Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-17
R.UcaLAuREArE SERMONS
Preached at the Colleges Yesterday [
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 1 PROVIDENCE, June 16.-President Robin
 son of Brown university delivered the bacca. l laureate sermon to the class of 'S9 of Brown ! at the First Baptist meeting house at four o'clock this afternoon. There was considera- ble interest in it for the public because the doctors resignation with this year made it the last baccalaureate he will deliver, but he did not especially refer to his going away. The text was Matthew V, IS: ''Let your light, etc., etc." Every human intelligence
 sheds some light in the world, the doctor be-
 gan. The text sets forth the connection be-
 tween character and the glory of God. After
 saying that he knew the phrase "the glory
 of God" smaeked somewhat, to modern
 taste of religious cant, the speaker said that
 it was yet full of meaning and added that it
 was fitting therefore to ask how human char
 scter could be formed so to glorify that
 creative mind from which all sprang. There
 are three ways of looking at character, first,
 as being the mere outgrowth of inherited or implanted impulse; second, as something
 carefully built upon deep, broad substruc-
 ture, great blocks of truths sunk deep in the
 mind and, third, as mere imprint received
 from environment, not wholly from environ.
 ment, but determined by the kind of impres-
 sion we intend to receive. The sermon to
 the religious societies was preached in the
 evening by Rev. George Dana Boardman, of
 Philadelphia.
 PRINCETON, N. J., June 16.-President Patton preached his first bsccalaureate ser mon to-day before the class of '89. The handsome Marquand chapel was crowded with friends of the students.
 Dr. Patton took his text from II Corinthi ans " chap, 18 For the things that are seen are temporal, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
 Paul took an optimistic view of life and these words are the basis of it. It is not necessary that one should be free from sor- row in order to take this view, but only that he should be fitted by grace or temperament to make the proper comparison be- tween himself and others on
 between the present and the future in his case It is some alleviation of grief to be taken out of ourselves in sympathy for the greater af1iction of those around Is. Tenny-
 son was not quite right, then, in despising
 that loss is common to the race, nor in
 speaking of that comfort ss "vaeant chaff
 we'll meant for grain"
 ''That loss is comnon does not make My own less bitter; rather more Too common! Never morning wore To evening but some heart did break" NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., June 16.-The one hundred and twenty fifth commence ment of Rutgers college began this evening
 with the baccalaureate sermon in the Fi-st
 Reformed church by Rev. Dr. R. s. Storrs of
 Brooklyn, N. Y., from Revelations cxi, s:
 ssBehold have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut 1t.
 ITHACA, N. Y., June 16.-The baccalaure- ate sermon at Cornell was preached this
 afternoon by Rev. Frank H. Green, the reo-
 tor of St. Bartho1omew's church, New York.
 His subject was "The Two Lives of Christ. :" BosroN, Mass, June 16.-The baccalaure-
 ate sermon before the graduating class at
 Tufts college, Medford, was delivered at 4:30
 this afternoon by President Capen from
 Philippians iii, 20: ''All our conversation
 (by new version 'soitizenship'') is in Heaven.
 From hence, also, we look for the savior, the
 Lord Jesus Christ" He said: The entire
 purport of Christian ethics is to take &C.,
 count of man in his relations with institu-
 tions, with great social movements; of man
 as he faces the future, as he deals with liv-
 ing problems and as he holds communion
 with God. The key to the whole subject
 consists in the spiritual origin, relation, des-
 tiny and nature of the seul All the great q uestions which bear upon the being and ob- igation of man must be looked at ln the light that his home, his real habitation is not earthly and he mainly. The preacher dwelt upon the heavenly environment in which man walks and the mistaken tendency to put the utterances of the apostles too far away, to suppose that they were differently circum- stanced from those who live to-day and since subject to different law.
 He discussed the duties and responsibili- ties-of life citizenship and the educated mans responsibility toward the economic and political questions of to-day. He urged the graduates to think much and earnestly of the things which affect the external in con- duct and to join with their fellows in the [ working and striving, but not to forget that, ! though not in any sense aliens or strangers in the life of to day they were still citizens ! of another country, the subjects of realm higher and holier than this, and that it be- 1 comes their duty and privilege to lead the thoughts of men upward and make them feel that they are indeed citizens of this upper. this heavenly kingdom.