The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-05-29
TEACH ALL NATIONS
Pres. MorrisonS BaccaIaureate
Address Sunday.
FAIRM0UNT'S BUSY WEEK
Evolutionary Recital Held
Last Night.

In spite Of constant showers, a large
audience assembled at Plymouth church
last Sunday evening to hear the baccaIau-
reate address by President Morrison of
Fairmount college. President Morrison
was assisted in the service by Rev. H.
E. Thayer and Rev. W. A. Bosworth. It
being Memorial Sunday the church audi
torium was tasdly decorated in patriotic
colors. The platform was occupied by
members Of the college faculty and the
following members of the board of trus-
tees. Charles G. Cohn, H. w. Darling, E.
Higginson, r. L. Holmes, W. Knapp,
II. z. Thayer- and W. II. Garves The
collegians occupied the central portion Of
the church with the class of 1900 in front.
Special music was rendered by the
choir under the direction Of Miss Cal
houn. The duet by Mrs. Bryant and Mr.
Shields, Before Jehova's Awful Throne"
and the solo of Mr.. Shields entitled '"The
Holy City," were very much appreciated
by the audience The regular church orch
estra under the leadership of Mr.. Higgip-
son, also rendered very effective service
The address by DR.. Morrison was one
of remarkable strength, eloquence, schol-
arly thought and preparation. His sub
ject was: THE Authority of the Chris
ton Church to Teach and was based on
the text found in Matthew, wherein
Christ commanded His disciples to 'go
teach. all nations" Dr. Morrison's clos
ON
ing that they prove themselves able,
worthy, active workers.
His address. in part, was as follows:
1.-THE world-tragedy at Jerusalem and
Cavalry has ended. Humanity's Easter
morning had dawned, and the triumphal
victor over death and the grave had dis
closed himself to Mary in the garden, and
later to the disciples on the road to En-
maus
1.-The record tells US that when the dis
ciples saw Jesus approaching and recOg-
nized Him, who had been dead but was
now alive again. they worshipped Him;
that is they Frustrated themselves before
Him as their king
And Jesus came and spoke to the dis
ciples. saying: All power is given unto
y
fore. and teach all notwithstanding them
to observe all thing whatsoever 1 have
commanded you; and 10, I am with you
always, even unto the end Of the world
These are the supreme, authoritative
and final instructions Of the risen and
returned king, delivered on the sacred
spot where three years before He had
taught them of the coming and nature of
His kingdom-to His appointed agents in
setting up and administering His king
dom in the earth.
This is the plenary authority of His
agents: All power in heaven and earth
Is Mine who appoint you. This their
mothod-by teaching. This their assur-
ance of thrift and triumph in their mis-
sion: 4 am with you always, even unto
the end if the world
But we, inheriting the free indeperd-
ent spirit Of three centuries of PortesJ-
antism, with the radiant dawn of the
twentieth Christian century Illuminating
our faces as we turn toward the rising
sun of human progress. answer back to
her most gracious and benficent majesty.
Victoria, head OF the illustrious Church of
England; to his imperial majesty. the
white car Nicholas II. supreme head of
the ancient Greek church. and to Leo,
greatest and best of all recent occupants
Of the chair Of St. Peter. bishop of Rome
and pontifieX maximus of the transcend
ent Catholic church-we answer back,
with a mighty emphasis: The Chris.ian
church is the spiritual body of Christ on
earth; IL is nowhere localized in thGne
mr. court- no prou-rad oy r,j+-ed ocoalas
lastic speaks with authority for her; the
church is resident in every local body of
believers; every individual disciple is her
representative. bearing in his own char
acter Of true disciplenship every right and
prerogative bestowed by the Divine
Master of Peter James. John ard the
rest Of His followers that morning from
the Holy Hill of God near Copernaum.
because the church has been appoint
ed and empowered by her founder with
the prerogative Of education, her duty to
monopohze the vast undertaking Of the
intellectual and moral elevation Of human
society by no means follows as a reas-
enable conclusion. Nor because in the
middle era Of her career she gaynered in
clustered retreats among the mountains
and in the seGuestered isles OF the sea
all Of the worlds extant literature and
culture, and disseminated thence through
the dark night of universal Ignorance
whatever feeble rays OF intellectual light
there were. that the modern world is to
look to the same clustered schools and
the same monkish teachers as the sole
source Of literary and scientific enighten-
ment or to the ecclesiastical successors