New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-28
HOPEOFTHE NEXT CENTURY
PRESIDENT DWIGHT FINDS 1T IN EDU-
GATED MEN.
THE BACCALArREATE SERMON PREACHED At
YALE YEsTERDAY-ITs REFERENCES TO
PRESENT PROBLEMS.

THE BACCALArREATE SERMON PREACHED At
YALE yEsTERDAY-ITs REFERENCES TO
PRESENT PROBLEMS.
New-IIaven. Conn. June 27-presdent Timothy
Dwight OF Yale delivered his annual baccalaureate
sermon before the graduating class of the academic
and scientific departments this morning the
seniors. wearing caps and gowns. filed the BODY
OF the church President Dwight took six texts AS
follows: II Corinthians, xiii, II: "tlnally brethren
farewell; | Corinthians. xvi -; quit YOU IKE
men: Corinthians, xvi. 20: IAN the brethren
greet you: Corinthians xvi. -: My love be with
you air Corinthians, xvi. Il: The salutaton OF
me, Paul, with mine own hand and Philippians
iii. /: FINALLY. my brethren. rejoice" lie said:
in accordance with an Interesting and pleasant
custom, which was established century ago ana
which has been handed down to us from the ia
theirs. our last Sunday service in each academic
year IS especially devoted to the utterance of
few words Of Christian counsel and encourage
mcnt. or OF Christian friendship and fellowship
These words are spoken to the company of young
men who. having completed their course of under
graduate study are about 10 leave the home OF
their college life and go forth into new scenes and
spheres Of action.
Il congratulate you what will he accom-
plished in your lifetime The future waits to reveal
itself stand before you at this hour and what
do ! see? company Of young men who know
nothing from experience Of the great questions
of the beginning Of the last half-ccntury. Those
twenty-five years made the word new word
But these triumphant victories not the final
Victories The century to come will have its own
successes. grander than any of the past.
ITO say farewell I'm your il to say rejoice
You are to live in the twentieth century and to
live for the forward movement of the time. There
can bc no question of the force OF those state
ments. II you are to live at all. for the years of
the nineteenth century are ended The latter state
mcnt must ho.d equally with regard to YOU. If
your life In the future is TO be worthy OF your call
inS as educated men. and TO answer in TT measure
to the privilege bestowed upon you IN the uni
WHAT. then. we have only to ask will be the
manly part in the forward movement? 1t VIII be-
be a man in your own personal life. The forward
movement is movement for and toward the best
manner OF living for each and every man It's pur-
pose and end are TO brns AL TO the highest cohdi-
ton OF manhood You cannot take a true part IN
success in 1T. if you false to or in yourselves
The victorious army will move on without you
eennryloo about IL leaders and
the followers on evGry side ana See ~" nu d gn
and pretence and deception and outward show
lives and make them useless for the struggle OF the
ages. The hope of the new century must be that
come And where Is it to come first, and with
sure promise of completeness, unless it be in the
personalities Of university men?
Ny friends when we reach down to the crater
and foundation Of things. l know not what your
education in this University was given you FOR, or
ton OF the reality Of your inward .ife. II YOU are
not something true. real genuine In yourself TO-
CAV; if you have not something within you when is
more and better to your apprehension than any
thing outside Of you can be-somethng when Is
Yourself as a man. and not simply added to your
SELF az . man-it Is n pity that you ever came 10
this place or entered these University gates. 1ou
arc 10 son Of the University in the true sense OF
the word" .,.
IN addressing the graduating c,ass President
Dwight said: Ard now may ask you to rise ana
Arose o i"st before Writing the last two or three
scntenccs Of his letter. said 10 his ft"nds. me
saiutatiou Of me. Paul. with mine own hand
cannot let the farewell hour pass without sepa-
rating myself from all others OF whom you may be
thinkinr and giving you my personal greeting as
Won 90 forth to your future. My greeting IS one
that bears with it hest wishes and largest hopes
Nav pcacs and happiness be always yours. May
mo Owe Of Christ be the constraining ana I'M
". ling powcr in your soul. May the benedlCtion OF
too Divine Father rest upon you. as upon Ills be-
loved children through al the years and may your
inward ne and your outward life be fun or AL
,hat is true and beautiful and good. So with the
Apostle in the old time say to you. with klndest
affection: Finally brethren. farewell; hnahy' my
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