Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1901-06-12
THE CLOSING HOUR.
The Address by Prof. Bar.
rOwS--The Graduates.

" LO " III nave G4dT2t OE tine sAIlIlE
/, school beginning next Tuesday.
Yesterday afternoon the busine9
meeting of the Alumni association
took place, the main business bein.
the election of officers, resulting il
TIE selection of the following
President, Ray K Shiveley vice
| president, Mrs. Prof Sackett; secre
tary, Miss Carrie Carpenter; treas
urer. Harlow Lindley; trustee, l.
Woodward, orator, 4. W. Newlin
poet Prof W n True blood.
In the evening the public meeting
occurred and was well attended from
the city, the exercises including
piano music by Misses Lora Worley
and Anna Evans, an address bl
Clarence Burkholder and poem en-.
titled The Mirage by Miss Ethe
Coleman.
The exercises this morning opened
with a prayer after which Prof.
Mills introduced the speaker, Prof.
Barrows of OberIin college, in a
neatly turned address. referring 10
Oberlin as having the honor of being
the messenger of the gospel Of Jesus
Christ to the hearts and minds of the
people. Mr.. Barrows address was
one Of the most scholarly and interest
ing we have heard at Earlham He
opened by reference to the battle
fields Of the late war and a tribute 10
the soldiers of that war; then declared
aIS position that equal honor was
due those who fought their battles
in the field Of learning, holding with
Webster that the teaching of divine
truth to our children has wrought
more for the good OF the world than
all the battles Of war His address
was divided into two themes book ;
and travel. In these DAYS the libra
ries are no longer under lock and
key. the opportunities for mental
cultivation through the medium ship
of books is unlimited. He looked upon
the library as direct refutation
of the theories of the atheist In the
library we walk arm in arm with
Darwin, and Homer; hear the voice
OF Burke, and talk with Shakes peare
In these DAYS of the cable and the
telegraph the antipodes are our
nelghbors, and the reader who does
not know what the king of Siam is
years the speaker saw much of the
old world, as a lecturer in foreig
countries, he had seen China, japan,
many Islands of the seas, but in ali
his wanderings no place so beautiful
as the land he called home There is
a God in history, aud though his
adicts are written in letters of fire
they show that the max
ny OF the nations is not an accident
-ssoe;e,sr@~~7ss'fczrf r--s,ty1r roc
wrought out the salvation of the hu
man race Shall we. The nation of
whom so many prophetic things have
been uttered and written by the wise
Of all nations, forget our destiny
Today the brightest lights of the
world 5 sunlight shines everywhere
ON the American college. Even at
Bombay the first song he heard was
- My Country tbs of Thee, sung by
Indian children. Japan and China
owe much of their awakening from
the sleep of their centuries to
America. Wherever is to be
seen advancement in these great
lands there IS seen the work OF
the great republic. Geography made
the world four times as large as in
the days of Paul; steam and elec-
triCitV are making it smaller again.
We make the trip around the world
in half the time required very short
time ago; and trip from Richmond
may be arranged To all parts of the
world with absolute knowledge be
fore starting of within three min
utes Of the very time we shall land at
any point. He did not advise Amer
leans to travel in other countries
very much until they had seen the
glories of their own wonderful land .
but travel adds to one 5 learning and
widens one : sympathies. Commerce
is the chief feature IN the life OF our
globe. The greatest empire on earth
is that of human kindness. The great
est benefits of travel are to those who
are willing to concede that fine and the
beautiful are to be found elsewhere
than in our own land 1t is supposed
TO be characteristic of the American
TO turn up the nose at the Alps be
cause they are not so high as the
Rockies: at the rivers because they
are not so long as the Mississippi
at the marveIs of architecture OF the
old world because they are not
as tall as the commercial mon-
strosities OF Chicago aud New York
The need and room for advancement
were woven into most impressive
description of the countries the
speaker had seen, and the oppOrtuni-
ties in China and Japan were special
lv enlarged upon. Ia France he had
found our greatest admirers. In al
parts of the world we find our cousin
of the British Isles but their Old Of
fenSiye air of English superiority has
vanished The lack~of general in
formation with regard to this coun
try. in England and other countries
was illustrated by some illustrations
The time is rapidly coming wheT
the English will teach their children
our forms of government h
returned TO our country with {
sweeter love OF our creates
and lovIiest acquisition, oul
Christianity. He compared oul
Christianity with a ayast aud beautiful
mountain. with the peaceful farm:
and homes at the foot, the school.
and colleges on the slopes. and abov,
the blazing glories of the MellenIa
morning. The echoes Of Dewey
cannon brought distant Asia sever
thousand miles nearer TO American
civilization, perhaps the most mo
mentous instance IN the history Of tn
sleeping east was she booming .
those cannonS. The Pacific seems !,
De the grand highway fer futur
/ progress as the Atlantic has been il
the past.
| The address was followed by
piano solo by Miss Grace Baker,
graduate of the high school, now j
the music department at the college
and then the diplomas were present
ed by President Mills 10 the followin,
graduates and the fortieth year c
Earlham college passed into history
| Earl Brandon Barnes, 3. 4.