The Savannah morning news., 1901-10-21
YALE'S ANNIVERSARY
TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO ITS
EXISTENCE BEGAN.
AS IN OLD NEW ENGLAND DAYS
ITS CELEBRATION BEGINS in THE
CHURCHES.

The Bicentennial Inaugurated at
Battle Abbey with Simple Yet I'M
pressive services-Rev. Joseph
Hopkins TwichelI, Senior Fellow
OF the Corporation, Preached amt
DR.. Timothy Dwighfs Hymn 81
Love Thy Kingdom, Lord" Sung in
ClOsing-At Trinity DIR. Battershan
Strongly Condemned the UtiIita-
rian Spirit of the Age.
New Haven, Conn, Oct. 20.-Yale
University began to-day the celebra-
tion of the two hundredth anniversary
of the founding of Yale College. The BIZ
centennial of the great institution of
learning was ushered in with ceremon-
les essentially religious.
The services were performed in ac-
cord with the devout and reverent ira
ditions of the good old New England
days when the little handful of clergy
men gathered together and with pray
erful supplications asked Divine bless
ing upon the institution which they had
conceived and brought forth. The old
hymns were sung and powerful SER
mons were uttered.
The city, proud in it's function as
seat of learning, had bedecked itself in
Yale's colors and presented a splendid
spectacle. Blue draperies were inter-
twined with new cut evergreen and this
general scheme of color was broken
only by the graceful folds of the Stars
and Stripes.
The principal streets had become
archways of blue. adorned at intervals
with pictures of President Roosevelt,
who ON Wednesday is to be Yale's guest
and who on that day will become a son
of Yale when the university's honorary
degree is conferred upon him.
From the simple school of 1901 Yale
to-day finds herself a great university,
developed through the years from a
one building institution down through
her Brick row" to a campus, thence
to a second campus and now to a third,
and stretching out in her departmental
oullolngs to territory as great again.
Begun In Battle Chapel.
Within Battle Chapel, where the BIZ
centennial was inaugurated, the SER
vices--were participated in by an as
semblage as imposing as the exercises
were simple.
The service began at 10:30 a. m. A
chant by the choir was followed by the
Lords prayer. President Hadley read
a lesson from the Scriptures, and after
the TIE Deum the vast congregation
sang Psalm LXV
Rev. Joseph Hopkins Twichell of
Hartford, the senior fellow of the cor
poration, preached the sermon.
The closing hymn was Il Love Thy
Kingdom, Lord" written by Rev.
Timothy Dwight, D. D. LII. D., presi-
dent of Yale College from 1895 to 1917.
Then was sung the Doxology, and the
benediction was pronounced by Rev.
Timothy Dwight, president of the uni
versity from 1886 to 1899.
Meanwhile special bi-centennial SER
vices were held in other churches of the
city and special sermons were preached
by Rev. Newman Smyth, in the Center
Church; Rev. Joseph Anderson of
Waterbury, in the United Church; Rev.
Walter Wesley Battershall of Albany,
in Trinity Church. All of these
churches are located on the historic
green, adjacent to the college property,
and for many years the college COM
mencement exercises were held in Gen.
ter Church.
The Old and the New.
The Rev. Walter w. Battershall, in
the course of his address on "The Old
Faith and the New knowledge" said:
1.-The world to-day is facing problems
which perplex it and appal it, which
start up from old savageries which it
4 haI Io Mi n
the veneers of its civilization, which
shake the moral pillars of which it's
civilization has been built, which con-
found its smooth tongued prophets
and one-eyed philosophers, who tell 1t
that humanity for it's order ana
well being and its development in
to happy and contented life needs be-
lief neither in God nor the soul nor
Immortality; but only the spur of sell
fishness, the restraits of the police and
prudence and the hope of clutching
the prizes in the human scramble.
If this doctrine should gain a
large percentage of converts,
like those who burrow and plot
in subterranean Europe, like some of
our recent importations, like the one
who a month ago struck down the
President and sent a wave of horror
around the world. civilization would
collapse like a house of cards. A man
may think he can fulfill his life with
out the church Of Christ and the tre-
mendous forces which it propagates in
the conscience and conduct of the
world. There will be crises In his his
tory in which he will discover his mis-
take. and If he look outside of his cur
tanned windows, he will see that the
great world, If it keep its hold on its
most precious things, must have a re-
ligion that puts the voice Of the eter-
nal behind the social moralities and
the lamp of an immortal hope within
the sepulchre."
This afternoon at o'clock Rev.
George Park Fisher, D. D., LII. D.,
professor of ecclesiastical history, and
dean of the Yale Divinity School, de-
liverd an address on the subject of
"Yale University in Its Relations to