Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-06-26
PRESIDENT DWIGHT, OF YALE,
Preached His Last Baccalaureate Ser
mon Yesterday.

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THE OCCASION WAS THE FIJI
TEETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE
PRESIDENTS OWN GRADUA-
TION-A SOLEMN AND IMPRESS
SIvE FAREWELL TO THE
CLASS-MANY VISITORS FROM
OUT OF TOWN.
NEW HAVEN, Conn, June 25.-
President Timothy Dwight, the vener-
able retiring president of Yale Uni
versity, to-day preached his last bac-
calaureate sermon before the gradual
ing classes of the Academic and Scien-
tific departments. The occasion was
also the fiftieth anniversary of Presi-
detn Dwight's own graduation Many
of his old classmates We're in the
chapel
The graduating class occupied the
greater part of the body of Battell
chapel. Ali of them wore the academic
robe, and with them were many visit
ors from out of town. President
Dwight's address was of retrospective
and personal nature.
At the close of the sermon President
Dwight addressed a valediction in the
most solemn and impressive manner,
his voice choked with emotion. His
words were:
And now, my fellow students, and
may l not almost say my classmates
of the class of 1885, let me ask you to
rise. The words which l have spoken
to you have had d very personal mean
ing. So much of the personal was
there in them that they may have
seemed more adapted to friendly con-
versation than to be presented to you
in a large public gathering. But the
occasion must be the reason for giving
them to you here. l can scarcely find
it possible to speak to you in any
other way. You are with me, leaving
the university. You and | go forth to-
gether. you the younger brothers and
an older. But we are all of us going
forth into a great and glorious broth
erhood. Fifty years separate us in
point of graduation, but in this broth
erhood there is no separation, for we
are all members of great college
home. You stand indeed at the end
of your college career with much faith
full spirit, much of energy and with
many pleasant anticipations. But for
me the summer day has passed into
the late afternoon. For you it is still
morning.
81 have tried to speak to you of what
life teaches and of that loving Father
who orders our lives movements for us.
have not told you anything of sorrow
and disappointment. They will meet
many of you and some of you possibly
many times. The costs and the results
of them you alone will know. But you
will find as the years go by, that they
are helpful to the upbuilding and to the
glorifying of the soul within you and
that the Divine Father, if you trust
thus to his undying care, is ever lead
ing you out of darkness into sunshine
of his love. When the clouds of the
summer day pass away they leave the
sky the brighter.
Il wish for each of you life's greatest
blessings, its greatest happiness and
the best that it can give you. | wish
you joy and that your sorrows may be
scanty. May they as for Gods children
work out your entire good and give you
evidence that you are under His care
and keeping. l wish for you that faith
in Christ, the expression and the sign
of the Fathers life. | wish for you to
lose every doubt, every questioning
fear, every weakness and sin and that
your life may be full and Astounding.
And so L bid you farewell. May
the long summer day and the sunset
hour at the end of it be filled with
beautiful light and may the closing
twilight season bear thoughts and
hopes of the better and the happier life
beyond. May your testimony and
mine unite together. as it comes from
our personal experience in the words
of the Psalmist's song about our low
ing God and Father who 'maketh the
outgoings of the morning and the even
ing to rejoice.