Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-06-14
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.


LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
COMMENCEMENT
FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL.
Week OF Literary Festivities.
The present week marks the annual COM
mencement of Franklin and Marshall col
lege. The unusually large graduating
class and the excellent arrangement Of lit
erary and social features for the week give
promise Of a highly interesting and sue
cessful commencement season. The first
order of the programme was the Bacca-
laureate sermon yesterday, by the presi-
dent, preached in the college chapel.
To day the usual examinations of the
lower classes and Of applicants for admis
sion are being held. Tomorrow the an
nual trustees meeting will be held and in
the evening Gen. VIM. II. Koontz, of Som
erset, this state, will deliver the biennial
Grafton before the literary societies. On
Wednesday morning the literary societies
and the alumni will hold their annual re-
unions at noon the alumni dinner will be
leld-in Harbaugh hall at 3 p. m. the
class day exercises on the campus; at 5
o'clock the class of 1870 will hold decen-
NAL social reunion, and in the evening
Rev. D. E. Klopp, d. d., Of Philadelphia,
will deliver the alumni Grafton. On Thurs
day the regular commencement exercises
will he held, including the baccalaureate
Orations and comforting of degrees.
There was large attendance of students
resident alumni, local clergy and friends Of
the college present in the chapel yester-
day morning to hear the Baccalaureate ser
mon by DR.. Apple. The following is
brief abstract of the discourse which was
delivered in an impressive and telling man.
ner and received with close attention:
And so it is written The first man
| Adam was made a living soul the last
Adam was made quickening spirit.
| "Howbeit that was not first which is
spiritual, but that which is natural and
afterwards that which is spirituaP': Cor.
Xxx, 45, 46.
These graphic words, explaining the Or
igin and destiny of man, rise in authority
and strength above all human speculations
on this subject. Science has not solved the
problem of mans origin; it has not dis
closed how he emerged from the bosom of
that nature, with which he is so closely
linked on one side of his being, and has
been made to so far transcend its order
as to stand forth as it's king. The light Of
revelation makes clear the mystery of sci
ence, in the sublimely simple declaration
"And the Lord God formed man of the
dust of the ground, and breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life and man be
came aliving soul.' Only He who formed
man could reveal his origin.
Human philosophy has likewise sought
vainly to solve the mystery of mans des-
tiny. His intuitive consciousness and
profoundest thought unite to testify that
death does not end all, but revelation is
again needed to illumine with the text
that which sci ence leaves in darkness.
Man, the last and greatest creation of
God, deriving his existence from the first
head of the race, but at the same time ell
dowed with powers transcendins the
sphere of nature and fitting him for the
existence of freedom and love, is to reach
this highest state through the last Adam,
Jesus Christ, the Goldman in a higher
spiritual order of existence, of which the
natural is only the type and symbol.
Jesus Christ, as the absolute head of the
universe, is the link that binds together
the creature and the Creator, the finite
and the Infinite, man and God in the COM
munion Of infinite life and love. He is
the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and
the ending of all the ways of God to man.
To accept this sublime revelation and to
believe in Jesus Christ the conqueror of
death and Hades as our God and Father,
is infinitely more than all possible attain
ments in the knowledge aud wisdom of
earth"
"Adam was made living soul - means
more than the soul life of the animal it
involves self-conscious existence in the
form of personality, a rational centre ofits
own existence. Through the body, man is
joined with the external creation through
the spirit, the soul is linked with God.
Body and soul make unity of existence
spiritual and material. God created man
I" a living soul," but Christ, the last Adam,
was made "quickening spirit.' 1t is
through the spirit that man is united to
the Divine life in God in the personal,
conscious communion of love.
Born into the world, our being unfolds
itself merely as natural life. and has of
itself no power to transcend this. The
highest culture, without the union with
God in Christ, only carries the subject
further into the trackless paths of spirit
ual poverty and death.
Man has proved his superiority over the
natural creation by his conquest of its do
mains, and grandeur marks his achieve
ments in the empire of mind. But all this
is merely the natural sphere and viewed
from high spiritual standpoint is in itself
a melancholy failure. It was because man
turned from his higher estate, to enjoy the
transitory world, by which he was to rise
to the spiritual sphere, that he was left
groveling in the ruins of his fall. The
world, with all its conquests and possibil-
tiles is not enough. Whosoever shall
drink of this water shall thirst again."
Free rein to the physical appetite debases
the body in the development of the high
er life of the soul the physical nature is ele-
vated and honored.
What the soul is for the body the spirit
is for the soul. It is through the spirit,
or spiritual life, that the soul is elevated
to it's right relation to God and enabled to
reach its proper character and destiny.
There is a supernatural, spiritual world.
corresponding to the natural order of the
universe, in which is higher revelation