The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-06-24
TRINITY COLLEGE.
BISHOP WILLIAMS BACcALAUREATE SERMON

IN THE OLD CHAPEL.
HARTFORD, Conn. June %, 1875.
The Inst baccalaurcate sermon TO be delivered
In Trinity's venerable chapel preached this
evening by Bishop Williams, in the presence Of a
large assembage. including many OF the alumni vino
have already assembled hcrs TO witness the last
mcncement week exercises time honorca college
buildings before their abandonment ana the removal
sf the institution 10 the new structure
The text was !. Corinthians, w., 2--aMoreoyer II
10 required in stewards that be found fsthfu -
The purpose OF the sermon was TO set over against
the prevalent IDEA OF the day that life possession
q mans very own, .held," as tho lawyers say, en-
fec simplsn the great truth that lis stewardship
intrusted to man by God; and attn further, that
whereas the worlds standard, by which " measures
and estimate Iife necessarily tho taken standard
Gods stan srd Is faihiulness. Tho address the
lraduating class follows:-
Nj DEAR YoysG BxE1HREs--I had thought Ia
preaching The last sermon That will 10 preached In
this place, associated Tor come OF US with The memo
riss OF u lifetime, that / sncula make those memo
rIe3 my theme IL 10 ior.y-hvc yosrs since entered
these walls as an undergrad uate. bnt The service
comes back TO my recoilccticn iresn and clear To-
night, and rs IL comes not only recall the place IL
self as then WAS bu: rspsops It WIN chose among
whom stood as stranger, itttls dreaming Of all the
nss when in .rturo years wore TO bind me to our
college whoa ,eli you that Of me oricers Of In
struction woo occupied the das which stood whore
that altar stands TWO only are among tho living. and
three score students VINO wsrc here that day
nearly bait are starred on tho college roll, you VIII
net wonder, avn sure, that have shrunk from the
pufposed theme. do not msau That only sad memo
rss and associations wccid have come TO und, far
from H. Ard yet what a mysterious ordering u 10 OF
human .If- ana OF this worlds stsry. that they never
present lire OF JOY but line OF sadness beside
II; that ncr.r rainbow Cutters but DARK back
ground oil cloud looms no behind II. And then, be-
rides, timo would tail me, ana your patience with
H., had tired TO speak OF even part o.
what came thronging ~ my memory. So
abandoning that purpose, my thoughts turned next
10 the place watch this chapel has occupied IA our
collegiate fs ana the urchHrging lessons has been
patiently teaching for moro than hall century. That
place will not be annhiiatsd, nor will those lessons
removed, because tho places that have Known them
shall Know them no more forever. The old creeds
mat have uttered mere, the familiar prayers ana
psalms chants that have lived before US through
wgrs OF glorious lie and Will live on forever the old
lessons Of truth and duty shall NIL BIO transferred 10
stat~licr home, where trust they may DO even
20 coming generations than they have been 10 IN.
Among the lessons that have been taught you, and
which the very college course helps, II be rightly
used, TO make living aud 10 enforce, do not know
one that yon light better bear away as the last
ever DO spoken hero than the tanned In this
two grand truths TO which your thoughts have boon
called. Lite s q sewsrdshipi faithiuness IS the
standard OF Its measurement These truths undoriio
The very icscrd Of college. FRO par,a Il ecciesa
No can serve either, can work Tor either except
nnder the assumption Of solemn truths,
and his faithuness In disehargng them
must be the lnal test BY which ne
stands or tsiiA That taithtulness Will In