himself and
herself with honor by the mas
terly way each handled the sub
ject.
The commencement music was
all that could be desired. The
friends and patrons of the
school recall no commencement
when the music was better. By
request the hallelujah chorus
was sung again commencement
night, halving (previously been!
sung on baccalaureate Sunday-1
The technique of Mrs. Leonard
and Mrs. Tutt seemingly radiat
ed through the voice of each of
the 60 members of the chorus.
The following prizes are of
fered for proficiency in the va
rious branches of study in the
high school:
The Elsie Johnson Memorial
Prize of ten dollars in gold for
oratory was awarded Ida Car*
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The Henrietta McNatt Memo
rial Prize of five dollars in gold
for oratory was awarded Ruth
Plair.
The Negro History Prize, a
gold medal, was won by Mary
Elizabeth Carter.
The L. R. Burroughs Prize of
two dollars and a half in gold
was awarded to Bessie Henry,
The Corine Robinson Memori
al Prize of five dollars in gold
was awarded Sadie Green for
the best work in the Department
of English.
The Parmelle Jefferson Phy
siology Prize of two dollars and
a half in gold was won by Julius
Foster.
The N. M. Griggs Scholar
ship Prize, a gold medal award
ed to the student making the
highest average for the year,
was won by Ellena Yerby.
Senior Honor Roll
Sadie Green, scholarship to
Atlanta University; James Ma
son, scholarship to Lincoln Uni
versity; Leola Dugas, scholar
ship to Talladega College; Mar
tha Whitehead, to Atlanta Uni
versity; William Mason, schol
arship to Knoxville College;
Ruth Plair, scholarship to Tal:
ladega College, and Ruby Evelyn
McKinney, to Knoxville College.
Rev. A. C. Griggs, Treasurer,
presented the diplomas.
The class of 1919 presented
the school a receipt for one
payment on the athletic field.
The Haines Auxiliary, of which
Mrs. Charity Green is Presi
dent, made their usual contribU
bution to the school. They also
secured a contribution of $150
from the city council which
helped to meet some of the out
standing responsibilities of the
institution.
The Macon League remem
bered us with a tidy sum.
TT»iru>« feels especially grateful
to those friends for their gift
of $100.
The Lucy Laney League, of
New York City, under the lead
ership of Mr. C. C. Davis has
given to the school during the
scholastic year the sum of $450.
There is no work being
done anywhere by any similar
group to be compared with that
of thin League. The greatest
opportunity forJ- philanthropic
work today is in the direction
in which this group of Haines’
friends is leading.
The Auxiliary and the League
have been Miss Laney’s unfailing
friends during her many years
of struggle to build for her peo
ple a school that stands high in
the character and equipment of
its teaching force and in the
thoroughness of its educational
work.
The torch thrown to her grad
uates has been carried into all
the Southern States and into
all the States of the Union.
Haines school is on Georgia’s
accredited list of High Schools
—group 1.
Tuesday evening the curtain
dropped on one of the best
commencements ever witnessed
at Haines. In spite of the
many reverses in finance and
the lire, the students rose to
the occasion and eclipsed all
previous records for closing.
Dr. Imes, of New York City,
left a lasting impression on the
students and friends who were
privileged to hear him on Sun
day, May 20th- Below is an
account of his wonderful mes
sage taken from the Augusta
Chronicle, one of the leading
daily papers of the South v
Sermon to Graduating Class at
Haines.
The baccalaureate sermon de
livered by Dr. William Lloyd
Imes on last Sunday at Haines
Institute has provoked much
favorable comment on the part
df^itfcams^wfco 4W*r«rfijrtu
nate to hear him. The older
citizens say that it was the
greatest sermon from any angle
that has ever been delivered in
this city.
At any rate he knows the art
of graceful expression with
clean phrases and no frills. It
was just long enough to leave
the thoughts with his hearers.
The sermon follows:
The Higher Versus the Lower
Levels of Life.
Text: 11 Timothy 4:13, “The
cloak, which I left at Troas with
Carpus, bring with thee when
thou comest, and the books, but
especially the parchments.”
Life has its lower and its
hi gher levels- Commencement
day is a good time to think of
these levels, and to choose for
ever for our part the higher and
nobler way. Paul in this ancient
letter written to a young com
rade in the ministry of Christ,
shows unconsciously, but sure
ly, how one who has lived for
the higher things revealed
his character in what might be
thought only a chance remark.
