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greatest credit to the choir and its leader
Mr.. Partridge.


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Z, GEo. p. MARSH. REV. S. IL. MARSH, Presi
g dent of Pacific University, oficiated al
- Chaplain of the occasion, and offered prayer
+ The prayer was followed by voluntary OF
;, the Organ. After which the President intro
+ duced the Orator, Rev. L. P. HIcKoK, d.
of Union College.
! Mr. Hickok's Discourse.
Prof Hickok, after some remarks upon
/ work and play, the freedom and happiness Of
. the latter, and the necessity that life should
e not be all play, but that we should find some
C work which could be continually fresh as
/ play to US, said that this was to be found in
the activity of thinking men; and thereupon
announced as his subject, & The living activ-
ity Of thinking men
From this activity must be excluded all
activity which is impelled by passion, and is,
therefore, blind and has no source in reason.
but is under the bondage of appetite, and
therefore cannever bea free activity. Wemust
also exclude all activity which arises from a
desire Of gain, though that, perhaps, has
called out the largest share of human activity.
Such activity is the same in kind as the ac-
tiyity Of the animal in heaping up his winter
store. In it the man is bat hireling and
would gladly have another do the work, if
he were sure it would be done as well. Let
the paymastar hide himself and the joyous
ness Of his activity is gone.
The speaker then setforth the difference and
yetthe similarity between the thinking man's
working and Gods Man is a creative being,
but he can only give outward form to his
thoughts by putting them upon some part
Of the universe. which is, at the same time,
Gods thought and HIS work. The painter
and the sculptor have already created in their
minds the work which they strive to put
| into outward form, and so there is no ma
chine which was not first made in thought, |
and when such thought comes into the |
mind of a man, it cannot remain a |
thought. The man cannot rest until |
he puts it into outward form, though |
there are some minds which have
not strength enough to bring out their
thoughts INTO clear conceptions. and some
which are content with mere ances
But to the thinker, his thought demands
dress, am outward form The boy that
thinks out his windmill cannot be satisfied
till he sees it in motion the man to whom
comes the idea of the steam engine must see
it working the Philosopher to whom the
AI %. the apple suggested the law Of gravity,
could not rest until he had worked ont its
truth and It's adaptations. the seaman who
had the thought of the New World WAS
never at rest till he had found the India in
the West. The ACTIVITY OF thinking men is
then living. in that it j, effective, 1t is So
al~l in that il +, JOYOUS. The thinker would
uo-Iet auyo,lar on, work out his idea for
him any more than he would let another
play lr him. The arazan may indeed
spread the clnv4. for the painter, or hew
the marble for the sculptor but if the work
man Is more than the tool working under
l'' -a. 'l'r'on and direction of the thinker.
then sa' thinker 5 work is drnd-ery-as far
as -..'..- rrs-'d.s. I'll. band u tao thinker
Will .' 'A '4' WORK. ]
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