The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-06-01
SI.oo A YEAR

GUS In goodness, wisdom, and pow
er; the assurance of his love; the
infinite excellence of Redemption,
new going on in us and around us;
these and a thousand other consid-
eratiOns with the knowledge that
these show but the beginnings and
foretastes of better things to come,
are fitted to fill the soul with joy a.
large as it has capacity TO contain
No tongue can express, no powtrof
thought fully compass that JOY.
Faith can only say, any cup ruu-
meth over" Tie prayer Of Christ
was that our joy might be full. The
joy of the Lord is cur strength.
"Rejoice in the Lord always" wrote
Paul, "and again 1 say rejoice" So
live that you may reasonably ex-
-pect, Notwithstanding all possible
afiiiction or even the more by meau4
of them, to be borne on from one
great wave to another of Divine
joy to the end.
The love of God toward us is the
great constraining motive Of human
action. We did not first love him.
but he frst loved us. A little girl
said TO her mother, 81 love you not
only because you love me now, but
also because you loved me when Y
was too little to love you back.~
God loved US while we were yet en-
emies. He sent his son: Jesus gave
himself to die for us. 1t is fitted To
kindle in the Christian a consum-
ing zeal in Christ's service.
LADIES AND GENTLEMAN oFTHE
CLASS OF 1S92:-You have now
come to the close Of a long course Of
liberal education. 1t is q noble
field over which you have travelled.
You have made the acquaintance of
many of the great minds of all lands
and ages. You have gathered some
of the fruits of knowledge Which
have been growing and ripening
from the dawn of human hiasoYy.
The Greek and Roman Classics
have disclosed to you their treas
ures. History has turned for you
her ample page. Science has un-
locked her vast stores, and placed
them at your disposal. Philosophy
has presented to you many prob
lems, and solved some of them.
The Word of God has opened to-
you the windows of heaven and re-
vealed vast fields of truth otherwise
utterly beyond the reach of human
knowledge. BY Providence you
have been brought into a peculiar
relationship to one another. The
College course binds those who pur-
sue it together into an intimacy
e which is not precisely repeated eSe-
: where. You will be known through
: life as membersyOf the class of 1892,
in Maryville College. You will
a date the events in your own lives,
to some extent from the years when
y you were here. You will always
5 remember one another as College
S Classmates.
s 1t is much to have sat day after
{; day, most of you for several years,
in the same recitation rooms, undeE
t the same teachers, engaged in the
It same studies, acquiring the same
}. knowledge, making similar Attain
S ments in intellectual refinement
: and strength. The studies OF the
<. Senior year have taken us over Il
u broad field of the higher investiga.
y tions of truth.
TO have spent two or three hours
= together daily for whole academ
!. ic year, in the pursuit of the noblest
e studies, has occupied memorable
n portion of your probation ana of
y mine.
l. In eternity when the sun has ia
ii ded, and the earth become but a
d memory; we shall recall the recita-
10 tions of the last Fall, and of the
t Winter and Spring, and review,
e doubtless with, immortal interest,
20 and with enlarged knowledge, the
h many questions in psychology, eth
2. les, economics, and law, which have
10 passed around the classwith almost
20 every recitation. We have called
II no man master. We have endeay-
i ored to learn something from every
Ie school, and select the best from ALL
II with an independent opinion Of cur
d own. ] cannot well express with
t. what intellectual interest as well as
ST personal friendship, 7 have come tc
n regard you all, from these utter
II views of severe study in SeieEc.
ID and Philosophy. Sometimes, after
lie all the teachings of the sages befor,
in us, had been considered, and cacl
of of you had given his own opinion
and we had been about t. pas, or