The Cloak Level.
When Paul asked his young
friend to bring the cloak which
he had unintentionally left at
his host’s home, he indicated
that even though he was an
apostle, and interested in spir
itual matters most of all, he had
bodily needs. We all need food,
and clothing and shelter, and
the material comforts of life.
But the pathos of human life is
found in the multitudes who
only live for these material
things. They never seem to get
above the cloak level. We had
rather you would never get this
world's material rewards at all,
young graduates, than for you
to neglect weightier matters.
The words of Jesus still hold
true, “Lay not up for yourselves
treasures upon earth, where
moth and rust doth corrupt.”
We honor those who have ma
terial possessions if they acquire]
them honestly, and use them
righteously; but if they stop
there, how pitifully poor they
are, and how unsatisfying their
best achievement must be.
- The Boek Level. - -
But the- apostle was not only
interested to be keptwarm and
protected with material well-be
ing its illustrated by the cloak.
He was a lover of books, and
possessed as many of - them' as
his limited means would allow;
The book may well represent
the labor of others which we
fortunately share when we read
what they have experienced
and recorded for our infoma
tion and instruction. And this
is a higher level than that'of
the cloak, for it means the
strength of the mind as over
against the strength- of the
body. Here also, too, many
stop content. They are like
King James the First, whose
learning was great, but who,
with it all, was called the wis
est fool in Christendom. He, like
many others, before and since,
lived only on the level of the
book. He took his opinion from
others. He never thought for
himself. Those who go out
from this famous institution
will honor it more, if they are
wise, by carrying out with them
a vastly larger equipment than
mere books can give. Only to
know the contents of books is
to ha^e but the shadow of true
learning.
One who knows all the infor
mation of the world apd yet
who does not know life itself
is absolutely an uneducated per
son. With all our hearts, young
people, we bid you take from
these sacred walls something
finer than the things of the
book evel. Life will be the bet
ter for you if you do more than
learn from others. And this is
the reason. | |
. And what are these higher
things? Well, they may be
summed up in what Paul meant
he had laid emphasis upon the
things he wanted most, for he
said plainly, “especially the
parchments/’ That means, w,e
may take it, that if everything
else had to be left behind, he
would rather have had the
parchments than all other pos
sessions, And in this he was
not only right, but he teaches
a magnificent lesson to you and
me today. Dear graduates, you
are going out to give your best
to life, some to pursue study,
some to engage actively in
work for the busy world. And
far above your needs of mate
rial welfare, or your possessions
that others have achieved for
you, will be the things that you
create yourselves, the parch
ments of your lives. This is
what parchments are. They are
the things you yourself put your
life into, and which you, by your
own appreciation and love, cause
to come into being for the bless
ing of our own life and of the
world. We wish you nothing
higher than this, that you may
produce lives that are like the
“parchments” filled with your
own noble living and your on
ward direction into way of
righteousness.
May God richly bless you and
give you this desire and its ful
fillment.
Class Roll.
Rachel A. Baldwin, Frankie
V. Bates, Marion D. Bussey,
Willoughby E. Carter, Joe fid
die Coke, Willie Mae Davie, Le
ola E. Dugas, Lucile M- Evans,
George R. Evans, Aliffe I. Ellis,
Joseph S. Fisher, Geneva H. Fri
erson, Harry G. Gartrell, John
D. Gartrell, Russell D. Golding,
Frank S. Greene, Arnydia C.
Greene, Sajdie Mae Greene,
Charles G- Harris, Julian B. Har
ris, Nellie M. Hamilton, Eliza
beth Johnson, William M. John
son, Oscar B. Johnson, Virgil A.
Jones, Martinez L. Jones, Lucy
F. Lamkin, William J. Mason,
James M. Mason, Theodore R.
Mathis, Gussie E. McLeod, Eve
lyn M- McKinney, Edna R.
