New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-07-24

to a vague but expressive term, will mark cu
ture and lack of inwardnes characterize religion
The intense sir of American life, the freedom OF
speech, which enables every man TO get bearing He
temttmg stations and employments which p,esens
Themselves st once, are circumstances when 10 oo'
tnd TO throw the mind back upon t-e or 70
the habits of thought and methods OF s,ndy wa'cn NO
velop The largest power Premature ta,ht aha super
fe al learning ind ready ma ke ana t1e isct pre-
vents many from growing TO their full stature.
The subject was then pfaeeany aPp'isa 70 ne s,a =,
riv loo much on the tact, the facility Of the tongue
and ptn which every biigs minded pe's'n la these
dave r. ably acquires Pc ond, rs eont4 isg encour-
ae. uen 10 snds 1T OF generous aspirations; third, As
reniLc the student that he hss great work 10 do
for hms.I and upon HIMSELF The concluding address
to the elass was both ger al aod earnest
The discours- ilslt. Of which the above lie rather
rough abstract listened TO with marke stteI ton,
and pronounced by all studeDts-who are keen enough
critics if they scent anything wrongto be richly IN
structve, and BET off by the graces of fine scholar
ship, ano Style Of crystal ceaness. Indeed, it was
droourse of rare excellence, and struck the happy
medium between a sermon and an essay.
The Commencement exercises are nov fairly begun.
On SUNDAY evening Rev. DIR. Thompson of New-York
delivered oiscourse before tue Yale Missionary Society
at DR.. Bacon church. President Woolsey presided,
and in introducing DR.. Thompson, stated the folio wing
facts respecting the Yale Missionary Society: 1t
at first called the Societ. of Religious Inquiry was
instituted by the Class of 1917, ont Of which three
missionaries went 10 the Sandwich Islands, another
became an eminent member Of the Aperican Board
and rtil aDOher-ihat prince OF missionaries Dr. Eli
'Smithwent TO the East. This Society, in spite OF its
ups and downs, had been in existence forty-three
years; had readng-room, library, monthly meetings
Tor debate aid reading Of essays, and was no in
vigorous condition.
DR.. Thompson began his discourse by some allusion
10 the distractions and cumbrous machinery of the
American Board soon, however, shifting ~ hts lead
ing idea, which was A." Primitive Evangelism, q
Goide To NJ, dern Minions. lie then gave history
of the different missol AIRY efforts in the early Church.
claracerizDe them as due 10 great degree TO the Of
ferris Of individual Chrsans-nOt 10 the Churches oo
lec,ivtly. He SAID that the Apostles were only
individuals yet they did their work not as specially
their own, but simply disciples of Christ. The 81
ertt Of the progress in the early Church was shat
every man missionary. In Application of this
idea the speaker shove that native preachers the
bert and the quicker got the better for the missionary
cause and dwell much on the idea that preaching
should 60 first, and organized churches should be the
natural result. III his boy hood, he siid he had us
tened 10 the Rev. Dir. Beecher he gave glowing de-
scIiptioDs of The millennium, aD0 thought 1t was 80
near be should see il IN his day; but now, he
stood side by side with DIR. Beechers son In New
York battling against siD the millennium didn't seem
yeIy near, though there reason 10 think We
had not made great advance toward It,
The discourse Was able, enforced by much rhetoric,
and a vigorous eoquenee, such never fais to move
and stIr audience.