New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-06-16
PHILLIPS BROOKS AT HARVARD
my TELEGRAPH TO TIE TRIBUNE

BosToN. June 15.-The Rev. Phillips Brooks,
rector Of Trinity Church. delivered the baccaaureate
sermon to the graduating class at Harvard to-day HIS
text was John XVIII 81. He began by saying; Learn
ing and ife that which is known in the world and tha
which "a 70 be done in the world stand against each
other and the perpetual problem IL how they shall De
brou0ht together Like strong men, who gaze INTO
ZACH others ewes and that they ought To be hand
INLAND like two great promontories, Kappa anu
Abyla which stand and watch each oIher
and feel the sea whlch runs pe1"o0N
and vet feel under the the sweep OF the continuous
Earth which makes them one, learning and LIE stahu
gazing at each other and knowing that however they
NAV be kept apart they belong together The preacher
then applied his text TO the problem how learning ana
equipment pass into power upon lie, and announced A
subject as Character the Medium Between LeaIlins
and Life" He said: .
"When first get sight Of such a truth "a tniS' +"
seems to me almost like sun rising WIN
all the promise OF all the daylight in It, Jesus ueciaro'
that there is quality In human nature In huli1n
character II 1t is all tnatit Is capable of being In Ftue
OF which the human character may lie between tneso ~
halves OF the world, between accumulated truth anu
learning the SIDE and this great concrete neeN u
tumaltuOus activity upon the other side, ana oris INC
two into meeting with its translation OF each 70 eseh
FIJI man with every kind OF knowledge let him I'M
derstand the sky, the earth aud the sea- ana
let him know all that history and all tnat
m etaphysics can tell him-that does not make hs
character Those things may ali DO IN MS uIlu ~ 80
APPLES may be In the basket Not till Will, eholce
distinct proerencefor one thing over another distinct
approval OF TINS and disapproval Of that comes not u
I'd then has any true character, not until then uO
the EpowlsdEes become faculties, unite INTO
a Character having its virtue and It's yaIdde
An will This Is the critical power which stanGs
between learning and life and sends the one I'M
mower on 10 the earth. Hence Il Is that tne
oniy really powerful thing in the world Of man IL ana
always has felt TO be character. Men OF little eha
aotsr men of little viii. may accumulate material IL
lies In great dead until the man Of character
comes and Into force Learning Is AMMUNITION
character the gun hnowedge Is sunlight Character Ter
a. the lens which turns the sunlight into ire There arc
books which only books They stand far on IN inc
heavens and shine Ike tho stare Ihsre are
anne Ike the stars, they move msn a.
last books we all feel that they have characters IKE msn
They have wills apart from the knowledge which tney
convey They have Intentions We bate them, lor we
love them We resist than, We yield 70 them "a
NOT Coethe's works. Emersons works-ith Goetne OF
Emerson that moves worlds and there are psturss
with Wills pictures which translate the eternal beauty
not only daylight but into power and opsdence ana
life. 49,, ,,.-.,.. m. ..,,rai
event OF human history, the me ol Sesp,
Christ was tho great declaration that oniI
by character. only by human nature does We