The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-06-22
BACCALAUREATE SERMONS,
AT YALE UNIYERSITY--AT TRINITY
 AND OTHER COLLEGES.

7" Words to the Class-Rev. pr. Douglass of This City-His Impressive Words to the Students of Trinity College-ser- mons in Other Places.
 The baccalaureate sermon was l preached to the Yale senior class yes- ! terday morning at Battell chapel by President Dwight. The chapel was completely filled with the members of the Sheff and academic graduatinp. classes and their friends, and many were unable to secure seats. President | Dwight read from Matthew and spoke rom the text Matthew x, 8, the latter part: Freely ye have received; freely l give He spoke of the occasion on which Jesus gave this injunction to His | disciples He said that the hour had
 then come when Jesus and His disciples were to part and said that the text | had been selected because of the Iike-
 ness of that hour in certain respects to l the one when the graduating class
 leaves the college. He then interpreted
 the significance of the text and showed
 how, if the meaning of the text Is un-
 derstood, it will impart an inspiration
 of guidance. The thought is that of
 giving and receiving. Our life is all
 made up of giving and receiving. The l gifts from Jesus to His disciples were
 as free as the gifts of love from the l Divine Father. The great gift which
 He had given then was as free as it | was great. President Dwight then spoke of the influences which the class | had received since entering college. He l tIot 1,p% t,,a,
 from the moment of entering college
 and was the same as had entered into
 the lives of previous graduates as was
 the same as in the days of his own un- 1 dergraduate life. It reaches back to l men who President Dwight knew and
 to those who were old when they were l young. It belongs to the first of the college history. The question is asked. What Is the influence?" but this is 1 difficult to answer. The only reply we can give is, Thou nearest the voice. but can neither tell whence it cometh | nor wither it goeth." It can be seem ! Tn every son of the university in it's working. It has found its way into the l heart of each man, and unites us into a brotherhood. A definition is wanting Tor 1t, but there is no doubt as to it's preciousness. In answer to the uues- tion as to how we received this gift we can only answer it came without seek l ing. It is gift of which the graduate ] to-day knows the result and influence. 1.-The influences of the college have en- 1 tered into the lives of graduates with
 out their knowledge, and without the Knowledge of those from whom they 1 nave received them. If we establish the true principle in ourselves the right growth comes to us. Our inner life Will become fuller of sweetness. This 1 gilt IS the result of all that is noble
 and good which you have received here. As a genuine son of the university i It mas made you man of reality. not
 or pretence; man of character, not of l show; man who believes in manhood and desires 1t, rather than what may De added to it, but is part of it; man to whom the internal is more than the | external. and in whose thought the life. above all other life, is the life of the l soul
 | T believe that there is nothing more
 needed in this showy, luxurious, place. hunting, fame-seeking, money-getting generation, than the giving forth from educated men of such vision of gen.
 uine inward living as the one thing and the best thing in the world. The man | in himself-that is what the divine summons calls you to be.
 You are to be workingmen, if YOU are to live the life for which you are preparing here; and your work is to be
 for others, or your preparation has be- fore it no worthy end. Your profession bUSinpSc ho hot
 be fitting for son of the Christian uni- versity-but whatever it be, your effort
 must be helpful to individual men and
 to the mass of men, if you answer the call as you pass from the receiving to the giving time
 Great questions are already arising.
 and will, in coming years of your ac- tivity, arise, the decisions of which will
 be of deepest significance for the lives
 of men. In country like ours-some of them relating to society and some,
 of even greater moment, to individual
 living-must be determined and settled
 by the mass of the people. The danger
 for the mass lies in their own ignor- ance, or half ignorance or half knowI-
 edge, and the blindness which may lead them to trust in selfish or deceitfuT
 guides. The observation of the pub- lie life and this moment makes mani- fest the threatening character of the danger. The influence of the educated
 men who are not selfish, is the need of
 the hour and of the generation. You and those like you who have been taught by the best teaching and have
 received the best lessons for the per- sonal life must take the position of leaders and givers in the smaller of the
 larger spheres which may open to you.
 Whoever else may deceive or go astray, you must not deceive. Whoever else
 may be thoughtful of his influence, you
 must be thoughtful.
 And now, my friends and fellow
 students of these graduating classes, let me bid you farewell. The word is a.
 sorrowful one because it reminds us
 of the end and the separation. But in
 itself it is not sorrowful; it is the word which carries in itself the wish and prayer for joyful life in the coming
 time. Thus will l give you this word.
 You enter to-day into the fellowship of
 the great brotherhood of those who
 have offered for each other the prayer
 for the true future life, and who are
 now realizing in their own happy ex-
 perience the answer that has been
 given.
 T have spoken few words respect