Morning journal and courier., 1886-05-21

as well as that justice be done to the powers of modern life and to the place of modern industry.
 As to what we can do-we can have genuine healthful reverence and respect for the facts. Ministers have peculiar op- portunities to@ come in contact with men and must have sympathy enough with them to make them learners with humanity not to study it merely from the economi- cal standpoint. Be sure of your econ omics and be sure of your facts before parading either. We may be doubtful of both, but we never can doubt the ministry of reconciliation in the world and the mission of the making of peace among mankind. We are to be makers of peace. not to pray for peace, but to be preachers of righteousness and thus makers of peace.
 Following Mr. Smyth Rev. Messrs. Park, Todd and Woodward were called upon, but for various reasons declined. The time not being occupied however, MT. Park was press ed to speak. He claimed that the present existe nee of troubles arose from the wrong relations of classes to one another. He pressed earnestly - the point that we are to stand upon the basis of the es- sential brotherhood of man, not upon class distinctions. Through the exist ing troubles are working out higher, purer and more elevated state of society. It is our duty to have sympathy for the men who caused the excitement; they look upon the facts in a different way from that in which we look at them. To the Poles and Russians government means external force. We cannot wonder that they come here with such feelings. The trouble cannot be healed by force, but by sympathy and love; by the preaching of righteousness and essential manhood only can it be bridged over. The present movement MT. Park thought was not merely to get more wages or work for less time, but rather to secure the recognition of the essential manhood of hu- manity.
 Rev. MT. Lee spoke for short time upon socialism, explaining it's meaning and de- veloping the subject by the illustration of loaf of bread and the complicated forces which are at work in perfecting it for the table.
 MT. J. F. Crowell, member of the middle class of the seminary, urged the importance of and the necessity of the preservation of the institution of home.
 MT. Camp, the leading clock manufacturer, thought that the present system of the pay ment of wages, together with the element of intoxicating drink, lay at the basis of the present agitation among labor circles.
 The members of the faculty had seemed restless during the entire discussion, and were seen moving out and in at different times, and at this point Dr. George P. Fish CT, begging leave to interrupt the discussion, made the following announcements: The es-
 
 university in the form of 8 chair of Semitic languages, to which Professor Harper has been elected. This will be university de- partment, Professor Harper giving instruc- tion in Assyrian and other parts of Semitic study and also teaching the junior class in the seminary in Hebrew Professor Fisher then mentioned the election of Pro- lessor Dwight to the presidency of the col lege and the appointment of Rev. George B. Stevens, of Watertown, New York, to the chair of sacred exegesis. MT. Stevens grad uated at the seminary in 1880, and was pas tor of church in Buffalo previous to his ac- ceptance of call to Watertown. He has been in Germany during the past year, talk ing the degree of D. D. at Jena upon examin- ation. MT. Stevens was a unanimous choice of the faculty. The students and the alumni were enthusiastic in their applause at each announcement, and in response to con- tinued applause Professor Dwight rose and spoke somewhat as follows: I suppose that it becomes me at this time only to rise and show myself. There is a story which I have told twice to-day, the last time to Dr. Munger in answer to his saying that he wished to make one more jocose remark to me before my passing into my solemn of6ce It is Professor Parks story of President Edwards. MT. Edwards having been absorbed in metaphysical study was passing along the road one day, and being saluted by boy asked 'How do JOu UOs my OoS! " uOs0 bOy d1o yOu: The boy replied: ''I am Joseph Clarke's boy" About an hour afterwards Mir. Ed wards returned, and forgetting the circum- stance asked the same questions, to which the boy replied: FtI am the same mans boy that was when you passed an hour ago." The story has an application which you can apply for yourselves. I have not desired the office and should have been content without it. There are two texts which I thought of in case the office did not come to me, and which are just applica- ble in the present case. One is from the Epistle to the Hebrews: 'sKnow ye that our Brother Timothy is set at liberty" Being that the office has come to me I can take the other text. It is from Paul to Timothy: ''Let no man despise thy youth" have had long connection with the seminary and familiar with it. It is not my course to cut myself off from this department of the university and I hope to meet the students in coming years, as I may have power, in a regular way.
 The ladies had provided collation., which was done ample justice to at 6 o'clock, and was followed by pleasant social time. Most of the students leave town to-day. But few of them have accepted calls to settle, but many will engage in mission work this sum- mer. Among those who have settled are the following: Henry M. Bowden of Philadel- phia, called to Putney, Vt.; Mark w Chunn, Mechanicsville, Md, called to Lake Benton, Wales, called to Altoona and Village Greek, Kan, and Clarence D. V. Greeley ot Clymer, N. Y., called to Galva, Kan.