St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-11
Rev. DR.. Dana breaches His
Last Sermon in Plym-
outh Church.
preparing for Disappoint-
ment" the Subject Of Rev.
S. G. Smiths Sermon.
Summary Of the Doings OF
Sunday Gathered From
All Sources.
THE BACCALAUREATE.
President McCurdy's Sermon al
Manchester College.

President McCurdy's Sermon at
Manchester College.
The baccalaureate sermon at Macal-
ester college was preached yesterday
afternoon at o'clock in the college
chapel by Dr. McCurdy, the president.
Upon the platform were the faculty OF
the college and the following members
of the board of trustees: Hon. Alex
Ramsey, II. J. Horn. Knox Taylor, eX-
Supt. Wright, r. p. Lewis and DR..
Daniel Rice. The opening prayer was
made by DR.. Rice, after which Presl-
dent McCurdy commenced as his text:
Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary:
the brother of James, and of Joses, and OF
Juda and Simon? Mark vi, ).
He said: This language, spoken in
derision of our Lord, has a meaning and
application the very opposite OF what
was intended by those using 1t. 1t is
singular fact that nearly all the derlslve
savings of His enemies contain certain
central truths, which served to make
Him the one conspicuous man among
men. If uttered by His enemies as rea-
sons why His messiahship should be
denied, there was still left the uneX-
planned mystery of His person, and char
acter, and words, and deeds. How came
he by such wisdom? He belonged to no
school. claimed no place in the success
sion of Rabbits, spoke on His own au-
thority. without ordination or sanction
from the doctors. They could not real
iZe one whom, and with whose circle
they had been Oh familiar relations OF
citizenship, as prophet. Perhaps His
freedom toward the traditions had
offended the strict notions of some
of His brothers, and the petty
jealousy of a country village could not
acknowledge a superior in one whom
they had long treated as an equal, or
even an inferior. His humble origin,
His position as a carpenter, the absence
of anything special in His family, and
the fact that even they did not acknowl-
edge His claims, were all remembered.
Perhaps jealousy of Capernaum mill
gled with other thoughts, for He had
done miracles there and none in Naza-
reth Moreover, if He did not belong
to the schools He could not speak or act
by Inspiration from above, for the
EabbiS were the teachers divinity ap-
pointed. He could not, they began to
think, have come by His knowledge and
eloquence by fair means, or in the usual
way. He must have unhOly aid. He
must do miracles, as the Rabbls
said, by Beelzebub. But these criti-
cismS, like those of modern times, were
not against Him as man, but because
He claimed to be divine, equal with
God, the very God in human form.
Thus far
THE FINGER OF CRITICISM
has failed to point out a single defect in
him, as a man. We admit no modlfica-
ton of his divinity. We insist upon it,
not only as Gods truth, but as essential
to the integrity of the Christian system
and the reality of the Immortality. In
deed, it is His divinity which gains us
any right to stand before God as ac-
cepted children. and it is His humanity
Which shows us, by way OF example,
how, as Gods children, we are to love,
how to glorify God and enjoy Him for
ever. From these words DR.. Nc
Curdy endeavored to show how this
carpenter lived as the Christ, to ell
courage us to our various pursuits, to
live as Christians. The carpenter, he
After developing this idea to some
length. the president spoke to the
graduating class. young gentlemen
of Manchester college," said he, lit is
no vain repetition | indulge in, when
in these closing hours of this years
work, / ask you to consider well these
phases of your Lords own earthly life.
Our work he1e and your own hereafter
will be fruitleSS of permanent good, by
50 IuuCIl DIS IL lttllS W ltdCH tiG
and spirit of the one and only perfect
worker-the Lord Jesus. The highest
and greatest of all work is to lead men
to join in heart with this worker and
in order to do this the world needs
to hear of Him from those
to whom the history of His life has be-
come a living, all-controlling reality;
men who can say to their Divine
Teacher: Thy words were found and
| did eat them;' men in whose daily
lives, whatever their calling and pur-
suits, His own life is reproduced, and
who, in speaking of Him, speak as of
one whom they have seen and known;
yea, whom they are daily behOlding
face to face. 1t is worth your ealmeSt
reason and most careful consideration
to reflect that the greatest champions of
unbelief, and the most outSpoken enemy
of our Lord and of His truth, have no
arguments wherewith to destroy the
power and influence of the Christian
life.
THE COLLEGE IS PROSPERING.
At the close of the service DR.. Nc
Curdy announced that Wednesday was
the closing day of the third year of Mac
alester college. and that Sept. IA the in
stitution would reopen, and further,
that year from that day they
would graduate their first class,
which at present numbers eight. The
past year has been prosperous one fol-
the college. The increase of attendance
over that of last year is So per cent, the
students now numbering So, with 25 in
college classes. During the past year
the main wing of the college has been
erected at cost of 100000. This build
ing in the basement contains a large
gymnasium, which has been already
supplied with the needed apparatus al
the cost of $500. The main floors con-
stitute twelve large and well ventilated
class rooms, while the upper floor has
been set aside for two society rooms.
DIR. DANA,S FAREWELL.