New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-06-26
SERMONS TO COLLEGE MEN.
PRESIDENT DwIGHT'S PARTING WORDS.
TIE BAccALAUREATE SERMON PREACHED TO
THE YALE GRADUATING CLASS IN
BATTELL CHAPEL.
Ipr TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBCNEr


Y~w Maven, June a5.-rhc exercises OF the l''u
commencement of Yale University began day WIN
the preaching OF the baccalaurear sermon III D"'''
Chapel by President Dwight. The senior CLASS eau
In gowns and wearing mortarboards, occupied inc
greater portion OF the chapel and AT the close OF e
sermon made their last bow 10 the president r'cs'
dent Dwight selected FOR his text second Epsue OF
St. John. eighth "Look 10 yourselves mat He
lose not the things which have wrought or
according another reading OF the original text ine
things which We have wroughD, but mat yc reoeNo
a full reward, Among other things fresioeh'
Dwight said:
aAs set these words my Young friends Of the
graduating class, at the beginning OF what wou'a
saw 10 Won this morning. ! do 20 With a sense oi
their peculiar fitness In view Of the circumstance
In which you now placed ma th' cr'"'ui 'o
which you have now reached in your course ine
university life which you have been living IN the"e
recent years IS life iE which you have placed your
selves under guides and teachers. These tcachers
and c1,des have endcavorcd 10 do on your ocha'1
a work OF good according 10 the measure OF tho power
which they possessed, and the fitness OF their appe
hcnson Of the privilege opened to them. Ihcy nave
wrought certain results, and now hcy. OF necessity
leave YOU TO yourself the results Of the pasV
rs YOU best may into rnalzaions for the future
and thus to know within yourselves the blessings
which belong TO educated men. No man comes mo
the citizenship Of this academic community ana anaes
In II throughout the period OF lis student career
without discovering In himself an Inspiration ana an
upbui)dng force for mind ard character pecuhar u
the place This power Is lifepower OF the ihs'i'u
ton which started into living energy In the earliest
DAYS and Inns reached its strength years ana g"he
stlors have moved onward and as larger NUMBERS
receiving II into themselves. have proved its aohy 10
ennobe manhood Bat there Is also another sue vi
the matter. You yourselves have had power ana
net We alone the university In true Se"se.
your power has been the greatest Of all powers ana
10 ~ nj To
been reached. 1t vas strange variation IN 'he
reading of tic old words which maze lsei
known In the early centuries-that WHICH ."'"eu
We have wrought into 'ie have wrought we
have wrought, ye have wrought-the TWO sentiments
mite o. it were in one think Of educated l'e'
whether on the intellectual or the spintua sac
Tho exbortarIon which II suggests TO you may with
eoua, fress be the exhortatiOn that you should not
lose these things. hut by holding them fast III YOUR
life should receive the full reward. What are these
rewards"
the knowledge which the university had nnorae' Inv
understanding OF the value and uses OF Knowledge III
behalf Of the students and Others with whom Tue!
come In contact educated men, the UNDERSTANDINGS
OF the true place which duty hoids iu human NV
and of its relation TO pleasure and enjoyment INC
thought Of success and OF the bearing OF success upon
happiness; the thought Of faith the thoueh' OF hi'
not for the passing time. but future years. ~"
tirung, President Dwight said
If Won lose not the things which have been wrought
for you and which have through your o"a "oih''s
entered as living forces into your souls you receive
rs the certain and ssary consequence the rewo"
which are full The receiving is inseparabie from
the not losing Turn your thoughts In upon your
selves and Won will see 1t growing IT. It's measure
with your own growth, and becoming more wohueTi"
in Its revelation OF itself you become large anu
noble man. but ever remaining in It's funess a. HING
at each moment all the present possiplues VI !o"i
At the close Of the sermon the class stood up ana
received the following parting We have row
oome TO the time Of your graduation Ihl, Is .ms
Christian word which present to you at the no o
Of your parting from one anooeT rs, vour helper
itself Inspiration for pure ana happy tne QUIT
Going OF earnest and heroic effort II is In the Inc
Of ali Christian teaching and is rll OF the S6r,s ,
Into your sympathies and your experience cannon
but look back over the many years ye me misi
years since my classmates and myself were WGers
AZ the seraration that was before even as You
have now; many tender memories Of the things GU,
Of which TS re H ns f ns no ~SR
Soine The bright dream Of the future had lis
iMermngng Of dark sha1ows for us, ana we efl'Nsa
uttered our farewell words. The pathway OF n at
coming time opened and We moved on. Wna' T Ma
find os the DAYS ana years we rem s"Icsnce If
friend into rich experiences, into larger measures
Of fnowcdge. Into deeper faith in the truth IT, INTO %
uehtiu thoughts. Life proved to us revelation OF
the love Of God. which was Constantly maniies,ng
itself In new blessings. and opening before u. new
darkness and the light alike. and II we trustee III
Him We found the sorrows turning toward tn: ,oys,
This Is the lesson OF our NE taugt US even ,no"sn
We have not always learned II. commend "" u"
God md His love-