The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-27
YALE BACCALAUREATE.
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT HAD.
 LEY IN WooLsEY HALL.

LIEF IN WO0LSEY HALL.
 The FundamentaI Thing in Life is the
 Choice of Religion-Whaf the
 Choice Should Be-Passions Defeated
 and Overcome by Duty-sEest We 1 Forgetr-The Programme--A Large
 Attendance.
 l Commencement week was inaugural led yesterday morning by the exercises
 in WooIsey hall, which was packed
 with alumni and friends of the gradu- lating class. The baccalaureate address was delivered by President Hadley. Following was the order of exercises: Organ prelude.
 Venite ............-........... Gregorian The Lords Prayer.
 Scripture lesson.
 I Anthem-Ecce Jam Noctis.. Chadwick Prayer.
 Hymn.
 Baccalaureate address by the president Hymn.
 IDoxology
 lBenediction.
 Tn the afternoon the hall was again filled, Professor Parker giving an or igan recital at 5.o'clock. In the evening lat 8 o'clock praise service was con- ducted in Battell chapel by the Yals Foreign Missionary society. Rev. Ed ward s. Hume made the address.
 The baccalaureate sermon in full was as follows:
 Except the Lord keep the house, Ithey labor in vain that build it; except the Lord keep the city, the watchman lwaketh but in vain"
 Seven years ago. when England was celebrating the fftieth anniversary of the accession of her queen, and when every part of the British empire united lin offerings of patriotic pride, the cho- sharp note of warning from that en- pire's greatest poet:
 If, drunk with sight of power, we lose
 l Wild tongues that have not Thee in
 awe,
 lSuch boastings as the Gentiles use, I Or lesser breeds without the Law Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget-lest we forget"
 It was not the first time that a poet had said such things to the English people Milton and Gray and Words iworth had in their several ages sound led the same note of warning. But Milton and Gray and Wordsworth had loiJ active affairs. The thing that most sur ' prised men in Kipling's Recessional Twas that it came from one who had lspent his life among soldiers, sharing Itheir ideals and ambitions and senti- ments. It was the cry of man of ac- tion, who knew whereof he spoke a cry like that of David to the Hebrews or of Aeschy1us to the Athenians-a cry of man who had seen a nation ill it's making, and who had proved from con- tact with the s'far-fung battle line'' that the Lord saveth not with sword and spear.
 Not in Britain alone and not in mili- tary affairs alone is this lesson needed. The battle lines of the nineteenth cen itury have engaged in the conquests of | pSSCe dS Well dS Ol WdI. l uS UOdStS 0l the leaders of. scientific and industrial progress are no less loud. than those of the captains and kings In our assem- plies and our navies, the tumult and the shouting tend to crowd out the re- lmembrance of things that are more fundamental and more essential I wish I had the poets power to find words which would apply to the every day life that is before US the lesson of Kipling's Recessional. But I can do no more than put into plain prose some lfacts of history, past and present, which may serve to guide us in shap- ling our lifes course amidst this tumult and warn us against. the dangers in volved in the minimizing acceptance of current standards of success at the cost, 1t may be, of the very best that I've have inherited from our fathers. You have been reminded many times lover of the exceptional privileges and opportunities which the present age oft lfers. In every Forefathers day ad- Idress you have been told how your an- lcestors toiled and fought that you might enter into the fruit of their la bors At every industrial exhibition you have been congratulated on the command which your generation enjoys lover the physical forces of nature; at every public celebration you have been |congratulated on the opportunities that lie before the man of ambition to ex- tend his power over wider fields than Hay open to his fathers. But there is something else which has been done for you which is more important than all these things put together. Your fath- CTS have built up mortality and a lconscience and faith to which you have fallen heirs. Slowly and labori- lously, for generation after generation. they have been substituting law for li- lcense, self-restraint for passion, rever- ience for superstition, love for hate. l Slowly they have built up religious spirit which makes men devote their Hives to things outside of themselves and larger than themselves; spirit which gives to laws and morals and creeds all their real vitality. In this slow process of evolution the self-wiIled and perverse have been gradually elirn- mated, while the unselfish and the righteous and the spiritual have found a larger and stronger following as cen turies went by. The work of a devoted Header has stimulated his followers to devotion The inspiration of prophet ic teacher has called forth a response