The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-09-23
A BISHOP SPOKE.
At First Chapel Exercises-An Incl
dent of college Opening.


The Oregon Agricultural College
opened last Tuesday with an at
tendance of about 400 students.
On account of the Lewis and Clark
Exposition, a hundred or more
students will be delayed few days
in order that they may take advan-
tage of the great fair.
The exercises began promptly at
8. SO in the morning with prayer by
Rev. Simpson of Good Samaritan
Episcopal church of Corvallis and
was followed by Bishop Morrison of
New Orleans. Bishop Morrison
took the following text from
the lst chapter of St. John: Keep
the good wine till the last of the
feast" The entire address was
full of we'll founded advice to the
young men and women, many of
whom are away from home and
parents for the first time in their
lives: it consisted largely of words
of sympathy for the girl and boy
who are starting out for the higher
life in business and in the intellect
ual pursuits.
He said; young men and
women, you are now at the open
Jag of a season of books and letters.
Many of you have entered College
for the first time in your lives:
hence I desire to speak to you of
ahe first great miracle wrought by
our Savior; it was His advent In
the work miraculous; it was his
first instruction to men ard women
for he was teacher and he thought
as no other man thought; he spake
as no other man spake; he suffered
as no other man ever suffered.
You are here to go from the life
you have lived to the enjoyment
that living better will give you.
This was Christ's entire trend. He
was always doing something good;
he touched water and it became
Wholesome wine; he spoke aloud,
the corpse arose and Lazarus came
forth.
TIE sooner you come, young
men and women, into touch with
the teachings of Christ, the sooner
you will come to your higher inter-
ests.
In this college you will find
many problems that your teachers
will help you solve but there will
be many problems and many ext
gencies that no teacher except
Christ can solve for you.
You will notice that the Savior,
in his desire that the servants
might have part in his great mir
acle, said: Fill up the wa'er
pots In order that you NAV
have part in the greater life, you
may expect to live, you will be
called upon time and again to dc
the things that laggard might ex-
pect others to do for him. Your
college life will prepare you Tor a
citizenship of so or 90 years at the
most: that is all; this Faculty pre-
pares you for such citizenship but
Christ's teachings prepare you for
a citizenship of the whole universe
and for eternal ages.
You will also notice that He told
them to fill the six pots of water to
the brim-fuli to overhowing; this
is the way that God does business.
He does not do things on the scant;
when he made the ocean, he made
it full There is nothing narrow in
God-no narrowness or meanuess;
everything is kindness and fullness
with God.
You will notice also that Christ
Kept the good wine till the last of
tie feast; this is the theory of the
Christian life. The world says,
Drink the best frst''; Christ says,
keep the best wine for the last of
the feast'
Your college career is part of
the Christian theory which pre-
pares men and women for the best
of life at the close-a Christian sun
set without a cloud. This you
will have if you allow Christ to cul-
tivate the heart while these teach
ers cultivate the head.