Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1901-06-10
EARLHAM.
The BdcCdIdureate Sermon
by Prof. Dennis, Yester.
observation-disclosures
menCement.

menCement.
The most interesting week of th.
entire year at Earlham, so far as tbs
city is concerned, began today-com
mencement week. AS all the meet
lngs and exercises are public and the
citizens invited, the attendance from
the city is greater than in former
years.
Tonight is the meeting of the
Ionian and Phoenix societies. A most
Interesting program is to be present
ed.
Tomorrow at 10 O'Clock in the
morning occur the class day exer-
cises. There will be class songs.
speeches and the like. In the even
ing the meeting of the alumni asso-
citation occurs
On Wednesday at O'Clock the
commencement exercises occur with
a class of forty graduates.
Yesterday Prof. ID. w. Dennis de
livered the baccalaureate sermon.
from the text ''Ye are the Light of
the World. The sermon was a very
scholarly and timely one, which we
regret not being able to give in full
We give the following extracts from
it:
I'VE have denounced trusts: they
have swept over the country and
held up their motto, Join or die, to
the small business everywhere; thou
sands have found refuge in them who
did 1T because they must. What il
our great steel trust comes to rule
the markets of the world and il is
J In or die to the steel plants in a
lands What if all our industries be
come so consolidated and the world
thus becomes commercially one, so
that war, for that reason, becomes
inpossiblel 1t may be that Col can
III Ike the greed of man, as well as
the wrath Of man, praise Him. 1t
may be, let US hope that it will be,
If we do our duty it must be, that these
world industries will fall into hands
SO Just that they will use this great
power for the good of all. The Pacific
ocean Is too wide for us single
handed; its leagues are too long to
be plowed by competing keels. The
preacher and the teacher must fur
nish forth men equal in mind and
heart to the new demands, and the
statesman must give laws to- curb
where they ought, and To foster, not
to crush. We can be as completely
an as justly organized industrially
as the body OF man is phy sically
Many millions of cells in the body
f. r the bone trust, the muscle
trust, the heart trust, etc, and the
brain trust rules in fairness over all.
1t is thus that the work of the body
is apportioned Justly and done
economically.
Five hundred years ago we had
anarchy; men defended their own
castles and attacked other mems at
will sought Justice in individual
combat Have not our liberties vast |
ly gained by committing justice to |
complete monopoly, the govern
ment? Industrial freedom and in
ternational unity, and with them
lasting peace, may lie along the same
line. From the days of Caesar until
now we have made deserts and called
them peace Maybe now we can make
a garden and call it peace. We have
some great and some small opportun
tiles to try j., and the possible re
suits are worth all the mistakes, suf
fering, labor and sacrifice they are
sure to cost.
in this new era that confrontS us,
the twentieth century will discover
afresh, as other centuries have done,
out of its deepest need, the divine
Son of God in the Nazarene. Capital
will see that We means labor also.
| ynorance will see that it means
| .arning; goodness even will see that
il means the bad that is susceptible
II remedy. The man of the future
who will see way To increase wages
and reduce hours will be preacher
of Righteousness to the centurisS
that need this service. The ~syndi-
cate that will make the men
who toll for it and make its
profits possible preferred pur-
chasers of its preferred stock
will do something, but see a way
for it t0 more. The con
rrrrrce of the future will not permit
the unfairness of the past. The
laborer, speaking now through the
strike, economists everywhere speak
ing through prose aud verse, and re
lision from a thousand pulplts, are
all agreed that the laborer Is worthy
of his hire, that the OK must not be
muZzled that tread out the corn,
that all We are orethern, that the haud
cannot say TO the foot, | have no
need of thee.
Il am not complaining Of trusts, |
must say again. The evolution of in
dustrv called them and they came.
Ii the world is 10 be in any sense one
its units will have to be larger than
mrn. Complex and world wide and
world big commercial interests will
be a long step toward the brother
hood that is implied in 'Ie are the
light of the world Nor am | seek
ing TO champion labor. | know that
it can waste until il ceases
to have worth but the
multi-milhOnaire Is eStopped
from saying il has not been good.
Bisness has It's advantages: unfair
ness never has; il grows in uginess
as ii grows in size. Justice also
grows greater with the scale. | have
d faith some future Rockefeller viii
turn on not almost, but altogether
all the lights for continent, if not
for a world. and that he will be wise
enough to do il econically and good
enough to do il honestly.
Mrs. MCkiuIey's Condition