New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-06-12
PREACHING TOCOLLEGE MEN
CANON BARRY DELIVERS THE COLUMBIA
BACCALAUREATE.
SERMON OF THE CHAPLAIN IN ORDINARY ~ Ahf'
oi.rEN N st THOMASS CHURCH..

sERMON OF THE CHAPLAIN IN ORDINARY ~ Ahh
QUEEN IN ST. THOMAs'S CHURCH
The RI. Rev. Dr. Alfred Barry. Chaplain IN oroi-
nary to the Queen and Canon OF "iiueo' '' WV
The Raccalaurcate sermon to the srnu""""s .'' VI
Columbia College last night. in ST Ihomass Church
FYfth.ave and Fifty-thlrdst The chufch was wei
sua or,ic,,o,lr with the Columbia faculty and
.,rdar,s Dr Iarry was Cambridge wrangcr
standing seventh in the first class OF his classical
tripos. and winning fellowship IN lo4e. lie sub
sAauently became head master OF the Grammar School
M Loads principal Of Cheenham College. principal
OF Kings college. London. Canon OF Worcester us7D
Chanlain in Ordinary to the Queen N860). Canon OF
wastmins,er 1ss1). PImaie OF Australia Metro
rop,an Of New-south Wales. and Lord Bishop Of
c,d,sv n $50. Bishop Coadjutor In the Diocese OF
Rochester 1880 and Canon Of Windsor q SOD. Bishop
Ror,v IS a man OF commanding personality and OF
ren,a manners. He expects to remain In this
country about three weeks. visiting Chicago and
Nfacsrs and returning by way OF Canada.
He spoke last night The Growth of knowledge
IN Love" taking his text from Ephcsians ill., Is and
3D. He said In substance:
The IDEAL Of growth in knowledge is apprehension, not
comprehension. which the finite mind is Incapable
connection with the infinite. St Paul directs first
10 expand in length and breadth. New fields
edge continually opening all around us larger n.
structons made in subjects involving both space and
time. and specialization. St. Paul directs US.
second expand in depth and height Of knowledge
get uutns ana 10 ma the one great
mony and development. We recognize that all
of dignity and Importance we
rise from the psychcel the spiritual from the
Intellectual 10 the great wisdom Of lie There cxpan-
sions opposite in direction pointing the past
the other to the future but both lead from finite
infinite God. The expansion in depth and height seems
less real TO the world nevertheless, IT should bc the
aim OF the university to teach TO rise from the temporal
70 the eternal.
Looking on the subjective side Of the need OF love for
this we a species
for all successful study Without love there
be no true insight into the heart OF but simply
knowledge OF its exterior Love gives an intuition into
its laws that the more proaic incapable
is true TO a greater when here study
man Without sympathy the brightest intel
lects We find that to-day political economy
takes into this fact. and so we must have tie
love would supreme Being in the highest
sense As the APOSTLE "He that loveh not knoweth
not Cod' Purely intellectual phlosophic thought
lead to God. 1t is only by humble sympathy that
man gain a knowledge of God as the Father. whom
we lie first loved for real must
be rooted in love.
Looking the objective side. we must recognize
Personality All laws. such. show there must
be Supreme Being behind. But the Gospel does not
show us as the Almighty and the Aterble but II
does show that God is Love" Christ, himself ha,
secratcd suffering through all the dark past. and makes
ADDICTION fnol glory His religion. while not solving the
mystery OF the origin OF evil swallows up its teTors in
the greater mystery OF salvation. II would know God
FOR certainty look in nature but in Christ
fot the perfection Of The subjective and objective
sides OF progress knowledge thus both lead the student
at university 10 the Of Christ through love- and
show end Of education is not knowledge
but and that the lowest ideal Is that OF material
xeath-the bane of this century.
The aim Of a university is culture for its own sake
As God Is not knowledge but love so the true end Of
education is not know, but 70 love. Let young men
remember their supreme qualification. even in tn
world is character aside foolish pos,ivism,
which only with the husks that The ultimate
reality the soul, which was made by God. can
know peace only when resting on Him.