The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-06-28
NEW YORK HERALD MONDAY, JUNE o. ls76-TRIPLE SHEET

them that rejoice ard weep with them that weep.
You VIII seek in your spheres 70 advance educa-
tion, 10 promote refinement and TO lead IN all
movements wnicn further literature and science
Your Alma Mater expects more; she expects you
70 promote the highest good, winch j spiritual
good. number, know, are TO devote tsem-
selves 10 what they believe 10 be the highest work
converted man can engage IN, ana as ministers
and as missionaries TO scatter every here the
unsearcnable riches OF Christ But while love
gives the steam and. the sails in the voyage, you
Will alWays lake with You moral principle az the
anchor and the rudder. You VIII shrink from the
temptation TO evil, from the appearance OF evil;
you Will turn back when you come near the
border country thar divides vice from virtue.
"By reason Of use You Will have your senses e&-
end, duty as whole will be Ielt TO be
pleasant as beng wrought into your very
require to be made but you win grid yourselves
for the battle, wax valiant IN the nght, and DO
stronger for the victory. FINALLY, brethren. what
soever things are true, whatsoever things hon
est, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever
things are ofgood report, If there be any virtue
these things and do them. This time OF gradua-
ton constitutes an epoch in your history. You
have come TO an eminence whence you can look
back on the past and forward 70 the future. In
surveying the past you may have 70 rejoice over
gained these by application, ana you will need the
like application IN the more arduous career on
which you have now to enter. Quite as possibly
you may have 10 look on failures. perhaps great
failures: time and opportunities OF Improvement
lost. Surely your purpose this day VIII be TO let
nothing more be lost; You Will gather lessons rom
your very dlsapnolnGments. You have also TO look
forward to the future which you stretching out
before you; and you make this profitable Sab
bath In forming resolutions and laying out plans.
See that tney include plans OF doing good and
that they all be undertaken In sense or depend
ence on divine wisdom. We VIII follow you In
this career on which you are entering with some
anxiety, but with greater hope. Mepray for your
happiness, but we pray more earnestly Tor your
higher good for the blessings Of heaven to water
the fruits OF earth. While we remember you, we
expect you TO remember us; to visit US rom time
TO time; pray for u.s. and help us TO promote the
great ends which this college lives TO accomplish;
Thus while scattered, It may be widely, you sAall
all be one In the family relation TO your Alma
Mater. The last tie that btnds you to this nstltu
t1on is soon to be loosed, ana you have TO set out
voyage on which there may be more or fewer
tossngs. But two things abide and are stronger
than the wind or the steam that drive you along,
and firmer than the compass or the anchor. One
10 love In the heart love more enduring than ltle
ana which will not die when the body dies; the
other is law, which, like the arms OF the 0mntpo-
tent, VIII guard you forever Met are this
day for the last time a band OF brothers In the
house OF God, let US arrange ere we part, another
meeting place 20 which we may ali come. Let Us
pledge ourselves, in the presence OF God and OF
one another, that, Whatever our separations, that
wherever else we meet or whether we meet
again on earth or no, we VIII all meet no WAN
derer lost, in the presence OF God in heaven.