The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-01-29

| Churches also depends upon reyiyals in these
| institutions. The Christian element is alto
| gether the most important power In our edu-
| catiOnal institutions.
| THE subjects were then thrown open for
| discussion. Rev. Mr. Daniels spoke of the
need of the officers OF our Institutions COM
| ing in closer contact with the churches, and
| also the dnty of individual Christians encour-
| aging Young men to enter the ministry.
Rev, Mr.. L0wden, Professor NoyeS, Rev.
| Nh Marsh and DIR. Bashford spoke of the
| duty of encouraging young men to engage in
| this work The latter suggested the need of
caution in placing the trials of the ministry
| before the young. Ministers should feel and
| speak of the glorious privileges of the minis
| try. He thought changes should be made in
the courses of study in the schools, and these
courses should be put upon more thorough
| Christian basis.
Rev. DIR Small referred to the object of OBJ
| serving this duty, and hoped we would re-
| member to pray earnestly that God would
work of the ministry. Several ministers fol-
| lowed in prayer, and the services closed with
| singing the hymn, ''Blest be the tie" and the
benediction by DR.. Bashford.
EVENING.
Rev. Mr.. Dunn opened the session with
reading from the Scriptures, and Rev. Mr.
Bayley offered prayer.
Mr.. Dunn then introduced President Hyde
| of Bowdoin College, who commenced his adj
dress by expressing his satisfaction at meet
| ing an audience that the weather could not
| terrify. He wished also to include in the
number to whom he should speak the young
people out of our colleges and schools as
well as those attending these institutions;
!! for from these outside ones must be drawn
the numbers that fill our educational institu-
tions. Important as are the interests of the
one class, the interests of the whole are yet
more important and vital to our national
welfare There are five great spheres of
duty that men and women out of college
must work in. The first is the family The
young are under obligation to fit themselves
for pure family life. There are many
subtle foes to this life. One is the financial
| question. 1t is hard for the young couple to
begin where their fathers and mothers be-
gan. But young people should, at any cost
be ready to enter upon this relationship
Have real hOme-your own home, true
home, no matter how humble. Do not re-
gard marriage lightly; but enter into it with
the feeling that you are to be forbearing,
patient, gentle and Christian in your con-
nection with it.
Again, the responsibility of business rests
upon our young men. Once a man could
carry on his business separate from others,
with others inevitably. If one is dishonest
in Portland, he may injure some one in far
distant city. The world needs honest and
faithful workmen and business men. To be
this, one needs the eleyating and sustaining
influence of the religion of Christ. The
third obligation is to society. We are not to
regard ourselves as the end and all others as
the means to our advancement; but we are
to lend helping hand to every weak and
suffering one; to be kind, unselfish,
helpful; and to be such as this,
young men must have in their hearts
the principles of the religion of Christ
The fourth obligation resting upon the
young is to the State. Our institutions are
not threatened from without; but their
greatest peril comes from internal eorrup-
tion. Young men are looked to as the cor
rectors of all these cOrrupting influences.
The young men are to make our politics
pure, and TO remove these ulcers from our
free institutions. To be persistent and
faithful workers in the field our young men
| must be permeated by the gospel.
The fifth obligation resting upon the young
is to the church. This transcends every
other obligation, and to the assuming of this
oh igation every noble motive and high in
centive should be brought to bear upon
them. The divine power of Christian faith
alone can transform human hearts so as to fit
our young men and women to establish pure
homes, to be courteous and helpful in their
social relations, to be upright in all their
business relations, to be faithful as citizens,
anu Crue 10 tlleIT opliSatlOHS to UoufHu tne
ehurch.
Prof. ). b: Foster OF Colby University
spoke to Christian parents The speaker re-
marked that this subject appropriately came
parent comes the final responsibility for the
training of the. young. What then is the
dpIy oI ohTlstlan parents IN regard 70 tnelr II
dnr dntv Of imniicif S ohedience % The idea that
children should not be made to obey until
they can see the reason OF the CO command IS
9ence C5iidran sbonid he taught m reverence
toward God, and respect for age and au-
thority. The lack of these is ma
tlohal 1at Ira 1rait ana shouid pc & corrected fsi
pTecept and especiallv bv example
The parent stands to the child as the supreme