St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-04
SANITY CITY DWNGS.
Rev. William Mckinley Deliv-
ers the Baccalaureate Ser
mon at Hamline.
A Large Turnout at the Ben
eft to Billy Wells and
jim Murray.
The Warm Summer Weather
Brought Crowds Out
of Doors.
Summary of the Doings of
Sunday Gathered From
All Sources.
TO HAMLINE GRADUATES.
The BaccaIaureate Sermon Deliv-
cred by Rev. William Mckin-

The BaccaIaureate Sermon Deiiv-
cred by Rev. William Mckin-
ley.
The baccalaureate sermon to the grad
uating class OF 1888 of Hamline uniVer-
sity was preached yesterday morning
in the university chapel by Rev. DR..
William Mckinley. The graduating
class occupied seats at the right of the
speaker, and the body and gallery of the
chapel were filled with the friends and
relatives of the class. DIR. McKaig made
The opening prayer, after which Dr.. Nc
Kinley announced as his text: keep
thy heart with all diligence, for out OF
it are the issues of life" The education
of human being never ends, the speaker
said. 1t has as many sides and aspects
as the nature and needs of men. Its
goal is a horizon which recedeS forever
as we advance. Every ending is be-
ginning of another stage in an endless
process. Infinite mind in an infinite
universe with everything to learn can
find no limits to its task. In this large
sense human education is universal and
compulsory. The universe is school
which has 10 abSenteeS and no vaca-
tons. Our necessities, Cur experiences
and surroundings are teachers by whom
Il
we can never escape. An education of
some kind we must have and are always
getting. What it shall be and do for us
we must each determine for ourselves.
All good education includes Self-educa-
ton. Teachers, books, schools at best
can furnish facilities only; to improve
and appropriate them must be our own
work. 1t is with the mind as with the
body. Others may provide and prepare
our food, but we must digest and as
simulate it; and all truth, by WhomSever
taught,
MUST BE DIGESTED
and assimilated in our own minds or
remain outside of and alien to us forever.
There is no vicariOuS way to wisdom.
The mind of the non-edncated or i'll
educated man is a wilderness of wan
dering thoughts and feeting fancicS
which come and go without rule or
law. He has scarcely more control over
them than he would have over herd of
wild horses turned loose on the praiLle
He cannot harness and drive them on
any road; if he attempts it they are
likely to run away with him and carry
him where he does not want to go.
His thoughts are dangerous to himSelS,
and as likely to harm as to help others.
He is the victim of illusions and de-
luSi0nS, SuperStitiOnS and fancieS of
every sort. SO the uneducated and I'D
disciplined heart is a chaos of warning
passions and discordant desires. Like
city without government. in posses
sion of a mob, the unframed, the I'M
governed heart is tyranniZed by
a rabble of tumultouS emotions and
lawless impulses which must rage and
riot till they exhaust themselves or
destroy their victim. To reduce this
anarchy to order, this diScord to
harmony, is to educate the heart.
TO THE GRADUATES.
Toward the close of the sermon the
graduates arose, and were addressed as
follows: 1.-The wise Providence which is
over all things wisely cOnceals from us
all or most of the things that await us in
the future. But of some things we may
speak with confidence without claiming
any prophetic foresight. In the larger
school of life before you the prepare
tory training you have received here
will be tested, and the stuff in it and in
you made manifest. To endure this
ordeal successfully you will need all the
discipline of mind and of heart you
have received here, and all the help
which God has promised to those that
seek it. The world will be to you as it
has been to others-largely what you
make it. If you give it service and SYM
pathy, if you bring light and help to
those who need it and wait for it, if you
are true to yourself, to your country, to
your race and to God; if you transform
the knowledge and discipline you
have received into wisdom, conduct
and character which shall add to the
moral wealth of the world, it will be
known and in due time appreciated and
rewarded. You may have to wait and
suffer, but you will not toll nor wait
nor suffer in vain. Even in this life it
is true, as a rule. "WhatSoever a man
sows that shall he reap" and so 90
forth, both admonished and encouraged.
Of the admonition l will not speak, but
leave it to your own thoughts. Let it
encourage you to know that you go
hence with the sympathy and players
of your teachers and friends. who are
interested in you. Let their faith and
hope for you inspire you with faith and
hope and courage for yourselves to be
and to do all that God and men have a
right to expect of you. Carry with you
all the good you have gotten here, and
add to it all the good that awaits you
and earnest endeavor wherever you
are to be: and whatsoever things are
true, whatsoever things are honest,
whatsoever things are just, whatsoever
things are pure, whatsoever things are
lovely, whatsoever things are OF good
report; if there be any virtue, if there
be any praise, think of these things"