Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-06-22

the ruling and movement OF all worlds, is
less glorious than this. The end and pur-
pose of it all is found in the realization of
this. The imitation of him gives to each
life, and we know the only true glory of
our being when we become for other men
the sources of light and truth. Be ye
therefore imitators of God as beloved chill
dren. This is the message from the begin
ming and the message of this hour
And now my fellow students of the
younger years-gentlemen of the gradua-
ting class-I leave the message with you,
for it's influence on your personal thought
and action, as I give you my farewell word.
bee aaG happy app years. they have taken ken hold
upon the deepest experiences of your
hearts and minds, and have proved to you
very rich in blessing as they have moved
along their way. You have gained from
them mental development and growth in
knowledge, and pure friendships and en-
largement of personal life, and the up
building and outbuilding of the soul.
You have established, as they have
fingered with you, the founda-
as educated men. You have received in
to yourselves strength, and manly pur-
pose, and courage for the future, and
Inspiration for duty and service in the
world. 1t was indeed privilege for you,
and gift of good divinely given, that
| you came to this place, and became united
with the brotherhood whose inheritance
| is here. AS these years are now ending,
| let me ask you to take with you into the
coming time all that has been made your
| own, and to be in your living an5 work
ing manly men, working for the welfare
of mankind with the true spirit, and liv-
| ing within yourselves in the light that
shines forth from God.
The evening of the youthful day has
| come to you. 1t has sorrowfulness in it,
because the day lisp asst. But let not your
minds rest upon the sorrowfu1ness. The
new morning is just before you, and it is
the morning of manhood. Rejoice as you
think of this. Gods thought of life is diff
ferent from our human thought: We are
ever wont to speak of the day as ''the
morning and the evening"" and SO we are
prone to dwell on the ending, and the dark
hours, as that to which all is moving. Life
ends, and the seasons which make up its
| completeness end, as we pass beyond thelI
such is our thought. But Gods thought
is the opposite of this. 1t is that of the
words which have come down to us from
the earliest time, and which belong to the
story of his working at the beginning: "The
evening and the morning were the day
| WHICH, We Ilso luCO Lbs tuouSu9, Do VIC A1ay
there is no dark hour shutting out the past
day, but only a dark, restful hour prepar
ing for the future day That which is tc
follow, not that which is behind, is the
time to which the fading light of the Older
time belongs. The dawn of the coming
morning-this is the thought appropriate
to every evening. It is the thought fol
the ending of each part and season of oul
lives, and the thought also, after the years
have passed away, for the ending of the
earthly life itself.
The morning of manhood is just before
you. It has more of promise and more o.
achievement in it than the days of child
hood and youth had. 1t comes to you al
the time of the full grown sons commu
Mon with his father-the time of YOU
ever continuing thoughtful fellowship with
God. It may become to you, also, the time
of giving to others of what God has given
and is giving to you, and thus of the full
fillment of all your manifest purpose anc
all your largest hope. The call of life anc
the movement of life, as we place ourselves
near to God-do not let us forget it-art
always, not from the morning to the even
ing, but from the evening to the morning
May the new morning be very brigh
one to you all. May it bear with it pleas
ant memories of the past, and may it abide
long in it's influence and it's joy for every
one of your number. May the thought o
what is beyond it in the distance, and il
the far distance, be the sweetest of al
thoughts, full of peace for you as chill
dren of God; full of hope for the unsee1
things, as you find yourselves growing
always into his likeness more and NOR,
| through your imitation of him.