The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-06-26
DWIGHT STEPS DOWN
RETIRING PRESIDENT OF YALE
breaches HIS LAST BACCA-
LAUREATE SERMON
HIS ADDRESS RETROSPECTIVE

Occasion Also the F1ftieth Anniver-
sary of the Graduation of the
Head of the Great Universfty-
Many of His Old Classmates Pres
ent at the ChapeI-FinaI Words
to the Graduating Glass.
NEW HAVEN, Conn, June 2-Tim-
othy Dwight, the venerable retiring pres
| ldent of Yale university, today preached
his last baccalaureete sermon before the
graduating class of the academic and
scientific departments. The occasion was
also the f1ftieth anniversary of President
Dwight's own graduation.
Many of his old classmates were in the
chapel. The graduating class occupied
the greater part of the body of Battel
chapel. All of them wore the academic
robe and with them were many visitors
from out of town. - ssa@a
President Dwight's address was largely
/ OF "a Retrospective and personal nature.
AT the close of the sermon President
Dwight addressed the graduates in the
Ilcst NEST solemn manner, his voice often
choked with emotion. His words were:
And now my fellow students, and NAV
not almost say my classmates of tha
class of 1899, let me ask you to rise. The
words which 1 have spoken to YOU have
mad a very personal meaning. So much
OF the personal was there in them that
tney may have seemed more adapted to a
friendly conversation than to be present,
ed to you in large public gathering.
But the occasion must be the reason for
giving them here.
can scarcely find it possible to speak
10 you In any other manner You are
with me leaving the university. You and
l go forth together, you the younger
prothers, 1 the older. But we are all NJ
us going forth to a great and glorious
brotherhood. Fifty years separate rs in
point OF graduation, but in this brother
hood there is no separatio for we arc
all members of a great college home
You stand, indeed, at the end of vour
college careers with much faithful spirit.
inucn iillci, OF memory and with many pleasant
reco1lections. But for me the dav ba a
passed into the late afternoon. For Won
1t is still morning
nave tried to speak to you of what
lie teaches and of that loving Father
VINO orders our life services for us.
nave not toid you anything of sorrow
and of disappointment. They will meet
many of you and some of you possibly
many times The causes and courses of
them many of you alone will know. But
you Will find they are helpful to possible
good and the glorifcation of the soul
within you, and the Divine Father If Won
trust thus to his undying career, is ever
leading you out of darkness into the s,,n-
shine OF his love- When the clouds of the
summer day pass away they leave the
sky the brighter
Il wish for each of you ufe's greatest
blessings; Its greatest happiness and the
best 1t can give you. 1 wish YOU iov
and that your sorrows may be scantv.
May they, as for Gods children. work
out your entire good and give volr evi-
dence that you are under His care-an1
keeping, l wish for you faith in Christ.
and the expression and the sign of the
Fathers love
And so I bid you farewell. Nav Ahe
long summer day and the sunset hour al
the end of it be filled with beautiful light
and may the closing twilight season bear
thoughts and hopes of the better and
happier life beyond. May your testimony
and mine unite together as it comes from
our personal experiences in the words OF
the Psalmist's song about our loving God
and Father, who maketh the outgoings
of the morning and evening to rejoice -