The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-02

Deliver Addresses = Banquet in the
 Dining Hall.
 The graduating exercises of the sen for class. twenty-seven members, in the Yale Divinity school were held in Bat tell chapel at 10:30 yesterday morning. At 10 o'clock the representatives of the Yale corporation, the faculty of the school the alumni, graduating class and undergraduates formed the process sion in the corridor of West Divinity. They marched from the building to Battell chapel. The chapel was well filled with friends of the graduating class.
 President Hadley opened the exer- clses but was compelled to leave. Dean sanders filling his place. The invoca- ton was delivered by Professor G. F. Fisher, D. D.. LL D., who for many years was dean of the Yale Divinity school.
 Ine first speaker was George De Wilt Caston, of this city, a Drury college graduate His theme was "The Chris tan Conception of Sacrifice, He re- Viewed the Jewish. the prophetic anf the Christian conceptions of sacrifice concluding by summing up The c,bria, 'ian ioea of self-sacrifice as the one which was bound to endure
 Shirley Jackson Case, of Springfield. New Brunswick, an academic college graduate, delivered the second address on The Permanent Value of the Eac- raments.' He said: "The sacrarnents nave the same authority as the mission or Jesus The human nature demands a sign, and the sacraments, therefore are founded on human need and tha significance of the truths for which they stand. The water stands for purf- ncatlon, the bread and wine for the suv- tenance of life. Into these men have read their hopes, their fears, their aspirations"
 Harold Bruce Hunting. of Berea Kv
 spoke third on "The Element of T5ona in Religion" He said. Tt is a char acterlstic of religion to look to the pres- ent instead of to the future.
 The modern evangelist seldom por- trays the visions of heaven with golden
 streets. On the other hand, pure. un-. selfish life is portrayed. We seldom
 speak of saving souls. We speak of saving live men and women now we
 are interested in religion that will re :. sEsult in honesty in business and purity of heart and life. We must admit that
 on the whole this is a change for the
 better In order to lay the chief en- phasis on the present it is not necessary to ignore the future, and this respect we
 have gone to an extreme.
 Has not this said questionine. age Of ours lost sight of part of Christian re- ligion? We must be able to see through the mists. Ought we not to take our ideal
 of social salvation and realize it's depths
 and height?"
 Ernest R. Guthrie, of Dunedin, New : Zealand, closed the speeches from the class with a talk on The Supernau-
 ralism in Human Life" He said: 'sWe ) must assume that God enters human life and relationships as we mingle with
 our fellow men, if we cannot prove 1t. l It is no mere difference of tongue that holds that God has and has not a direct influence in human life. The latter will have only vague ideas of God. Another [ will think of God as only an impersonal ) beautiful being.
 Tt is not within the broad field of science, but within the narrow sphere of human life, that the battle for God must ? be fought. Science realizes that, al- 5 though it can formulate laws about sep- arate happenings in this world, it can 5 tell us nothing of our destiny. We bear
 in our lives a mysterious presence by which men may know that we come 5 forth from God"
 Professor Walker said in addressing
 the class:
 "The friendships and fellowships e which bind you to each other and have g endeared you to your instructors will hereafter be of memory instead of asso-
 citation. For three years we have labor t ed together. We have been learners to- D gether We have given you our best, yet how little we have done. We have
 tried to aid you. We work no more s within these familiar halls. y "The Christian ministry has never e been an easy profession. Each age of T the church has had it's problems and
 temptations, but they were never great s CT and more pressing than they are to- : day. The duty of supporting organized h religion does not press on the conscience ' of men to-day as it did in the genera - tion of our fathers.
 Preach what you know of Gods l, grace and leave your doubts for your : hours of study with your books.'
 Rev pr. Newman Smyth pronoonced :; the benediction.
 | At o'clock the banquet for the alum. :; nj and guests of the graduating class
 was held in the Yale dining hall. Rev r, A. w. H. Hitchroek S9 presided ant Z. addresses were made by President Had ;. ley, Dean Sanders, Professor Bacon ?. Dr. Boynton, Professor Fisher, Rev }. MT. Hunie, Rev. MT. Calhoun, Rev. MT
 Ayers, Professor Norton, of Pomona e Cal, and several others.
 IS The class of 1904, which graduated r. yesterday, entered when Dean Sanders [. took up his work as dean of the school