(Continued on page 3)
’’ Robert Dick Wilson, of
Theological Seminary,
Princeton, N. J.
ce of an address deliv
at the National Bible Insti
arinted from “The Bible
m
“But we speak the wisdom of
God |n a mystery, even the hid
den r*—i —
dsdom, which God or
, before the world unto
Which none of the
of this world knew: for
ey known, they would
ve crucified the Lord of
But as it is written,
th not seen, nor ear
neither have entered into
of man, the things
God hath prepared for
it love him.... But God
ealed them unto us by
for the Spirit search
things, yea, the deep
thing! of God. For what man
knowfth the things of a man,
save the spirit of man which is
in him? even so the things of
God khoweth no ifian, but the
Spirit of God” (I Corinthians 2:
7, 8, 10, 11). “God, who at Sun
thing
God’s
dry times and m divers manners
spake' in times past unto the
fathers by the prophets, Hath in
these days spokeiTTmto us by
his whom he hath' appoint
ed heir of all things", by whom
also $e made the worlds (He
brews^ 1:1, 2).
I d^ not pretend to know any
lit all of "myself about
of salvation; I do not
in the wisdom of
.. v
that theology, the knowledge of
God and His saving and com
forting work, must come from
God Himself. That is theology.
What the wise men of this
world think about God is psy
chology, or anthropology, or
something of that kind. I my
self cannot give it the great
name “Theo.”
I was seventy-two yesterday,
and, my friends, through all
these long years of study of the
Word of God and of other things,
I have been led to believe more
and more that there are no phil
osophers of mere “humanity who
have spoken out of their own
earthly wisdom, and no found
ers of religious systems, that
have ever stated just such
truths, so comforting and illum
inating as I Corinthians 2:7, 8,
10, 11 and Hebrews 1: 1, 2. I
am not ashamed of the Gospel
of Christ. Some men seem to be;
some Christians so-called, seem
to be; but I think it is the hope
of the world, the hope of every
one of us. Why should we not
tell it abroad? I like to tell this
hope out of my own experience.
Everybody talks of psycholo
gy in these days; everybody
has a psychology of his own. I
do not go to pneurotics for psy
chology; I get a knowledge of
what I call "common-sense
psychology. I try to sink a well
into my own mind and experi
ence, first Of all, and judge all
things. Everybody is more or
less insane, and if you want to
get a good insane person to in
vestigate,. just try yourself first.
Then, we all like to talk about
our opinions as if they were
common sense. There is a com
mon law by which we adjudicate
in the courts, and there is a
common sense by which we ad
judicate society. There are the
conventions of society and law,
and there is such a thing as
common sense.
Now I have entitled this lec
ture “Common Sense and the
Bible," because there are some
common-sense truths about the
Bible, as there are about every
other book, and about every so
ciety, and everything in life. We
are ruled largely by common
sense and common-sense opin
ions. Some of you may be aware
that there is a great historical
school that has denominated it
self “The School of Common
Sense.” One of the fundamental
principles^ of this school is that
every ancient document is to be
taken at fts face value fifst;
that is, its own evidence is tfce
best there is, and the burden of
proof lies upon the person who
assails that which it contains.
This school holds that every
document is supposed to be
true, and to tell the truth. The
authors are supposed to have
been honest men, and what is
recorded is presumed to be ac
cording to fact, until it is shown
by evidence that it is not ac
cording to fact,
A Common-Sense View of Rove-,
lation, Inspiration, and Illum
ination.
I am going to give this lecture
just as if l were going to give
ten, and this were the introduc
tory lecture. l am going to speak
on three points today,- a com
mon-sense view of revelation,
inspiration, and illuminaitibh.
I. Revelation:;
My firsb effort as ,a. waiter, was
on the theme, “Is a. Supernatural
Revelation Necessary?” I got
the best works on th,e subject
to be found in the Seminary li
brary, and read, up on that sub
ject, wrote my essay, and I
concluded that it was necessary
for two great reasons: from the
nature of God and from the, na
ture of man. As to nature
of God, I think this passage in
Corinthians makes that r very
clear. (I am telling you now why
1 believe. You may have other
tffls: First- Episttr to fhe Corih
thians, lays down a common
sense view in regard to this sub
ject. You can all go away believ
ing that, if there is a God, ‘‘The
things of God knoweth no man,
but the Spirit of God.” That
seems common sense. Now you
may think you know me, but I
tell you one thing: if you do,
yon know more than I do. I
fy,y think I know you, but if I
do, I know more than you know
yourself. Who knows himself?
Who knows the heights of good
or the depths of evil in us ? Wait
until God casts you off, and you
will say, “My God, my. God, why
hast thou forsaken me?”
