New-York tribune., 1871-06-27
WILLIAMS COLLEGE.

PRESIDENT HOPKINSS' BACCALAUREArE-THE
MISSION PARK MEETING-rHE CLASS SING.
WmLIAMsTowN, Mass, June 26.-The weather
for the coming week looked unpleasant enough yester
day The wind from the northeast cold and cheer
less aud all day the fell in Still the friends
OF williams came crowdng in from all directions There
is something almost touching in the way IN which the old
graduates OF Williams crowd back, year after year, 10
see the form Of much-oved President IN his old,
familiar place, and TO hear, from his lips the
Baocalaureate Address. Glass Day, with its
and noisier attractions; Alumni Day. with it's
pleasant associations Thursday with its dinner and
levee are them nothing compared with Baccalaureae
Sunday Then, if ever, the ample church to be
crowded and the settees in the ase and the ISLANDERS
around the door, attest the interest in the occasion.
Those who gathered this afternoon were not dsap
pointed The subject was an emnenty practical one,
and il would be difficult to find words more fitting to be
spoken 70 young Just entering into life The President
took for his text what! know ye not that your body
Is the temple OF the Holy Ghost which is in you, which
We have Of Cod and ye are your owni" The body,
said the speaker may be developed in two directions
toward muscle toward BRAIN To the former there is
a tendency, and OF a danger, in modern physical cul
ture in gyInnasiums boating and ballpaying and in
muscular Christianity" which s no Christianity at
all On the other hand, the brain may be
not my belief that this is often done by sheer
study with selfindulgence wrong physical habits
but is done, and where is done the end Il lost by the
very means taken TO attain it, The man becomes too
w6ak T. give expression 10 his thought and viii. But
whichever way the body is trained there must be bor
dination THIS they understand who train athletes,
making them eat only certain kinds OF foQ, compelling
them to abstain from alcoholic or narcotic stmulants
submit to. This is what we ask Of you
We ask that no muscular development shall
thought are reached and also that such training and
regimen, such diet and abstinence, shall be submitted
am aware Of the little favor with which saying viii
be received by many know how much there IS IN
on this doctrine l know that unless your being
your bodies under the law OF limitation, YOU will walk
through your pilgrimage. viii you accept this law
II hard service, penance, nothing but the apph
self believe that whatever would be excluded IN the
best training for physical perfection. would also
and much more for spiritual insight and
communion with God. Judge no man, only express
hoic or stimulation OF the brain 20 be incom
patible with the fullest conservation OF the body as
Christian Church. and largely Of the ministry, this
point 10 be destructive OF the highest manhood. For
vet 10 enter upon religious services with narcOzed
bodies and a breath that smells 10 heaven" Of any
have ony 70 add in aeeordaDee With the last clause in
my that, whatever course you may ke, whatever
words would have sounding In your ears " fe are not
your own, You do not belong TO D You oe
rd hes Won and keen you the Lord make His face TO
up his couutenance upon you. and give you peace"
Half an hour after the Baccaaureate the annual meet
ing in Mission Park held. As is well known, VIII
ams College the birthplace OF the Foreign Mission
nrv movement and this park contains very beautiful
monument the site Of the haystack where Mills aud
associates wont 10 gather 90 years ago very
pretty custom that has up IN connection with the
comuemOratiOn Of this fact, Is the annual prayer
meeting the open air. The air, this afternoon
clear and cool, and everything was favor
allie a. could be desried Coronation" was
sung few words were spoken by Prof. Albert Hop
kus who conducted the meeting Prayer offered by
DR. DOras Clark The Rev. ii. y. Blake OF Whining
Ton, y. c., gave account OF the work among the
freedmen dwelling especially upon the need VI instruct
ing the ignorant instructors OF the negroes. He
oned two Alumni stationed the Atlantic coast
GEN Armstrong al Hampton Roads, Va, and the Rev.
4 T. Ford at Charleston, :. C. W. r. Stocking C69l, wfo
sails as foreign missionary 10 Prussia, IN August.
spoke few words, uttering them with a simple
earuestness that made them almost eloquent
Gen Garfield made some interesting remarks as also Dr.
Pune and and Hon Harvey Rice. the gyer OF the
ment PRAYER was offered by Rev. Mr.. Woodbridge OF
south WiiamstOwn the missionary hymn sung and
the meeting the benedctlOn from Prof. W. H.
AT halfpast o the graduating class as
-embled the campus, and quite number
gathered 20 hear them. They sang dozen hymns, !
aud the quite fine. 10 i prgtty CuetOn that
has had its birth, within few years The exercises OF
the day, which had been sucCes,ul tn1 interesting
throughout, wsre completed IA the m0Ini0g b. tue de