The San Francisco call., 1906-05-14
BISHOP TALKS
TO STUDENTS
Dr.. Nichols Delivers RacCa-
laureate Sermon at
University.
Speaks Optlnistically Of Re-
cent Catastrophe in
San Francisco.

BERKELEY, May 1S--Impressive
words of counsel, warning and good
cheer were spoken to the graduating
class of the State University by
Bishop William Ford Nichols this
afternoon, when the DISTINGUISHED
cleric delivered the baccalaureate SER
mon of commencement week in the
Greek Theater The Bishop faced an
audience that comfortably filled the
great ampllitheater and found in the
circumstance that so many thousands
We're present an augur of hopeful i'm
port for the cause of the university
and those who found it fountain
head of inspiration
Tinged with the spirit that has ami
mated Californians, and particularly
those of the State who interests have
centered about the bay during the
days since the disaster. Bishop Mich
ols' address wa ga clarion call to all
especially the yout hof the State. to
join the host Of men that are to max .
San Francisco, the State and them
selves greater in every essential man
her than before earthquake and fire
worked havoc in San francisco. He
counseled the infusion of Christian
y,
building Of San Francisco and the
building OF the character Of it's peo-
pie.
Introduced by President BENJAMIN
ide Wheeler, Bishop Nichols spoke in
part as follows. using as text the
words OF Paul, the aopstole: "Other
foundation can no man lay than that
is laid, even Jesus Christ:
While l am supposed to be speak
ing particularly in this sermon to the
university men and women who are
members of the class Of 1906, 1 think
1t may truly be said that we are all
OF US here members Of the class of oe
inasmuch as this year will ever be
memorable because of the disaster
that has come to San Francisco and
the BAPTISM Of fire we have all en-
dured. One difference between us.
who are outside the university roster.
and you who are called in college the
members of the '06 class, is that while
you have spent four years in college
qualifying yourself for a degree, the
rest of us graduated in the earthquake
quake class of 1906 in just about forty
eight seconds
-. HISTORY TO BE MADE.
81 think you should rejoice, young
me nand women, at the opportunities
ahead of you to help in making the
history of San Francisco. your city
and mine is destroyed. She is to be
rebuilt, until al her seven times seven
hills are again covered with citys
life, and in that building will history
be made. Now is the time of plan
ming. of determining how the city may
be built, wisely and well. In all of
this work we are to be reminded that
it is not so much the makeup of
San Francisco and its appearance that
countit is the San Franciscans, rather
1t is the rearing character, with the
rebuilding of a city, that is to con-
Germ us.
I'VE may pause to be encouraged by
cne result of the calamity, this being
the demonstration that the heart of
the American peopel is sound and not
selfish, greedy or cold There has been
so much suggestion of graft, venality
and evil in the common life of the
people that the demonstration Of the
soundness of the American heart, COM
ing after the calamity that called for
help from the nation, is a most re-
freshing spectacle.
1--WE observe now in the air every
where a spirit of optimism. Of cheer
that is helping to make for US all a
NioilOi VI d IlOOict, liOlC kloIfOUS sail
Francisco II persists in spite of the
fact that men are realizing more keen
ly each day the character and extent
CT their losses and also purchasing
power of dollar II helps to make a
brotherhood that is in part the sur
vival of the link that bound all to each
other during those weeks when all
were truly brothers. With this spirit
or optimism to inspire us and the
realization Of its origin, it's spiritual
tinge, let US determine that not alone
in the making of material San Fran
cisco shall there be class A structures
in the majority, but that in the build
ing of San Fralciscos character and
that of her individuals there shall be
class A characters.
"In the making of the new material
structures there will be found room for
improvements of form. structure. etc
The al shitects will profit by the weak
nesses of foundation and superstruc-
ture that were revealed by the earth
quake and fire. But in the building
of character, which ! urge now, no
novelties can be introduced. The es-
sentials are old, time tried, eternal
There IS but one foundation:
Other foundation can no man lay
than that is laid. even Jesus Christ"
LET US HAVE HONESTY.
Let us have honesty IN our new civic
and personal life. We may profit by
the impressive object lesson provided by
the closing of saloons, with its conse-
quent absence of crime. Let our
standard henceforth be higher, as a
city. in this respect. And, as we have
seen hitherto warning political fac
tions, with Mayor Schmitz at their
head fthe man whose. splendid SER
vice deserves every tribute that can be
paid), now IN harmony, all forgetting
partisan politics. let us perceive tina.
the city now and hereafter should ex-
ploit brotherhood, its value and beauty.
Let that genius OF brother hood remain
after the la Dor unions and the corpora
tions and the Government have re-
sumed their normal functions, win
their accustomed regulations and man
ner Of life.
Let there be a new order in San
Francisco-,and 1t night we'll be called
the order of st. Francis--with rally
ing point at the City rail- where
great statue of st. Francis might well
be erected.
ITO you, college men and women.
give the reminder that now Is
the stln-layyrl of -yours serious t,ay Qa