The true northerner., 1900-06-20
BACCALAURBATB ADDRESS.
FINE SERVICE FOR THE GRADUATES AT TIE
NJ. Z. CHURCH.

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NJ. E. CFURCH.
The service, VI The NJ. +. church last
Sunday evening called out fine audi
ence, apd the entire program was one of
interest. The platform was decorated
with the IT, s. flag, the class colors of
pink and white cut flowers and potted
plants The music was furnished by
quartette consisting OF Messrs. Cummings
and Jennings, Mrs. Paige and Miss
Cooley. Mrs. Gorton presided at the
organ. Mrs. Paige also sang solo.
Rev Mather read the scripture and Rev.
Allen offered prayer.
The baccalaurate address was given by
Rev. j. IL. Rennie. His subject was
"the Strength and Beauty of Character.
The text was from the 96th Psalm, the
9th verse Honor and majesty are before
Him; strength and beauty are in His
sanctuary" The address in full was as
follows:
The beauty of the psalmist has no
quarrel with his strength. he highest
the noblest manifestation of strength is
always beautiful in It's action. The
truest beauty, the most sublime Is always
the adornment of power. The beauty Of
holiness is realized in the day of the
power of the Lord, and what should be
the aim and purpose ol every youth who
stands upon the threshold Of life aud of
the 10Th century, is TO have the strength
of a training in thorough and continued
study, with the beauty of a broad aud
varied culture. These, consecrated TO
selfdenymg service, supported 10y "a
character OF sterling worth, or ii / may
put it in Theological language, afiame
with the spirit of God, viii make the
youth OF this generation a power whose
grasp upon humanity shall be effective
and exclusive.
He who has by patience and persever-
ence acquired a broad and varied culture
or who has studied life and literature, is
the better fitted to sympathize with life
as he must necessarily meet it in the
thronged city, on the plains or prairies.
He who would broadly sympathize with
life in general will enter into its spirit
best 10y the guidance of Chaucer, Shakes
peare, Milton, Dryden, Pope and Words
worth. IL is a known fact that a wider
acquaintance with the literature OF the
past and warm love for it leads to
breadth of sympathy with, men, and in
these authors as no where else all sorts
and conditions of men are brought be-
fore Us as they really are.
The young man VINO knows his Latin
and Greek, both of which he is able to
use, and who Is able independently to
enjoy good edition of Shakespeare and
is not unfamiliar with Thackeray, Dickens,
George Eliot and Hawthorne, to say
nothing of Tennyson, Burns, Byron
Browning, Lowell and Whittier, will, by
that very fulluess of mind and variety of
resource, be the better able to talk un-
derstandingly and intelligently with high
or low, rich or poor, educated or unedu-
Gated. and to enjoy life to the full. Hu-
manity will be really, not only profes-
sionally of interest to him. He will be
less likely to take an erroneous view Of
life. He will be the more willing, the
more desirous, the more able to live a
man manly among men, all for the reason
JIldl lc HAS CulllNdltu CndTdClST lull
of strength and sublime in beauty.
Now there are two things to which
call your especial attention from these
words: First, that there is a recognition
of reality all round about you. The eyes
of the community, wherever your lot in
life may fail, will be upon you. You will
be often misrepresented and often mis-
understood; yet there will be those who
will recognize the reality that is in you.
Samuel Smiles says: "The crown and
glory of life is character, and the noblest
possession Of man, constituting rank
in itself and an estate in the general
good WILL dignifying every station and
exalting every position in society" These
words we can all endorse. Men are for
the most part known for what they verify
are. The scales on which character Is
weighed are on the whole steady and
true. Men and women too are on the
whole judged for what sterling worth
there is in them. / do not say this pas
sing judgments colored by passions and