New-York tribune., 1907-06-23
COLGATE UNIVERSITY.
One Of the Most Successful Com
mencementS EUer Held.

| Commencement a Colgate University. Hamil-
| ton y. y. provided feast of good things IN
| usually full and varied There are three schools,
each with distinct faculty and its special
| equipment: Colgate Academy. with instruc-
| tors buildings and l3O students; the College,
with faculty of twenty-five. buildings and
go students and the Hamilton Theological Semi
nary with ten professors, forty-eght students and
one large building The anniversary exercises of
| all three schools are held in the last week
The commencement exercises of 1907 began on
Sunday morning, with the baccalaureate sermon
before the graduating class of the college. the
| absence of the president. the Rev DR.. George
| Z. Merrill who Is in Europe the sermon was de-
! livered by the Rev Or. William NJ. Lawrence.
! class of 70. pastor Of the North Orange Baptist
| Church Orange. \. j., and president of the Uni
! 10: That may know him and the power of his
! being cOnformed unto his death" Among other
! things. DR.. Lawrence said:
Every man has his ambition. This IS not al
ways in the line OF his vocation, but his fame
often springs from quite apart from the
everyday business of his life Edmund Clarence
Stedmac' critic, author. poet. is stock broker.
Henry Dyke, for years a pastor who fed and
inspired his people, set apart by his literary
insight as teacher. The truest success does not
lie along the line of least resistance Every young
man would be a hero, but heroes are not made
py accident, Inc man who said. I awoke one
morning and found myself famous. did not achieve
his fame between that sunset and that dawn.
Days ana nights OF thought, anxiety and toll had
prepared him for that awakening The Apostles
great ambition IS revealed in text. That I
may know him But did he not know Christ?
AssuredIy, as a man may know Europe without
visiting It; as We may know men whom have
not through those who have We NAV. go
further and claim for him the open vision of the
Lord he served; but there is a deeper knowledge
sul-that which comes through experience. Paul
coveted that intimate knowledge that could only
be his through the fellowship Of His sufferings'
Time was when creeds, useful they are, were
deemed too nearly all-suffcient They could i'm
part truths about Christ but not Christ Himself.
To-day plead for adhesion of soul to the living
Christ through actual experience.
But he aspres also to know the power OF His
resurrection. What does he mean? Not know
the historic fact merely To make the resurrection
| an argument and nothing IS to Casecrate It.
No, 1t was the Fathers attestation that the Sons
| obedience was hawlcss. And when Paul says. I
| want get the heart OF Christ and know the
power Of His resurrection It is the same as II ne
had said, I TO have the same obedient spirit
| TO my heavenly Father that his dear Son had
| sympathy Of soul with Christ at the cost Of
| suffering. and such obedience 10 Christ he
| dered TO the Father. but he goes on to speak of
! conformity TO His death
Gentlemen, never have more than we pay
for The astronomer makes discoveries only at the
heavy cost Of sleepIess nights IN cold and solitude
| Every man, to speak IN the terms of commerce.
must invest himself, and his returns Will be in
! poruoh 10 ms investment mere was president
Of this university IN the earlier days who in heart
was poet But for an educational leader TO be a
writer Of verses seemed TO him inConEruous and
he allowed his poetic gift to atrophy that he might
! become authority in mathematics. Now when a
/ man becomes confornled to the death Of Christ ne
invests himself. His pride his personal preference
his selfish ambitions-these he loses that may
win Christ No man advances in the Christian
| life who does not pay a price for H. Is this
high a standard? Is It possible for every to
realize this Christlike life? Paul says IS. The
Philippians had but just emerged from heathenism.
yet 1t IS TO them that he breathes the aspiration
of the text, That I may know him. in order to
stir in their hearts the same holy purpose"
DR. Lawrence then addressed the class directly
and reminded them that the world needs men who
prlils lhlheS 70 pdSS me eiluesNor IS "cIi' but
achievement is the only thing that really counts,
And, secondly. 1t needs men that have overcome.
an apostle wrote TO young men because they We're
! strong and because they had overcome The truths
presented were designed to aid them TO such VIC
| tories.
! In the evening the audience room OF the church
was again filed to hear the sermon before tho
| Baptist Education Society and the Theological
Seminary This society was chartered in 1919 and
has ever since been engaged in promoting the edu
! cation Of men for the Christian ministry. 1t has
voice in the management Of the college or the
academy. but has entire charge Of the work OF the
! Hamilton Theological Seminary. with inVesFed
funds Of than $500 90 under its exclusive CON
troll The speaker at this eighty-seventh anniver-
sary was the Rev DR.. Edward Holyoke Seminary
| 3D. of Providence His text was Ephesians Y, 25
He spoke Of the glorious mission of the church her
| failure adequately to fulfil that mission, and OF
the possibility and duty Of rehabilitating the
church. II broad treatment OF big theme
on Monday afternoon the class Of 81 prize de-
bate held in the opera house. and prizes OF
so and $50 wsre awarded 20 Edison Scott Farley
and Alfred Alderman. Of the senior class of the
! college.
| In the evening, again in the church, were held
the anniversary exercises OF Colgate Academy This
! school, under the leadership or Principal FRANK L.
Shepardson, A NJ. ranks high among preparatory
| schools The graduating class numbered fourteen.
There were eight speakers, and the prize for ex-
ce!lence in composition and delivery was awarded
TO George NJ. Smith.
On Tuesday interest centred in the education
! ciety and it's work The board Of trustees Of the
| seminary projected further advance In improving
Eaton Hall, and beginning in a systematic way the
| Italian department in New York City. At the
nual meeting OF the society, held IN the church at
| 1920 a. most gratifying reports were presented
of progress along all lines The students in the
theological seminary represent sixteen different
colleges and seminaries. The contribution OF s2o.
Oo0 by the society toward central heating plant
has insured the proper heating OF Eaton Hall and
made for further improvements.
At 3 p. m. the church was again well filled to
listen the graduating exercises Of the theological
| seminary. There were thirteen graduates, all but
one being college men, and representing five diff
! ferent colleges There four speakers, Fred
! erick William Harding A. B.. THE Call for An
! ADVANCE; James Austin Huntley, A. b., THE
Historic Christi Augustus Inglesbe Nasmith, A.
| b. Il Believe IN the Holy Catholic Church." and
Marshall Sterling Richardson. A. B.. THE Super
natural Christ in Preaching" The address to tho
class was given by DR.. w. n. Clarke, professor OF
systematic theology. He gave the young preachers
unfying conception of their work as designed TO
create conviction, the compelling certainty that
! something is true. God is real' he said ''Sn "a
real and runous; Christ real and mighty 10
save godliness, righteousness and hepfulness con-
/ stitute the only adequate rule OF life TO lodge
these convictions in others. the preacher must have
! them for his own. He must be always savine 10
himself as Christ to Plate, 'Sayest the;i this of
thyself, or did some one tell theeg Choose RIG htly
what is fundamental Never give out as primary
and essential anything to which simple assent IS
suiHcient response. And, now. farewell and well
come fareNeH as students IN this seminary
| come as laborers in the Lords great harvest
| tuesday evening was given up to the fraternity
! reunions Enthusiastic alumni gathered In goodlv
| NUMBERS In the chapter houses the D. X Il ,ba
| Delta L., the Phi Kappa Psi and the Phi Can,,ne
/ Delta Night made melodous u,th eorsry a- a
cheer The young listened patiently IN the 60
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