New-York tribune., 1909-05-31
CITY COMMENCEMENTS
DIR. MANNING'S SERMON.
breaches to Columbia Seniors
Bishop GOOdSeU at n. Y. L.

The 155th commencement of Columbia University
began yesterday afternoon. when the baccalaureats
service was held in the university gymnasium d.
William T. Manning. rector of Trinity Church
preached the sermon. and Raymond c. Knox. chap
lain of the university opened the services with the
reading of the prayer of President johnson, the
first president Of Kings College. at the laying OF
the cornerstone of Kings College. in 1706
The graduating students. about one thousand In
all. the faculty and trustees. robed IN academic
gowns, made striking picture as they marched
from the library to the gymnasium President
Nicholas Murray Butler wearing an OXonian doc
tors hood, brought up the end of the procession
DR.. Manning advised the graduating students that
Christianity does consist In simply not doing
wrong. but that it should be the doing of good He
spoke OF the unique part that Trinity Church took
in the founding of Columbia in 1755, and the close
relations that have continued between the two in
stitutiOns. He said
There IS a strange disposition to-day in many
quarters to talk to our young men and SoIns 9i
rbed in heP uf ga gnd found a o Crane uty in
accepting the truths OF religion II has been my
eP d & and feel firmly persuaded that hs f3'ft tx b
lief among them is overestimated.
In speaking of tho apparent lack Of religion
among Or. Manning said
We are asked sometimes why women seem to be
more religious than men II is not because men
because men are more intellectual than women
and therefore find greater difficulties in the way
more intellectual than women, but rather the re
verse is true: and. In the second place nlStoIt,
shows that the higher people rise In the scale OF
intellect the more truly religious they become
Dr. Manning tnen reviewed the chief obstacles IN
the way Of faith and the things needful 20 attain
the higher plane of life toward which We should
shape lives. E!e said:
We are suffering from the sin OF expecting too 1t
tie of ourselves. We need to realize tHdt OutLS
tiantv means something different from mere re-
speCtability Christianity is not negative, IS pOs
tive. The Christian ought to be not only te oeSl
man, but the strongest man in the community.
New York UniYersity's seventy-seventh commence
rent exercises began yesterday at University
Heights with the preaching OF the baccalaurea1e
sermon bv Bishop Daniel a GOodseu, of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church. graduate OF the class OF
20 The benediction was delivered by Chancellor
NacCracken. The Rev. Isaiah B. Hopwood' pastor
Of the Calvary Presbyterian Church OF Newark a
cIassrnate of Bishop Goodsen. offered prayer and
the Rev J. NJ. Hodson, pastor Of the Foreman
Manor Church read from the Scripture.
Bishop GoodselI took as the text for his sermon
.rVhen I was a child I spake a child 1 under
stood as a child. l thought child; but when /
became a man I put away childish things. Before
beginning his sermon Bishop Gocdsell addressed MS
remarks to his two fellow members OF the class
of so who were present To the students he said;
Tho child Is busy with little things but you young
with the learning YOU have acquired mere "a
busy yourselves with the great things or ne E5uC
while you should put away childish Things. YOU
should retain the chdlike spirit Inc SreateSl
7 have known have been simple and childhke- Ine
nretender Is the man who uses Dig WORDS. tiS
scholar the who uses a simple VOCABULARY