The Wichita daily eagle., 1901-06-04


annual commencement address by Rev.
c. II. Patton, D. D.. Tuesday evening at
Plymouth church
Third annual commencement exercises
"Wednesday morning. Plymouth church 10
O'clock
The BaccaIsz1reate address by President
Morrison. delivered at Plymouth church
last sunday morning was noteworthy in
every parucuar. Dr. AIorrison's theme
was in reference TO college building; his
text 'The Work is Great and Large.
from Uehemiah 4l9 True greatness;
the real functions OF the college and the
results Of successful college founding.
where tne three propositions he pre-
scented in remarkably lucid. logical and
instructive manner.
A crowded house was present TO hear
the address. The local college trustees.
II. W. Darling. J. NJ Knapp. II Z.
Thayer, Charles c. Cohn, C. 2. Potts.
DR.. W. H Graves and DR. Geo + Lewis;
also Rev. w. 4. Bosworth and Or. Geo.
Hoss occupied the pulpit platform.
The students "a order of seniority
marched into the church in a body and
occupied the central portion of the house.
The singing Of the choir, especially the
solo b. Mr.. Fritz Huffman was highly
inspiring. Mr. Huffman sang "The
Changeless Love Of the Master in way
that captured the hearts of the entire
audience.
In closing President Morrison delivered
a rev appropriate words to the gradual
ing class. The Baccalaureate address
was in part as follows:
Greatness may be only another name
for neutrality-suspicious. in distance, mass,
bulkiness. Greatness may be inteIlec-
tual; by metaphor comes to stand for
things unmeasurable 10y the surveyor S
chain or the weighers scales; unseeable
los the physical eve, discernible only by
lie eye OF ---e soul. A great thought
Webster said that the greatest idea ever
born in the human mind was the individ-
ual mans thought Of Cod and his own
relations to God.
Greatness passes quickly from the idea
or principle to the embodiment Of the
idea in the result of human effort. The
concep tion OF personal freeGom, the inde-
pendence Of each human soul of all else
in the universe save the authority of the
Infinite is great, but embodied in Luther s
protest and Jenerson's Declaration and
their results, freedom becomes a thing
transcandendy great. This is greatness
Of achievement.
BY a natural transition, greatness of
achievement suggests the prior greatness
Of the toll, struggle, sacrifice. cost from
which The glorious achievement springs.
Washington is greatest at Valley Forge;
Luther facing martyrdom at Worms. The
greatness Of such discoveries and inven-
lions as the three primary laws Of move
ment among the celestial bodies, the sue
cessful vulcanizing of a worthless South
American gum and so the origin of a vast
modern utility and necessity, are best
measured 10y the years of ceaseless effort.
struggle. poverty and public contumely,
through which Tycho Brahe and Goodyear
passed on their way TO success and re-
n6Wn.
But greatness is not alone material and
3ntellectuaIs more them all. 1t is moral.
God is great in power and wisdom and
majesty. but Divine greatness is best
known TO us i'm these three simple words
God is love. Henry Drummond says
Love IS the greatest thing i'm the world. A
greater than Drammond combine au hui
man excellence and declares that the sum
of them Jess than the equivalent OF bcne-
ncient love.
Generally our oonception OF the truly
great reaches its fullest development only
when ta magnitude. to cIearness and com
urehensian Of intellectual vision. to inn
measurable human utility. virtue and
heroisrn. 90 a worldwide charity. we add
the idea of Observation-Disclosures. Real
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r,oyver-vga,.ss ast never waves. Its bene-
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eThe noder-. theory OF evolution de-
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