The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-07-05

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me sunday evsntng previous aud afterwards the Holy
communion was celebrated The chanting by sixty fe-
and renected great credit upon Professor Hewitt who
Ills his situation in the institution with honor the
by Hal your city adorns the front en-
trance midway to the altar and though superior
the services of the church -T'-
The tie Of christian love which has long bound some
OF tho lovely girls 10 the excellent Bishop bro
parting evidenced Hear him in his ad Iress-SMy
daughters you are come night to hear my last in
anu 70 receive my parting counsel You come
as chiidren 10 sther and speak to You as father to
dear children. Why did you not call us your
children, said one Of you to me, when had inadver
family addressed you as young ladies' 1t Ques-
ton to my heart and even yet its pulses rembe the
"t not true though shakspeare's self lrs said It.
rahsr his juliet for ne knew beter that rose by any
othcr.name wsnld smell as sweet You would not be to
me what you nave been BY any other nsmo-and Il as
loves electric chain this is the only witchcraft have
used.'i' y"
This littc wprd the elemental tone OF nature which
atunes It's nst strings and sways the pulses OF oy or
grief contains and comepehends all design or hope for
from Gods blessing the work education would
sit down with royal Canute on the sands OF the
shore and hope to bid the roll back and be
obeyed come to you to win your hearts and them
good, by any other term Did not mean to be father
these little that sit about faetdid not hone
that they would be my children, would send them on
tomorrow and shut up the halls aud STILL at once the
hammer and the saw It is the relation which all
human kind must for ALL parents or as children
have confessed its power and it contains all Others us
the bloom and fragrance Of the blush into beauty
and dist in liquid odour from the bursting bud There
is no limit to the of this relation it is adequate
to all emergencies II will sustain all trials It can Yer
fail It springs immortal from the heart and gathers
rs 1t goes, In beauty truth and power plant myself
upon 1t with unfaltering foot. am impregnable while
stand there. My very standing place is victory Ma
ture must change, and God himself fail before that
charm lose its power virtue come fromtr
And now my daughters that have confessed to you
did that strong Of sacred story the secret Of my
strength iet In the few words which close this part
ing hour commend to you its unde"aying and ncalcu
liable worth Seek rs my latest counsel with my part
ing benedicton to be the comfort and the charm OF life
to be fitness for eternity and foetaste Of Joys
the spirit OF little children -
The closing exercises OF the college highly cred
table for the short space it has been In existence II is
rather preparatory 70 the college, and designed for
moulding and training pupils for it, There will be an
uncomfortable advantage this for those who begin and
stay where they began How many times bow changes
great loss year is scarcely equal to the task OF ac-
climation He has so much to uuloarn before he can
begin to lcarn-nev teachers books now lessons
new places. new faces He is foot ball tossed now this
way, aud now that. How can his character be one
How can hs habits DO homogeneous How can his tenn,
perbe uniform lie Is thing of shreds and patches
He has little confidence in what he knows he has less
consistency in what he thnkstherc can be no cousis.
