The San Francisco call., 1899-06-26
DW|GHT'S LAST
BACCALAUREATE
Parting Words of Yale's
s Venerable President.
OLD CLASSMATES PRESENT
THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY
OF HIS OWN GRADUATION.
AS He Addressed Graduating Glass
for the Last Time His Voice
Was Choked With
Emotion.
Special Dispatch to The Can.

NEW HAVEN, June 25.-President Tim
othy Dwight, the venerable retiring presi-
dent of Yale University, to-day preached
his last baccalaureate sermon, before the
graduating classes of the academic and
scientific departments. The occasion was
also the fftieth anniversary of President
Dwight's own graduation. Many Of his
cid classmates were 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 a retrospective and personal nature AT
the close of the sermon he addressed a
benediction in the most solemn ana I'M
pressive manner. His voice often choked
with emotion. His words were:
And now, my fellow students, and may no not
almost say my classmates OF the class o. 1871
let ask you to rise The WORDS Whhcn
have spoken to you have had very personal
meaning. So much of the personal was mere mere
in them that they may have seemed more
adapted to a friendly conversation than TO De
presented to you in a large public gathering
But the occasion must be the reason LOT giving
them to YOU here l can scarcely find it posi-
BILE to speak TO you in any other way You
are. with me- leaving the university. iou anu anu
| go forth together, you the young brothers, ana
l an older But we are all going forth into a
great and glorious brotherhood. f1fty years
separate US IN point OF STduudllOH' pNN ~ NAA-S
brotherhood there is no separation, for we are
all members of great college nome You stand,
indeed at the end of your college careers, with
much faithful spirit, much of energy ana win
many pleasant anticipations. But for me the
summer day has passed into the late afternoon
For you IL is still morning.
/ have tried TO speak to you of what LIE
teaches and of that loving father who orders
our life's movement for 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 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 undy-
ing care. is ever leading you out of darkness
into the sunshine of His love. When the cluods
of the summer day pass away they leave the
sky the brighter.
1 wish for each of you life's greatest bless
ings its greatest happiness and the best that
it can give you. l wish you joy and that your
sorrows may be scanty. May they as for Cod s
children work out your entire good and give
you evidence that you under His care and
keeping I wish for you that faith in Christ,
the expression and the sign of the Fathers
love I wish for you to leave every doubt,
every questioning fear. every weakness and sin
and that your life may be full and abounding
And so l bid you farewell.
May the closing day and the sunshine at the
end of il be filed 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 il comes from our personal eX
perience in the words of the Psalmist's song
the outgoings of the morning and evening to
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