New-York tribune., 1902-06-23
BACCALAUREATE AT YALE,
PRESIDENT HADLEY'S PARTING AD-
VICE TO THE GRADUATING CLASS.

New-Haven. Conn, June 22.-The baccalaure-
ate sermon at Yale was delivered this morning
in Batteu Chapel by President a. T. iHadley-
There were many graduates in the church. as
we'll as the usual commencement throngf of visit
ors and friends of the senior classes. The Rev
Dr. Timothy Dwight, ex-president of the uni
versity, pronounced the benedictien
President Hadey said in part ~
In reading the account of the temptation in the
wilderness hardly help being impressed and
overawed by the way in which il anticipates the
out into active life. We might almost say that the
more completely is he likely to repeat the whole
series of the temptations which fell to the lot Of
the three temptations comes TO us all alike The
second will sooner or later come 10 the majority Of
relatively few: but those few the men of rare
their own hearts
You are going out into wilderness. The tempta-
to resist than those to which you nave become
customed during your college life. But you have
you In any good college a finds himself part
of a community in which each takes MS snare OF
may always he ideally high; but. such as they
Especallv is this true of a college like Yale: and
the help which you have gained from your associa-
you come to face by yourselves the temptations of
But the pressure Of these temptations has only
been deferred it has not been avoided You have
them before you. and you have to face them alone
The first that meets you is that of materalism
IF thou be the Christ command that these stones
be made bread For years come this Will be
dinned into your from every side 'Cf what
is a college education" men vii! tell YOU ex-
cept as it enables you make living" 'Of
what ideal Standards the press Will say
life?" You will probably be in a position w9eIe
money comes home with vastly increased force to
the who has that money hlInSell. ana
Ideals amid the pressure of immediate physical
want Still harder is it for him to retain his IDEAL
ming of bread that success in this seems TO {he M
sFongeT sns eRG thsn Ssf his hi Fellow Fellows "''n '
Far be it from me to say anything against the
hard taskmaster which keeps you from dreaming
1t furnishes a stimulus which brings out some OF
could be developed otherwise The modern business
struggle has been arranged that in serving him
self each man. the whole tends to serve others
But when: in the stress of this effort. mi man ] ,9g
to regard it means for the ordering OF society
possibiiity Of what is best within him; and the
greater were those possibilities. the larger IS the
live by bread alone" If you have it in you to
give men more than this be surt tnan nal any m ba
visited upon your soul when you have to make up
danger than the danger of thinking that the money
standard is everything; that ability ana osineSs
commodities. The stress of hunger may EXCUSE the
wrong The binding influences en- f OF bt
can condone the error undo the wrong. -. -
,elpIdu4s I on 1it-irf. v.itbnut sinking all his
temptations-the temptations of ambition. II Nu
have passed successfully the tests of the first hard
years life in the office OF the shop. you Will ma
wide fields OF success opening before you & here
will you seek that success? Is it to be IN the ac-
cumulation of a large fortune-nU longer as d
means of physical comfort. Dut as means O ~
fuencing the actions of others? Snail IL De IN
social position among your fellow men Sna u @ oe
in political office and in the conduct OF tft an ID an -
much that is noble The millionaire. the sGCla
leader the political chieftain. all have IN thelr
of the existence of this power that the danger comes
close home. and comes home closest 70 the very
strongest among us of subOrdtnating all otheF leS
these immediate objects 1he strong man II nc
worships money, is offered the promise OF many
millions of dollars: If he wOrShipS pOItlcal power
the prizes of office stand before his hand whether
other shall not undertake 20 say put certain II y
that the devil will be at hand 70 show you over
way in which they can be gafned-that you can can
commune with the object of your worship only oy
falling his feet and forgetting thit tt'ere
is any other god -
Rut there is vet another temptation. less uni
versaI than either Of these named but 10 MN i?r
whom II comes vet more difficult TO resist ms i
bread to satisfy hunger: no equally vulgar liouSH
more intellectual. desire for authority over oht
scious of his power assert that power N tie
face of all nature To do something out OF I!le
common run of work. something whose poSslo
have been unrealized by the vulgar inlEu-tL,S II II
the dream which all great men CHERISH. ana 10
which some of them subordinate everything e!St
no dazzle world BY campaigns ike those OF
u-He literature those
Goethe or to achieve the almost miraculous dIS-
coyeries which have awaited the pioneers III IttIl-
ambition and unsteady the Judgment or any man
And what is the answer when this temptation Is
suggested? Jesus said unto him, II Is written
thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy Coo II W.
inst because he had Gods power and God spirit
In him felt the ability 70 dazzle men oy MS