The daily gazette., 1875-05-26
FROM DREW SEMINARY

COMMENCEMENT EXERCIsEs-ADDREss
RS AND EssAYs--A DELAwAREAr
STANDS HIGH IN THE GRADUATING
CLAss-THE CONDITION OF THE SEM
I MARY.
Correspondence Of the GAZETTE.
DREW THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, MAD
IsoN, n. j., May go, 1875.-Of all occa
sions of the scholastic year commence
ment week is the hardest and most in
teresting-hard to the students In thai
they are tested In an examination from
one to two hours in every study of the
year, before the faculty and fifteen OF
twenty competent gentlemen from the
various conferences, and, necessitates
on part of the students, q constant ten.
tion of the mind in review of the years
work and concentrating as it were the
scope of science in nutshell; and
pleasant in that every evening of tho
week is occupied by some public exer
else connected with the school.
On last Sunday night the anniver.
| sary Of the missionary society took
place before a very large audience.
The speakers were of the school, from
Bulgaria, France, India and America,
covering largo part of the missiona,y y
field.
On Monday nil mt the. annual sermon
was delivered by DR. Ridgway of Kings
ton, n. V, author of the Life OF Rev.
Alfred Cookman."
Tuesday evening was taken by the
Alumni meeting, where an oration
| was delivered by Rev, VIM. Noble, of
Troy Conference.
, The regular annual reception of DR..
Hurst's was given Wednesday even
| ing.
The. commencement exercises were
opened on Wednesday morning at 10
o'clock, by music, Search me o God, :"
followed by prayer by Rev. A. ID.
Vail, of N. Y. An invocation hymn
| by the quartette, "Guide me, O thou
great jehovah" was given as prelude
to the graduating speeches, by l.. G
Ii. Adams, Whitehall, n, y, "The
so called American Scheme" G. J.
Brown, Pittsfield, Mass, "Preaching
Christ" John Crawford, Glasgow,
Del, "Thc last Rampart;" J. W. Etter,
Halifax, Pa, "Man in the Mold" j.
X. Fiislier, Hamburg, Pa, "Human-
ISM" b. L. Gcrst, Brooklyn, N. Y.
"The master Builder" j. D. Ham
| mond, Atlanta, Georgia, "Havelock,
thethris.ian WARRIOR" Daniel Haller,
on, Mt. Freedom, N. j., Poverty" l.
E. II. Seminar, Dayton, Ohio, 1.-The
Ideal rs. the Real Preacher;" f. Ii.
Smith, Baltimore, Md, "Our Obliga-
ton" The essays were interspeise
with fine music by the quartettc of the
seminary.
The diplomas of the Institution and
the degrees of Bachelor of Divinity
were then given to the graduating
class.
Six members of the class did not ap-
pear on the stage, some being at their
labor in foreign Missionary fields and
| in the West, while others were eXcus-
cd.
One missionary. went to Bulgaria
and another to Buenos Ayres.
In presenting the diplomas and con-
ferring the degrees, DR.. Hurst made
some excellent remarks to the class,
with reference TO the work before
them.
This is one of the finest classes that
| have graduated from the school, and
! good and efficient work is expected
from the members. They have taken
| tinc positions in their respective con-
ferenccs in the Middle and Eastern
| states. 1t is not necessary to mention
the excellence and standing of any ex-
cept in the case of John Crawford, of
Glasgow, since he is q Delawarean. As
at Princeton he took an excellent posi-
ton in his class, and in his graduation
speech he evinced that characteristic
! Of himself, deep piety, earnestness and
the love for seizing every opportunity
for doing good. lie is stationed at
South Orange, N. j., place of three
thousand souls in the Newark confer
ence over fine and handsome church
with strong methodist society, where
he will, ms usual, show himself to be q
man of God and win the hearts of men
and lead souls to higher and better
life.
The next graduating class has two
Delawarians in it.
J The seminary has never had a more
prosperous bear than the present one,
the school nun bNs 1870, and many
have been preve ted from coming for
the want of room, and to meet this de-
| manu- TIC dlulllul lllduC plOpOSitlOli
to the trustees to the effect that they,
in one way and an other, would raise
enough money to be placed in the
hands of the Trustees to be expen-
ded in erecting large dormitory
and that they thought it could be rails
ed within a year. There will be no
Freshman class in the seminary and
theSophomore class will be droped next
year leaving the preparatory work to
be done by regular collegiate prepara-
tory schools and having no studies in
the school but theological and those
bearing directly upon them.
The friends of Drew are very jealous
for its welfare and they are determined
that nothing on their part shall bt
left undone to make it the finest the
illogical school in the country.
The school has vacation until the
middle of September, when large at
tendance is expected by old and new
student. TEL. E. SCOPE.