The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-20
REUNION OF GRADUATES
BANQUET OF HAMILTON COLLEGE
WESTERN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION.
Address by Judge ID. II. Baldwin on
Follow the GIean"-Mr. Kendall
en- "The Light of the Present"

Special to the indianapolis Journal
CHICAGO, Dec. 19.-The Western Alumni
Association of hamilton College held its
seventeenth annual reunion and banquet
at the Union League Club this evening.
Daniel ?. Baldwin. LII. d. SO. Of Logans-
port. Ind. is president of the association,
and responded to the toast Follow the
Clean" Among the other speakers was
Calvin ". Kendall. 50. superintendent of
public schools at indianapolis, whose topic
vas The Professor Of our Heart The
college was represented by the Rev Prof.
Oren Root. L. II. D.. SO. who spoke on
THE Light Of the Present"
Judge Baldwin said in the course of his
address: "AIl that Is greatest and best in
this life comes to US in CLEANS and is ac-
quired by patient b~rooding and struggle.
Natures law is from small to great from
glimpses and CLEANS to light and to sight.
The supuTb law OF gravitatiOn first dawned
upon Isaac Newton through the falling of
an apple. The power of that mighty giant
steam-the first executive in the world
came TO Watt while watching the rising
and falling of the lid Of his mothers tea
kettle. The greatest OF all English revolu-
tions, that which wrested constitutional
government from arbitrary power, began IN
a paltry ship tax. All human progress has
the same history-from the small to the
great. The Divine comes 10 US slowly, Oh
how slowly. as though a glass darkly'-
from CLEANS TO light and 10 sight. I'm
mortality is "a beam in darkness-let it
grow God in the beginning when He made
man, in His own image made He him
planted IN the human bosom three divine
sparks-truth, beauty and worship-and
then left him to himself-all alOne-tO work
out through CLEANS and through number
less failures his art his government his
literature. his science. his philosophy and
his religion.
Consider government. Man is too weak
10 WELD unlimited power yet too noble to
be a slave AT first might makes right.
then gradually right makes might. For
thousands of years muscle has been and
TO a painful degree still Is the bond servant
OF brain. But by and by the man with the
hoe is sure to assert himself. Less than
one hundred and twenty-five years ago a
cloud no bigger then a mans hand hung
over the laboratory OF
and the result was the rise of the power
of the people. 1t was less then a century
from the States General of France of 1857
20 Abraham Lincoln. fortunately for the
new world Franklin and Jefferson. two
young men, were then living in Paris and
brought home with them the seeds of lib
erty and free thought. To-day all the ma
tons of the world are travelling to ultimate
repubIicanism through the pathway of
constitutional monarchy.
PHILOSOPHY.
philosophy shows the same ~record-from
CLEANS to light and TO s%ight-from confused
speculation and gods many to the mighty
truth Of one universal power-that matter
is a form of f~orce-that organization Is the
result of life and not life of organization
that mind lies back OF matter and that
back Of all phenomena is a supreme per-
son-not "A power not ourselves which
makes for righteousness but a person
like TO ourselves in whose right hand dwells
both power and righteousness. The ulti-
mate reality of all philosophy is not power,
Follow the Clean This. too. is the
method and secret OF art. No work of art
Is genuine which is not in itself a glimpse
and CLEAN Of the beyond. All great paint
tngs-all great statuary-all great archt-
lecture have one and the same test Of
genuinenesS-their power to awaken in us
glimpses Of the invisible-'of the King in
his beauty and the land that is afar on
Take a couple OF Illustrations. Architecture
is the realization in the white splendors of
marble and in the glOries OF form OF our
ideals Of the spiritual and the infinite, so
that when we step from the roaring streets
cathedral we see the essential vulgarity OF
mere wealth and power and realize that
the things which are seen are temporal.
but the things that are unseen are eternal
Few of US but have seen in some form
MiIets Angelus. Simplicity could not be
simpler. The persons are a couple OF rude
peasants whose faces are living records
of mans ~inhumanity TO man-less intelli-
gent through centuries OF oppression and
Ignorance AnG0 the races OF their IOQf-
footed friends. They hear at sunset the
Angelus bell. The great artist had painted
a sky ablaze with spirituality-in fact a
photograph of God; The key of the great
painting is that this vision OF God has so
penetrated these poor rudimentary souls
that they involuntarily uncap and repeat
there our Father who art in heaven'-in
other words. the great artist opened 10
them and opens TO Us a glimpse OF the be
yond. Abt NOgler has always seemed TO
M next 10 Rabbi BeneZra the greatest of
Browning's poems. The great player tells
the whole story when he says:
God has a few OF US 10 whom He whis-
pers IN the ear,
The rest may reason and We
musicians know.
BETTER POETS To COME.
al literature and human achievement in
the beginning was a CLEAN. We have every
reason 10 believe that these heavenly Wis
ions OF poetry. science, literature and elo-
quence which are the glory and JOY of the
whole world have by no means reached
their fruition or their perfect day Better
poetry viii yet be written than has ever yet
been written. The enormous advance from
Homer 20 Dante and from Dante 10
Wordsworth. Tennyson and Browning will
keep on Advancing. Shakespeare VIII al
ways remain as he has heretofore re-
mained-the exception and the unaPproach-
able. Humanity has no longer any use for
the savage wars OF Troy nor the Titanic
wars in heaven between the Almighty and
His rebelliOus angels. for the simple reason
that we have reached a nObler estate,
which In its turn will be superseded by one
still nObler. In the language Of Emerson.
10 my mind the greatest OF American poets:
The heaven that now draws
With sweetness untold
Once found for new heavens
we spurn them as old
Better history remains 20 be made than
ever yet was made. Better eloquence will