God is a person, He has a mind
and intellect, He has intelli
gence. Even the heathen, like
Plato, believe that God had- mind
and purpose, that He was the
First Cause and Father of us
all, as He said. Where he got
these ideas, whether he got them
from the Jews, I do not know,
but he clearly enunciates, a God
of intelligence, wisdom and pow
er. Now man can g/1 that from
his works. You |Han 'learn a
great deal from a 1 arson by his
works, and perhdt* from the
company he keeps, for that is
one of! his works. What we
want, we feel within our hearts,
is to know about God. I do not
know how it is with some of. you
gray-haired people like myself,
but as I get older do I think less
of God? Some people are afraid
to think of God; do you know
that?
The human heart cries out for
God, and finds no rest until it
finds that rest in Him. Now, we
want God. I want him, at least,
and I am talking about myself,
as I told you. 1 always wanted
God, and I have been hunting
through all the literature of the
world to find Him. I studied
comparative religion back there
in my fourth year at the, Semi
nary. 1 studied Confucianism,
Hinduism, Buddhism, Moham
medanism, Parseeism, and all
the “isms.’vOf course, I had a
three-years' course already in
theology, and at the .same time
was perusing “The Creeds of
Christendom,” by Dr. Sehaff,
formerly of Union Seminary,
and so I had a pretty
you know, of ; the
theology of the
Church.
Revelation Unknown toother.
K) Religions.
Now a revelation is something
people of other religions do- not
tiave. Some do not purport to
know that there is a God at all:
Confueius did not know; Bud
dha did away with God; others
did nbt pretend that God had
spoken to them, they just gave
their thoughts about, God. The
philosophers , of India, China>
Greece and Rome had a great,
many things to guess and con
jecture about God, apd I tell you .
i would not trust them. I never
heard of a mere man that I.
would trust to know anything
5 (Continued,on page 2).
MEETING OFcLE VERE
PRESBYTERIAL.
The annual meeting of the Le
Vere Preisbyterial Missionary
Society was held recently at the
Leonard Street Presbyterian
church, Chattanooga, Tehn. For
the first time in the history of
the organization, every society
within the bounds of the Pres
bytery wasr represented, with
the result that the attendance
was the largest ever.
After an inspiring devotional
service, led by Mrs. M. F. Bar
ber, the President " Mrs., E. M. .
Downer,,called fori 'pports from,
the vaious fields* These reports
showed that marked progress,
had ibeen. made during the
year. Every society saye one
j»aid its full benevolence, quota,
fend the Society as a whole paid,
more Jhan the amount asked.,
ivJjJrov v/I tfle UixalllZallDIi $
showed a growth, in member
ship also, and the reports indi
cate a larger activity in mission
study classes and the use of lit
erature giving missionary infor
mation. It was pleasant to note .
the presence of representatives
of Light Bearers and, other
young people’s organizations.
An outstanding feature of the
afternoon program was the re
port given by Mrs. E* M. Down?
er, of the meeting of the Bien
nial at San Francisco. It was
an impressive message. After
reports from the various com
mittees were received, the fol
lowing officers / were/ chosen to
serve the next two,years:
President, Mrs. M. F. Barber,
Chattanooga, Tenn.
Vice-President, Mrs. 0.. C.
Wallace, Alcoa, Tenn.
Secretary and Treasurer, Mrs.
C- L. McDade, Knoxville, Tenn.
Corresponding Se&etary, Mrs.
N. W. MOore, Chattanooga, -
Tenn.
Secretary of Literature, Mrs.
Mabel Kirksley, Knoxville,
Tenn. 'v'
Secretary of Missionary Edu
cation, Miss Ruth Mitchell,
Chattanooga, Tenn.
Secretary of Associate Mem
bers, Miss Bonnie Leabough,
Moryistowh, Tenn.
Secretary of Stewardship,
Mrs. Octkvia Bone, Knoxville,
Tenn.,
Secretary National Missions,
Mrs- Hattie McGhee, Knoxville,
Tenn.?
Secretary of Y. P.' Council,
Mrs. W. W. Young, Chattanoo
ga, Tenn.
A popular meeting was held
in the evening, yrhich was large
ly attended. An address was
delivered by Mrs. E. M. Down
er, who retired as President of
the Presbyterial after ten years
of splendid service. As a token
Of appreciation,, Mrs. Downer
was presented with a lovely
vase of silver, filled with roses
and snap dragopf. A brief but
interesting p1$ylf$ ^as given by
local talent, after which the
meeting adjourned to meet next
year in Maryville, Tenn.
NINA W. MOORE, r
. Corresponding Secretary. -