The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-07-11


and help as we could render, the Divine |
Spirit has been carrying on another part of |
it, in which we have had no share, opening |
the eyes of your spiritual understanding to |
behold truths far out of reach for your
natural powers. And now that yon have |
satisfactorily endured all our questioning |
and have fairly won the academic honors
which you are soon to receive, there is
another question more important and far
reaching, which you must answer to your
selves and to God-have you obeyed the
heavenly vision?
ltwould be a wrong inference from what
have been saying to suppose that your
long and laborious education has given
you no advantage over other men in the
handling of religious truth. To stop the
mouths OF infdels and scoHers, to remove
the objections to the truth in the minds Of
the candid and thoughtful, to persuade
men to come out of the darkness of evil
doing into the light where Gods truth
shines-these and other possible services
will always occupy and dignity cultivated
intellect And here and there over the
land where the providence of God may
place you, we shall expect to hear that
every one of you is rendering good service
in this cause. You may always be sure that
the old college will not lose sight of you,
and that we shall be proud and happy when
we hear of your success. But after all,
remember-and especially because of the
temptation to intellectual pride, remember
that as the sun rises and shines so gentle
and simple alike, so the light of saving
truth beams as directly upon the simplest
and humblest of Gods children as upon
you Do not therefore, be ashamed of OBJ
vious truths. Do not reject them to think
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common to you and to inferior minds. Be
not ashamed of Jesus Christ because the
poor believe in him and some of the rulers
do not. The most obvious truths are often
the most important ones. Do not set your
scientific intellect to keep watch and ward
against all truth that comes not that way.
Open way through your heart a lso; keep
your whole nature open to heavenly yisi-
tants. Your natural associations will be
with men of culture, but keep close also to
men who have warm hearts, and sanity
characters, men of sympathy and faith and
prayer.
And so the day long hoped for, when
your last college lesson should be over, has
come. 1t seems to be my duty, my pain
full and yet pleasant duty, to give you your
last lesson, painful because it is the last,
and yet pleasant because words spoken at
Let the lesson, then, be this--and my col
leagues will all join me in saying that we
were never so anxious to impress a lesson
deeply and indelibly upon your minds, as
this "Be not dsobedient unto,the heavenly
vision"
The service closed, after prayer by the
Prsident with the benediction, after the
following Hymn, which appeared in Serb
ner's "llours at Home" with this introduce
ton:
COME TO ME.
Oh when wilt thou come to me Ps. 1O1 2.
We are indebted to Hon. George p. Marsh,
our Minister to Italy, for this exquisite hymn.
We cannot refrain from giving his estimate OF
1t.
"The enclosed hymn, which consider one OF
the most beautiful and artlstlcally perfect reli-
gious. poems Of this century, is by my excellent
friend, Henry z. T, Esq, an English law
yer"
With the authors consent we gladly place II
before the readers OF the "IIours at Home"
EDITOR.
"Come to me Lord, when first wake,
As the faint lights OF morning break
Bid purest thoughts within me rise,
Like crystal dew-drOps to the skies.
"Come to me in the sultry noon,
Or earth's low communings Will soon
Or thy dear face eclipse the light
And change my falrest day to night.
"Come to me in the evening shade,
And II my heart from thee have strayed,
On bring 1t back, and from afar
Smile on me like an evening star.
"Come to me in the midnight hour.
When sleep withholds her balmy power.
Let my lone spirit lind its rest,
, Like John upon my SaviourS breast.
"Come to me through life's varied way
, And when Its pulses cease to play,
Then Saviour bid me come to Thee,
That where thou art, Thy child may be-"