Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-06-25


has seen the disaster which follows that
creed. There are others who hold that
purity and righteousness are only for the
few who, by nature. are gifted with pow
Such was the view of Hypatia. the phil
osopher heroine of the fifth century, the
central figure of Charles kingsley's
splendid romance. We remember how,
when she was asked to receive a disciple
who desired to learn the ways of wisdom
and right, Hypatia discouraged the dis
ctple's approach by demanding, first of
al that change hans apparently "a; imhossi,
before the teaching could begin. And so
of heather philosophy. and even of Juda-
ism. 1t had no healing for those who
needed it,
But Jesus touched the leper and made
him whole: restored the wIthered hand
of the paralytic. and called publicans and
sinners to learn of HIM. He came not to
advocate the survival of the fittest but
to make the unfit fit to survive. He did
not say to the blind man: Come to me
when you have received sight; but when
he said, Receive thy sight, the man had
10 doubt when the light came
Where shall we look for light when the
darkness gathers about us and We ask
that most urgent of all questions: IF a
nostic says to us. no man knows any
thing of what is behind the grave; so far
as we know it is all darkness and silence.
But Christ says to humanity: Il am the
declaration He announces what the heart
of the world declares is true and makes
known faith in the light of which men
have borne the most extreme sufferings
and deprvations, and have attained the
best things that human hope can picture
or human efforts realize.
1t is said that the Bible must be tried
by the tests applied to other literature
that it must prove its own truth. And
this ii does. It's truth is proved by its
history and its influence. 1t Is not ques-
ton of how the Bible was made. but
what has it done? How has it influenced
human life? The civilization which it
has produced. the types of character
which it develops are the best in the
manity as nothing else does. Tried by
the principle by which scientists test
their various hypothesis. the claims of
the Bible to be regarded as the unerring
book of instruction in the conduct of hui
man life cannot be disputed.
The college graduate is not to be looked
upon as one who. for the first time, is
about to face actual life. If the college
has done its work honestly by him, it is
not true that world all unknown
stretches lust before him. College life is
as real as will ever be. found. Its tests
and its situations are those that develop
character. Its purpose is not to exclude
the student from life. but to introduce
him TO it and to set his face and his feet
in the right direction toward things in
tellectual and spiritual.
Yet the graduate is about to face new
conditions. More than ever before he
will have to judge for himself. For his
own immediate interests he must look at
life steadily and see II wholly and as ii
is. He cannot afford to make the mis-
takes inevitable to mere competition,
rivalry and ambition, to passion, greed
and false Judgment of profit and loss
He must walk in the light. and he is To
remember that from every side there
come to him proofs that cannot he dis
puted that the true ana radiant light in
which men have ever found the safe path,
is the light that proceeds from Jesus
Christ. His is the light which not only
Eliminates the great fundamental ques-
lions we have mentioned, but also that
most practical of all questions: How are
We to live? The supreme thing is to get
this point of view. to master His princi-
as He looked at it. to give ourselves to
life as He gave Himself to it. For the
life which now is and for the world
which now is, the light has dawned for
him who can say with true heart and
with fun sense of the meaning of the
words: Il believe in God the Father AL
mighty. the Maker of heaven and earth
and in Jesus Christ His Son: | believe in
the Holy Ghost. the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body, and the life
everlasting.
Prayer. the doxology and benedic-
ton closed the services of the morn
ing.
At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, vespers
We're held in the college chapel The
services opened with Invocation and
the Lords prayer. There was singing
by the Temple Street Quartet which
consists of Mrs. r. b. Hubbard, Mrs.
A. w. Flood and Messrs. c. L. Marston
and G. a. Kennson.
The college choir composed of
Messrs. Severns. Sprague, Marsh. Her
man. Purinton, Saunders, Workman
and league also sang. The services
consisted of Scripture reading, singing
and an address by Rev. Bowley Green,
pastor Of the First Baptist church of
Portland. The address was very fine
and very much enjoyed by the large
number present.
In the evening, the annual sermon
was preached before the Boardman
Missionary Society and the college
Christian associations of the college by
Rev. Nathan Wood, ID. D., president of
the Newton Theological Institution. 1t
was an excellent sermon and the audi
cnce was large and appreciative. This
ended the exercises of the day.