The San Francisco call., 1903-01-26
PLANS OF THE FOUNDERS,
Chapel Is Keystone Of Beou-
tiful Buildings.
.HIS noble building which is opened to-
day, a decade after the founding of the
i university, is no mere afterthought-it

-HIS noble building which is opened to-
day, a decade after the founding of the
i university, is no mere afterthought-it
is an integral part OF the original plan
of the founders.
1t was clearly recognized by them that edu-
cation must be more than the winning of
knowledge, that il must be knowledge led on
In 10 wisdom. the beginning of which,
the Hebrew seer long ago pointed out, is "the
fear Of the Lord; that mental life must rise
into moral life, and moral life into religious
life, If II is to be more life and fuller that
we want: that the manhood to be trained
must be a whole inanhood-body, mind and
soul; that culture must Tipen into character
which runs its deepest roots down into the
reverent recognition of God. the calm and fear-
less vision through the grave and gate of
death into Immortality.
So it was planned that the university chapel
should be reared where 1t now stands, the
keystone of the whole group OF beautiful build
ings. binding all the departments OF a true
education INTO a living unity, ethical and
spiritual, fashioning manhood into the fine fiber
OF faith; its pulpit interpreting all knowledge
into terms Of life: on its altar the full life
here grown burgeoning and blossoming into
the loftiest experience Of our human nature
worship: Natural, this, for university with
such a history.
Born out OF deep sorrow, out of a deep
sorrow transformed into the holiest and divin-
est of all joys; born out of faith, made living
and real, that there is no death, that the lifo
uprooted from the earth is but transplanted
into the SKIES and that the child in whom the
home centered is still the center Of the home
this university is thus born of the very spirit
From the beginning, temporary chapel has
ministered to the moral and religious life OF
the university, giving place in due time TO this
cacred shrine of the soul; cathedral church
rising TO be the symbol in stone Of the supre-
macy OF the spiritual lfe-all the noblest arts
uniting 10 make 1t ministrant upon the no
blest life OF man.
In the large and luminous planning of the
founders of the university IT was decided thar
OH fIreb GhC mi n he SuiT
of the university after fashion worthy Of
a university. The charter ordered that the
church should be forever free from any &C.
clesiastical relationships; that the teachings
FROM its pulpit should be non-sectaran. and
that the worship should be such that in 1T all
might freely unite. This provision commands
the unhesitating acquiescence of those who are
now placed In charge of the church. What
ever their ecclesiastical relationships have
been in the past. and whatever those rela-
tonships may be in the future, should they
hereafter from this ministry to resume
their old denomnational ministries, while they
are here they will be faithful to this chartered
requirement; glad to have part in the fashion
cialisms of piety and be catholic Chris
tianity, as large as humanity And this, not
because they love less their own household of
faith. but because they love more that Church
of God which their prayer-book, in its su-
pany Of all faithful people" Such catholic
Christianity alone can be the worthy express
sion Of the religious life of a university.
The pulpit of this church is to try to find
the common denominator of manifold forms
of Christianity 1t is to present those essen
tial ethical and spiritual truths which are the
heritage of all who bear the name of Chris
tan-which we discerning be
the heritage Of all who bear the human name,
the sons and daughters of God in every race
in whom 'shineth the light which lighteth
every man that cometh into the world"
The worship Of this church is to find, as far
as possible. expression, the one hand
for the desire which has fashioned iturgical
services-the craving for dignity and beauty
in worship and, on the other hand for the de-
sire which has manifested itself in non-litur-
gicaI services, the longing for simplicity and
spirituality in worship. Ip lifting up our wor-
ship we TO depend largely upon the minis
try of music-"holy music" as Wagner called
": that music which Sidney Lanier called
IT .ova in search of a word