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

ton they wisely bound 1t to no creed
 fastened it to no dogma. Doubtless, al
 Judge Baldwin said, "The religious lib
 erty for which the Puritans crossed tn
 sea was simply liberty to make thei
 form of religion the law of a new com
 munity" Yet Yale was always broadly
 catholic. In the volume issued bS
 President Clapp in 1765 concerning tho
 history of the college and it's rules ol
 life, he says: Persons of all denomin-
 ations of Christians are allowed the ad-
 vantage of an education here, and nc
 inquiry has been made, at their admis-
 sion or afterwards, about their par
 ticular sentiments in religion" From
 the very beginning Yale has stood with
 an open door towards all true religion
 Early she transferred the uflm and ! thummin on the breastplate of Aaron into the motto of her life, lux ct veritas,
 and ever has she walked, guided by
 that motto in her training of the young
 for public employment in church and
 civil state. She anticipated Gcethe's s
 dying call for "mehr licht'; Cardinal
 Newmans Lead, Kindly Light;
 Lead Thou Me On'; and ever has she,
 ignoring it's sheer, sought the answer
 to Pilates immortal question, What is
 Truth?"
 So much for the past; that at least,
 as Webster said, is secure. And now
 for the present and future. It is the
 law of life, at least of that which ap-
 pears in material forms that there is
 growth, maturity: then decay and death We have seen that Yale hes grown. She stands to-day marvellous institution. Is this only the ripening, to be followed by decay and death? Has she like the great multitude of human institutions, outllved her use- fitness, and with nothing before her but the sad processes downward to dis solution and death?
 I turn again to her relations to the great work of fitting for public service and find an answer in the need of such work for the preservation and perpetu- ation of popular government and her fidelity to her declared purpose in re- spect thereto. The conditions of life. social and political. are not as they were We stand in wondrous hour. It Is the time of marvellous achieve ments; the day of magnitudes and magnificences The great army of ctv- ilization is marching from victory to victory Yet now, as In the days Of Patrick Henry, amid the shouts of joy and triunlphs are notes of discord. the cry of the modern John Hooks, hoarsely bawling, beef. beef! beef!
 The structure of popular government in this Republic towers above the hori- zon of the world great and strong, and yet the question of it's permanence IS not settled It's possibilities of good are greater than ever before; yet 1t lives under new conditions and faces new dangers.
 New occasions teach new duties; time
 makes ancient good uncouth. They must upward still, and onward
 who would keep abreast of truth
 Consider these things which are rapidly changing all conditions of life, those in this country: From the beginning of time till within the last century there was no substantial in the means of travel or communication. The only motive power was the wind, or animal strength. And turing all these unnumbered centuries he camel and horse grew no swifter, he OK no stronger The caravan moved with the same slow pace at the begin ling of the nineteenth century as when Abraham went out from his fathers house to become the founder of q new ace The wind now blows no more strongly or swiftly than when PauPs 5essel was driven about the Mediter- .anean by the tempestuous Euroclydon. The postoffice and telegraph were hings unknown But with the intro luction of steam and electricity, trans ,ortation travel and communication la.ve wonderfully changed. Time and listance are almost annihilated, and ach year is adding speed, capacity and omfort We talk around the globe In
 minute; every morning the events f the world are spread before us in he daily press. The postoffice takes he letter from our doors and speedily elivers it anywhere in the land. We ravel around the world in a month. yessels, larger than the ark in which yoah tloatedsall the undestroyed animal fe of the world and carrying in their immense capacity a multitude greater han that which fought for liberty at ,unker Hill cross the Atlantic in less ime than it took John Adams to go rom Boston to Philadelphia to sign the Declaration of Independence, The most istant islands of the sea are brought ear to our shores. The divergence, 'olation and animosity of races and eople, typefied by the story of the dis ersion at the Tower of Babel, are ielding to the unifyng influences of -eam and electricity. The steam en- inc and the telegraph are laying the . ,undations of a new tower, which shall cree the blue heavens, within whose mple walls a united humanity shall orship the Infinite Ruer. The forces
 life are centripetal and not centri- lgal. Union and unity are the potent , ords. Neighbor has become recog zed term in the vocabulary of na ons. Our recent war with Spain for e deliverance of Cuba, with it's re- llting acquisition of Porto Rico and . e Philippines, was but one act in e great drama, whose far distant pre- de was ignorance, oppression and ,te, and whose final song shall be the lgel anthem first heard by Judea's epherds on Bethlehem's plains, andJ k t to rise from every human lip, rth's glad reply to heavens prophetic essage.
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