New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-08-22
NEW-YORK TRIBUNE.
Williams College commencement.
Correspondence Of The Tribune.


WILLIAMS COLLEGE Mass. Thursday, Aug. II.
The regular Anniversary exercises Of Com
nencement a, this distinguished Institution were a.
follows
The Bsces Laureate Sermon before the Graduating
Clss. was delivered By President Hopkins, on sunday
afternoon, Aug H.
An address before the Mills Society o. Inquiry and
Theological Society, delivered BY Rev. Henry Ward
An Iddress before the Society Of Alumni by Prof.
John Tatlock at 3 o'clock Tuesday afternoon
The Prize Rhetorical Exercise on Tuesday evening.
The ususl Commencement exercises on "Wednesday.
The Meeting Of the Alumni Class Meetings, and Ami
versaries Of the sigma Phi Chi Psi, and Ksppa Alpha
Societies
President Hopkins sermon beautiful in style and
serious In subject
The subject Of Mr. Beechers discourse was Sympathy
with special application TO existing system OF lheo
logical training and mode Of preaching he commenced
by strict and thorough analysis Of sympatny "hcn
he presented Of two kinds the sympsthy rom 'Ae
ness or direct sympathy and the sympathy eA'suhs
between opposite natures being the sympathy OF
benevolence, OF recupersiive symPathy-direc sypa-
thy exists between similar natures A. between holy De
H.. and between God and the regenersed nature Of
man sympathy Of the second kind "a mat OF hoiy
God for sinful being or oi Christian or the uiife
generate, manifested 10 DeheF0'ehs e~eiNOh' 'Oi '"'
NJ Beecher specially dwelt the importance OF cul-
,ysting the latter sympathy IN this lie ms pOsuon
he endeavored 10 establish by arguments drawn from
the Philosophy Of the Universe from the example Of
Christ from the teachings Of the Bible and the wants
Of the world
Among the obstacles 10 the cultivation Of this symps
thy of benevoence the intellectual contemplation Of
God; mistaken idea Of self culture absorbing love
of truth as system and excessive intellectual culture
Under these divisions Mr. Beecher was led 70 speak
ofthe doctrine Of the sinfuness Of man as underlying
the whole Bible presuppOsed IN the existence 81 a
Bible hospitals presuppOse disease. Inc more the
doctrine Of sinful nature is disregaded the less VIII
be the benevoence since the sympathy OF beneVOence
increases a. the difference between the good and Dad
increases beng the order that governs aeft
sympathy which increases as the difference between
two beings dscreasts ,.,,
Mr. Beecher was severe upon those who spend their
lives in seculture for their own good rather than or
the good OF others He was thus led 70 discuss the
fundamental principle Of lie namely fOr What enc
sha we liver We think are safe IN saying that MI
n considered this end be the doing good rather than
the b,ia9 good Not but that we must De g0Od 70 90
good but the ultimate end must be the dong OF goyd.
The being good according 10 the speaker, lOlo"s he
doing good inst ad of the eiectng good necessarily re-
sulting from being good He was equally severe upon
those Ministers who, nursing their minds IN ABSTRACT
contem plation preach about the attributes OF Deity,
separated and In the abstract without presenting GOd
as the sympathizer with ard Saviour OF mankind ne
compared such chemist, who should offer his
guest the elements OF peach nicely Parceea out ~.
eating all those elements he would have partaken Of
peach. :" For my part said Mr. B. " would rather
eat the vulgar peach, just as II grew on Ieds trees
He bore hardly upon those who spend their lives IN
study-n acquiring without dstributing-who, unlike
the diamond absorb the light without rejecting II.
lie compared them 10 the whale AZ they are usoiul
only till they dead and cut up, when the oil Of truth
can be tried Of the obesity OF their requirements
He styled such usurers, with books for coin and
brains for treasures. He considered education "a 2
means 10 an end and not an end IN Itself He deemed
the knowledge of human nature 10 be got by inter
course with men, rather than the study of ones
self tina, the human heart is 10 be seen by WATCHING
lis outward manifestations in life rather than the inner
workings by the introverted eye OF reflection
Whatever difference Of opinion Is expressed IN re-
gard 10 the views of Mr. Beecher all agree in pro
nouncng the address most remarkable and mastery
production II the work of genius, bold IN con
cepti aud sparkling with originality. lie spoke, IN
deed with unsurpassing power and eloquence HIS
illustrations most graphic his sarcasm pointed
and his delivery earnest
We have no room to present abstract of Prof.
Tstlocks admirable discourse The subject was
Taste" and high satisfaction was unanimously ex-
pressed In regard to IL.