Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-24
YALE BACCALAUREATE.
Delivered by President Timothy Dwight at BatteH Chapel Sunday. June 23s 1889.

yor but ye carrot he tiem now.
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 I world say ? yo1 tf's morning, because
 they seem to me ? have Eoculif- appIopri ateness b the hor-. In their meJt direc no doubt :7t ,nde only for those to whom l they were ol-gine ily addre red. 1neJe d'1ci l ple3 atove had hee-d f1om Je 3us hirr self ths
 fIat tsachipl, of the new tI Lth which ht
 hsd to reves' and they or'y must wait, fol
 the more compile. UT Holding of what wf1 in ! volVed in them, until the 3ming of the sp:r. it. Or- relation to the truth, in this reze-d I s wholly different from thei,3; and we car l only appreciate the sis lifcance of the word | according to their primary de1isl, r3 we ! place ourselves precisely where they stood
 But when We look beyond this fiat desiel
 and meaning, we find what b1ipgs the word. ] into closer connection with ourselves. They
 suggest more than they directly declare and teach. They open to our minds 8 view ot the divine process in the education of th,
 soul in the early life, which may be especial ly impressive to us g we look out ftom such ! an hour as this upon the future.
 The disciples were themselve1 at such ar
 hour. They were at the end of the prepara-
 toy period. They were about to go forth t. new scenes and far greater responsibilitif >
 They were to be scattsre widely oyer the
 #erld- Tsss 1:;::-a to meet experiences which as yet they naU fesz7ssamed or, and ! some of which would test their character
 and try their souls even to the very depths. They were to lose the supp rort and strength which had come hitherto from their personal sssociation with one another, and from the fact that they had never been compelled to | be, even in their own view, wholly depend. | ent upon thenselve3. The meeting at which | they were now present WIT, s5 Jesus we'll l knew, the lest one before the opening of the l new experience3, and they must needs re ! ceive from him comfort and enc )uragement. What did he say to them for the strepgth- enipg of their minds end hee-ssa He called | to their thoughts, first of e1, the toachine. \ and the tender and loving recollection of the 1 past yeaI5; and then-knoWing how there | was that that had not been imparted to them, | and how much that wes beyond their present rower to apprehend-he pointed them for~ l ward, as he drew near - the end of his ds-, course, to future revelations and experience J sure to guide and help them in their t1de ! life.
 Your knowledge of the truth and what God has to bestow uI on you, he seemed to say, is not yet complete. You are only at the beginning. There are many things still ! to be unfolded, but you must wait for the years to make them fully known. The di- vine education for life is by mesrs of life; end if you will keep your heart1 open to r. ceive them, the teachings of the years vii \ bring to you clear and joyfaI revelation. l Let not your heart be troubled, therefore; only believe in God and believe in me.
 1 It is in this wider sphere of their sugges- \ ton that I would tu1l your mind D the l words-the sphere in which they bid us, even g. the dividing point that separate1 the preparation from the future work, receive \ the essurance of the lessons which the years will teach. The e5e le7s1ns, # I may bear l .tness of them, vii be of truth, of duty and of life it7elf. They will all, ie they are | T.. l, F. | Cn1 stian living.
 l And firm with respects to truth: There ere two ways, think, in which the educa- 1 ting inHuencs of fife, f3 it moves forward
 ftter the ending of the preparat ory period, i makes itself esr ecially manifest with refer ence to an apprehension and reception of l truth. In the first place, it leads us, in our search for the t. lth, to adjust our powers l ftly to eeeh other. And thus to use the whole man, q we may say, in the effort. l II ere can be no doubt in the mind of any
 careful observer of young men who are just
 cle sing what we may call the student years or who rememEe.J d;3tinctly his own state l 1sition, that the tendency of that era 1T life ;s to over, t'nate the intellectual part 1 of their nature.
 The influence of studio ), and acquisition and attainment is in this direction. A con- s,ior sners of mentc ,wer which como to ' -jI that he rec 2sh'-es hin 3e'f, in a eense in | which he never did so before, e thinking
 being capable of s-s7ping all t-lth and de- l tei .rining I'll questiors-makes him feel that in this power T the d; sting fishing glory | of his manhoc l, and that it s'one has that strength acc omplr ed by no weakness, which | becomes the man. The very E.gor of h:3 l manly age-youth jr7t ente--ng upon ma.1-- l itv-imparts D him q int sllectual self-con- l 6dence. He is res 1y for any conflict in the
 region of mind or knowledge, and would | willingly subject every thought or doctline, | thinking. What WIS the mind gwen him, 1 but for this very endi Why should he suffer l its calm judgment to be biz 7ed by the weak CT parts of his nature, or why should he be ! lisve what he doej not know, or cannot prove?
 To doubt, until the mind is convinced by it's own individual thinking, is the true posi- ! tion; and this thinking must be pure think ing, with DO interminging of what comes l from outside of the intellect itself. By this l intellectual power he expects to ride to honor ! in the later years, to be an energizing fore among men, to be a teacher, philosopher, 8 guide to larger knowledge and wisdom, 8 reaper of great rewards and worker of great results-in a word, to conquer the world. Is truth alone to refuse to yield it. self in submission to this power, or is that which is victorious everywhere else to ask the aid of other powers, when it approaches the sphere of tlutha So the man thinks and res sons with himself, and so finds the friends and associates who arouse about him reason ing and thirkiDg; and thus he leaves the place in years Of his education proud and happy, as we'll he may be, that he is a man of intellect with trained powe1s and growing knowledge.
 But life, in its after development, now takes hold uE on him; and what does 1t do ! It begins at once work of discipline and education which affects other sides of the nature, and which gradually, yet growingly, shows the man what he is in his entire inner life. It does this sometimes by severe pro- cess, sometimes by 8 more gentle one; but always, where the man is willing to receive the teaching, process which is effective in it's working and helpful to true manhood in it's results. These results come in many ways and from many sources. They all, however, tend to one end. They come through the struggle for self-suppeft and for the beg innings of success, which are attend ant upon early manhood; through disap- ointment and trials, which rarely wait long after the beginning and which burden the heart; through the dying of old friends, or | the breaking up of the earlier or later home; | through that constant drawing upon the en- ergies of the fife by reason of responsibili- I ties or duties, which s ives the sense of weak ner3 and dependence; through the sober ! minded ness which the transition from the youthful years to the years of middle life al- ! ways involved in itself; through the rich ex- ! periences of the soul by which, in various
 ways, God reveals himself es friend and ! father; through the serious outlook upon the ! future to which every earnest man is brought ! es he moves onwsrd in his course; through | the whispering of the mind to itself that | there is something greater beyond.
 Thus the years begin their lessons and car-
 1y them forward. But all these things sI sak more directly to the soul than to the mind. They address the man ss thinking being, indeed, but not f3 such only. They allow the intellect to hold its own proper pls @, but not to reign supreme, or keep all other parts of the nature in subordination
 They appeal to the emotional side of the
 man, to his sense of limitation, to his feeling of the need of some higher power to aid and defend him. They show him that what hs
 depended upon with such strong confidence at the out 4st is insufficient for the demands of his life. They reveal to him, in word, | that he is a man-a whole man and not g