The Portland daily press., 1895-07-10

O0p WiiSAA be&o bECOIllS NllNGSUeQ OIL SOIu6
of its most significant and sublime truths
In 1.-The one case enthusiasms for it have
| been purchased by the barter of intellec
tual loyalty, in the other case intellectual
loyalty to it has been purchased by the
sale OF Its enthusiasms. Christianity as
! a system should be presented in the col
| lege as system at once rational and call
ing for the intense loyalty of the adher-
ent. 1t also should be seen as system
SO broad that no church of usual limita-
tlons can embrace it; so high that only
humanity in it's largest aspirations can
make any approach to the attainment of
| It's relative truths; and so fundamental
TO the nature of man that no set or sect
OF men can make any attempt to place
their own trade mark upon it, Where in
all humanity should we find type of
Christianity at once broad without being
superficial, and deep without being mar
row, and high without being arbitrary,
as among the scholars and the students
OF the American College. Not only right
eousness of life and the unity of faith
should be conserved in the college but
also breadth Of the spirit and earnestness
OF the heart and strength of the will
American life suffers from the divisions
OF the one great triumphant church which
Is a partial embodiment of the Christian
system Personal force is wasted through
denomlnational divisions American life
|
church and so many of the churches Let
the college embody the unity of the faith
IN the union of believers who are trained
IN lntellects and warm in heart.
The fourth method by which the college
may bless American life is through the
1ncuicatlon iand illustration of broad
and high patriotism. No sympathy is the
college to have with that sentiment which
cries MY country right, or wrong No
sympathy is the college to have with that
Kind of patriotic love which is bought by
the destruction of other nations The
college is to have the keenest sympathy
with every endeavor to promote love for
That nation into which one was born, of
which he forms part, and in whose soil
ms, own dust becomes dust itself.
America ought to be the best nation of
the future. In humble pride we may
plume ourselves upon what has been done
and upon what we are able to do. Not in
vain, braggart boasting may we think
OF the past or anticipate the future. For
nation that has in the hundred years of
Its national existence done what the
American has done for civilization may
be humbly proud. When we take up the
book of our illustrious ones there are
names which we can worthily write
by the side of the names of the greatest.
Jurisprudence Marshall and Jay and David
Dudley Field, to Education Horace Mann
and Hopkins, to Government Washington
and Lincoln, to Generalship, Grant and
Lee, to Romance. Hawthorne and Cooper
to Poetry, Lowell and Longfellow and
their associates, to Preaching, Brooks
and Beecher, to Craftsmanship, Webster
to Finance, Gallatin and Chase, to History
Prescott and Parkman and Motley, to
Science, Agassiz, Grey, Henry and Dana
to Diplomacy the AdamSes andJ Jeff rSon,
to Architecture, Richardson, to Painting,
Hunt, Copley and Inness, to Journalism,
Greeley, to practical affairs, Franklin
and to reformation Garrison and his as
sociates; nation which has given these
names to the world in a hundred years
is nation that is worth loving, worth
dying for. worth living for.
There is no nobler chapter in the history
of the American College than the chapter
which tells in glowing phrases of the col
lege boys who went forth from college
hall to the camp who marched from the
commencement platforms to the field of
battle. You may read the record of them
in the Memorial Hall at Cambridge and
at Brunswick and you may read the song
memorial of them in the greatest poem
written in America-the college boys who
fought and some of whom who died that
we might have country. 1t was not
alone from the college of the North that
these men went forth. 1 have read with
eyes bedimmed with tears in the cata-
logues of the colleges of Virginia name
after name upon page after page having
the simple record, wounded at Wilderness
killed at Manassas, killed at Cold Harbor
Yes. North and South there came from
the college heart the patriotic impulse to
do loyal service for "my country''
[ know very well that it is sometimes
said and very often thought that the
scholar is not patriotic that in the COM
prehensiveness of knowledge he loses in
tensity of conviction; that in loving
humanity he does not love the brothers Of
Grafton of Wendell Phillips delivered at
the Phi Beta Kappa dinner at Cambridge
in which he arraigned the American
scholar for cowardice and Indifference in
the nations crisis. But the best answer
to the words of the orator was the four
square power, rising above the platform
on which he spoke, that proclaimed to the
world that our oldest college gladly gave
her sons, and poured out her bluest blood
for the salvation of the nation. Memorial
Hall with it's tablets of white marble in
scribed with names in black of heroes was
sufficient answer
The American people love America.
The love sometimes becomes braggadocia;
but the American people in it's love for
America has often felt that it did not
find a sympathetic heart in the bosom of
the American college. The people have
therefore felt themselves aloof from the
college. The college should therefore in
culcate love for the country; patriotism
which is broad and yet enthusiastic and
vital; patriotism which is high without
boastfulness; q patriotism which is as
deep as the instincts of the human heart.
1t is thus that the American college can
bless American life. IL is thus that the
American college can lead the people in
times of national crises into ways of
strength, into ways of peace.
But for us to-day love for country
comes and its focus is love for city. There
was great contest between nations
rights and states rights; tho nations
rights won. There is great contest be-
tween city's rights and rings rights or
a boss's rights, and the larger rights shall
win. Good government for the American
city represents the present field for
patriotic love. Into this field the college
should go. 1t should go in the person of
the college settlement. 1t should go in
the person of the college graduate in any
profession or many professions. The re-
cent years give a magnificent illustration
of the entrance of one, college graduate,
once college teacher, now preacher
into the attempt to give an honest gov
ernment to America S metropolis, and you
may call his name Charles III Parkhurst;
but after ALL it was the American college