New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-06-13
For the New National Era.
Presentation Of a Chapel Bible TO
Lincoln UniversIfy by Glass lS52,
ON Class Day, May 3Oth.
Aaarsss by Il. 8. scott.

Mr.. Presidenf and Gentlemen Of the FacnHy:
We have now come almost to the goal O
our collegiate course. Soon will the curtain
drop upon our career as a class in this uni
versity. Already our assembling with yo,
in the Classroom to solve abstruse problem.
in the mathematics; to study the classics
to unravel the intricacies of the metaphysics
and to receive that instruction which teaches
the way to God, has ended. But the rich
associations which tenaciously cling to the
imparting Of instruction have not, and can
not, end. They are too dear to us to be for
gotten; too sacred to be sacrificed. They
will, therefore, ever be cherished by every
member f'72.
Throughout Our course, dear sirs, we have
been bound to our Alma Mater and to you
by the dearest Of earthly ties. The relations
which have existed between US have been
emanated from you have been most salutary
in forming our character. What words can
express these ties? What pen can describe
these relations? Who can compute the power
of these influences? Oh how powerless the
pen to describe them! How inadequate are
words to express them How vain the at
tempt to fully delineate them! They can
only be felt in the heart experienced in the
soul, and the results seen In the life.
When we came here for the first time many
of US were of rough material. Our mind I'M
developed and unframed, We could not rightly
appreciate the mechanism of our own being.
We did not know the utility of the arts and
sciences; the beauty of literature, and the
grandeur of philosophy. But day by day fos
four long years, here within these halls, we
have been led by you over the many obsta-
cles in the scientifcworld. BY your instruc-
ton we have been induced to Gull precious
gems from the boundless regions of thought.
BY your aid we have at last reached the
summit of philosophy which terminates our
collegiate course.
When we consider that within few days
we must part from you whom We love and
honor; that we must leave these familiar
halls which have often become vocal with our
voices that we must enter the wide world,
there to form new associations, there to take
upon ourselves new duties and responsible
thing here which shall remain as token of
the deep interest we have in our Alma
Mater of the choicest affections we will ever
cherish for you, also as a memorial of the
spiritual benefits we have derived from these
four years of Christian instruction. Allow
me, therefore, in the name of '72, to present
through you to the Lincoln University, this
book, which has eminently been styled the
best of classics which is the guide to hap
piness and to God; which is the cornerstone
of all true governments which is the basis
of all true science and philosophy, and which
you have made the foundation of our educa-
ton. Under your instructions we have eaten
of its richest clusters and drank of its
choicest wines, and our soul has been re.
freshed. Accept this, dear sirs, and with il
accept the well wishes of every member o.
'72 for the prosperity Of your Alma Mater
and the happiness of yourselves. May il
keep alive that interest we now have in hel
welfare may it keep sacred those ties and
rich associations which bind us to her and tc
you; may the other classes that shall come
after US also drink of its springs and be made
whole. And God grant the light you have
impaired to us out of this fountain of di
vine truth may be shed forth in the world
by US with the good of man and the glory o
God. And as our Alma Mater has been con
secrated with this glorious end, may he
boundaries be extended, her facilities for in
struction augmented, her number of students
increased, and may she indeed become :
mighty instrument in the hands Of God il
this great work of Christian civilization, -an'
thus fulfill the design Of Lincoln University
STUDENT.