Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1881-06-16

Of Richmond, va
suecial Correspondence Of State Journal.
NEWARK, June 13.-One of Lowell's
rare June days came yesterday to gild
the summer beauty of Newark and give
promise of the proverbial fair weather for
commencement week.
All those who last year resolved that
another commencement would never
count them among its audience proved
ths worthlessness Of such res olutions by
erowding up to the oratory of Delaware
College last night, and accordingly the
Rev. DIR. q. II. Read of Richmond, Va,
had large congregation to hear his
bacoalaureate SERMON.
DIR. Reads subject was nicely fitted to
IN. OCCASION, being 1Graduallon in the
school Of Christ" His text was from
Culvssians H., 10: "Ye are complete in
Christ" To know ourselves in respect
Of our faculties aud our possibilities Tor
tiule and eternity is the highest education
of manhood. Many persons regard religion
as an insurance against possible calamity
in the future world, rather than as the
crown and glory OF this. 1t is something
very different from an insurance against
hell. II is the rounding out of the char
acter, the completion OF the man.
Our common humanity may be con
sidered under four general elementary
conditions l. The possession of an i'm
mortal soul 2. A mortal body; 3. A
necessary place 4. A social nature. These
being all perfect and harmonious, the man
Is complete.
The soul fallen, debased by sin, exposed
to eternal punishment, is redeemed +,
regenerated and sanctited and thus re-es-
tablished in the orbit and temper OF
holiness and love. The speaker here very
happily illustrated his subject.
The body, brought under the dominion
Of death by sin, is resllrreuted and gluri-
lied and made meet for the inhabitation
of the sanctiled soul and for heavenly
gompanionship and employment. Dr.
Read pictured the death of the body with
strong reality and spoke with eloquent
enthusiasm of the resurrection. He
claimed the scene ON the mount of trans
fguratlon as an evidence OF the resurrec-
ton OF the body, and incidentally argued
that Moses body is one of those III
heaven.
As TO place: This earth ia cursed and
Ia now school of seltshness and a
charnal house. of past generations. The
purity and blessedness in heaven. On
this earth the more friends we have the
more vulnerable points we present for
death to strike at. You have pleasant
homes, but a funeral procession has gone
out from every one of them and more will
follow. This is dying world.
Society Is now poisoned and shattered
by sin. By the scheme OF God, revealed
.1Ff 4. 4 IA /
by the power of the Holy Spirit, there
will be produced glorious society in
heaven, gathered out of every kindred
and nation OF the whole earth. This is at
best hard world to live in. The world
needs repair from the damage of sin. We
have no adequate sympathy here for our
deepert feelings.
As the heat of the society Of the future
world there will be the Trium God. I'm
mediately surrounding him will be the
unialen angels. The Trinity is a social
God. The angels connect human nature
with God. They are in full sympathy
with Christ in his mediatorial work and
with man as its subject.
There Will be the patriarchs and pro-
phets and martyrs, the regenerate and
glur he'd OF all classes. Thespeaker hoped
tod Willing, one day to see Moses.
There wall also be the infant population
of the Whole world. Fully hall the world
dies in sinless infancy. No family is
fully made up without children in it. and
heaven will hardly he perfect without
children. lie believed that children Will
retain III heaven something OF the fresh
hess Oi their youth.
All completeness comes by and through
Christ ~ all believers i'll Him. The BELIZE
IN God Is the very nutrimeut of the soul
Science Is mutable; the truth OF God il
interchangeable. Graduation in the schools
OF this world is very we'll, but there must
be graduation i'll the school Of Christi
and graduation IN the knowledge OF His
truth.
Dr. Read spoke for an hour holding
throughout the close attention OF hi.
hearers to sermon that has seldom beeI
equaled On these occasions.
THE UNDERGRADUATES.
NEWARK, June l4.--Last night found
the people OF Newark again crowding tn,
college oratury, this time TO witness thu
undergraduates contest in defamation
and reading. President Purnell explained
that the entertainment was in the nature
Of an examination. The Alumni of thu
college have offered a prize of SIS for thu
best defamation and u like prize for TIL
best reatlns, the former being contested
by the gentlemen, the latter by tn
ladies'. MIR. 5. j. Wiley, Henry c. Con
rad and James 4. Mccullough, Of Elkton
were the judges OF the contest, thong
Mr.-TNilley was the only one presen
when the performance opened.
The first three items on the programm
We're prose declarations by Oliver u. Rob
inson, Andrew j. Wiley and Calvin Cub
bage. MIR. Robinson had the adyantag
over the others in voice and manner, bu
all three dtc'anatiuns were marked wit
considerable OratoriGal talent.
William Rankin Huston spoke Olive
Wendell fiOmes' well-known poem 9Th
Buys" with considerable appreciation {
its points"
Miss Nellie B. Ellison's reading
Jane Conquest was marked hy
strength OF Voice unusual i'll young ladit
upon such occasions, and great ease upo
the stage. -.
Another group of declarations followed
Edward NJ. purnell Robert l.. McCullocl
j. Bernard Cush and Gilbert b. Tayl'
dtelaiming prose selections. Mr.. Cush
delivery OF the well-worn Burr All
blennerhassett" was specially good.
The audience was put in the best
humors by we'll read and amusing sele
ton by Miss May Janvier.
Eugene starr, Nathaniel w. Davis an
W. IL. Head followed and then can
Willis q. Hazard, the smallest OF Il
Under graduates. Mr.. Hazard has 9
impeachment of speech. but he stuck
Ills speech with the tenacity OF a buli-d'
and time and again when thu auditn
thought he would break down, he fuui
the elu ling word and went triumphant
onward. The speech was humorous, al
the speaker appreciated it,so that he vi
sent To his seat with a hearty round
applause.
"rlie world we live in," humoro
prose selection, was we'll read by Mi
Hnssle Holloway, aud favorably receiv
by the audience.
Part first Of the programme closed wi
we'll delivered selection by Harvey '
Ewing.
ii. Greeley Knowles opened part seco'
with " The Battle OF Flodd-n." He W
graceful upon the stage, and his drlive
had IN its favor the great essential OF
good VOICE. Mr.. Knowles was follow
immediately by W. IL. Broughtun with
pea tor sectional peace, and then by NJ
Mamie W. Polk, whose voice had tra
OF fright in it, though her part was W
done.
Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightnin
was brightly real by Miss Lizzie Nj. Ri