The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-13
YALE DIVINITY SCHOOL
DARTMOUTH'S PRESIDENT SPEAKS
 BEFORE THE STUDENTS.

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 But Little Sympathy for Those Struggling
 to Rise.
 Rev. pr. Tucker, president of Dart
 mouth college, Hanover, N. H., preach
 ed the annual sermon before the gradu-
 ating class of the Yale Divinity school
 in Center church last evening. This
 was the beginning of the anniversary
 exercises of the Yale Divinity school.
 There was a large congregation pres
 ent. President Dwight and the mem
 bers of the faculty of the divinity school
 occupied seats in the pulpit, while the
 seats in the body of the church were
 reserved for the senior class and other
 members of the seminary. Dr. Fuckers sermon, which was a most instructive
 and thoughtful one, was in the main as
 follows;
 Flow far does the Christian church of to-day meet the requirements of its
 Founder in it's enhtsuiasm for human l ity? At no place is the church on trial
 more before public sentiment or before itself than at the point before us. Men are bringing their ills to-day to the
 church. Sometimes their demands are | irrational, sometimes pathetic But the church fails to satisfy them. And so the question comes up whether the church of to-day is really Christian. What we want to know is what the method of influence Is that Christ meant
 His church to have on humanity. Christ never appealed to the commonpalce. The
 commonplace is not capable of compre-
 hending the idsal in Chrtst's teaching.
 It Is a great mistake to bring down the
 ideal to the lower grades of human life and thus make the ideal of no account. Christs sermon on the Mount was not
 spoken to the first century nor to the ninefeenth, though evidently more to this than to that. It was spoken to centuries far beyond, how far we do not know. The principle that Christ taught in regard to the love we should bear to our neighbors seems to have had it's greatest results In the foreign missions. Yet the man who jostles us on the street is saved last because we are less able to idealze them. 1t is the actual, the corrupteth,' saith one writ CT. It is when religion comes out and takes its place among men that 1t is subject to criticismOur question more lL0ly lSt " AIGNl lS lllC SVtIil N1illH VI lhC Christian church? think that 1t Is safe l to say that there is great movement 1 going on in the younger element in the 1 church-in that generation which has | time to carry out it's plans This Is | shown by such groups and organiza- 1 tions as the Christian Endeavor the | Brotherhood of St. Andrew, the Student | Volunteer movement. which last, I un- derstand, has met is first repulse from | the number of men who have volunteers | to be missionaries about the financial | ability of the church to send them out. | But all this is the result of consecra- tion.
 Another expressive fact is the grow ing benevoience of this age. Charity i towards our fellow workers as well as towards our common objects of work is becoming more general. And it is a great. advance In the right direction. Benevolence is, too, becoming more thoughtful. The number of those who are becoming interested and giving their time to the science of philanthropy .s increasing. The church may be said to meet the test of charity, but does 1t meet the test of sympathy. Respect is the Christian price of influence. Sym pathy Is the respect we feel for those In conditions and circumstances below us. It is the human element that goes down with man even Into disgrace and deg radiation. It is different quality from pity It will be seen that the church shows much more charity for the fallen classes than 1t does sympathy for those who are rising. That is the reason of the breach between the church and la- bor. The workingman looks on and smiles while the religious people discuss the question why the churches are not filled with the laboring classes. h
 q also want to speak briefly in re- gard to the conservatism of the church. ( One writer has said: The church has ceased to stand for ideal convictions. It stands for the established order of hlngs It Is natural perhaps this should be so. But the existing order of things covers many with inequality ( And in any event religion will always l1 ieem to be a religion of the ins in the I ,yes of the outs. But is it not always he office of Christianity to make room Or new poole, new classes. new men? s t is the duty of religion to make room or outsiders in the existing order of a htngs, or to make the existing order of ( hings such that all may find a place. I t was in this way that out Pilgrim athers gained the privileges we now njoy. Christian,1s neither individualis- ic nor soclaistic but either, with the mphasis wherever the necessity re- uires. f
 'I cannot help but congra tu1ate the r nen who are to-day entering the Chris ian ministry Thds is the day of ap- s lied Christianity. One by one the men . f science are hastening to testify to a he truth of religion. Men who enter he ministry to-day from aentiment will ail as men never failed before, as will hose who enter on their ministry with ut judgment and without a perception g the rules which govern society. What h re needed to-day are men Of intellect sr nd prayerful devotion and consecra- n on, and especially those committed to n ne enthusiasm for humanity" fl
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