The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-28
EALK,s RAoOALAuREArE pAE.
President Dwight Ceutrssts Hts Student Days
with These OF the Present.

"hNA - -
NEW HAVEN, Conn, June 27.-President
Dwight of Yale University delivered his bac-
calaureato sermon this morning in Battel
Chapel to tho graduating classes of the AGA
demic and scientific Department.. The Presi.
dent was In better voice and was noticeably
stronger than a year ago, when no was COM
PEELED to pause at frequent intervals His scr
mon to-day also marked a departure from the
usual line of these annual sermonA. Ho was
reminiscent, historical, and to a certain degree
prophetic. He took five texts for the sermon:
"Finally, brethren, farewell" Quit you like
men. . NY love DO with you all, Z" "The saluta-
ton Of ma, Paul, with mine own hand" "Fi-
naly, my brethren, rejoice"
President Dwight said:
when I stood with my classmates where
you stand to-day, tho half century was just
opening before US. The present looked dark
and doubtful in many outlooks. The questions
which had reached a point of fierce discussion
or were threatening the worlds life and peace,
were the question Of slavery in our land, and
liberty, as freedom from oppression. in the
older lands. The final decision Of these ques-
tons seemed far distant in tho din future, be-
forth to our work While the forces Of evil seemed
still irresistible and the powers of evil seemed
stili established upon, their old and firm foun-
dattons. SO it was then
II stand before you at this hour and what do
i sec. l sec, a company OF young men. at the
ago which l had thon reached, who know moth
ing as a matter OF their own experience of the
movements and conflicts which determined
those questions-tho date of whose birth was
pany OF Young men TO whom the great civil war
and the removal Of slavery from tho republic
and the OF the grand work OF
the union OF Italy and the overthrow Of the sec
ond Napoieop, bringing larger freedom 70
tho free opening of the Japanese empire to
Christian civilization are events of a past his
t learned ne from the ibs si SsSTiDS Of Of 9SS SoRs, HF FSs, e to be
portion only Of the half century, had passed
when all these things were accomplished. Those
twenty five years made tho world a new world
and the new creative forces of those years,
with their struggles and their. Victories, en-
tered into our personal lives and made US new
Tho century to come win have It's own sue;
tS Ssseswsrandsr 1t may BE- !, than ,nn any other Of
summation. And your generation is to witness
these. successes. many Of them, and to, take
dor them possible. You may surely regard it Us
one Of tho happy circumstances connected with
even, may we not say Of the happiest-that with
the closing OF your youthful preparation, you
bid farewell to the old century aud with the
first strength of your manhood, you enter upon
the manly duties of the new one.
Tho danger incident to these closing years
Of the old century-look about you among the
leaders and the followers on every side and see
the multiplying evidences of this fact-is that
sS5n'G and Outward sPs Tf'n shove S%a R %iiS inw sPS e sHSsP.
ness, will lay hold upon mems lives and make
them useless for the struggle of the ages. Tho
hope OF the new century must be that the danger
will pass away because q change has come, and
where is It to come first, and with sure promise
ties of university educated meni We have spoken
Of tho great questions which the nineteenth CEN
tury IL passing over to the twentieth for set
Element, and on the answer to which the we'll
being OF men in the future may largely depend.
The summons to your manhood Is to meet these
questions in a manner and In a spirit worthy Of
ful-grown men,"