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OH SIRE Rress.
COMMENCEMENT.
Opening of the Exercises Of the
Week.
The Baccalaureate Sermon by Presi-
dent Buckham.
Rev. DE-. IIitchcock's Address before
the University Y. VI. &. A.

Nh, eyercises connec,ed with the seventy
,in,h ANNA, Commencement of III. Jruiyer.
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SHY Oh NVrihout anu '''"'e 1NS''Iu''u'Ai WI
lege opened on Sunday, June 2lth, 1888.
The annual b1ccalaureate sermon to the
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preached ny president bucKham' IN inc
College street church, in the afternoon. The
church wes completely filed with large au.
dencp of alumni students and citizens. A
profusion of handsome flowers graccd the
platform aud front of the desk. Below the pull
pit wasa large vase of red and white tulips,
surmounted by bank of white daisies, aud
above, on the front of the pulpit, n large
white star. Ga the platform, flanking the
pulpit, were handsome baskets OF bowers, and,
upon small stands, beautiful bouquets of red
and white roses. Very fine music was fur
nishcd by the choir and organist Of the Uni
tartan church. Rev. Theodore A. Hopkins,
who occupied the platform with President
Buckham conducted the opening exercises,
and pronounced the bCnediction. The fol
lowing is an abstract of President Buck
hams excellent discourse.
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ny hlIs.un, v. ,"e Mo,' nv 10, 10 Chr;s, w
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lauly teNt andan Uhhappy.tralisla'ioh
have olscured hail the meaning OF inns pass
age SO familiar to me christian mlnd ana SO
precious to the Christian heart. mat Inc
Htn9domS oil me worlu slall become inc hlnS,
doms OF our Lord as we nave hltncrlo read
IL, Is a Dcllci auu a nope WHICH INNS Passase'
more than any other, has Inspired and sus-
tained. But inc luli meaning Oh tne Proi'hc,
cy, while including IDS, passes Jar beyond
IT. Not Inc kihguoms h,it inc ht"q"o" OF
the world slall DC me LORDS. Inc royaty
over inc eartn shaii We thiists; Inc whoie
worio, not only Oh peoples anu hu.iohs, put
also Of laws, lhstitutlohs' Pilncip,es,
fashions, the whole exterior ana interior ne
OF humanity shail De cohioriheu 10 Inc laws
OF Gods spiritual kinSdom.
Let lhis, tLen, ne inc lesson OF thc hour /;
mat mo prcdestlned ana fighuui pace Oh
Chrisliln''y IN the word Is inc throue OF
power over the worlu, ana consequently that
the true rcgu!ative principle oil human HE is
loyalty to the LORD CHRIST.
No pfoh,em has more VeAed ana uiViuen
the thoughts OF CHRISTIANS III al ages IMAM
the true relation OF the secular to The relig-
ious HE, and no errors nave cost Tue church
more dear than the various iaise solutions
which inc question mas receivcu' lhere Is,
hrsl, the sccularisi view oil NE, Wiilcn SUD
ordinates ana uisparages inc fcIsious
element.
Another attempt to solve thls problem ap.
pears in variety OF Efforts 10 disparage ana
suppress the secular I've. Inns, though OF
nobler origin tsan lhe lormer view, Is one OF
the great errors which is all ages nave pesel
Christianity.
One other false solution lemalns--the most
prevalent III our umes-Vn. me Attenuation
OF the religious and secular elements OF me.
Each has Its own turn ana liicn gives way 10
the other. NOW business Is on lhc carpet,
now religion Men nave their worthy ana
their devout face, their sacred aud their
proianc language, their common ana their
holy thoughts. II is not mat that they Sc
cure TO Inc several duties OF ne tiie'r appro'
pirate culture and emphasis ny assigning 10
each Its season and It's place. Dli that they
make duties to lie CONSECUTIVE ana exclusive
when are really conipehlchis ana muluaily
helpful. By tss'sninS 10 reilsion place
apart from the rest OF NE, thcy make IL
formal and ptrtnnctoiy' lhls leads 10 inc
dong oil rcl5'oh ny rue anu iorm' 10 inc
DONG oil IL III great ilasses "H.h 1t Sets III
'one's relinion by proyy, or by machinery or
p,,rohoeinr ,nndnporinn, fnr mt doing il at
all by yo,iye gifts.
Now all these errors have II common two.
fold origin-a wrong view at once of religion
and of life. They look upon religion as
having an indcpendent existence apart from
life. and upon life as having an indrperdent
existence apart from RELIGION. Now turn
TO the New Testament. and there see the true
solution of this ycyed problem. Not sub.
serviencv 10 the world not hostility TO the
world, not compromise with the world,
Int AUGMENTATION of the Norld-this il
Christ's relation and this Is the relation
of all who are Christ's, to the earth
and all that it contains. Chris, il 10 subduc
possess. and reign in this wnrld--uot onl,
al The men in il. Int all the life of il. all the
activities, operations and processes of it
He is no, to rule in the church only; al
mundane affairs are to be equally religious
The secular life and the religious life are
blended into one. The principle Of religion
enters into everything. The true Christian
lives. works. goes to and fro, in bright
warm religious a,mosnhere. He puts TIN
shirt of a Christian into the thing that is [,
he said or done at this moment and the mex,
When this spirit. the shirt of holy Gcorg
Herbprt's song.
What do in anything
10 "o 1t Us 'or i"e''
pervades all mems thoughts, lmaB'nlngs
resolves, activities, institutions, then VIII IN
true tyre OF Christianity prevail In ID
world; then VIII the Kingdom OF the earth U
the Lords and his Chrlst's.
This view OF the Tue relation OF humanll
to religion is not new. II is as Old as III
teachings OF Jesus Christ and The preachin
and writings OF his followers. But the pra.
tical realization OF 1t Will make new era
the worlds history.
Let us now look more narrowly into wv