The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-06-25


uyered BEFORE u Tremendous Congrl-
natton-Thc SeniOrs' Last service I'm
Eattell Chapel.
Yesterday morning in Battell chapel
the baccalaureate address, which takes
the place of the annual baccalaureate
sermon, was delivered by President
Hadley before one of the largest con-
gregations that has ever assembled I'M
der the roof of that historic chapel
President Hadley made an innovation
in the commencement programme WheH
he announced about month ago that
instead Of having sermon preacheu ne
would deliver the address that Will here-
after supersede the annual sermon To
the members of the graduating class
1t Is doubtful If ever stronger ana
more beneficial address has ever oeen
made to a senior class Of Yale univer-
aitv than that of President Hadley's
Yesterday, and there is no doubt put
that every senior will start out In his
life's work more fitted for the long pat
tie from the result of President Had
1ey's remarkably strong words Inc
was SO great that nearly everybody III
The civ. it seemed, who had the oppor-
tunity. crowded through the doors OF
Battell to hear it.
AS early as a quarter of ten those
who had had experience in inning
seats at "baccalaureate" were on
hand and thereby secured good seats
BY half-past ten every seat IN the
chapel was taken and every DIT OF
standing room was also occupied, Tor
people were standing on the STAIRS ana
in the aisles AS President Hadiey
marched down the aisle at the close OF
the service the seniors made their Gus
tonary bow as their president passed
by their pews.
The address of President Hadley was
as follows:
AS each man approaches the END OIL
his college course, he inevitably asks
himself what that course has done 10
prepare him for the work which Is 10
follow; what are the special advantages
which he enjoys for the life that is be-
fore him, and what are the special DAN
gers to which he is exposed
So far as concerns the purely intel
lectual side of these questions there is
general concensus of opinion among
men Of the world. You are told, ana
truly told, that your preparation mas
been one of theory rather than OF prac-
tice. that If you will submit your theo-
retical power and breadth of intellec-
tual vision to the exigencies Of practical
life, it will stand you in good stead ana
enable YOU to become leaders In what
ever lines of work you may choose; but
that if this knowledge of theory causes
YOU to disregard the necessities of prac-
lice 1t will be q source of weakness IN
stead of strength, and will unfit you for
the exercise of any useful influence on
the affairs of your fellow men. All this
has been said so often that it has be-
come commonplace
But there is another and more impor-
tant aspect of these questions which
has been less frequently considered.
What does q college course accomplish
in the way of moral preparation for
success in the making of man? what
are the spiritual advantages which 1t
gives; what are the spiritual dangers to
which it lays men open? You have re-
ceived from your friendships IN college
and from the associations of your col
lege with the historic past wealth OF
inspiration a constant stimulus to the
formation Of high ordeals. VIII you be
able to carry this inspiration and these
ideals safe through the various eXgen-
cies Of life In somewhat unspiritual
world? Will you be able to give your
fellow men the benefit of what you have
received, in such way as to make you
a moral leader in world which Graves
such leadership? Or will your ordeals
be so remote from everyday dealings
with the affairs of life that your God
will become a god of the dead and not
of the living?
Let us consider how we are to achieve
I'm the moral and religious life that com
bnation of qualities which corresponds
to the opinion of theory and practice in
the intellectual world, and gives to the
man who has achieved it the strength
which can come only from such union.
Were we to choose a text for this
mornings talk, it might well be taken
from the twelfth verse of the sixth
chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews
followers of them who through faith
and patience inherited the promise 1t
is the union of these two attributes of
faith and patience which is the neceSsa =
ny condition Of spiritual achievement,
Either of these qualities without the
other is undeveloped and imperfect.
Patience without faith is but a negative
and coloress thing. barren in its practi-
cal results. Faith without patience
may prove positive evil, wrecking the
efficiency of Christian life and even the
life itself; even as theory without prac-
teal sense wrecks the professional life
of the doctor or lawyer or business man.
Let us not misunderstood the mean
ing of this word patience when thus
used in connection with faith. 1t is not
the patience, akin to apathy, which
takes evils without resistance; which
passively endures what comes because
it is too inert to strive for anything bet
ter Not by such patience has any man
iDi1eried promises. The Indifference
which can take things calmly because
of the absence Of a fixed purpose has
nothing in common with that true pa
thence which achieves calmness In spite
of disappointment.
Nor is patience to be understood in
the sense of mere accomplishing physi-
cal endurance. Not that l would for q
moment undervalue this virtue of bear
ing evils without complaint. 1t is at
once q mark Of power over ones self
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