The Portland daily press., 1895-06-24

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of the pupil will be superseded by sym
pathetic interest on the one side and affec-
tionate regard on the other Prof.
Blackie's favorite motto, 'sSpeak the
truth in love-, will temper justice with
mercy.
In the college the days of hazing are al
ready practically numbered. Now and
then there is a reversion to brute instinct
and violence, but this is becoming strik-
ingly exceptional 1t is at length begin
ming to be realized that the scholar boye
all others is under a sacred obligation to
be gentleman Relics of the barbarous
period survive however, even in the col
lege. and urgent appeals to class pride
and class honor are sometimes successful
in reviving "customs better honored in
the breach than in the observance. But
all these things belong to a decaying code
of ethics. The bully and the roisterer
have had their day and must soon take
their place with such fossils as the duelist
and the man of honor. The brute in man
dies hard, but love will finally throttle
him; and the law of courtesy, of brotherly
kindness, will enforce itself even amid
the eXcitements of inter collegiate ath-
letics. Until this result is FULLY secured
no collegey student can cherish worthier
aim than to show those less favored than
himself how to be both courteous and
brave, and to exemplify in speech and
Love will not, indeed, demand that all
grades of intelligence, of taste and enjoy
ment, be ignored. There are pleasures
reserved for those who can appreciate
them. The credentials for admission to
the artists circle must include the power
to appreciate his art Christian society
does not mean that state of anarchy in
which all the barriers presented by dis
similar tastes, pursuits, and accomplish
ments are broken down, and men and
women mingle as on some great field-day
without community of interests But it
does mean such loving helpfulness on the
one side and such grateful appreciation
own nature latent gifts of whatever sort
may be afforded the means for developing
these gifts and be accorded free admission
to the social life for which they thus be-
come prepared.
From its very nature love can lay down
no arbitrary rules 1t cannot prescribe to
you how many servants you shall have,
nor to me what my bill of fare shall be-
1t simply declares that Heavens bounty
is not to be greedily seized for personal
enjoyment. 1t reminds us that we are all
stewards of treasures that belong to
humanity. If can better serve humanity
by hanging pictures on my walls, by hav-
ing ten or twenty domestics instead of
one. by wearing garments that conform
observing forms that some select four
hundred have prescribed, then if have
the means to obtain these things, am
only doing my duty. But / must beware
how in the name Of love- of self-improve
ment for the improvement of others-I
minister to my own pride, vanity, or
complacency.
The particular doctrine of evolution
which is most definitely associated with
the name of Mr.. Darwin has brought into
clear view in our day the great law of
Natural Selection-the law of the strug-
gle for life and the survival of the fittest
That law has played, and is destined still
to play, an important part in the evolu-
tion of humanity. It can never wholly be
superseded, so far as we can see, without
putting an end to progress and leading to
universal retrogression and delay. While
men occupy this globe they must struggle,
and when the fires of ambition burn out
in the human breast, then mans mission
will be accomplished, and our earth will
worlds
But the more recent study of biology
has brought into relief sanother great
counter balancing law-"the law" as
Prof. Drummond has termed it, .-"of the
struggle for Others" !" Obedient to the law
with tooth and nail and with a ferocity
that knew no pity. The primitive in
stinct still finds exercise in wars between
nations and brutal conflicts between indi-
viduals. But day 1t more habitually
manifests itself in attempts to overreach,
to cheat, and to outwit others in the
strifes and competitions of business, oil
social, and of politial life.
But though held in allegiance through
the early history of man, the law of strug-
gle for others from the time that it was
proclaimed by Christ as the law of love,
has steadily been counteracting the law Of
strife Science unites with Christianity
in assuring us that Tennyson's vision in
his Locksley Hall of fifty years ago-that
clear vision of the Parliament of Nations,
the federation of the worlds sure of real
ization. At this hour petition to the Sui
tan of Turkey is circulating in Europe
and America, asking him to appoint a
Christian governor for Armenia Those
of you who live to see the second half of
the twentieth century are likely to find
war obsolete, and the brotherhood of men
firmly established
Prof. Chase closed with an address to
the graduating class
MATT A MI, uucnoAH