Morning journal and courier., 1894-05-17
ANNYvKRsARY ADDREssEs.

ANNIVERSARY ADDRESSES. Eight Graduates Speak at she Yale
 Divinity school Anniversary Exer.
 cises-August F. Fehlandt Prophe- sies That Socialism Will Win in | This COuntry-Carroll Perry,s Plea | for she study of the Classics-The ! Alumni Meeting-Planting the Ivy |
 The Reception and Concert in the
 Evening. |
 The anniversary exercises of the Yale divinity school were held in Battell chapel yesterday morning at 10:s0 o'clock, Presi- | dent Dwight presiding.
 James Alexander Solandt of Quebec was the first speaker. His subject was ''Per- sonal Righteousness as Related to National Prosperity" He said individual righteous ness must be relied upon to solve all the problems that vex the country. Some would say educate the masses. The edu- cated man unless he follows truth is more dangerous than the unedueatsd man. The course of the eviltioer Is the only unrea- sonable phenomenon in the universe. What we need Is that every person, edu- cated or uneducated, rich or poor, should ask themselves the question, ia the life that am living worth of being tho life of the true citizsns This Is chosen nation of God. The pledges of His .choice are written all through the country. The only of iniquity. The only hope of the nation is the oitixsn who Is true to his God.
 The next speaker was August Frederick Fehlandt of Madison, Wis. His subject was, "An Era of Transition" - He said that this is an age of transition, both in the sphere of thought and practical life, as we'll as an age of unsxampled intellectual activ- ity. We are gaining c new conception of the place and value of the Bible. As sci entiic explanation of history 1t is faulty, but ss an exponent of the experiences of life, it's joys and sorrows, and the myste- ries of God. it is the grandest of books Nowadays, faith in the personality of God, rather than e belief in dogma, is being made the test of religion. There Is also a change coming over us in our community life. We are drifting toward one of two things. cooperative or socialistic basis or to anarchy. As law is necessary, the re- suit will be more strongly defined form of socialism. Let no man sheer at the dis. turbances in the world at present. They | have a cause and they mean something. Samuel George Hickman of Cincinnati l gave 8 fine address on "The Eloqusnce of | St. Bernard" discussing his life and achievements.
 l Charles Edwin Reeves of New London | spoke on "The Ministers Mission in Mod.
 ern Life" He said 8 modern minister
 must be an idealist, an optimist, prophet
 and seer. At present men are mainly l materialistic. But the preacher must keeT
 strong in mems hearts the hope that
 springs from faith and trust in God.
 Charles Stillman- Haynes of Fitchbure
 then spoke on "The- Literary Character ol
 the Bible," after which Carroll Perry oi
 Williamsburg, Mass, spoke on "UtilitJ
 and Culture"
 Edwin Jones Lewis of Alliance, O. ,spok,
 on Religious Views in Tennyson," snt
 Henry Hugh Proctor of Fayetteville, Tenn.
 on "A New Ethnic Contribution to Chris
 tisnity." The address to the class was de
 livered by Professor Brastow. The ad
 dresses as a whole were above the avsrsg
 and were well delivered.
 THE ALUMNI MEETING.
 Il The meeting of the alumni occurred a
 2:30 o'clock in Marquand chapel and wa attended by large number of the gradu
 ates of the school. The subject for dis | cussion was, s.Is the Power of the Amerl } can Pulpit decliningf'
 The meeting was opened with few re marks by the Rev. Dr. Cooper, pastor c l the South Congregational church of Ne,
 Britain, who acted as the presiding officer Rev. Dr. Tuttle, tho college pastor ct An kerst, was the next speaker. He advocate : the position that the power of the Amer g can pulpit is not on the decline. He sai that there never was 8 time when the pu r,tfv vuon oe hol hny< f prospect before it as now.
 Professor George F. Fisher of the YaI
 divinity school then addressed the nee 6 ing. He mphasIzsd the importance 2 the element of authority in the work ( d the ministry. He spoke of the supernatur - in religion and the power of God, and gal v that it was impossible for the power of tt d pulpit to decline while through 1t Go ? speaks to the people.
 Dr. Leon Walker, pastor emeritus a Center church, Hartford, and formerly J. New Hsven's Center church, spoke mex J. He said that the position of the ministl 8 had not declined or lost power. He r l. ferred to the history of the church in Il @ past and said that there had always bee !. burning questions with which to grappl } and that there always would be; that 8 J. the church had to do was to keep good 1 2 record and the power of the puipit woul . be maintained
 l. Rev. Dr. Tufts of Munson, Mass. ", Il the next speaker, and he spoke much 7. tho same strain as those who had precede 8 him, saying that the power of the Amer D can pulpit was not on the decline.
 t The last speaker was Rev. MT. Emerso ,, of Clinton, Conn. He took rather the o, '- posite view. He thought the church WI a not doing the work that it should. IT T workers in many of our churches wei
 women. The strongest men of the con
 munity are very often entirely without u
 pale of the church. Thus, he said, 1t WI B the duty of the church to strive and reac 6 the men, which at present it is not doin, eel .; PLANTING THE IVY.
 The planting of the class ivy took plae ? immediately after the close of the meetin
 in Marquand chapel. MT. Msserve of tt 2 graduating class presided over the sxel
 cises and made few remarks in opening , ,, Rev. Professor George B Stevens of th 3 Divinity school then spoke in behalf of th
 faculty. He said that the members of th class would probably in 8 very short tim , find themselves in places far separated but the class ivy formed @ common bon
 of attachment to the institution for whic all felt an affection. Nr. Parke then req
 the ivy ode and the exercises closed wit the singing of the hymn, "Blest Be tn
 Tie That Binds" s-a --'7--se's+.s '-----r-r-
 The spot where the ivy was planted wa t in the courtyard near the Bacon Memoria
 library.
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