The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-12-04
Trenton Eefier.

A very remarkable lecture was delivered
in this city on Thursday evening. Oct. 80.
by the Rev. Dr. VIM Lloyd OF New York,
on the occasion OF the Goth anniversary of
the Trenton Business College. Prof. 4. j.
Rider, principal
The lecture was one of the best formu-
lated that we have ever listened to. its
adaptability so complete to the wants of
the hour. its import were of a commercial
nature. and the moral illustrations portray
ed fitted exactly to where they were in
tended.
DIR. Lloyd was boru in Wales, Great
Britain, hence pure Welshman. Origi-
nally he was a Methodist preacher, but
since has connected himself with the
Dutch Reformed, and later with the Con-
grcgationalsts; in this last denomina-
tion he is pastor of the Madison Ave.
Church of New York City.
The subject of his lecture was Kingdom
and Gates, very appropriate topic out
of which to estimate mercantile as well
as a moral character.
The address was III manuscript form ac
companied with supplementary remarks of
an extemporaneous character The speaker
has an excellent voice with easy gestures,
a clear and distinctive enunciatlon and
pure and rich anglo-saXon expression all
through his lecture. Professionally speak
inc. he is among the foremost of our pull
pit orators. and otherwise he fills the ros-
trum aside with the leading lecturers OF the
day. We congratulate the College on so
good an appointment and would recon-
mend this eloquent gentleman to the ser
vice of any similar institution in the
country.
The grand attempt of the evening as in
dictated in his theme was to guide the
young man with the instinct that ProYi-
dence hath given him development OF the
highest standard, various avenues to
this standard are the gates, and the achieve
ments when obtained constitute the king
dom The obstacles in the path of this
kingdom were not presented so much as
the general advice how these obstacles may
be avoided. Speakers points had ten
dency to stimulate and to inspire rather
than to pick out the flaws of human effort.
The lecture all the way through partook
of "a mercantile bearing, full of hints and
suggestions seldom found in 4 text book.
Rev. j. L. Sooy, of this city, delivered
the address to graduates. This was briefly
vet effectively done. Sooy is good talker
and could be heard with distinctness. His
special figure was that of the late William
L. Dodge. a man Of uniform straight mer-
chantile character. also a moral example
unexeelled in American biography.
Two other speeches were delivered dur
ing the evening, namely that of Judge
Woodruff on cane presentation to Mr..
Rider from the graduates, and the other
was the Naledictory of +. \. Carroll to
both faculty and the class. Mr. Rider was
his own chairman. and lie interspersed the
programme with several little speeches
during the evening Rider himself is a
good talker and can meet an emergency
pretty well. as had been demonstrated ON
several occasions during his life time as a
business man, as an educator, and on sun
day School occasions with which he has
been identified.
The music of the evening was rendered
by Winkler's Seventh Regiment Band of
this city. The music was splendid, as
much of it was prepared especially for this
occasion.
Twentv-seven young men and one young
lady We're this evening presented with
diplomas as graduates of 1885. Five of
these graduates were from Princeton; their
names w. C. Leigh, J. S. Hoff, Geo. Davis.
II. II. Farr, and E. A. Carroll Nalcdic-
torian. The lady graduate was Miss NJ. ;.
Conover. of Clinton. n. J. All Of these
graduates gave evidence OF thorough and
finished discipline
The Hall i'm which the entertainment was
held was the largest assembly room OF the
Masonic Temple, the most magnificent
structure of the kind in New Jersey. The
college mentioned occupies the third floor
of this building for school purposes; also
the fourth floor is occupied by the school
as gymnasium.
A. j. Rider, the proprietor OF tue col