The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-06-05
COLUMBIA HEARS PLEA FOR
DIRTY MAN WHO IS HUMAN
DR.. Hudson Stuck, Episcopal Archdeacon From Alaska,
Hammers at Professional Philanthropists in Bac-
calaureate Sermon Before 1000 Graduates.

The Venerable Hudson Stuck, d. d.
Archdeacon Of the Episcopal missionary
district OF Alaska. preached the bac.
calaureate sermon to Coiumbia's 1000
graduates in the university gymnasium
yesterday afternoon at the ser vice which
marked the beginning OF Columbia's
lo2d commencement. lie spoke with
such candor and handled the truth 20
markedly that he created a mild ssnsa.
ton.
With learned professors in every
science gathered about him on the Inn
provised platform. DIR. Stuck assailed
professional philanthropists, comparing
them to the pharisees. lie spoke with
out hesitation OF his dread OF the
soclolosist and economist. with their
card indexes and their reduction Of
people to catcgories. He held phil
ologists up 10 ridicule. calling the gram.
marians and etymologists n sort OF
glorined typographical union And last
OF all he made a plea for the man who
was human and dirty. III ! had to
choose said this preacher OF the north.
81 would rather be una and dirty
than inhuman and clean
The Archdeacon took as his stated text
wv u httNlt 80 WI NV JAM NiaItN
OF the Gospel OF ". Luke: And We
shall be the children Of the Highest. for
lie Is kind unto the un;hankful and the
evil" But actually he took 1t from this
sentence written by oliver Wendell
Holmes in discussing the subject Of pre-
pared food for babies You will ind.
however. when all Ia said and done that
the two lobes OF n professors brain are
very poor substitutes for the two
breasts Of a woman" And said the
A~rchdeacon. what Is true Of mothers
milk IL true OF the milk OF human kind
ness. there Is no substitute for II all
the skill aud intelligence in the world
cannot take its place. II 10 indispen-
sable in any scheme Of things that deals
with men and women
The Sermon.
The following is in part one OF the
most startling b~accnlaurcate sermons
Columbia ever heard:
There are, I think. two attitudes that
may be taken in this contemplated de-
votlon Of oneself. whether the devotion
be whole or IN part, and It Is because
the consequence OF the attitude that Ia
taken Ia go material TO the result that ]
deem II worthy OF your attention and
mine to-day.
The pharisee's attitude Is the profess
sional attitude In the sense that n
man who gives himself UP to thorough
preparation for a calling dealing specih-
cally with mankind. protesting the ser.
vice OF mankind. is IN grea. danger OF
falling into II. And since the ministry
OF the various Christian churches IL par
excellence the calling that processes such
service I make no difhculty In SAYING
that the ministry Is the vocation tha'
il most desperately liable to this danger
" ~ thu ChFtA-
tian church one classic example 10 OF the
Jewish church. and you may find II out
side O, churches altogether. In the
strange, detached. sublimated
Ism q. ethical culture YOU will md the
professional attitude fully developed
Ana I think you will And It especially
where science lays a hand on pniiah-
thropy. -
for ,his rea .on. OF trained sociolosists. OF
anthropoloei.ts. with a turn for prac-
,ic,l h. nevolence. OF political economists
81 n.ychological pedagogues and gradu'
ates in similar subjects. Win the'r eN'
perimcntal laboratories. their caro- IN
dexes and hling cabinets, tHe'r taouia.
lions OF statistics, their reduction U.
nsonle to ~categories with mat las'
glorious achievement OF theirs. the pio''
, ting OF a curve, they are Always III ga"
ver ~ eyacuatine the human persona
e,euent on, Of their work and thinkinf
/. ~ men and women In alsebraic iorWu'aS
Some OF them lay tribes and races a.
ru.hles.ly under the tyranny OF curve
: as the medieval Popes laid the nati'e'
/, OF C~hr!stendom under interoicts'
:, Organized Charity.
!, "A. soon as philanthropy become
> n~rofessionalized II takes 10 user y
M lnnRnF avOke
orati,ude, II provokes antagonism. an,
-. arc almost n. once confronted witt
the sarcasm about
. ORGANIZED charity. carefully Iced ~
3 In the name OF a cautious stat'rtieai sh''s'
..The relief granted may be just a.
. real. lust as necessary. but the whot
sn,rit is different. the whole att'tude !
I changed any sort OK warm human Ssn'
: pathy seems destroyed and the oohga
, ton presses ihtoierao's up'"
tive recipient. .
81 think the difference goes furthe
and deeper than its application TO re
e Iirion and philanthropy. think " run
: ali through life. The scientific and pro
= fe ssIonal sociolog!st with his apparatu
v ard machinery bears about the same re
o lation to genuine philanthropy that III
lphilologist bears to literature.
v Ibid II ever occur to you 10 ~ohde
. why there are no men OF letters anon
the spelling r%eformers? You VIII re
long lists OF names OF men with a
sorts OF formidable degrees who met
g and concoct strange wild fornis 10
familiar English words. but you vi
never see the name OF a M
= writer Of either England or Americ
among them. They are all phiioiosis'
. and grammarians. orthographers c,s
moIorists, orthoepists-a sort OF Rlorlne
= ,ynographical union-but never a
author Of note among them from d"
:. convention to another.
u "pid IL ever occur TO you to ask why
e because the men Of letters know IN
language: the language to them II
e thing that they love. a living thing VII
;. lis own laws Of life a plastic thing {
Il an exouisitely sensitive Elasticity tha
n has recorded in It's own body as IN
cylinder records In the d~ictaphone ever
influence that has been brought to oea
. unon II. every event Of any consequent
IN the whole Ions history or the poop
who speak IL. 49,.
n at is not a thing to lay violent HAND
& unon. nor to ne scientifically clipped an
d trimmed and regulated. II Will contihu
10 develop as II grows: II is never ~
and finished. hut II cannot he MADE syn
O rretrical aud regular out OF hand i
the man Of letters the nRuaR IL r w
INC thinC 10 be cherished to the profel
e sional philologist II Is merely a crooke
thing To he set straight, a disorder'
thing 10 he systematized. a redundai
n a, - - hara ITO redundancy Drun(