New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-06-22
PRESIDENT CARTER AT WILLIAMS.
URGING THE DUTY OF WORK IN BEHALF OF
TIE OUTCAST AND NEGLECTED.

URGING THE DUTY OF WORK IN BEHALF OF
THE oUTCAsT AND NEGLECTED.
williamstown. Mass, June 81 lspeciaD.-The bac-
calaureae sermon at Williams College delivered
to-day by President Carter ffn tie text: And said
them. it is written. my house shall be called the
house Of prayer but ye have made 1t den OF thieves
Matthew xxi, 10. He said in part:
The memorable scene Of which tese words form
part occurred the occasion % Chrsps nrst visit to
the Temple after Ills baptism. 1t was the court Of
the Gentles, where foreigners might pray, that
defled by baref-the court Of the Geniics that our
Lord in His first grand public act wold purify and
redeem 1t was act Tor all mankind. When the
Lord Jesus raised His arm IN indignant rcbukc and
whipped the eate and the sheep through The outer
ment OF trade ano dishonest eaIn up.n The worship OF
God, lie lifted His arm and Ills voice for those who
had but small invitation % God unde> the Jewish
economy, for foreigners and aliens, for the entire
race This IS wholly. an act u love, an act OF
upon Ills death, and Christians have peculiar awe be
meath His cross and ezul;ant 10Y by Ills empty
chain that should bind men back % God.
Is there nos a good deal o. Christianity socalled
poor the common, the struggling, can get breath
rom the heavenly world even in the public place Of
ily, must 60 mles great city feel welcomed
house of worship when comfortable churches with
and some one reeds perhaps not much to cleanse
TO Introduce court for GentiIes into Christian
church What would our Lord do with or churches
Possibly he wouc send the wOrshppers ont 10 bring
the outcasts in. The Christian life is te imitation Of
CHRIST died 1t was no feeble cleansing OF the court OF
the GentileS; 1t was rend'ng Of the Temple veil. a
cleansing and admission OF the whole world. an
abrogatnn of the eNfu.ive Temple service suffering
without the camp that lie might anctify the people of
all nations with His blood. The cleansing of the
outer court IN vain, for tho holy Of holes
deled, and vet it not in vain. for it Pointed 10
the completion OF system and the Offering OF a sacrl
fee whOre efficacy human power dchle or limit
aiOnement aud reconciliation for all mankind.
Ny friends Of the graduating class, you stand upon
the threshold OF your Behold this young man,
JESUS: behold Him in the Temples court Il do not ask
you 10 look heyOndD, defying custom. prejudice
religions authority and single handed routing the Wi ole
combination f the Jewish hierarchy. II there be a
aObcr beginning anywhere. II must lie because He has
sci the keynote TO which nobility must march because
lie is tie irS-bOln among brethren. But You know
there no nober beginning YOu know that the bility
Of that beginning lives IN AL sGbequent IN The mill
ion cutcrprIsed by which The poor and the oucst are
housed, and healed and clothed and loved back into
manhood back into the Oi God. IL never before
il was your purpose b. day ak to make 1t your
purpose u adOd His views, 30 take up His work. to
enter into the fellowship Of I u1erlngs for the poor
to follow Him the son Of God. Let the initial
acts of Your trained lives be for the despised and
cctcd Let day pass in which yOu do not reach
ont a hand TO some human being who thinks himself
neglected And let all be Chrrt's labor was that
those who an alar Oil may find the heart Of God