New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-06-19
DIR. RAINSFORD AT HARVARD
AN ELOQUENT BACCALAUREATE SERMON.
URGING AN ELEVATED RULE OF LIFE on THE
GRADUATING CLASS.
Try TELEGRAPH TO THE TRlBUNE.l

Cambridge Mass June 1S.-Thc Rev Dr.
william s. Rainsford, OF -. Georges Church. New
York preached the baccalaureate sermon before the
graduating class Of '03 this afternoon in Appleton
Chapel. The chapel filed to Ov' RI wing An 'hs
those present was President Dwight, Of Yale The
preacher took his text from Philippians H. Ill lie
spoke In substance as follows.
In these verscs St. Paups mc/lnc is quite unmis'ak'
able They sum ND much OF his maturer teachng Inc
question which usarc doubt about to-day Is Is
It possible accept rule Of life so dnicuit 50 Simple
Look steadily says the Apostle not on your own aaa
only. but the things Of others; and as you ook ie'
Christs very mind be yours Christ looked not 10 HIM
SELF but voluntarily forewt His own legitimate adVaht ge'
He was even willing meet death In It's most awful
shape rather than give this high purpose OF saving
His fellow.rnen This deliberate mode OF action PAU de-
cares infinite God accepts and crowns MAKING inc
supreme, fna permanent victorious form oil NE io-
eyer This urdispuaby is St. Paurs meaning and this.
too is the mind OF Christ He understood It, preached
IL and died for the mind Of Christ possible iof Us
todayf AT superficial glance we are opt to deny the
practicabty OF living otter so heh stanuaru we hccu
the stimulus OF competition.
We are gradually aware that In strange ana wonder
ful way the mind OF Christ l. growing on men, The
studies Of those past years ought have done something
20 convince there is tide in the affairs OF
men a tide OF pity, earnest. scsacrihcing Interest
that flows and GIBBS not and yet MS life is poor ana
narrow, indeed, who has not been blessed Dy s'me'
vision Of existence in which love cast out sthe
And more than that mans sphere Of love is ever widen
ing and bringing and more together. tell
you the time will comc-I believe IL Is near at hand
when IL will impossible for and women 10 live
in their pre- cnt luxury, while close at hand hundreds
Of thousands OF their cllowccns shut down within te
d serous narrowness tenement houses. Love recos-
to-day, she never did before. misfortune d.
establishing claim fortune and sorrow and sunehR
ar pleas which honorable man must never turn
away IL he would hope for the favor, not only OF 4
mcrcul for himself. but Of his own usufyng con-
science
WHAT scienc. to-day in the Interest she cxcics and
Tho has TAX n
place than does physiology IN all her branches And
yet this youngest OF all sciences calls on those VINO
follow her deliberately accept scsacrice a their la"
and equally of physics At his sight there
seems to be the Christ mnd in tae con-
illusions Of historic science yet look little closer ana
you that ossenc" OF that nina Is w'n2h S.
for the good OF Others forego Its own lcgtmaic adVah
tagcs ROM at arose nourishei and blessed mankind
Then she grew wanton and selfish She 'e ana e
fall was great Nations live who refuse end condemn
the law revealed in the mind OF Christ ms Is INC
verdict Of history. as IL IS OF physio'"av'
Now let us turn definitely religious side OF tlS
oues,on The Church's conservatism seems TO many
OF YOU blind unreasonable and intoerable Yet thS Is
mot fair attitude to take. The Chnrch s'aluS Ior "'
whole Of humanity and must shape her formulas ana
teachings for the whole and not for the part Ana 80
TODAY Christianity aboring 10 express the law anu
mind Of Christ in terms that are too often uhcou'" avn
unsatisfactory This Is not because men have eescd
heeve in sacrifice because Christian men TO- oVn
seek 10 describe terms Cat arc grotesqucly out Oh
date When we speak OF the dying OF Jesus lihN"H
IL with such terms justification. exmatioh' a''"'"
etc. VIC are using terms Of blessed meaning; out "V"
they blind from and veil from the minds y mutt tuu
~, ro,l significance Of that dyilg. Christ aloir ma
xindcated the universal law OF saenhce ana INl-'
.thcrfore God hath highly exalted Him" Inc me u
Christ is the final type and therefore no o'n'f '' %
no exalted God himself cam I make wofl1 IN "h'h
the saurian exists side by side with man. S"r'a"' '
the best possible forms OF life at one sasc' W. III"
,ossble at the next. Similarly, the mind u 'hst an"
tho selfish spirit Of seseeking cannot hitN co'Nis
which Is IL to be in us brothers? After when shi
We lyef -. "a
To conclude then, all that this od
,,o,,.,,.v life stands for can avail you
I'm, little OF the chief value Of them you let Slip II the
abiding result Of them is not found with you The hou
calls for men with a mission. Oh, my brothers. TOOK
not ON YOUR own things" not 70 your own asRrahuAe'
p,ent nor the building Of your fortunes, but look on
men and you will learn to know them little ana as
Won kkow TO love them Know men, ana nave
Tho Of the highest for saying that II IN ths
reyeepA spirit you seek TO know men, you shaii ~ ia'
,,sud urkrebuked accepted by tho Son Of Man.