The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-24

0ssSo" supreme Court-Deiivered al Yale Yesterday.
 < MT. President, Brethren and Friends of Yale:
 A Bicentennal-the hour when two hunured years that have been, clasp { hands with unnumbered years that are S to pc; when history stands face to face l With prophecy. At such an hour the earnest soul calls for no more boasting 2 tale of things achieved no fancy pie sg gture in light or shade of glory or doom yet to be. The loyal sons of Yale be- hold with loving pride their Alma < Mater, erect in queenly glory. We see \ all that the eye can reach, and with { swelling heart contrast to-day with S two hundred years ago. Her library, { then 40 volumes, now over 350,O00; her
 Instructors, then rector and one or two tutors now a president and over < 27O professors and teachers; her stu dents, then a handful, now over 2,500 X Of the buildings and grounds she then had none; now her magnificent struc- 4 1ures cover block after block in this Ncity of elms. Then small college now
 A great university Then she was lit tie more than name; now a stupen-
 dous fact. Then with little touch or Influence upon the community; now a
 mighty power in the world The mus
 tard seed has become a great tree.
 2, But as we gaze we recall the words #of the Apostle, "the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which
 are not seen are eternal" How true,
 how solemn, how inspiring these words!
 The crust of the earth Is but one
 mighty sepulchre, in which are buried
 the broken and crumbling fragments sof that which man has put into visible forms But the enduring is found in
 those invisible things of the soul which
 have entered into the life of the race and lifted it from the level of the brute towards the heights of civilization.
 The two tables of stone upon which the Almighty chiseled the Commandment are broken and gone but the Decalogue letill lives and rules the world With un- sdiminished force. The cross on which the great sacrifice was made is seen mo more, but the infinite love which prompted and was expressed in that
 Gacriflce is ever the shining light which illumines the upward path of the race.
 The ink with which the Declaration of
 Indepndence was written is fast van
 ishifg from sight. but it's glorious as esrtion of equal rights will to the end of time inspire the heroic soul And eo Of all things The earth may be dumb the stars may be silent but | tlie spirit will fill the vaults of space with songs eternal.
 N We are not indifferent to the visible things, We rejoice in the richness and | Aplendor of the garments of our stately | mother; but these are the visible and | temporal. Let us go behind the veil [ ana search the unseen for that which | IS Immortal and which gives promise 0f Immortality to Yale.
 " " sIR the general thought of education nil colleges and universities are alike As human faces have general features Tn common, so have educational insti- Etltions, and yet there is always some tf1tng which individualzes each. "One gtar differeth from another star in glory" If Yale has had generous so have other institutions, If s1le has had learned and distinguish sd Instructors, so have they. If she has had Era duates who have done grand work in life, so have they.
 4 turn from those forces and facts in which Yale's life has been common with lhe lives of other educational institu Hons to some matters of difference things which individualize her.
 Note the declared purpose with which lie began life, and the spirit in which hat purpose has been carried into ef- 'ect That purpose was, as expressed yl her charter now two hundred years ia to fit young men for public em- 3l0ynent both in church and civil , |tate.'' z
 Wisely did the ten Congregational ; ministers lay the foundations of Yale. I fheV searched the horizon, and plan , ,ed for immortality With clear eye Ifey SEW that the two great institu- / i0fas by which society is moved and . Itffnanity lifted up are the church and , lfe state, and they purposed that the lew college should train for service s I1 them. They believed in the Bible. t ,hey read in it the words of the Mas . er. the Son of Man came not to be r ninistered unto but to minister" They . aw dirnly what we more clearly see z mt the true vision of the Almighty is :, of that of an omnipotent ruler but / / m infinite servant. They would v1rk with Him. They meant that Yale hould be Christlike and so they wrote t 1to the beginning of her life this ,,
 fIrfst1ike thought of public service. 'sJhe was the first educational institu-
 0fs in the world to make the fitting ,r spublic service the expressed and oniinant purpose of her educational g ofk. Tn this country the two earlier It jilrftes were Harvard, in Massachu s' .fts. and William and Mary, in Vir- f( [nia Tn neither of their charters is u iere any recognition of public service ee ! the purpose of their lives or train c'
 e Even If similar language be found ol
 the charters of educational institu- g ons across the water prior to that 1T ne if must be remembered that pub g service there meant service of the 10 onarch. So 1t may fairly be claimed Ill
 at Vale was the first educational fn- I'll gtt1tfun in the world to make train VI 2 for service of the public the su- .Ame object of her life and work lii What a noble, inspiring purpose! 1 CT trie service of the public is not mere aN Hce seeking or office holding for fiji ther of them may go with the poor th f kind of service and with constant of nurht of private gain or persona, am- in
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