Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-09-20
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CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHES.
Preceding. Of the Annual Mssti.g Of
Dakota Representatives. nov bsisg Hold
in Yaskton.
The great gathering Of the week came
on Friday night. The opening exsr.
cises wsre conducted BY Moderator Up.
dixie who offered the opening prayer.
Rev. g. y. Bascom, of vermillion,
read the 10th psalm. Rev. D. B. A.
kins, Of Mitchell, offered the second
prayer. After which President Ward
read the 366th hymn, "In the Cross of
Christ We Glory" remarking on it's read.
ing that this was the hymn which be
and his classmates sang as they bid
adieu to the "School Of the Prophets"
and turned their faces towards the work
for which their education had fitted them
sixteen years ago. At the close Of the
singing BY few we'll timed remarks.
Onward introduced Prof. WI. Tucker,
D. d.. Of Andover Theological Seminary.
to the audience as the speaker Of th 9
evening. Prof. Tacker began by saying,
"The founding Of college is an art.
as distinct and tangible an art as the
opening up Of railway, or the forming
Of state. Interest in the details OF the
work is natural for We know the organic.
ers the doners. and know their aims.
We take pleasure in the growing work
of the coll ege. new buildings,
new and larger equipments. Now it is the
library, now the lsbratory, always some.
thing. A college seems to be Unsuitable
That it is Unsuitable because it is living
fact. When it ceases to ask to beg it
begins to die-it dies. II cannot be
extemporlzed-lt must be born.
The founding and building Of q college
in effect is that. we way partly and in
this work the courage and inspiration
We need and partly that we may find q
new measure of our obligations and re-
sponsibilities. The college as
such is the child and heir OF
the past-an institution which
exists because Of it's relation 70 the past
The local chur ch is something organized
but it exists because there is . history
back Of it. Back OF the pilgrims was
Cromwell, back of Cromwell, was
Luther, back OF Luther, were the
christian fathers and back of the fathers
was the New Testament.
A college library is where the richeI
OF thought in the past are stored.
A best inspiration comes from the
past. The great men Of the past give
Us our ideal heroes. The college stand
for the past.
The speaker then spoke Of the rela
ton Of the school to the country, still
more vital and essential seen in th
type Of the work which the country de.
msnds OF it. At first it was . deman,
for material development, larger an,
stronger men, planting the state. j,
subduing the soil, driving back the for
ests and the settleme Mt OF the country
This over now the demand is for the dc
velopment Of man as man, man in hi
highest:activity, development Of though
, and heart. It was money and glor
once, now higher, nobler demand,
demand for citizenship of chose
men to give thought, living thought
their country and for their country
He n ow passes to the influence Of
> christian college on the world. Tt
christian college comes Of prayer, is
child of prayer. The christian school
= fast taking the place Of the home
More inspiration comes Of the christia
school than the home. The influence
q wider. searching farther into the futur
;, There is the Memorial hall, ever
9 memory. In one university town, ovt
8 the sea, over the gateway the signlfical
words we're written dread shame"
The speaker spoke Of the power Of Il
+. christian college in America as seen IN Il
n college prayer meeting. To the Eur
= pean mind the prayer meeting as an &c
ucational form was as novel as powe
full. He instanced its influence over Il
English sceptic driving him to the oe
lege prayer meeting. nor could he
prevailed upon to absent himself fro
It this new found source Of power viii
"a he remained visitor.
Imperfect indeed is any report ,
. might give Of the admirable and 81
d quent address Of the Apdover Profess,
it should have been listened to in ord
- to be felt in its power and full for
8. In rapt attention the doct
held his large audience to the close
n his address and when the people sepa
A. ted the one impression remained vi
It the retiring crowd that one evening
- least OF their lives had not been lost.
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