The evening times., 1896-10-21
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Epiphany Church, conducted the responsive
Scriptural reading OF the thirtv-third psalm.
Rev. Samuel l.. Beilcr. d. D., vice chan
celior of the university, read the hymn.
prayer for wisdom, written for the oc-
casion, by George Lansing Taylor, ID. D.,
L. Ii. D.. The first verses follow:
20, wisdom, whose creating word
The fornless void prinIeval heard,
And ancient chaos flashed with light
With ordered suns and systems bright
Speak thou in us. Through mind and heart
Thy radiant beams all quickeuing dart,
Dispel our darkness. chase our gloom,
The souls whole orb with truth Hume.
Through all the wanderings of our race
Still may We read Gods power and grace,
TIL through all history's tale shall gov
Heav'ns Kingdom founded here below"
Invocation was offered by Rev Stephen
n. Newman, ID. D., of the First Congre-
gational Church
WSHoP HURST'S ADDRESS.
Bishop Hurst. chancellor OF the univer-
sitJ. whose interchangeable efforts made pos
sible the proceedings OF today, delivered the
introductory address. He said
This hour is one toward which our
Thoughts have been directed and on which
our faish has been ceHtcred for more than
five years Of waiting and of working.
This picturesque plateau on which we
assemble today was bought. not because
there was money With which to pay for It,
but because OF a firm belief that not only
the particular Protestant Church which we
represent needed this center for higher
education. but because it was Protestant
need Of the whole country.
with no one great henefactor either to
buy the land or to erect the buildings or to
provide the endowmentS, our appeal has
been TO the great commonalty or American
patriots and the still greater commonalty
of Christians throughout the world. The
response has been more than our most
ardent hopes.
Our OBJ Jet has been to found here Il
university in harmony with the great de-
m ands of the century and to furnish fa-
cilities equal to those of the foremost uni
versities of the old world.
I'VE have learned already that this tran
scendent object appeals not only TO the
Judgment and the sympathies of leading
minds in church and state, but that gener-
Gus hearts and open hands have given such
proof as only sacrifice can lay upon the
altar of our Lord. Prayer has ascended
from many homes and gifts have come frc-9
many hands; and we are no W here to la y the
corner stone of the first building on these
grounds, already consecrated to tlio king
dom and service of our heavenly Father.
THE NAME is APPROPRIATE.
"It is highly proper that our group of
noble'edifices should begin with the College
of History. This science takes first place,
by the right of its high functions, in the de-
| velopment of great educational scheme
a modern, complete, and an American
university.
'History furnishes an outlook over the
achievements of those who have preceded
| us in the struggle of our common human life.
At the distance OF an oceans width from
the animosities and Complications of Eu-
| ropean politics, the American is best fitted
for unraveling the tangled skein of Euro
pean history.
without prejudice or partiality he is pc
uliarly qualified for weighing and Sitting
thesyexed questions of the Old World, and
for Solving the problems of the New.
He is far enough away from the noise and
the strife of foreign lands to make safe
generalizations and to reach just conclu-
sions.
History points out the best paths
by which future additions to the world's s
treasures may be made. No science ap
proaches it in drawing from the errors and
the successes OF past ages the highest wis
dom and the noblest inspirations for meet
ing the demands which the future is sure
to bring with it. 1t holds out the lamp
of caution to the explorer in the realms
of TRUTH guarding at once against the mis-
takes CT the past and the tendencies which
might lead other repetition in the future.
GATEWAY OF LEARNING.
"Of all the sciences, history alone selects
the good and leaves the evil behind, 1t
forms tile proper gateway to every de-
partment Of human learning. So. as we
come to the laying of our first corner
stone, il has been our purpose to let the
College of History precede all others,
for history - itself the foundation of all
the sc fences.
George Washington was the first to con-
ceive the Importance of planting here at
the National Capital a great university.
His grounds for advocating it were based
upon political considerations, namely: That
the American citizen should be trained in
America in order to be saved from m onarch-
ical and other notions unfavorable to the
development OF citizenship in a great re-
public.
but century of national history has
taught us that the true university needs
more than that. 1t needs to open its doors
for the development OF science, based upon
the Word Of God, in harmony with the
divine teachings. and in full faith in the
final triumph OF Christiam over all wrong.
be 1t in hut or palace.
while this institution is under the aus
pices and care Of one denomination, there
are on its board OF trustees representatives
l,of six religious bodies, all OF whom most