New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-06-27
PRESIDENT VIII ELER AT ALlEGHENl.
WHAT SHALL A MAN BUILD on THE FOUNDATION
HIS LIFE.

| WHAT SHALL A MAN BUILD on THE FOUNDATION
OF HIS LIFE.
| Meadvilc, Penn. June 20 tspechp-F'o'iac"'
Wheeler delivered the baccsaurcate sermon Of hi'e
gleny College today. taking for his text the woiuS
" Other foundation can no man lay than 'h'' Is 'au
| I Cor, III. IL. He said In part:
| Some things are settled, indeed. nearly everything
Is settled The foundations OF lie nre laid "dcr Us
all We cahno, build them over again II J; iei, a 10
Us 70 build upon these foundations win soou vi uti
10 eyev o %ee VINO or mns Il ruth growing clearer
science and eApcence accul at, IN 1ronS e soul
cannot In the least alter or subver' Tor hSei INC pa'e
of personal living: ,..o.,.,co y, MAILING
our Nc hlcst past the material for building our iluN
let call your attention 10 our present ou'ness'
There am behind them pefhaps fifteen years OF school
life It would be strange II diverse tendencies Of an
each one Of them. it woald be strange If moral ln NJ
pcdment In study had not often endange ,
the heart Of bog know surely that the ruohScsl
motive could not by objective force carry boy
forces appa me when consent 10 think OF tIem.
SO much as had to be resigned 80 much has had 10 be
hing like thick clond over their college life and for
some the w5ys and means problems have been En-, so
miracle that any boy graduates. They com" TO
honors SCARED with more battles than Napoleon
and Alexander fought: they come as a remnant OF an
army which has fallen In the long march ana the long
fight And What Is the , Secret of ,naM S yC s
selection of what at each stage OF the Journey. mas
leon nobesi In their past Not once. but a thousand
times they have as Young Hercules did. met Pleasure
and Self Restraint. If YOU all knew what | am com.
PEELED TO know. you could wholly and heartily assent
when ] say that intellectual Incidence never was so
popular 1t is In this generation that pleasure meyer
had such cncantmcnt for young souls ms she has ior
the youth Of time that not TO graduate ut college
never seemed perfectly safe II seems TO American
Youths al the end of this century. And yet they come
year by year In larger batalions t. the greatest ana
purest victories Of our time-to graduation days ~,
And herein lies the truth of all high living. TIC
common sense of mankind aifrms that Nelson na
something at Trafalgar. that Wellington dld solr'hnG
at Waterloo that Grant did something Il, NlckNDurs'
that Wesley, and Lincoln and Tcnnyson each accom-
plishcd personal tasks. II not merely some cosic
force recording In them some inevitable reslHs ~
our admira ion and praise Of the dead ana OF the
living: all monuments and all on story record our
belief that man builds his future and may earn the
crown he 90,
In short. we can build our building IS on Gods
land and up toward his skies. All that distinguishes
our personality comes out of personal aspiration ana
endcavOr. One mans life Is hlthy nut. another Is
stately palace The bedrock below every mXed lact oi
material Oh season is the for both Tile builders
have made the enormous difference In the results