Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-21
Afternoon Erercises.

Tully tWo tnOuSanu persons present uurlug tns
day.
u Afternoon Ecercises.
At 2:30 P. M. the spacious chapel was again
crowded to its utmost capacity, ard again the
exercises were opened by music from the Fort
Smelling band. the singing during the after
I'noon was rendered by choir from Minneapo-
lis under the leadership of Charles w. johnson.
The tunes sung were of the Moody and Sankey
melody, in regular Methodist style, and added
not little to the interest of the occasion.
Prayer was offered by the Rev. Jsbez Brooks,
and short addresses were delivered by Rev. DIR.
VanAnda. Rev. W. g. Rice, Rev. j F. Chaffee,
and Rev. e. D. Huntley, President of Lawrence
university of Appleton. Wis. The following
is an epitome of their remarks:
DR. VAN ANDA.
| The Rev. DIR. Van Anda made spirited and
stirring address. He congratulated the friends
Of the institution upon the dedication of such
| magnificent structure to the cause of Chris
| tian education under such favOra bic circum.
| stances. He referred to the peculiar situation
| of the university, spoke of the present COM
bined population of the cities of st. Paul and
| Minneapolis, aid predicted that in the year
| 1890 two hundred and fifty thousand people
would meet to shake hands on these grounds.
| (Applause.) That in the year 1900 there would
| be five hundred Thousand people here. He
spoke of the magnitude of the State in its area,
| its wonderful possibilities in the future;
stated that with g population equal to the
density of that of England, the State would
| furnish an aggregate CT 25.GU0,0 600 of inhabit-
| ants. 1t behooved the Methodist denomina-
| tion to take an advaEced position in the cause
of education and to plan largely.
REV. W. @. RICE.
Rev. W. @. Rice followed and spoke as rep
resentatIve of the Hamline of the past and 'as
the mouth piece of some 1900 students" of
| that institution; he was proud OF this distinc-
tion and of the opportunity to pledge the
money, labors, sympathes and prayers of the
students OF old Hamline to the welfare, en-
largement and perpetuity of the Hamline that
| now is and is to be.
These students had seen the success of the
institution in the past under difficulties and
had learned lessons of patience and endurance
that could not have been learned under mora
favorable circumstances. He was proud of her
| record and her history, for she was rich gin
nethiug but faith and high purpose; there
was little need for those who taught or learned
in her walls to heed the injunction against
needless self-indulgence; but While this was
| true, the lack of means was made up by devotion
and labor, and the result was to make men
and women that we're strong in self
reliance, fertile in resources and who knew how
to labor and endure seeing the end for
which they aimed. He trusted that the re-
membranes of the Hamline in the past would
ever serve to keep from the walls of this new
institution the spirit of cast and wealth ana
rank, and that it would always accord to every
youth whatever bis station in life the broad
est opportunities that could be afforded by its
beuefciences. He remembered that in time
past, some had questioned the wisdom of the
present location and had foreseen great difficult
ties in the way resulting .therefrom. He himself
held to that opinion until the location was
made, but when the die was cast he had said
tho institution must be sustained; it might
not have been the best thing that could have
been done, but if not, then we must make it up
by harder work for the failure; if for the best
then success would only be the grander.
REV. j. F. CHAFFEE
was introduced and said he was very glad to be
present upon this auspicious occasion; he be-
lieved he had earned the right to be present.
Hamline Univeriity had had a sleep
of eleven years and had slept sound
ly; Qaughter) and he thought it had
done it good. He had said all his lifetime
that he would never be an agent, and he meant
to include book agents, but eight years ago last
fall the Minnesota conference had elected him
he must accept the position and he did SO. He
did not know that he was sorry now, bat the
darkest days and the hardest work of his life
were during the three years of that agency.
The Methodist people of the State deserved
great commendation for the untiring and per-
sstent and faithful work they had done during
the years that the school had been suspended.
They had been hunting around for . location.
When he began his work it was thought of To-
eating at Rochester, but it was not located
there, and then encouragement arose about
soliciting funds for the endowment of the
institution that had no home in locality. In
his disbursement he went to Brother ]. W.
Martin, who was then stationed as pastor at
Owatonna and said to him: ''Do you think,
under the present state of things, can pre-
sent this cause to the people of Owatonna?"
| and he said, II believe you can; come, and we
will see if you can't do it, He vent,
and the people of Owatonna respond.
ed literally to the call under the
leadership of brother Martin, and this gave
him courage to continue in the work. Ii he
had met with rebuff at that point he believed
he should have failed and should have given
| the agency up. He mentioned these facts to-
day as credit to the people of Owatonna and
| to brother Martin. (Applause.)
Well, now this infant had walked up Claugh-
| ter) out of its sleep. a great many had been
anxious that it should wake sooner, but he had
| not been one of that class (; it was a blessed
| thing they went no farther along than they did
when the hard times came if the school had
| been opened then it would have eaten them
out of house and home before now.
| This youngster, they would find, had got to
| have good deal of meat, and it would take
| good times to give it as much rs it would want.
| He believed that God IN his providence had
| brought them to the present as just the right
| lime at which to open the school The con-
| gregation present, which was composed mostly
of Methodist people from various parts of the
| State, ought to be committee of the whole
| to influence and send to the school this fall on
| the 22d day of September, young men and wo
men from all parts, SO that the school might
open with hundred students. (Appaluse and
| cries of ''amen.")
| He was glad that there was no longer any
serious question as to the wisdom of the loca-
tion; it had had the approval of all the bishops
| who had come here to see it, aud they had de-
| clared it we'll located. Itwas always supposed
| that it would be more difficult to start here
| than in the suburbs of ST. Panl or Minneapo-
| lis but they were not working for to-day; they
were not so particular about the start; they ex-
pected to come in on tine home stretch about
| five or ten thousand years from now and dis
tance everybody on the planet. daughter and
| applause.l
| Universities were long lived, and that was
why he liked to work for them, and it was well
worth ones while to put money into them. He
expected there would be a Hamline university
| here 10000 years from now, and if there was it
would be big thing. Laughter and apDiause.)