tenoy In what he does We propose to obviate these
evils Why is IL that rudeness and rebellion are 30 con
stantly associated with the notion Of a college Why
do people shrink from the neghborhood Of such an In
stituton why Is IT questionable advantage to the
place where location determined, la IL not because
colleges fail to realize the domestic idea Are thew
not looked on as the very opposite Of home Are not
from social ties Are they not withdrawn entirely from
female influence Is 1t not false position that they
take Is not college made sort Of outpost of hu-
manity Is not the whole system violence done to
ture We propose that boys, with shall be at home
theirs and friends We shall love them and win their
We shall frankly admit to them that 1t is a hardship to
go from home We shall lead them to regard it as a
hardship for their good We shall hope to make them
feel that they have two homes The home feeling IL to
be our maguetsm and Il shall be sacred magnetism
shall gather them under the shadow Of the cro-s and
great shall be to keep them there through
unto salvation Burlington Coll IT, church institu
tonts doors like those of the church, will be always
open and 10 all. xisu designed to be shelter and
fuge for the younsis atmophers will serene and sa-
cred and the cheerful for its serenity and sacred
The motto of Burlington College Is designed to
he its history" Suffer the little children to come unto
and forbid them not for of such Is the Kingdom Of
Godn To take the little ones as Jesus did, into our
arms-to feed them with food convenient for then-to
bring them up In the nurture and admoniton Of the
Lordto develope their capacities physical intellect ua
aud moralto store them with all useful and all elegant
attainmentsto accomplish them In every grace of man
and mind above all to ripeu In them their religious
nature and at them to be holy upon earth and happy
in the heavens. is what aim at With continued
praise to Him from whom all blessings come we engage
not in this enterprise without counting the cost-we
claim the benefit of long wide experie are
undoubting in confidence We cast ourselves with
out reserve upon tho promise. We make common
sacrifices that may attain with greater certainty
this great result We might organise institution as
college at frs; or We might receive at many
pupils rs We choose. we desire no such thing. We
prefer to begin at the beginning We shall take no more
boys than can train entirely to mind We shall
mould them at nrst-we shall make them the matrices
for those who shall come after. We prefer slow
mulation-we rely upon q gradual accretion. We are
willing to wait and count that waiting will be found
our wisdom. We can harmonic our operations-we
discipline boys-we discipline our
selves-we can 20 lay permanent foundationswe
ensure sympathetic structure--we can 80 amagamate
and knit together entire and perfect whole which
shall no. grow beyond its strength rise at the
pensc Of Its Conference.
Burlington College begins without endowment, and
without patronage. 1T Is the conception Of who
feels himself debtor to the cross, for infinitely moro
than all that he do or be- II casts itself In help
cssness but in all hopefuness upon the church II
but two things to begin withan ample charter
admirable location The rest must from God
through pous hearts and generous hands. Education
Ia subject which country fully awake TO the I'M
portance of but to any fixed plan divided and
mostly in doubt. While set Of philosophers is
morous tor education OF the mental faculties alone,
leaving the immortal part to take ITSELF another
is equally vocerous that the Bible, without note OF
COMMENT is the basis Of all education. The church
man will look upon these institutions here, an
oasis In the desert where children be mt
from the violent radcasm Of papstical heterodoxy
the hand and the equally Objectionable puritanca
negativeness on the other.
II ia worthy of remark that seminary, for educating
young to the ministry is contemplated to out
fed itinerancy''-wll, probably, provoke attack
from those called low churchmen in that It Ia pro-
by the Bishop that while young men are engaged
church," they must have families while engaged
in travelling from house to house, throughout th
State, looking for the lost Sheep and fulfilling tn,
injunction Of the Apostles" in whatsoever house y
enter, there abide ye and thus make entrance TO
tho divine master. Yet the home feeling must no
be lost in them hence the necessity Of Bishops farm
TO which they may resort by turns for stated
Of prayer, for study, and for restn
The short time I've been in this retreat has enables
me to much Of this master spirit, who has done, an
Is doing 30 much for the town and the State. Bisho
Doane Ia Boston man, and possesses that energy o
character, that ndomtable perseverance, with high at
tainments that charscteriss so many New Englan,
men Possessed of an ample fortune he Is enabled Il
carry out his gigantic plans OF doing good He Is re
markabis man | question II there be in thi
country who does tho amount Of literary and religion
labor bo does This may fulsome, but II Is true
occupying az he does, large field OF usefulness he
beloved and looked up to by everybody. The poor ar
his companions; the rich his friends; too hgl
or too low to escape his regard lie IL President of tn
Colleges head Of the seminary Of young ladies' where h
exercises constant supervision Is rector Of the parish
where is the Episcopal chair In st Mary's; preache
twice on Sundays; visits bis diocese twice year main
tains an extensive correspondence in England and Anne
rca and contributes to many literary aud religion
periodicals, besides wholly filing hia own paper tn
Visionary" Such n man leaves his stamp on the AZ
In which lives vi ha