Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1913 — BACCALARUEATE LARGELY ATTENDED [ARTICLE]

BACCALARUEATE LARGELY ATTENDED

Church Was 'Packed to Hear the Address of Dr. Thomas G. Howe to Graduating Class. One of the largest church audiences ever" assembled here packed the Christian church Sunday evening to hear the baccalaureate service and to hear the address of President Thomas C. Howe, of Butler University. The program was a splendid one in every respect. It opened with an organ selection by Mrs. J. B. Martindale, which was much appreciated. ' Next came the high school chorus, directed by Miss Stover, the music teacher, and In which Miss Lura Halleck sang the leading parts. The scripture reading was by Rev. Winn, invocation by Rev.. Harper and prayer by Rev. Wright. Miss Marjorie Loughridge then sang “The Star of Bethlehem,” the orchestra accompanying her. The congregation sang “Holy, Holy, Holy.” . Dr. Howe’s address was directed to the graduates and’ was filled with much splendid advice, things prompted by, his experience since the time he was a high school graduate. He said that he had recently heard President Elliott, of Harvard, deliver an address in which he had told of having seen four pictures of a graduating class from the college. One taken at the time of graduation and the others at ten year intervals after, as the survivers could be assembled together. He said that the changes in the faces during those years was marvelous and that the lives they had led were largely depicted in the countenances. He said that while the life one led was not always shown in the face, it usually was, and that engaging in the right kind was sure to show on the face just as following Immoral and wasteful lives was sure to degrade one’s life. He said that he wished to hold up to the graduates three important things that made for success, namely, realization that God is over all and that it is his province In which we are to live, then to have confidence in oneself and third to be fair with those about us. He dwelt upon the necessity of purity in moral matters, of Industry, of labor, saying that the only real success was that of service, that which accomplished something by which the world is made better, but that giving was essential toward the greatest happiness and the greatest success. The service concluded with an organ postlude by Mrs. Martindale.