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Sunday, June 10.
COMMENCEMENT Sunday dawn
ed without a fleck in the clear
blue sky, and those who had been in
suspense for fear of rain felt much re
lieved.
The perfume of countless flowers and
the lovely green hue of the grass plats
and trees made a picture which defied
the brush of a Michael Angelo or the
pen of an Irving. An especially pleas
ing effect was produced by the bevys
of charming young ladies who honored
us with their presence. Crowds of the
opposite sex, among whom were many
of the alumni, were also welcomed.
The first thing upon the programme
for the morning was the inspection
of the quarters of the College by
the College officers and visitors.
Promptly at 9 o’idock the bu
gler sounded call to quarters and
the Cadets stood attention while
the Commandant looked into the con
dition of the corners and pried under
the beds.and trunks. The fair visitors
swarmed everywhere, and joked and
laughed with the boys to their
hearts’ content. Austin, Gathright,
Ross and Pfeuffer Halls were visited
sucessively, and the visitors were fa
vorably impressed with the clean and
tasteful appearance of the barracks.
The majority of the Bryan visitors
arrived about 10:30, and the Chapel
was comfortably filled, half an hour
later, when the Commencement Ser
mon was delivered.
NOTES ON SERMON.
The Rev. Geo. W. Truett, of the
First Baptist Church of Dallas, preach
ed the Commencement Sermon. His
text was the famous declaration of St.
Paul, “I am not ashamed of the gospel
of Christ, for it is the power of God
unto salvation, to every one that be-
lieveth.”
The silly shame of the young man at
being taken for a Christian, though
his early training may have all been in
that direction, the reluctance of the so-
called philosopher to be recognized as
a follower of the Nazarene, the ego
tism of the outright infidel, who is
above such folly, and can at a touch
of his critical wand, tumble Bible and
its authors from their foundations,
these mental conditions were kindly
but earnestly and logically opposed by
the preacher. On the one hand, he
proved by a rapid sketch of the Apos
tle’s training, his mode of thought in
herited and acquired, and his intel
lectual bias, that he, Paul, would have
been the first to grow ashamed of the
gospel and refuse to proclaim it in
imperial Rome and learned Athens,
had it failed to meet their intellectual
and moral wants. A great man does
not reject inherited and acquired ad
vantages to become the. persecuted
preacher of doctrines of which he is
ashamed.
On the other hand, neither the gos
pel itself nor its author, Jesus Christ,
have in them any element that would
inspire shame. The one when adopted
has never failed to elevate and make
man better, the other, Christ, has chal
lenged the admiration of all ages, con-