The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-31
THEY'RE NOW PHYSICIANS
Medical College of Indiana Graduates
n Large Class OF Students.
Notable Address by Dir. John on 1.-THE Ethics
ofthe Winners Of Prizes-Col-
lege and It's Work.


forum wa -rowded with people. The
stage wssreplete with greenery. the slcoves
rich with palm. house plants and flowers.
giving q beautiful effect TO the general set
ting which was very artistic and taking.
The balconies were warm with bunting.
yellow and pale blue. with national colors.
and oil in ali the Opera House wore May
day dress never donned before. Every
thing went of smoothly as is the case
where Prof. Franklin Hays officiatcs. This
colleges commandments have for years
been managed by Professor Hays, who is
member OF the faculty and who has always
evailed himself of the respon-
s'bility in unique and COM
mendable manner Promptly at O'CLOCK
the curtain went up and the faculty. led
by DR.. Hays, marched upon the stage. fol-
lowed by the graduates. TO the meter of
the march-"The Medical College of lndi-
ana" The DEAN DR.. Elder. and the Rev.
Christensen. DIR. Wishard. Dr. j. p. ID. John.
president OF DePanw, and others were in
the front RANKS. The invocation was of
fered by DIR. Christensen. The prayer was
that the soul, as well as the ilesh. might be
treated by the young doctors about To be-
gin praeticing medicine. Mr.. Fred Opper-
man played an exquisite picolo solo. with
the orchestra assisting. The stage was
literally crowded when all the twenty
seven graduates and tho thirty four men,
beers of tho faculty had taken their seats.
by which time the theater was occupied TO
the top OF the gallery.
The dean. Dr. Elijah s. Elder, made
few remarks. stating that the college man.
agemeDt had always endeavored TO make
their commandments entertaining, and
that they had always chosen some body
Ia
or other work. and were of eminence. With
this he introduced DIR. j. 4. ID. John. presi-
dent OF the DePauw University, who adj
dressed the audience In behalf OF
the faculty and board of trustees. The
speech was delivered in an animated man.
ner. full OF expression OF voice and gesture.
that seemed 10 hold the audience almost
spellbound even through the deeper cur
rents of his ethics aud mathematical prop
ositions concerning the law OF right and
wrong. The address was as follows:
ETHICS OF THE SCHOOLS.
Professor Huxley Is credited with having said
that there may he worlds in which two and two
are five. 90 not believe any such proposition.
Nor do YOU Nor you. We cannot believe
otherwise than that two and two are different
from five in al worlds and in all eternites. IL
anywhere, In time or space, two and two are
five. then the five is We. the twos are
twos. Cal the sum what you may-five,
the fact that TWO and two two and two.
There are some things that are true to-day and
false tomorrow. Ii may be true to-day that the
wind blows east, and false tomorrow. But
there truth that does not depend
which way the wind blows. Down at noon is up
at midnight, hut there are some things that do
not 20 round with the world. Two and two
four-at noon and at midnight; by the east wind
and by the north wind In the metropolis and in
the wilderness; the solid earth and in
the voids OF space. We do not need
the telescope. microscope or spectre
n. Tor l<.vss
after the microscope ceases to subdivide the in
visible molecules, or the telescope 10 break mp
the irresolvable nebulR, or the spectroscope TO
draw It's tell-taie lines. within the within, and
beyond the beyond, two aud two are two and
two. The magnificent arch Of human knOwl-
edge falls in one hopeless mass OF ruins when
you remove the keystone OF necessary truth.
Some truth local and temporal. but other truth
L. Is wide as the universe and as lasting eter-
nifty.
For instance: What is is a thing cannot he
and not be at the same instant; here is not there
and there is not here; now Is not then. and then
Is not now; this IL not that. and that is not this
these are truths that do not rise and fall with
the Thermometer, point right and left with the
weather vane or move 10 and fro with the cur
rents OF history; whether this history be
restrial or celestial. temporal or eternal.
not escape the conclusion nay the conviction,
that truth Is necessarily the truth. and
that necessary truth Is eternal This conviction
Is the very shadow OF our intellectual cOnstltu-
ton and the shadow is much fact the
substance.
But what shall we say of that which we some
coai anu certain temperature ana there VIII be
lire. Given the earth and AN unsupported body
and there will be fall. The truth of the burn
Ing coal or the falling stone Is contingent 1t
may be- that the coal will burn. and ii may be
that IL will not burn. IL may be that the stone
VIII fall. and IL may be that IL will not FALL But
the contingency OF the burning coal or the fail
Ing stone depends, not on the law OF combustion
or Eravltation, bur on the conditions to
which the coal and tho stone are subjected.
The truth in these cases is contingent, not upon
the law, but upon the concurrent circumstances
Under the same conditions the coal will always
burn. and the stone viii always fall. The con-
ditions are variable, hut the law il unchange.
able hen the conditions concur. the coal will
burn and the stone Will fail III all parts of the
universe amt In AL stages OF its history.
Now 1t is convenient 10 regard all the laws of
the universe, material and spiritual, as the
preston OF Gods will. since God Is q being of
infinite perfection, His Will Is continuous and
ever the same. His laws, being the manifesto
ton or His will ara. therefore. the same yester
day, to-day and forever" The contingency Of
uncertain truth depends, therefore, upon
accident OF condition. Given tire con-
eternal necessary truth. If the conditions
concur, stones will fall and coal viii burn as
long as two and two remain four. The will OF
God Is eternal, ans. Is not contingent the
accidents OF condition. That necessary truth
should be other that it is, is incouceivable; and
possible that the viii OF God should waiver.
sucn Is the eternity OF truth-Of all truth-for at
tue last all truth. whether necessary contin-
gent, mus It's nome III the bosom OF God.
TWO ETERNAL vERiTIEs.
Two other of the eternal verlties are the Yigas-
ness ofright and the wr0ngness OF wrong Right
Is right and wrong is wrong on both sides of the
ocean, at the poles or at the equator, in the open
sunlight in the cavernous darkness, on The
moon or ON the comets. Right was right WI on
the morning stars sang together; Ii is right at the
present epoch in the march or eternity, and it
will he right when the stars shall cease To- shine.
The rightness OF right aDtedateS all conditions
II overtowers all conditions. lie will survive all
conditions. The Brightness or any particular out
ward act is contingent. The rigntness OF right is
eternal.
Moreover. any given act IL right once, will be
Tight forever. By all act, however. 1 do not
mean the visible part OF yoliti0n, hut the invis-
Act II right once. IL eternally right. IL
wrong. eternally Wrong Mark. now speak OF
the entire act and not the overt or visible part.
The visible part OF an act may be right to-day
ana wrong tomorrow; right in one place and
wrong In another. For instance, the outward
act OF housebreakiDg. IL 1t right
wrongi That depends on whether the
TO rob and even murder You, or
the humane passerby who seeks to dsiiver you
aud your loved ones from your burning home.
The one act, including both the visible and the
invisible part is eternally wrong: the other
efernaily right. Let not confuse the out
ward OF visible part or an act with the inner or
Invisible part The visible part Ia not the act ut
alt IL Is but the sign OF the act. The real act Is
Invisible.
What wish 10 emphasize is. that the right
ness or wrOngness of real act Is not contingent
upon time or place. An aot-f mean the coiu-
piete art-that Is wrong in heaven would he
WRONG IN hell. An net right In hell would be