New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-20
HARVARD BACCALAUREATE.
m HENRY VAN DYKE breaches IN
APPLETON CHAPEL.
,,,s n,scorpsE on THE SALT OF THE EARTH
COLLEGE MEN SHOULD DE coNsERVA-
r1vE-RENAIssANcE OF RE


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c.-,-,dee Mass, June l9.-The Rev Dr. mem
an Dvke OF New-York. delivered the oac'ai ,
sermon before the senior class OF nan g. ,ors
.uv this afternoon in Appleton CndPe' -. tIor
.an and gown. met In front of HoiwortAy ha'
"a marched In line 20 the chapei 10 MOI ~
,ng words Of religious advice from 'he p1 che
NS = ,h,ect Of the sermon was sat anu '.'e
..x, vas Matthew v 10: "Ye are the SAT- o' ''
.s-,h -" Dr. Van Dykes delivery was 'oi0
the rousing effect Of MS words upo" ''N
Was noticeable lie said in part; o,dared IN
hi. 10 MS library by Welt , univ OF
rnan IN the last century was ! ne S,,,ne OF many
Man h.t Inc Divine Master has pu1 e e, s6cech
70 e. in the one word salt ine "13,"-ifying pre-
o. ~ a. and punent. Salt Is savoy PH'''e
'e ra the very beginning Of human sdsbt FOR it
iIn caves and BY the seashore Inc nan bag OF;
good supply OF IL Ma Man man, The Jews prlzei
q. s.ncciaIlv because they lived IN d %anr.a ther
Mbere food Was difcult to keep ana oeCa uess and
.eit Was largely used in their sacrllSes, when
Christ chos Sic an hSs We are the salt o. the
..rth'" There is no IN saving salt f0r hsA'e'''
yi b hSt Ivy could find better phrsSe
.oI people Of ancient iS nations But 1t was
srom this point of view that Christ was siyns
lie not paving SomP }n 5y Hs thought was
not that MS disciples should conera'u'''o '"O'''
selves being better ,s@n Utmst
actually had in them ne pthny Intend to exercise
u "nnrifying. seasoning. saving influence on ,ne
world? Men OF privilege withou, Yo rHero and re-
gious culture who are not active forces ,or gooo
in society not worth what 1t costs 70 ,e eartb
and their first duty is to be salty ,, - snoak 70
This :, the S Ss fact on Sr Ts'g you ace to
question Are you going TO be wol'n 49, 1 90
You have had mental s of le arm Harvard
offers her students more and better pr!vlleees
any other nst st MI saG OF Thnk Of the influence
which men Of intelligence may exercise III 49,, ~
world ~ they will only put Their culture " '"'
Half the trouble Of mankind comes tom ign 30
with societies for IT'S support ana ne"sPaPgIs H.,
disseminating IT. Ignorance which conslsdS SSs he
things that are already known what ! p!eau t ed
today is the wider nobler life which an
and helping oher men 20 think. College men III q
Community ought TO be the men who are ne aens
gogues cannot influence or political ROSES rr IN
But passion as well as isnof fs When war is i'm
rnnent How easily the pas SONS OF men le telli
by the mere sHkns ac q, not as cayenne pepper
sting the world but salt 10 cleanse ao pTs or,
ing in our own age and our own Soun' bss been
possible. There are signs or H. mnns the ricf
tSe present generation and there has been
a great Increase OF suffering among the pooI poor, ~
Sact that nearly six million men in 1896 cast VOC
OF practical discomfort with the present socldI az
commercial order 1t may be that we are o" '"'
eve Of a great Overcoming. do not know: -,
But I know that there Is one thing that ca'
make a revolution needless and that IS revva
OF relgion-the religion that has ALREADY iouhoeI
the hospital and the asylum and the free schooi
the religion that has broken the letters OF me save
and lifted womanhood out Of bondage ana degia aga "a
tIon summon you to do your snare IN IN, N.
renaissance OF rehgicn for your own sakes. lol
your fellow-men's sakes. for your couh'ryine" :
sakes. :, 49,. ..u,
On this June Sunday, when all AROUND us teis
Of our country. with her pers. with her oppof,
tunities with her temptations. with her spIehoi.
nowers with her threatening sins, rise before oui
souls An. bright will be the day and full OF glory
when the bells OF every church. OF every schooL
house Of every college, OF every university, rms
with the music OF this message. and find their echS
in the hearts of the youth OF America That VII
be the chime Of a new age:
Ring in valiant and free
the darkness OF the land.
Ring the Christ that Is TO bel