Morning journal and courier., 1893-06-26
YALE commENoHmENr.

YALE COMMENCEMENT.
An Impressive Scene at Ba1tell Chapel
-President Dwight Delivers the Bac-
ealaureate Sermon-Capsan and Gowns
Tho Senior ApPeintments-Lat
From the Yale.Harvard Race at New
London.
The 1881 commencement exercises of
Yale were opened yesterday morning with
the annual baooalaureate sermon by Presi-
dent Dwight. The class of '93, including
both the academic and scientific depart
ments, were present for the first time In
many years, both in mortsr-board caps
and gowns, this being the third year for
the academic class to appear SO equipped,
and the FIRST for the scientific department.
President Dwight selected for his text
the eight verse OF the second epistle of
John-'Look to yourselves that ye lose
not the things which we have wrought"
He said:
Ny young friends of the graduating class
there is peculiar fitness to these words in
view of the circumstances and the critical
hour you have now reached in your course.
The university life which you have been
living in these recent years Is one in which
you have placed yourselves under guides
and teachers who, somewhat older than
you, have endeavored to do on your behalf
a work of good, according to the measure
of the power which they possessed. They
have wrought certain results which in
efficiency and success can hardly fail to
manifest itself In the coming time. By
means of its indweIling within all the
membership, moro than by any other in
fuence or force, is the university brother
c,a& a. - k- T.
a common spirit and united in a common
life. The university has wrought results
for you as the teachers have done. It
must, however, leave you now to your
selves even as they must.
The university, as Its five gifts, has Of
fered to you first the value and uses and
knowledge. It is q beginning of the great
everything is built up afterward. The
central thing for life is thought, as the CEN
| trail thing for your spiritual life is love.
The bearing of your knowledge on this
central thing gives it its value to you. The
l the worlds well-being, even as It's value is
| to be discovered in your own right expert
ence. Az its second gift the university
offers you an understanding of the true
value duty holds to the inner life, and it's
relation to pleasure and enjoyment. The
| man who has lived here 30 that the pleas
ures have constituted the whole of life for
| him, has not learned this lesson here. Life
l Is a serious thing. Life Is not a melan-
choly thing. It means work and duty.
Ever doing and ever enjoying.
The third gift the university offers you
is the thought of success and Its bearing or
happiness. The university is ever point
ing to the inward and not the outward
life. To be successful and not be worthy
of it-this is not tho movement of true
manhood.
"And so We are told of happiness. Sue
cess does not make 1t. It simply opens
one avenue for the approach of 1t to tn
soul, when the innsr life is fit for tn
blessing of the outer life. And this i
what the university teaches US by its ever.
lesson that comes forth from It's centra
self. It's work for you, my friends, ha
self within us and of rendering 1t thereby
possible for US to make the SUCCESS of 1if
the sources of truest happiness.
/ The university, as its fourth gift, offer
you its thought Of faith Truth is whs
the university seeks for. It calls upol
, you to be Investigators and students. Tn
, | university knows that tho truth Is sbov
/ and beyond as We reach it's fitness on1
by successive steps But these must b
positive advances We must have bale
} / in something real beyond US at every ne'
l stage of our progress, if the movement
to be constantly onward as TO goal an
not a mere simless wandering anon
f questions and surmises.
= We move from the known to the ur
: known only by faith. Faith is the waitin
attitude of the soul 1t Is the listening cal
: | It is the outward and onward look toWar
t the future as yet unseen. The last gift til
, / university offers is that of the thought G
! life. This thought is that life is in tn
/ strictsst sense for and in the future.
II Everything in this university points fol-
!. ward. The outlook Is ever forward. W
, | belong to the coming life. Life is nc
' it's banediction and sends you forth wit
! | this thought. But accompanying this is
| word of attendant exhortation for the fl
: ture. 1t ia very significant and very in
= pressive. Look to yourselves that ye lot
: not the things which we have wrough
D but that ye receive full reward. Fac
2 one of you for himself alone is to make h
life by his own efforts and realize its r,
| cults by his own personal experience.
I'll You are to be with yourselves and /
; yourselves in G measure hitherto unknown
and life to become a call for self-depepG
r ence. You must now look to yourselves
+ Leuthe man and the manhood entrusted
, your personal keeping be carefully an
tenderly guarded.
!, The true thoughts what are they b1
such as these toward which our minds ar
!, directed at this hour; thoughts of know
, edge, its value to your own life and IL
, | uses for other lives of SUCCESS in its 1igt
idea and it's right relation t. happiness; {
duty as always taking precedence of epjoy
= ment; of faith as rising above doubts an
a auestioninge and laying hold on truth an
q upon God; and of life as moving on int
!, the future end realizing itsslf in it's gfea
. ness in It's union with the divine.
/ The gift of the university in the eivin
+ of these thoughts is a great one, and hs
i in itself promise of the hereafter.
My fellow students and friends-Th
. ia the Christian word present to you at ii
: hour of our parting. But there is mo,
in Christianity than we can set forth J
a any word or message.
As I stand with you at this hour and Ell
ter into your sympathies and your exper
ence, I cannot but lock back over th
- brief years since my classmates and my
a self stood where you are to day. Th
. bright dream of the future had It's inter
, mingling of dark shadows for us and W
grieved as we shook by the hand the fe
low who stood by our eide.
Inc pathway OF tne coming time Ia opeE
= ed and we move on. What did we find a
> the days and years went forwards Tha
= we were lead as by the guidance of
= successes, into deeper faith in the truth
!, into happy successes afterwards, into YER
sweet and delightful thought. Lii
> proved revelation of the love of Go
which was constantly manifesting itself i
new blessing and opening new prospects
Our message to each of you is that th
pathway of life is beautiful one when "
are under His leading. May you know til
truth of this message with deeper spprs
heEsion of its meaning than any of us hav
8 known, because of closer union of you
lives with the life of Jesus. And 80
commend you to God and to His love.
SENIOR APPOINTMENTS.