Morning journal and courier., 1892-06-27

1s Gne nAtur8l, anu, 06 IL were,
the necessary, result of their existence.
As the son of the university, therefore,
comes to the end of the year Of his educa- |
ton, he cannot, If he has entered into the
spirit Of sonship, fail TO hear the voice in
which 1t speaks to him voice of exhor-
tation and of inspiration. You have re-
oeived freely, 1t says; give also freely. You
have yourself been enlightened; be light
for others. You have had the word of life
made known to you; hold it forth to all.
The very word, which contains the ex-
hortation-hold it forth-is q word which
has love at its center, and in which there
is no significance without love.
The message which comes to you, my
his readers lived, ia thus re-echoed in the
bidding which the university gives you at
this hour. You are to go forth into va
rious employments, and walk In different
ways along the course of your future life.
You will be widely separated, and your
influence for good will be manifold and VIII
reach many persons who will never ses
each other. You will have different measures
of success, according as opportunity or
privilege or power may open to you. Life
itself will be longer for some of you, and
briefer for others. But there will be one
thing common in it's possibility to you all.
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To this the university urges you with all
tenderness and all seriousness, as it sends
you out into the world with its largest
hope and it's kindest benediction.
To this also the Lord Jesus himself, the
great teacher who inspires by his spirit
all Christian education, urges you, as he
points you to the needs of men which you
may help to supply. 1t is the blessing of
your life-that peculiar life which You
have been privileged to hve-that the
service to others is but the outfowiug of
its noblest self. Let the love-principle
dwell within the educated man, and the
light that he has will turn outward. Let
the light turn outward, and the gift of
good will be given on every side. You
have, therefore, only to live in accordance
| with the true principles implanted within
you, and made q vital part Of yourselves
as men educated after the manly and
Christian way, in order to fulfill the high
| est duty of manhood and to find the sweet
est satisfaction which the soul can know.
Truly it is a wonderful gift of God to US
| that we ara educated men, sons of q
| Christian university.
Such is the message which the hour has
in itself for everyone who will hear it.
Such is the fact of present experience, on
| the basis of which 1t makes its appeal, and
such the possibility of the future, with
| reference to which it urges its exhortatien.
give you the message as the last word
! from this place which ia consecrated alike
to learning and religion.
And now, my fellow students and friends
of the class of '92, I bid you farewell.
These four years of our college life have
been happy years, both for you and for
me. They have been filled for you with
the gifts and blessings which belong, in
such peculiar measure, to the time when
youth is passing on to manhood. They
have brought with them growing knowl-
edge; larger appreciation of what is with
| in yourselves; clearer views of the mean
ing of life and its duties; delightful friend
ships which shall abide with you always
rich and pleasant experiences of many
sorts, the memory of which in after years
may make this early time seem ever like 6
beautiful morning to your feeling and
your thought. They have fitted you
to enter upon the future; to begin iti
work, to move into the broader life, tt
know its increasing happiness, and to fine
its treasures both in the outward and in
ward sphere. They have been filed TO,
me, on the other hand, with the blessing
which comes later on in the course, an6
which am glad to bear testimony to you
reaches out-becsuse of the very progress
of time and the development of life at
tendant upon it-more widely, for tn,
mind and soul alike, than the earlier bless
ing can reach in its season. The end o.
these years has now come for us all. Blu
we stand together, as I trust. full o
strength and of hope, and with the earn
estness of purpose which becomes US q
fellow-students in the common brother
hood. Ny word to you for the futur
time is one which I could wish might al
ways carry in itself an assurance of great
or good awaiting you in the distance be
yond, and an inspiration for larger effor
and m ore helpful services as you NOV
forward in your work for the world
Your word to me, it is q great pleasure TO
me to believe, is one of kindly sentiment
in which there is no intermingling of an
desire except for future good.
And 80, as a friend speaking to friends
: I give you my congratulations on the com
ing of these present days and hold befor
you the promise of the days that are ye
to come. That promise will be rich, in
deed, in its fu.fillment and it's reward
you will take to yourselves the privilege Q
, your life as educated men, and if you wi
be, in the generation in which you ar
called to act, impelled ever by the mani
and Christian impulse.
: May the Lord Jesus himself move 20
with the true Christian impulse, and ma
, he give you along the way of your earthl
life, and at its end, the satisfying reward
Thus may he always have you under hi
own care and guidance.