The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-06-22
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his church. We cannot help wishing that Milton had been less mechanical in his theology. He was able to see a noble allegory in the Old Testament sto- ny of Samson; we wonder why he could not have seen a larger truth in the his tory of creation, His poetry is full of magnificent images; we wonder why he shut symbolic interpretation so entirely out of the New Testament scripture. He saw political Issues clearly; why did he not see that the supreme doctrine of love underlying all doctrines gave to Christianity potential power and ena- bled it as a set of principles to adapt itself to every human society?
 The particular differences between the churehman and the Puritan of the sev- enteenth century have largely passed away. It Is no longer a question of wearing the surplice or repeating the liturgy; the Puritan and the churchman have almost ceased to take issue on dootrinal points; a liberal theology is granted to all believers. We have com bined the sln-denouncing prophet with the cultured gentleman. Qt is the nob- lest product of the ages, Those men who unite in their lives the sturdy honl- or of Plymouth with the culture and refinement of the churchman-George William Curtis, James Russell Lowell we hold them up to the world, our type of American menD The two types, however, are not yet extinct. We need a double infusion of both their quail ties. Our Puritanism needs finer cul- ture; our culture a sturdier Purtan- ism. New enemies must be assaulted with the ancient fervor of spirit. Our aestheticism must affiliate with Puritan duty; our "1 would" with the sterner T ought"
 And only as we bring more and more closely together the highest clements in both of these types shall we approach that perfect religion where highest cut- ture and highest morals are combined, where refinement of taste is united with positive faith, and where freedom and authority are reconciled To learn the spirit of devotion and service we may yet read with profit the poems of George Herbert and in the sphere of action where our business is to speak things, not words" we must learn again the spirit of Puritanism as 1t is embodied in the life, the work and the words of John Milton,
 RECITAL THIS AFTERNOON
 MT. Harry B. Jepson, college organist, will play the following program of or- gan music in the Battell chapel this af- ternoon at o'clock:
 MT. Ericsson F. Bushnell will sing. -Maestoso from Second Sonata
 in c. minor. Guilmant-Nuptial March. Handel-How Willing My Paternal
 Love.
 From Judas Maccabaeus)
 Mir Bushnell. Sonata in D Major. l a. Jepson-Tempo di Minuetto.
 b. ikowsky-Andante Canta-
 bile.
 From quartet from string, Op. 11.) c. Fumagalh-Marcia Villerecia. Mendelssohn-It is Enough.
 (F'rom Elijah)
 MT. Bushnell.
 a. Tombelle-Epithalam
 b. Parker-Fantasie.
 to Tannhauser
 The baccaleaurate sermon will be preached by President Timothy Dwight n Battell chapel at 0:80 o'clock Sunday | 
 In the evening President Dwight will preach a sermon on the lives of Profs. Whitney and Dana at Battell chapel 1t 7:30 o'clock tomorrow evening.
 The class presentation exercises will De held in Battell chapel at Il o'clock Monday morning, and at o'clock the ,lass histories will be read on the l ,ampus.