Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-06-26
At BATES COLLEGE.
President Cheney Addresses the Graduating
Glass Of that Institution.

LEWISTON, June 25.-The Baccalaureate
sermon by President Cheney formed the
opening exercises of the thirseeth anniver-
sary of Bates college. The afternoon was
showery but large audience was present,
there being a larger gathering than usual
pa,ed resignation of President Cheney
AMI the choice of a successor.
In the evening there was sermon be-
fore the eradu ting theological class, by
Rev. C. S. Perkins. Dover, n. H., subject;
The gospel and absolute truth, not to be
modified to suit people, so accepted and
administered by Paul.
President Cheney said
Text, Then the full corn in the ear"
Mark iv:2s. Twenty years ago" said
President Cheney, ''when the institution,
represented on this occasion. had seen its
first ten years of college life, my bacca-
laureate text was, First the blade
When ten years more of its youthful life
had passed, the next clause of the verse,
Then the ear furnished an appropriate
theme. On each of these occasions | ex-
pressed the wish that whoever should stand
where now stand. on the thirtieth ami
versary would use the concluding clause,
Then the full corn in the ear | then
little expected to be the one 70 use it. of
my class of 81 members graduating at
Dartmouth in ls;i9, am one of only tif-
teen surviving members. | would gladly
announce today that the college had reached
the point, where, its needs being fully met
and each OF its departments supplied with
necessary appliances for It's work. / could
truly liken its condition 10 that of the full
corn in the ear, mA'ured and rIpened.
Though ! cannot do this, | find vet much
to cause rejoicing on this anniversary.
The circumstances, therefore, under whiuh
this sermon is prepared make it suitable for
il, for the most part, TO contain remniscen
ces and suggestions.
From this point the sermon was largely
| a resume of the thirty years career of the
COLI ge Stree its foundation as Bates Col
leee in 1868.
The work of correcting the mistakes in
these views were detailed by President
Cheney in their relation to Bates college
and he a-cribed much of its early work to
John X. Simpson, y Boston merchant who
founded New Hampshire Institute, anil to
Hosea Quinby, a teacher in that institu-
| ton.
| In closing he spoke thus TO the gradual
ing class:
MY Young friends Of the graduating
class You have spent here four years at =
most important time in your lives You
will carry into your whole future the re-
smts of the maturing Influences which
have surrounded yon. They have been
not only years Of intellectual training and
FEEDING but those slso in which you ~
mcn and wonH have heen forming hshita.
and receiving impulses for the future. Per
| hays there are DO surroundings better
ada pied 80 fit man and womsn to meet
! life intelligen,ly and hravely than health
| full college life, where company of young
men and women work side by side. feeling
the irfiuence coming from each other $
characters, learning to bear ehsritsbly
with each others fsults having in fact. in
a little community thus formed an epitome
! OF the world ontsida. of y bich esrh one ia
to become part. The class of ?5 has an
| honorable record. You have shown that
YOU have beer here for a purpose sni IN
I fsithfuiness ysu t,ase heaored the fssiIege.
But the time has come whsa. st,ptinZ OUT
into oroa'ser iis,s, you ill each have to
decide in regard to sour future course and
each will be in New sphere of intfGs nre
| That you may decide from the highest mo
tives what your plans may be is the sincere
wish of those who have hsre soa2ht to
guide and help you. The test Ia which
your life work must be subjected by ard
by is-what was the motive that prompted
Iii. Lives, which center about self either
I in securing honor, riches. or any thing
worldly, must fail Of beirg true to their
highest results. ..Let the ends thou simest
at be thy Country, ., thy God $ ap,! Truths.
il advice that never becomes stale.
Science and philosophy combine with
Gods proyilences in making the universe a
book more easily understood than ever be-
fore. Our World is becoming homege-
neous- Great gain is made towards est~b-
lisbing the brotherhood of man. Nations
are becoming friends, and beating sheis
swords into pioughshaTes and their spears
into pruning hooks, they will. In the good
time coming learn var no more. But We
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