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 ress, hope for the progress of society, hope for guidance and comfort in his personal life, and hope for future life for which the present is a preparation. As he let's them go one by one his life loses it's light and it's dignity. Morality loses it's enthusiasm and energy. Science has no promise of success. Sin gains relentless hold Sorrow and darkness have no comfort, and life becomes a worthless farce or sad tragedy, neither of which is worth the playing because both end in nothing. Sooner or later the man without hope becomes morose and surly, or sensual and self -ndulgent, or avaricious and churl- ish, or cold and selfish, or cultured and hol- Iowa theoretical.or practical pessimist who believes the world as well as himself to be without any worthy end for which one man or many men should care to live. Possibly, under special advantages of culture, he be- comes modern Stoic without the moral ear nestness with which the ancient confronted fate, or a modern Epicurean without the t1n- conscious gaiety that Christianity has render ed forever impossible, or he gropes through the world seeking the shadow of religion that he knows can never give him rest and 8 God whom he denies can ever be found. But in either case, whether he were denver of God or admits that God can be known, the story of his life is summed up in the fearful epitaph ssHe lived without God and died without hope"
 Young gentlemen of the graduating class : This subject and the views which have been expressed are not altogether novel or strange to your minds. We are not so narrow in this college as to be ignorant of the new theo- ries that are spread everywhere abroad on the earth and are floating in the very air We are not so iliberal as to be unwilling to try them by the test of reason. Though be- levers in a personal God, we should be ashamed not to give 8 patient hearing to everything which the atheist or the agnostic aoT1 fo1f devetees of Christian theism, we should dis honor our faith and our Master did we not de fend our faith and our Master against every reason which philosophy, or science, or let ters can marshal or even suggest against it. Whatever others may say on this point, you know that the motto of this college-''Lux ct Veritas''-i. e., Light for the sake of the truth is fervently and zealously followed, and that light from any quarter is gratefully welcome. The graduates who have gone out in years before us know the same, and there are many of them, and we can trust them all to speak in our defence, if need be, on this or any other question, with our enemies in the gate. .Agnosticism is topic of present interest especially with university and cultivated men on its speculative and it's practical side As a speculation it is not new. It is as old as human thought. The doubts and mis- givings from which it springs are older than the oldest fragment of human literature The
  tinctly uttered in the book of Job as are the replies of sneering despair which are paraded in the last scientific periodical Modern sci ence and philosophy have not answered them. It may be questioned whether they have shed any light upon them. They have simply en- larged mans conception of the finite, and thus made 1t more easy for him to overlook or deny his power and his obligation to know the infinite and the self existent Culture and literature to say the least, do not justify our modern contempt for positive faith, they simply widen our knowledge of human weakness and error, but most rashly conclude that every form of faith and worship is form of blind wonder before the unknown sentimental groping after what can never be found. This inference is nasty and unwarranted Modern culture and literature on the other hand, were never so en- riched by the Christian faith and never could find reasons so abundant for acknowledging Christ to be divine, and yet we must acknow1- edge that to the superfcially educated and the nasty thinker, Agnosticism bring many at fractions because 1t answers so many ques- tions by a simple formula, and gathers or dlsposes of many phenomena under plausible generaHzations and above all because they re- leases the conscience and the life from present obligations Hence it's theories run like wild fire among the multitudes whose superficial or unfinished culture and training, or whose moral preferences prepare them to receive it. With many persons these tendencies are comparatively harmless, at least for time. The old tradi- tions of duty and self control of decorum and worship still remain, even though God and conscience are speculatively abandoned and Christ is an ,,unsolved enigma. And Christian hopes are harmless dreams, and the future life questionable inheritance, and this life & prize in lottery, and the fervors and self den1als, and self conquests of the Chris t1an life are innocent but vapid sentimental ties. With others, after longer time, the God who was at first unknown is openly denied, and Christ is rejected with passionate scorn, and the inspiration and restraints of Christian sentiment are contemptuously abandoned By others the theory is applied still further Their motto is, let eat and drink, for to- morrow we die. To one or another of these dangers you all exposed, most of all to the danger that the energy of your faith may be weakened, and the fire of your zeal may be lowered, and the tone of your moral and spiritual life may be relaxed by sympathy with this paralysis of faith, which is every where more or less prevalent. No calamity can befan young man which is so serious as the loss of that fire and hopefulness and courage for this life and the future which are so congenial to the beginning of his active life. No sign of our times is more depress- ing than that so many refined and thoughtful young men so readily accept the suggestions O1 OOuUI duu Idh0 d pOS1tlOu or 1nQ1U0c6nce or Responsibility in respect to the truths of Christian theism and the personal obliga- tlons which they enforce. Against these ten dencies would warn you most earnestly by the consideration that fast and so far as God is unknown by any man, 50 fast and so far does hope depart from his soul; hope for all that man should care to live for, hope for scientific progress, for his own moral we'll fare, for the progress of the race, for a suc- cessful life and happy immortality There fore do declare to yousin this sacred place. as you look back upon your college life and look wistfully forward to the unknown future, that if you would live a life of cheerful, joyful and buoyant hopefulness, you must live life that is controlled and cheered and hallowed by Gods presence and by constant faith in his forgiving goodness. All else that man should care for is secured you by this living hope in the living and ever present God, intellectual success and satis- faction as you grow in all knowledge and cul- ture sure progress in moral goodness; pros perity in your efforts for the well being of man the kind direction of your earthly life and the assurance and anticipation of the life which is immortal All things are yours, and you are Christ's and Christ is God. These are the traditions of th1s place. Under these influences the gen erations have been trained which have gone before, each testifying that the truths and instructions, of which perhaps they had been more or less needless while here, have come again to them with living power when re- called under the experiences of life So may it ever be; so may it be with you With these wishes and this blessing do bid you an af- fectionate farewell
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