The state chronicle., 1893-06-09
TRINITY COLLEGE.
THE COMPLEMENTARY ExERoIsEs
IN PROGRESS.
CoI. WaddelPs Admirable Address,.
Inc Baccalaureate Sermon-The
Alumni Address.

DURHAM, June Z.
At II o'clock today, before the
graduating class, students and
friends of Trinity College, and a
good audience of the people of
Durham, lev. R. N. Sledd, D. D., of
Richmond, Va, preached the Bacca-
Laureate Sermon. His text was
taken from Chronicles, Book I, ch.
20, and 10th verse: "Take heed
now, for the Lord hath chosen thee
to build an house for the sanctuary:
be strong, and do it."
He spoke Tor an hour very elo-
quently and forcibly upon this sub
Ject applied to mans character. He
said that before the death of David
his son Solomon was made king to
rule together with David; that when
David Was on his death bed he gave
utterance to these words to Solo
mon; that-Solomon was to carry out
these as command of God. Then
he made the points: that God has q
work for every individual, and everv
individual is duty bound to do that
work; that there is nothing, how
ever insignificant, but that has
design and value; that no creature
can do the work of any other crea-
ture; that men differ in talents, ac-
quirements and in positions in life,
but that they agree "every man is a
builder; that intellect, sensibili-
tiles and will are the great forces
in shaping human character; that
these three make up the moral
tone OF man; that appearances
will not test. He made magnif-
cent comparison between the temple
OF Christ and the temple of mans
character He said that the one is
perfect with variety of perfections
and grand in every respect, but that
the other is covered with foul ruins
and that underneath it is a DESTROY
ing element. His contrast Of these
two, as we'll as that of the soul and
body, showed him to be. a master of
description as we'll as close dis
cerner into the truths of life. He
demonstrated that virtue is propor-
toned to the knowledge Of duty
and to the performance of it; that
knowledge and good conscience
must be united; that man must
make his own character; that pa
rents and teachers may shape to a
certain extent and give direction to
mans life, but that man must do the
greater part himself; that man is
not left alone, for God is within in
the form of Christ and in His word.
Then he addressed the graduting
class. He told them to be bold and
enduring, for they must certainly
meet opposition; that they were
going out from Trinity College, but
not out of school, for they were en-
tering Gods school. He asked them
to remember that God is with them
in all things, and that he would pro.
tect and guide them.
Hon. A. M. Waddell, Of Whining
ton, N. c., addressed the Literary
Societies at p. m. His subject
was ''Socialism in America" He said
that the foreign element in the Uni
ted States is powerful; that if prop
erly guided the social element will
be OF great value, but if not, it
will bring tremendous force for
bad; that throughout our country
there is great element of dissatis-
faction; that the Southern States
have not as yet been much affected
by Socialism; that we are now
being strongly moved by economic
and social theories and questions;
that the time will not be so long
when we shall be greatly influenced
by this element; that the increase
of property in the South in the last
ten years has been much larger in
proportion to that of the North and
West; that the South has been
most prosperous in cotton raising
and manufacturing; that soon on
account OF this rapid growth we
must contest with the social
istic influence; that its territory
heretofore has been west of the Mis-
sissippi; that socialism had its
origin in ths war, the centraliza alton
at Washington-in short in "pa-
terEalism" in the United States: that
it's origin is not old; that everything
since the war has looked to the gen
eral government; that the United
States government has helped in
almost every way, and thereby the
people look to the government and
do not look to themselves at all that
social legislation is being made all
over the country; that the Supreme
Court of the United Stetes-the
greatest gift of our constitution, has,
1t seems, been yielding to it's infu-
ence; that the agricultural classes
are always the last to be rocked BY
socialism; that socialism is the most
remarkable power in the country;
that it needs the effort of every
citizen to guard our con-
stitution and government against
socialism. Associated capital is as
as associated labor, that
the millennium is not near yet. So
clalism in our country is against