The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1917-06-06
Gods Dealings Through twenty-five Years
Sermon by President Frost erea College Graduates Sunday
June 3, 1917 in College Chapel

teen years, but Spencer and Huxley
were in active life, developing a
scientific method more valuable
than any Of their positive conclu-
sions.
In America we were just develop
ing our first multi-millionaires and
learning the names of Rockefeller
and Carnegie. Our poets-Emerson,
Whittier, Lowell, Longfellow-were
gone and Holmes was just going,
but their influence was starting on
its endless march around the world.
Phillips Brooks was preaching his
last sermons in Boston, Dwight l..
Moody was in the full tide of his
work on both sides Of the sea. His
was the browning work Of that
nineteenth century. Like Wesley
before he came into frivolous and
money-grasping age and planted
idealism and aspiration in thousands
OF humble homes. IL is the converts
of Wesley and Moody and their de-
scendants who form the bone and
sinew of the British nation and our
own. Moody had already established
his girls school at Mortified, and
he was just establishing his Insti-
tute in Chicago. IL was a snowy
day in December, 1899 that read
upon the newspaper bulletin board
in Boston that Dwight l.. Moody
was dead.
OF men widely influential twenty
five years ago and widely influen-
tial now there are very few. We
can name Charles w. Eliot and
Lyman Abbott.
The same year, a quarter Of CEN
fury back, 1892, was marked by the
founding Of Chicago University and
the coming Of two famous German
professors, Won Holtz TO Chicago,
and Munsterberg to Harvard.
And now Of the worlds changes.
In medicine we have discovered
vaccination against typhoid fever,
and thru the control of germs and
the means of transmission have
gained great control over yellow
fever and other diseases and made
surgery more safe and efficient. In
hygiene and preventative medicine
we have learned much.
In education we have learned to
look upon the true test as the actual
performance Of the pupil after he
leaves school. This includes not alone
his getting living but also his at
titude toward family, neighborhood
and nation, and his possession OF
the tastes, aptitudes for growth and
apprehension Of eternal values
which has been meant by the best
people when they speak Of religion.
This has always been the ideal Of
education entertained by inspired
men like Luther and Horace Mann,
but it has now been adopted by the
educational authorizes generally and
is controlling in larger degree the
arrangement of courses, the editing
of text books and the training of
teachers-the ideal of an education
which shall show its value by the
conduct OF those who have been
educated. There has also been a re-
arrangement as well as a develop
ment of the subject matter Of in
struction so that sociology stands
as new department of learning
and psychology has a modern mean
ing.
In reform these twenty-five years
have seen great diminution Of the
cruel and heartless treatment Of
Negroes, some decrease in the cor
rupt use of public office and public
money for selfish and personal ends,
and great advance in public re-
gard for all mankind. There is a
reaching out to make laborers, Grip
piles, remote jewellers and all per-
sons in any way disadvantaged or in
need of special adaptation sharers in
the stores of civilization. Most i'm