The Greeley tribune., 1911-06-08

afternoon. The Normal chorus OF
100 voices furnished appropriate
music. The seniors. clad in caps
and gowns, occupied places IN the
parquet directly in front OF the
stage.
The Rev. John Doane pronounced
the invocation and Rev. D. D. For
ward read the scriptures. DR.. Sny-
der, president of the school. read
the commencement announcements.
The sermon by Rev. r. A. Chase
was preceded by solo "Remem-
Der Thy Creator" by Prof. Theo'
Fitz of the Normal.
DR.. Chase gave an eloquent dis
course to the young graduate He
said in part:
Text-Phil. 4:8-9. Finally
brethren, whatsoever things are
true, whatsoever things are honest,
whatsoever things are just, whatso-
ever things are pure, whatsoever
things are lovely, whatsoever things
are of good report, II there be any
virtue, and if there be any praise,
think on these things. Those things
which ye have both learned, and
received, and heard. and seen in
me, do, and the God of peace shall
be with you"
This is a benediction with a pro-
gram attached that would insure
the fulfi1lment of the blessing
Many big soul is lost by being
tied up to a small program, and
many a little life is ennobled and
enlarged by stretching itself upon
great program. This is a program
and prospectus of thinking, and i'm
plies universe. bring it to you
as you face the world anew, GYM
nasium trained. Now for the race.
The outline supplied, that uni
verse is before you. What shall be
the product? That is very largely
for you to determine. 1t will be
very largely as you stretch your
selves on this great program and
prospectus that the good God let's
down before your eyes.
There has been great deal of
talk that scientific instruction tends
to an absentee God. We are be-
ginning to see that scientific it,
struction cannot get along very
well with an absentee God any
more than any thought and life can
do well without the presence and
realization of the infinite. An abb
sentee God is product by a bad
human desire to be without the
eternal Scientific thinking is
thinking of facts, and 10 be true
must give an account Of all the
facts. The undeveloped astronomer
is mad; the undeveloped teacher of
any ology, any science, is mad.
Science and religion need each
other; they have had to get to-
gether. We have come to realize
perhaps more than ever in these
last days the whatsoever OF truth.
We reach through outlying facts
and particulars to the inner science
Of universals; the better vision sees
all nature as vast organ whose
keys are swept by the divine hand.
Poets, musicians, scientists, artists,
initiate God and know the truth.
The divine wisdom and power and
beauty and sublimity and glory are
poured out through this natural
world of ours; they come from the
soul of God to the soul of man.
All who would teach life and bless
life are the better for this infinite
perspective. Our thinking is to Sc
lect, recreate, reproduce what we
find of the divine thinking in the
school room of the universe open
before us. AS assists, truth gather
ers, truthful chalmers, We must Sc
lect and arrange. The great apostle
meets us here at this selective point
with lesson that becomes the
school.
Whatsoever is true may be veri-
fed in testimony, fact. experience;
sit at the feet of Bacon, Newton,
Cuvier, Linneaus, GRAY. Hugh Mil
Ter, Agassiz. Scientists, philosoph-
ers, unfolders of truth.
Whatsoever is honest, that is
venerable, honorable, exalted let
the prophets, poets, orators, archi-
tects' Angelo, Isaiah, Dante, Milton,
Shakespeare, Browning, teach you
and lift the dome Of thought higher
toward the dome OF the eternal.
Whatsoever is just. God-adjusted,
therefore world-adiusted. Listen to
ola Socrates descriptions of the
ideal state and the IDEAL life and
the foundation of justice. Hear the
plea OF artist John Ruskin as he in
sists that the child in the street has
the same right to ride in the fine
carriage as the child of fortune.
Hearthe old Russian Tolstoy, prince
ana peasant because he believes
that to be just prince and peasant
should be one. Hear the master of
US an once more, Whatsoever ye
would that men should do. do We
even so to them"
whatsoever is pure. The noun
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