The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-26


 for your ideals of what man should be and do ewin have grown as your work has grown. But others about you
 will feel the change and, will be in-
 creasingly ready to work with you and
 under you. To you they will look for
 leadership and counsel in the, move
 ments that are really great-the move
 msnts which do not seek to advance one man at the expense of another, but
 to carry the whole world forward to
 something better than it has known in the past. You may not, and unless some grave emergency arises that puts
 the insignia of power into your hands,
 you probably will not, know how much
 men trust you. The greatness of the Christian is just as unconscious as the
 snallness of the Pharisee. The stan dards and ideals which help, him to be
 great prevent him from rating his own achievements as highly as those about i him are glad to do. But far though they be beyond his reach, they. give
 him the steadiness of purpose which enables him, through life and through death. to face the future undisturbed
 and confident. ...
 There was a man among the apos-
 ties who,. more than all others, had ] tested the possibilities of both these ways of living; and he it is who speask
 most emphatically of them all, con-
 corning the wrongness of the one and
 the rightness of the other. Paul of
 Tarsus was born and bred a Pharisee,
 under conditions which gave him eve
 " advantage for working out life's
 problems on that basis if the thing was
 possible. In his own person he com
 bined the best that three civilizations
 could give-the morals of the Jews, the
 philosophy of the Greeks, the law of
 the Romans. He knew how to use
 them all; and he added to them, from } boyhood up sort of hunger for
 righteousness, a desire to do as well as
 he could the work which was laid upon
 hira-a zeal tor God, to use his own
 words, though not according to knowl-
 edge. But in the midst of his career
 as a Prarisee he was suddenly brought
 to see the meaning of Christ's life and:
 doctrine He saw that a man could
 not render his account to God by reck-
 onfng up his good deeds as so many
 credits to himself. He saw that he
 must forget himself and think for oth-
 CTS. He saw that he must forget the
 past and look to the future He aban-
 doned the attempt to find a definite
 standard to which he could conform
 and be satisfied to conform; and he ac-
 cepted instead, fully and unreservedly,
 the obligation to do everything that he | could for God and for his fellow men.
 He entered upon a life where right
 eousness was not measured by a mans success or failure in keeping rigid
 rules, but by his single-ninded deyo-
 tion to an ideal outside of himself
 which inspired him to larger attempts,
 and in the long run to larger perfor-
 manees, than any system of rules s. could have contemplated. That his
 own achievements os3 a Christian were x great, he could not deny. Even before
 his death they were beginning to stand
 out large on the pages of history. But i, they remained so small in proportion
 to his vision of what he wanted to do { that they never filled his metal horizon
 as they would have filled te horizon of
 Pharisee Their greatness sometimes 1 served him as a means of casting ridi- <. cuIe on the boastingsRof others who
 tried to make their own lesser achieve , ments a basis on which to erect nonu- , ments to their own righteousness; they never tempted him to erect a, monu-
 ment to himself. More than any other apostle he preached the doctrine of jus tification by faith-the doctrine that a
 man is saved not by the things that he has done, however important tese may be as evidences of his purpose in. life but by that devotion to things outside
 of him and beyond him which should .l dominate Is whole life from beginning to end, and consecrate 1t to the service | of God. zt xs.4 : Gentlemen of the Graduating Class: To the college man more than to any
 one else this broad view of Christian duty should appeal He of all man. kind has least occasion for Pharisait complacency. The #self-made man who by his own efforts has risen iron
 the bottom of the ladder, may have g certain amount of excuse for dwelling , on his own achievements. Such af they are, he can at least claim then I. for hiss own. You can make no sucf < claim. The life which you have live6 . and are going to live has been made possible for you by the efforts of youl ,, fathers. What you. do represents fol , the most part not an achievement, bu an indebtedness-an indebtedness! which, with Gods help, you are goins , to repay by transmitting in turn tC '. your sons the possibilities of wide life and more intelligent faith.
 This debt to the past and this duty f to the future is something which w lsI Ihave tried to keep in view during al ? your education here. Not by the class room alone and not by the teaching !, force along, but by the whole atmos 3 phere of the place and the inspiration t of it's graduates, dead and living, VI . have striven to take. you outside O yourselves and make your life a par = of the life of ages, You have not conn f here solely or primarily to learn how t l make what the world calls success I Many of you in the years to come vii - be reproached with the fact that you power of getting money or office ha S not been increased in proportion to tn r time that you have spent in this place - So far as this reproach is based upol