The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-05-28
tRMON TO THE GRADUATES.
b. F.W. Colegrove breaches Uni
versity Baccalaureate.
yAlks ON THE HIGHER LIFE.
aAaress Marked by Profound
thought and Scholarship Listen
q to by Audience That Packs
first Presbyterian Church to
poors--Graduating Glass Attends
clad in Caps and Gowns.


announcement week at the University
= washington opened yesterday morning
Chen the baccalaureate sermon was
.,sached in the First Presbyterian church
< DR.. +. w. Colegrove, professor of phil
ssouhy at the college. The church was
s.rked with students and members OF the
ScuIty and friends of both. That Or.
coIegrove's sermon was masterpiece, full
= profound thought and scholarly was the
serdict OF all who heard II.
The members of the graduating class for
vhon the sermon was preached attended,
mirty-four strong. wearing their caps and
~c~ra They occupied the first two rows
4 ffe center of the church and presented
6ne appearance. The young women FORM
a A very pretty group.
When DR.. Colegrove rose to deliver his
.nmon, ne faced an audience that COM
,,etsly filed the church. His text was
rralms xvi g. Thou wilt show one the
In Of life" He said IN part:
sour text speaks of the higher life. 1t
= the life that comes from God. In 1t the
S,rdition OF the soul is strongly contrast
a with that implied In the preceding
verse. In the latter case the soul is help
"a. IN our text there Is rich fulness
sound in the path of life marked out by
ood This paradox OF the power and weak
sess OF the soul is often met. According
% one view the soul is all. The hope, light
"a beauty voiced by poet and seer are ats
Seritage It Is no wonder that the ease
Nth which the child apprehends new
ruth was regarded by the ancients as a
roof of pre-existence. Wordsworth ex-
presses the thought,
r,Our birth is but a sleep and a forget
ting:
The soul that rises with us, our life's
star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from affair."
we have realized the power of the
higher life by an acquaintance with those
Who believed in and lived this life. but
whose voices have been hushed forever
We are different because we knew them.
We shall be different until the stars grow
old and the sun grows cold, and the
leaves from the Judgment book unfold.
Recall with me the prison cell at Athens
Socrates has drunk the hemlock and the
numbness is creeping up his body. When
A. he discoursed upon Immortality Phaedo
experienced strange mixture of pleasure
M grief when he thought the great phil
bsophsr would soon cease to be. The sub
nme belief In a higher life changed the
prison cell into g temple of faith and
vestibule of Immortality.
sub1imity of the Soul.
'The sublimity of the soul appears In
the discovery of truth. 1t is not more
EVIDENT In him who by thinking Gods
thoughts after Him. writes hts own name
IN the heavens than in the lives OF those
Who study bacteria through the micro
~ u..,tn Ia hnratorw dieysriny In n,n,har
and size as the disease progresses, with
out believing that the patient German in
1890. NJ wonder thai The meet who
soun6ea Tho danths ~ human life acclaim
a. sWhst n Mace Of work is mani -
n apprehension how like a god Now the
osher s,dc 81 Tho noradoy annears In him
~ man "a hsinisss According 70 the re-
vssls6 account In Genea,s no chose 10 cat
~ forh,dden fruit and bv the act made
AlnseIf sunreme Uenceforth tho reg
nant purpose ~ his IFS is centrinetal not
csntyifmraI n We tak. from historv the
storv N w,ronys wa shall, rreatIv diminish
ina .urhar - nag.s rrha ,~roynjtion 81
mana Iimitations forms tbe hesis 81 the
pAss,ni,m ~ Aforementioned nj Won Hart
mar The on. ~ whou, thinks mat This is
the v,or., nn..ih,a 80 w,orld.. ava INC nthar
tha, /, ia tha hast ~, a. s,o,,5 have -,
better n none had been created rhe view
n svoh,tiop 10 thot iisa snccuyrhs 10 tic
snyironment and that Tho death ~ ipdi'
vid,al. .as a. aa,antaan 20 49, sna.taa
N,s NAV ,rtra,,i,,s is Coa,s onn,rt,nity
Thou will show me The nath ~ he
Iife, Wa ali rn,oina tn ~ aiara I,ar,
Barnes has shown tho, cbi,aren are ,ntar.
epted in living craat"ros 10 The cbiidrar
al Israal tha G,,har re- ,as ats,,nctiw 20
Walled &c. ~ na,, 80 -, ~ pa
"a Mo.as sanr .,Th, f"rI 10 ~. s,r.ng,b
and nv song end IL a. hacn,,a No sai,,a'
lion ,rhe ,Sa, na "a H. n,,a,, '"S ,aana,
M prascrt IT, "a 80 a,,,Ionnn 80 n
hirhsr ana ,bts III 80 na,'I,, .rh ="
soul az nv LORD "hsil he ho,nd IN thc nm
AZ =. ~, ny ,1tu snaii DC pound IN the pun pun,
randuer Of Isaiah. Ezekiel and Jcre-
niah appears In their exhortations and
warnings concerning mans higher life
49, ~, ss"' 1 am come that ihey might
more ahn,aan,i,' tin ~ 10 no.
was to be more than meat Ills Thoughts
conferred upon the higher NE OF which lie
believed Himself TO be the embodiment
we will notice three phases of the
higher life The first Is faith a man
who has no faith Is 80 much flesh he I'M.
no past for reverence. no future for re
lance We must have faith I'm banks and