The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-06-22
WON BY CLEMENT G. CLARKE
DE FOREST PRIZE SPEAKING IN BATTELL CHAPEL YESTERDAY

Clement George Clarke Wins the $lOO
 Medal for Writing and PrOnouncing in
 Public the Best English Oration-Organ
 Recital This Afternoon in Battell Chapel
 bv Harry B. Jepson, the College organist
 -Baccaleaureate Sermon by President
 DwIght Sunday Morning-sermon on the
 Lives of Professors Dana and Whitney
 Sunday Evening.
 The DeForest prize speaking took
 place at Battell chapel at o'clock yes
 terday afternoon, and Clement George
 Clarke of Manhattan, Kan, won the
 medal, which is valued at SlO0 The subject of his oration was "The Religion
 of Milton and the Religion of George
 Herbert" This prize was founded in 1923 by David c. DeForest of New Ha-
 ven, to be awarded ito that scholar of the senior class who shall write and pronounce in public an English oration in the best manner" the president and professors being the judges, The speak CTS wore their caps and gowns. fair sized audience was present.
 MT. Clark, the winner of the medal, was also the winner of the Ten Eyck prize of $60 in the junior exhibition, and will pronounce the class oration at the presentation exercises In Battell chapel Monday morning. This Is the speaking which formerly took place in Center church on Commencement day, but has been put at different time on account of its making the Commence ment day exercises so long.
 The speakers and their subjects were as follows:
 Julian Ingersoll Chamberlain of New York city-The Religion of Milton and the Religion of George Herbert,
 Charles Cheney Hyde of Chicago, Ill.
 The Generalship of Marlborough and of Wellington Compared
 Roger Sherman Baldwin of New York city-Lourdes.
 Clement George Clarke of Manhattan, Kan.-The Religion of Milton and the Religion of George Herbert.
 Francis Burton Harrison of New York city-The Generalship of Marlborough and of Wellington Compared.
 Lindsay Denison of Washington, D. C.-Historical Novels.
 The Townsend premiums, five in num- Der, and valued at SIP each, are tried for by the same speakers. These are awarded for the best specimens of Eng fish composition read in public by mem- bers of the senior class, and were found- ed in 1S43 by the gift of Isaac H. Town send of New Haven.
 The following is MT. Clarke's oration:
 MIR. CLARKEs GRAFTON.
 The Religion of Milton and Religion of
 George Herbert.
 At a time when there were shelves in | many an English library which had no | place for Paradise Lost. George Her l bert's Temple was affectionately re- | garded as combining the merits of | Psalter and prayer book Tn the same | age which spoke of Herbert as the Psalmist of the seventeenth century | the dean of Westminster rejected a bust of Milton, thinking even his name unworthy to be inscribed in building dedicated to the cause of religion. Pub lie opinion has since erected statue to the memory of this man. His name is no longer thought a defilement of sacred walls. The name of Milton is household word to-day, while George Herbert though by no means forgot ten has no such shrine in the libraries or hearts of English readers as the Puritan poet whose pamphlets were burnt by the public execution in the years of the Restoration.
 There is perhaps no better test of the greatness of men than the history required to explain them. Some men are great for single day or a single but some few gather up into themselves an epoch, a period or a religion. We have the age of Peri cles, the Elizabethan period, and the re- ligion of Milton. Herbert would never serve to identify an era, but he repre- sents the attitude of the conservative mind at this period of innovation, and into his life and religion all of the finest elements and noblest l traits of the established English church. They were men of marked individuality besides. Milton was Puritan plus him. self and George Herbert was more than a mere devotee to the doctrines of Archbishop Land Herbert stands for the highest refine ment of the Anglican idea. He thought I ,f the Church of England as mean E between the two extremes of Catholi- ,ism on one side and Presbyterianism ,n the other. His theology was the 1 of the archbishop. There is | Inference of opinion as to Milton's the a ,logy. As a Calvinist, he laid the em- r ,hasis of his belief on the sovereignty q if God and his characteristic trait was f (of mind) (The living real q ty of the invisible world led him to I, egard the unseen as the principal a ning.) We may be able to discover pas- f. ages in his writings that do not har- h nonize with each other In doctrine, but < read as whole like the great book, n which was the object of his reverence, Ii he works of Milton have the ring of a ne powerful spiritual personality e which overshadows and renders insig- b ificant his exact tenets in theology. =, Reverence for authority was con- |, rolling influence with Herbert Milton :. ras his own authority. Herbert was n cart and soul a lover of existing in- titutions. At the very time when Mill on was refusing to take holy orders u hat must be bought with "servitude II nd for speaking" Herbert was serv- c' lg an Anglican priest at Bemerton. U 70 the mind of the churchman there l' jVl II1co, 45,er fp