The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-06-26
DWIGHT SAYS FAREWELL.
HIS LAST BICClLAURElT SERMON
AS PRESIDENT OE we.


He Speaks of Youth and Old Ago and tho
Religious Truth Common to Both d
dresses the Seniors as His Fellow Class
mates-Evening of Life las He Views It.
New HAVEN. June 25-President Dwight OF
Yale University preached the Baccalaureate
Sermon In Battel Chapel to-day to largo con-
RreRatton Of students and visitors. who have
come to town 10 attend the Yale commence
ment II was President Dwights last appear
ance In the college pulpit as President Of Yale
University. He took for his text Psalm lxv..
g." Thou makest the outgoings OF the morn
ing and the evening to rejoice" He said
"On this last sunday Of the college year and
OF your collegiate course. make these words
OF the Psalmst the beginning Of my final adj
dress to you as a university preacher and as
kindly friend As l do so take them in a sense
and with an application fitting to my present
thought. rather than with the special refer
enoe which they had at the moment for the one
who wrote them in the early time. He was
speaking In his song OF praise Of the wonder
full goodness Of God as manifested everywhere
and in all parts OF the earth. The morning
and the evening represented for his mind at
the moment the far East and far West.
The FIRST thought would present s that OF
tho way in which life moves forward. You
know something OF it yourselves. for you are
already reaching the maturity Of your young
manhood and can look back over one
or two sections Of your career. You
will know more within the limits OF the
period just opening upon you. the expert
snces and results Of which you are now
eagerly anticipating. For me. on the other
Il OF the same character. The lesson is more
thoroughly learned and more deeply under
stood as the morning hours pass on into the
Aft1rnOOl.
friend. that you were when you first came TO this
place. and yet how great are the changes! The
teachings Of the years have forced their way
into your minds and have gradual yet sol
emily wrought within you until the earlier
been but MISUNDERSTANDING boyhood. The
experiences OF tho years have entered your
manly strength for the inward life. such, as
brings you to anew estimate q yoursoIves.
..pess noM NV ES tH the
and may / not also say my classmates OF the
year S9. let me ask you TO rise and receive
have spoken TO you have had very per;
sonal character as related to yourselves and
to me. so much of personality in them that they
have seemed more adapted to a friendly and
private conference than to a meeting in
public place and in the presence of a large
i. and could scarcely have found It
In my heart or thought to speak to you In any
other wav. You and l. as have already said
are leaving the university together, you In the
going out into the brotherhood Of graduates
and into new experiences and working and
Fifty years separate the dates of our grad
uation. but there is no separation between us
in our love for the old college home. or in the
stsad at the cnd YOU una" ana alike Hs you with
much Of yonthimi spirit. with much OF energy
day has sf passed into the later afternoon whie
for you II still fingers IN the early morning.
a
later hours and to bear testimony Of what life
teaches Of its own oS happy pTogTess and also q
to US and orders its movement for us:
II hay have not tod you anything Of sorrows
somewhere, and perhaps many times. in your
pathway through the world. but they are OF
the dscirlne and acG1siti9n OF life and are
Of noblest character, You viii find. as
minor degree, IN the unbuildinG and glorliy-
Ing Of the soul within you. iou will discover
Fshsr S~n you yoarssves 9 to V his
EDUCATING care is ever leading you out
shine. The summer always has its clouds at
tImes but as they pass away in brief hour
e wish for you each and every one. the
richest blessings. the happiest experriences.
and success whah life can give in view Of lies
great .b sna ana Wish ,s
onward be joyful things. and the sorrowful
with them may. as they do i9r Gods chi dren,
work together for your highest good. and
thus, that you may have. in your own per-
sonal living. this evidence that you are
under His leading wish for you the faith
In Christ. who has made known to us His
Fathers love, and our Fathers love, as the in
spiration of life for us all wish for you that
you may lose every doubt and questioning, and
fear and weakness and sin in your love to him.
and 30 bid you farewell.
May the long summer day linger for you to
its latest source, may the sunset hour at the
end be filed with a beautiful light as from
heaven itself. and the calm twilight season
that follows bear your thought and hone peace
and happier life beyond And one word
more. may your. Testimony and mine
experience. in the words OF the Psalmist's
song as we have now thought OF them d" Thou.
our loving God and Father. makest the out
goinRs Of the morning and the evening to re-