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have shared together not only the patience Of
hope and the labors of love- but also the discipline
Of sorrow. We have bowed together under the
| special visitation of God. We miss the presence
here Of many who started with you in the course,
! upon whose closing oeremonie you have now en-
! tered We ask in vain for ARTHUR, and GoLLAxD,
and WHITNEY. They are witnesses Of these GER
enonies from higher sphere. Their eyes are
upon you; their hearts are with you; their IN
seen hands vest on you with a blessing Death
took them from our ght in startlingly quick sue
cession-youth Of fair promise, CO whom we cher
ished s2oi hoPos; whose friends, hot withou;
soicitude, watched their progress with bright an
ticipatons and just pride; whom We loved as
children and you as brothers, and whose memory
We cherish with a tenderness and tenacity that
time will only strengthen. More than half Of
your number have dropped of by the way. You
stand here minority. But are you on this ac-
count to falter and despond to "bate one iot Of
heart or hope No. The truths which we have
endeayored to inculcate today viii have been
poorly learned if they do not teach you a better
lesson than that The design of such sorrow is to
purge and purify you that you may bear "lnore
fruit" Have faith in God and that will be its
result. iLre h1etis the demand both Of God and
Of Reason. The voices Of Gods Providence. wheth-
er joyous or grievous, should come to your minds
and hearts with this articulation more tait To
you, young men, this utterance should have
special emphasis. Your brothers have left their
unfinished work to you. The patient labor, the
generous purposes, the magnauimity, the kind
ness, the scholarly culture the christian zeal the
practical virtue which might have characterized
them, ask at your hands evidence and support
Can you build better monument at the sane
time 10 their memory aud your own, can you bet
ter testify your fruitful love to them, than by
charging yourselves with double duty On their ac
count The boughs ofthe PINNED tree, indeed are
expected to bend with a ri,her and fairer fru;tage
than the branches altogether uld have yielded.
This is 9ods design in Christening you. How
beautifully and really may you thus change afiic-
lions into blessings.
The Wisdom Of the Ancients confirmed by the
experience Of all times, teaches US that ic Is
many headed; and that all attempts to weaken it
by outward assault only multiply and trenetben
It. Lop of one member and two sprout from the
stump, And shall we not believe that there is n
seit-multiplying power in virtue? Shall not she.
too rise up stronger from trial-more tcautifpI
o m her tears, Has not the blood of the MARTYRS
been the seed Of the church Has not a eros. al
waysoeen the way to a crown, in moral conflicts
les, young men. have faith IN God and YOUR tri.
umph and seng shall be, ''whom the Lord h,o,l
he ehasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he
reoeireth. This then, is our parting charge and
0enediction have faith in God; have faith in
TRUTH have faith in Heaven:-and then "Ae-
'oraIng to your faith, be it unto you"
1t is enough to say Of the discourse. that
'ts3emed to us the best Of the ser. raj adrni
ra6le diseourses, which have been delivered
by President Pcase on similar occasions
The exercises were closed by tbcsin2ins of
the iollowing hymn, composed for the occasion
by member of the Graduating Clas.