The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-07-10
PORTLAND, MONDAY MORNING. JULY 10, 1882.
COMMENCEMENTS
Special Dispatch to the Press.)
Bridgton Academy.

Special Dispatch to the Press)
| Bridgton Academy
BRDGToN, July 9.-The reunion and grad.
uating exercises will take place on Wednes-
day and Thursday, July 12 and 49,
PROGRAMME FOR WEDNESDAY.
Music by Bridgton Cornet Band at 900 a. m.
Prayer.
Music.
Ode.
Welcome Address.
History of the Acadalny and Alumni by
A. S. Rembeell Of Waterford.
Music.
Oration, by Dexter A. Hawkins, Esq, Of New York
Poem, by Rev. j. S. Perry of Cumberland Center.
Music.
COLLATION..
Sentiments, toasts responses short speeches, etc.
THURSDAY.
Music.
Salutatory, Miss Annie g. Illsey. Harrison.
The Mound Builders. David Decker, Casco
Night brings out the stars
Miss Caddie e. Webb, No Bridgton.
Miss Emma Smith, No. Bridgton.
Young America. Miss Addie f. Allard BrowDfield.
Little by Little Miss Augusta Foster, No. Bridgton
Is the Republic in state of decay, A. S. Doughty
Fred S. Hamlin, North Bridgton
Miss Claire M. Foster, North Bridgton
lofty purpose insures success.
Miss Adrie Dresser
The Chinese in America,
Irving Cannon, Naples
The conscious stone to beauty grew. :,
Miss Alice M Russell
Miss Lottie E. Webb, North Bridgton
Hints on education,
W. W. Kilgore, Waterford
On every mountain top there's rest,
Miss Cora Baesman, North Bridgton
Money, its use and abuse,
PART SECOND.
Glass Exercises.
Oration-Progress of civilization Irving horne
iiss i,ss Aiis Phimoa1 S,oav
Prophecy. Miss Lizzie M. Tuttle
Presentation of gifts. Miss Addie F. Allard
valenictory-Sef culture. ....s Miss Cora Andrews
The Baccaiaureate at Bowdoin.
BRUNSWICK, July 9.-Commencement exer-
cises at Bowdoin began to-day with the Bacca-
laureate address by President Chamberlain, of
which the following is an abstrae.:
Eext, Matt. vi, 10. "Thy Kingdom come"
This is the prayer of history. 1t speaks OF a
work not yet finished, but in progress towards
consummation. 1t confesses imperfection,
but predicts perfection. 1t is work to be
wrought ON the earth, and its end is an assured
triumph, in which the Divine will is to be done
here as in heaven.
This is, indeed, a kingdom within the hearts
of men, and "not of this world in respect to
ruling iuodS, llS SOuICoS, mObiNcS, luOaouICo,
aims and ends. But its subjects are beings
dwellings on this earth; this is the theatre of
its glorious manifestation. This prayer spe axis
of mastery and rule. This is to come through
the revelation to the souls of man in Christ,
and regenerative power working in the life
which is the redemption from sin and its Sc
quencss. This is the great deliverance from
the evil, and the victory of the atonemeet.
Christ came, not to set up new
system of religion, but to reveal to man
hrd oAf %hn -, h. J.
own obedience, to open the way for reconcilia-
tion with the Father. He came to render SER
vice to man, and that service is salvation
"God in Christ reconciling the world to him
self"
There is danger, however, in regarding the
kingdom within solely in that aspect, as pow
er essentially subjective, invisible and mysteri-
GUS. This divorces religion from life 1t
makes Christianity religion rather than life
1t would shut men up in self, rather than set
them towards the larger life that is lived for
others and in others. 1t is the Pharisee who
cares more for religion than he does for hu-
manity. The Christian spirit is in its very es-
sence unselfish and outgoing 1t is new life
put into the SOUL and new soul into the life.
1t works in every sphere of human activity.
Not centered in the thought of saving self in
some future heaven, it acts in the present, the
ylSihle b TIE a tfsdieem, upTiff and ennoble
life here as we'll as hereafter for every man and
woman and child.
The argument set forth is given in bare OUT
line as follows:
i. The world needs such regenerating pow
er. Nothing else can save men. Clyllizatlon
never has done it and never can. In its on
ward courses riches are heaped up, but poverty
deepens and spreads. 1t rolls on in waves, but
there is crest and trough of the seas. The
top combs in shining beauty and grace; at the
bottom rolls on also the awful shadow of death
and despair. Nor are even its winnings tored
and transmitted. Each civilization seems to
rise and fall by ITSELF to be succeeded by an
other not of the same. Each breaks against
its barrier and falls back into the abysmas
ocean So its history is of the lost and not the
inherited; lost arts, lost empires, lost homes,
lost liberties. Ever the unanswered human
cry and the struggle renewed with endless tier
tation.
No more can forms of government, constitu-
tions and institutions, redeem the world.
Liberty even does not make men free. The
guarantees of law do not secure the right.
Equality before the law tends to more and
more inequality in fact. Neither will political
equality in universal suffrage bring the de.
liverance. The maxims of modern politics
and economies make no recognition of human
worth. We are taught that the formative
principle of the body polite is "the greatest
happiness of the greatest number" and that
the law of labor and its rewards is "competi-
ton" and the line of progress and development
the Survival of the fittest." All this is the
law of the brute and the law OF force and not
of love.
2. 1t is the spirit and life Of Christianity
alone which can bring the longed-for deliv-
erance. 1t directly contradicts these maxims
which would give ever more and more ad-
vantage to the strong, not like modern social
ism and communism which would forcefully
transfer the mastery to the weak, and so re-
duCe all to the lowest grade Christianity
rebukes the notion of the sovereignty OF num-
ber. 1t does not felicitate itself, counting over
its ninety and nine, but seeks with never
tiring quest the one, that is lost. 1t informs
law with love, and makes it not the expression
of mere will, but of conscience and moral
sense, and shows that liberty is not free rein
to will, but free faculty of exercising and vim
dicating right, as that at last law and liberty
may coincide.
Man is the only creature that has power to act
against his own interests, and to act above his
own interests. He can violate the law of his
being. and he can glorify it. Christ took on
him the human that men might realize the di'
vine in them.
8. 1t is coming kingdom Christianity is
| to do greater things, than have yet been done
| Its power has becn manifested, bat Its full
| fruits have not been reached. We have moi
| yet tested the conditions in which the grea
| promises are made. But we can see the grow
| ing influence of Christian principles in social
| national, and international relations, and IL
| the activities of the church itself. The worl(
never more needed Christ than now, and il
spite of cavil and opposition, it was never NOR.
ready to receive him than now. More swift
and strong than many think, this kingdom i
| coming on.
| 4. This kingdom will come. The praye
| will not fail OF its end The name of th
| Father has been glorifed and will be glorifec
again. This answered prayer shall be the con
| summation of human history, when the king
doms of this world are become the kingdom
| r