The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-26
IN SOLEMN vALED|CT|ON
President Dwight Preached His
Last Baccalaureate Sermon.
AN IMPRESSIVE FAREWELL
On the Fiftieth Anniversary of His Own
Graduation the Venerable Scholar
Closed His Connection With
the University.

New Haven, Conn, June 25.-Presi-
dent Timothy Dwight. the venerable re-
firing president of Yale university, to-
day preached his last baccalaureate
sermon before graduating classes of the
academic and scientific departments.
The occasion was also the 50th anniver-
sary of President Dwight's own gradu-
alton. Many of his old classmates We're
in the chapel.
The graduating class occupied the
greater part of the body of the Battel
chapel. All of them wore the academic
robe and with them were many visitors
from out of town. President Dwight's
address was largely of retrospective
and personal nature
At the close of the sermon President
Dwight addressed yalediction in the
most solemn and impressive manner.
His voice often choked with emotion.
His words were:
And now, my fellow students, and
may l not almost say, my classmates
of the class of 1899, let me ask you to
rise. The words which | have spoken
to you have had a very personal mean
ing. So much of the personal was there
in them that they may have seemed
more adapted to friendly conversation
than to be presented to you in large
public gathering. But the occasion
must be the reason for giving them to
you here. [ can scarcely find it possible
to speak to you in any other way. You
are. with me, leaving the university.
But We are all of us going forth into
a great and glorious brotherhood. Fifty
years separate US in point of gradua
ton, but in this brotherhood there is
no separation for we are all members
Of a great college home. You stand in
deed at the end of your college careers,
with much faithful spirit, much of en-
ergy and with many pleasant anticipa-
tons. But for me the summer day
has passed into the late afternoon. For
you 1t is still morning.
Il have tried to speak to you of what
life teaches. and of that loving father
who orders DUR life's movement for us.
l have not told you anything of sorrow
and of 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 so by, that they
are helpful to the upbuilding and to the
clarifying of the soul. Within you and
that the Divine Father, if you trust to
His undying care, is everleading you
out of darkness into the sunshine OF
His love. When the clouds of the sum-
mer 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 chill
dren, work out your entire good and
give you evidence that you are under
His care and keeping. ! wish for you
| that faith in Christ, the expression and
the sign of the fathers love-I wish
for you to lose every doubt, every ques-
tionins fear. every weakness and sin
and that your life may be full and
Astounding.
And SO 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 sea-
son bear thoughts and hopes of the bet
| ter and the happier life beyond. May
| your testimony and mine unite together
| as it comes from our personal expert
| ence in the words of the Psalmist's song
| about our loving God and Father who
| .Maketh the outgoing of the morning
| and evening to rejoice"