The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-06-26
BACCALA UREATE SERMON.
POWERFUL ADDRESS DELIVERED
 BY PRESIDENT DWIGHT.
BatteII Chapel Filled to It's Utmost Capacity-His Strong Words to the President of the University.

President of the University.
 President Dwight of Yale university
 preached his last baccalaureate sermon
 and his last sermon as president of the
 university yesterday morning in Dat
 tell chapel. The chapel was thronged'
 many being obliged to stand dulng the
 entire service. The graduating classes
 of '99 and '99S. occupied the entire
 body of the church and in the side
 seats and galleries were hundreds of
 commencement girls and mothers ot the
 graduates As early as quarter ot lo
 neople began to assemble and when the
 doors were thrown open there were hun
 dreds who were waiting to gain admis-
 sion to the chapel. It was all in all
 one of the largest, if not the largest
 congregation that ever assembled ln
 Battell chapel.
 The members of the two graduating
 classes were robed in their senior gowns
 and the picture, set off by the gay
 snring costumes of the young ladies,
 was a beautiful one. The bacealaureate sermon was a powerful one and the presidents farewell words to the grad uates touched the hearts of everybody
 His advice to them was valuable ana his hopes for them were great ana ms words were said with so much feellng, so much pathos, that many were vlslply affected.
 President Dwight gave a brief account of his religious career since entering ln- to the duties of president Of Yale, ana also of the religious work Of the class or 'e9. At the conclusion of the sermon the president walked down the center aisle. the seniors lowing in the custom ary manner. The text was taken from Psalms 65 S. 'They also that dwell III the 11ttermost parts are afraid at Thy tokens; Thou makest the outgolngs or +he morning and evening to rejoice"
 President Dwight spoke with deep feeling and in substance said:
 Young gentlemen of the graduating rlass of 1S99 On this last sunday or the college year and of your collegiate course I make these words or the Psalmist the beginning of my hnal ad- dress to you as a university preacher and as a kindly friend. AS l do so take them in sense and with an ap- plication fitting to my present thought rather than with the special reference which they had, at the moment, for the one who wrote them
 sThe hour of thoughtfulness is diff ferent one from that through Which the writer was passing and it can hardly De uniting for us to use the striking verse from his song in way which may be impressive while yet equally truthful, Tn view of our present condition and its outlook
 "How strikingly the two respond to each other-the life and the summer day-the life through which you and l, my young friends, are passing, and this summer day through which we are also passing The outgoing of the morning and the evening of the summer day, how beautifully, as they seem 10 in clude within themselves all the inter vening hours and bring the day before our thought in its completeness, they picture the earlier years and the later years with the life that is between them and gathers itself, as it were, in its forces and its results into them-as if, | in the outgoings of the one and the other were the whole meaning and ex- | perences of the life.
 'tThe first leading thought is that of the way in which life moves forward. | You know something of it for your selves, for you are already reaching the maturity of your young manhood, and can look back over one or two sections of your career that are of the past. You will know more within the limits of the period just opening before you, the ex- periences and results of which you are now eagerly anticipating. For me, on the other hand, the knowledge is larg | CT and clearer, because I am much far ther on in the course, but it is of the same character The lesson is one only that is more thoughtfully learned and . more deeply understood as the morning hours pass on into the later afternoon. The experiences of the years have en- tered your souls with an uplifting force and given you manly strength. Every thing has been advancing, developing, enIarging for you and within you Your are not what they were. You see, as you examine yourselves, that in these years you have been put ting off the things of the child and put ting on the things of the man. The day has been growing towards the noon And now you have come to the strik- ing of one of the hours-not the noon yet, but the time is moving. You are arrested for the moment in your think Ing, and I come to you with a friendly world, and ask you what are your de- sires? Do you wish to go backward and live over again the old time The passing hour may have-and fitly have "a regretful thought for the passing But the law of manhood is ever press through the hours of the summer time. The later years do not contradict the experience of the earlier ,nes. The afternoon answers to the morning.
 T give you my testimony to-day as you and I are leaving the university to- sether and ask you to take it with you. The summer day is the emblem of life, md the most beautiful light of the sum- ner day, as we all know, is that of he later afternoon. The man leaves lis working place at seventy with a and pleasure akin, or per ,hance equal to that which at thirty ,e entered upon its duties. How Arrange if seems for the two things are