The Portland daily press., 1897-06-28
CHRISTIAN YERITIES.
President Buffers Sermon to the
Colby Seniors.
TOO MUCH DELVING IN MYSTERIES
BY CHRISTIANS.

Should Accept and Make Use of the Truths
| That Are Known-God, Duty, Salvation
| and Immortality the Great Assured
| vsrities-Other Baccalaureates.
| Waterville. June 27.-A large audience
of alumni and friends of Colby univer-
sity assembled in the Baptist church this
morning and listened to baccalaureate
sermon by President Nathaniel Butler,
D. D. This evening the annual sermon
before the Boardman Missionary socie-
ty and College Christian associations
| was preached by Rev. G.. " Hanson, D.
D., of Skowhegan. The subject of Presi-
| dent Buffers address was: 'sVerities
of the Christian Faith" the theme being
that in the realm Of religious thought
| and inquiry there is abundant revelation
of necessary truth. The text was Psalms
| CXXXI, l. Carlysle has said that the
psalms of David are the truest emblems
ever given of mans moral progress and
warfare here below. But the Psalms are
helpful to us, not only because they utter
for us every experience of our hearts,
but especially because the writer, having
experiences like our own, often leads to
conclusions which we could not have
reached without his help. Such con
clusion is that uttered in our text AS
men and women standing face to face
with the realities of life, we are ever
prone to spend too much time and
thought upon mysteries and too little
upon the plain and simple matters of life
and duty. Men have wasted much preci-
GUS time upon the unsolvable mysteries
of the divine nature and the world
would doubtless have been much happier,
and would be happier today if much of
thea time spent in formulating divine
truth had been spent in its direct appli-
cation to life. We should do in the spir-
itual realm what we do in that of ordi-
nary affairs. And while we press out
into the unknown and seek to solve the
mysteries, we should never let the un-
explained stand in the way o. our tho
rough application of the things we do
know and can use. In agriculture and
in science we apply the knowledge that
we have, while in matters of faith we
are too apt to let the mysterious stand
in the way of our living in peace and
strength enjoying steadfast hope and
vigorous life and ever increasing useful
ness
The great assured verities upon which
we may profitably rest our lives and
which by experience we may prove to
our satisfaction to be verities, are God,
duty, salvation.and immortality. We may
know all we need to know of these veri-
| ties, and by assuming them on the ground
| of our unerring intuition and proving
them to be realities by experience, we
shall find our lives best adjusted to our
fellow men and to the world in which
we live.
Bates Baccalaureate.
Lewiston, June 27.-Bates commence
ment is on, and Sunday morning large
congregation attended services at the
Main street Free Baptist church to listen
to.the. e.baccalaureate sermon by President
Chase. A special musical service was
rendered by the choir and organist, and
prayer was offered by Rev. j. A. Howe.
President Chase's sermon was an elo-
quent and scholarly effort and was list
ened to with the closest attention. His
text was Luke XI, 40.
At Yale.
New Haven, Conn.,, June 27.-President
Timothy D. Wright of Yale delivered his
annual baccalaureate sermon before the
graduating class of the academy and
scientific departments this morning He
said: 81 congratulate you on what will
be accomplished in your life time. The
future waits to reveal itself. I stand
before you at this hour and what do I
see? company of young men who
know nothing Of their experience of the
great questions of the beginning of the
last half century. Those % years made
the world a new world. You are to live
in the twentieth century and to live for
the forward movement of the time.''
DR.. Bradford's Sermon at Amherst.
Amherst. June 27.-The commencement
exercises at Amherst college opened this
morning with the baccalaureate sermon
delivered by Rev. Amory H. Bradford,
D. D. of Montclair, N. J.
President Tucker at Dartmouth.
Hanover, N. H., June 27.-President
VIM. Jewett Tucker, delivered the bac-
calaureate sermon before the senior class
Of yarmouth college in the college church
today. His subject was; "A Man Soul
and His World
Old Orchard News.
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