The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-06-26

| the years which has made the results | possible. And still more strange is the | silence of the movement
 "There is no man among you, my young friends, who does not have man.
 ly confidence in himself as he is passing
 through the last days of his academic life, and thinking of the future Young
 men believe in themselves. They do not care for uncertainties. They will turn lthem into certainties. They are
 not disturbed about the struggle It is
 through the struggle that they expect
 to reach the victory. What a grand
 thing life is that it has such possibli- ties. The characteristic of youth is
 hope.
 But let us move on in years. The
 man of fifty is disposed to smile at the
 courage or confidence of his youthful
 friend-because it rests on no founda-
 ton. Realized achievement is what he
 is thinking of and resting upon. A
 man may believe in his powers, he says
 to himself, when he has accomplished
 something by means of them. But
 what are powers without results? And
 so the characteristic mark of life for
 his age is found in the sphere of sue
 cessful work. What can be better?
 What can be worthier of a man in hu-
 man life? How much more desirable
 and satisfying to be at. this age than to
 be in youth when all is beginning or to
 be in the later years when the work is
 done.
 ''The hours go by to the late afternoon
 and what then? The man is changed
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 work is more nearly completed, the satisfaction in it is that it is finished
 the manly work is done and, if it be SO,
 well done. There may be, indeed, no
 more hopes connected with it or no more realizations possible within it. But the anxieties and questionirgs have gone and the realizations and the hopes into the one great result--and the man moves on.
 You and I, young gentlemen, are leaving the college at the same time
 We are alike in our feelings, though we are separated by our years. There are regretful feelings as we pass from the old life, but, if We have done our Work well there may be fitly a feeling or Joy, not only for you only but for me also, that one period of our life is ended. and worthily and happily ended. The summer day moves onward in the after noon as in the morning. The strength and glory of the later hours are not a lessenlng of these that pertain to the earlier ones
 And now, my fellow students-mav I not almost say my classmates of the year 1S99?-let me ask you to rise for moment and receive my farewell greeting. The words which I have spoken to you have had a very personal character, as related to yourselves and to me-so much of personality in them that they may have seemed more adapt ed to friendly and private conference than to meeting in public place and in the presence of a large assembly. The occasion however, has, in a pecu- liar measure, the personal element in it; and I could scarcely have found it in my heart or thought to speak to you in any other way You and I, as I have said, are leaving the university together: you in the younger life, in- deed, and in the older, but both alike going out into the brotherhood of grad uates and into new experiences and working and happiness Fifty years the dates of our graduation, but there is no separation between us in | our love for the old college home or in the pleasant memories that gather about it. We stand. indeed, at the end you and l alike-with much of youth full spirit, with much of energy and earnest purpose, with many pleasant But for me the summer day has passed into the later afternoon, while for you it still fingers in the early 
 q have ventured to speak to you as from the later hour, and to bear testi- mony of what life teaches of it's own happy progress and also of what it tells | of the loving Father, who gives it to us | and orders it's movement for us. I have | not told you anything of sorrows and | They will meet you and perhaps many times in your pathway through the world But | they are of the discipline and education of life, and are ever working as We suf fer them to have their own true infiu- ence, toward the result of noblest char acter.
 You will find, as the years go by, that they are helpful in no minor de- gree, in the upbuilding and glorifying of the soul within you. You will dis cover by your own experience, that the Divine Father, as you trust yourselves to His educating care, is ever leading you out of the darkness into the light md out of the shadows of the clouds nto the brighter sunshine. The sum- ner day has it's clouds at times, but as hey pass away in a brief hour they cave the light more beautiful. 1 wish Or you, each and every one, the richest blessing, the happiest experiences, the pest of strength and hope and success which life can give in view of life's great end and purpose. l wish for you hat all things that befall you on your way onward-the joyful things and the ones that may, from time to ime, be mingled with them, may, as hey do for Gods children, work to- cether for your highest good, and thus hat you may have in your own per onal living, this evidence that you are lnder His leading. I wish for you the aith in Christ, who has made known to IS His Fathers love, and our Fathers owe as the inspiration of life for us all.
 wish fol you that tou may lose every Ioubt and questioning and fear and weakness and sin in your love to Him.
 And so I bid you farewell May the ong summer day finger for you to its atest hours May the sunset hour a he end be filled with a beautiful light nd from, heaven itself and the calm | l