New-York tribune., 1919-06-16
DR.. Hadley Praises Yale's
Fallen Heroes and Points
Out Need of Spiritual
Leadership for Future
Special Correspondence

Special Correspondence
NEW HAVEN. June 15.-Yale's COM
mencement, which began to-day, mark
ing the 2l9th year of the college, was
celebration of victory. Thousands of
graduates and students appeared in
Uniform. Yale had eight thousand in
service and more than two hundred
died in arms.
President Arthur Twining Hadley de-
Iyered the baccalaureate sermon in
Woolsey Hall this morning. He spoke
sgain at the commemorative exercises
for the war dead, over which he pre-
sided and at which the ode by Brian
Hooker. '92, was one of the impressive
features.
In both his baccalaureate sermon and
the commemorative address DR.. Had
lev emphasized the postwar need of
moral and spiritual leadership, saying
that the plainest lesson of history was
that democracy was based on self-con-
troll. He also declared the old order in
politics, religion and industry had gone
forever.
Fifty-seven Glass Reunions
This commencement week will be one
of the most historic Yale has had. In
ordinary years class reunions have
numbered seldom more than twenty,
but this year there win be ffty-seven.
It is expected that more than four thou
sand graduates will participate in the
picturesque parade to the baseball field
TUESDAY, when the members of each
class will appear in special pageant
costumes. Most of the thousands of
alumni who have gathered here will re-
main throughout the week, which will
have its scholastic climax Wednes sday
with the presentation of honorary de-
grees to a large number of notables
and end with the YaleH Harvard regatta
on tho Thames Friday afternoon.
DR.. Hadley and most of the recipients
Of honorary degrees will attend the
alumni luncheon Wednesday afternoon
and sLeak.
Spiritual Leadership Needed
DR.. Hadley, in the course of his
baccalaureate sermon, said:
"Gentlemen of the graduating class:
The world is to-day craving moral and
spiritual leadership more intensely
the peoples of the earth face to face
with the realities of life. Five years
ago some men worshipped pleasure;
others worshipped money; still others
worshipped force. The war has called
q sudden halt in the pursuit of pleas
ure. 1t has shown the precariousness
Of money and the things which money
represents 1t has in these last few
months brought home the lesson that
the blind worship of force defeats its
own end Men are looking for {. better
God than any of these.
They do not readily find the object
OF their search. The old religious
OF their search. The old religious forms
which satisfied the peoples of Europe a
hundred years ago or fifty years ago no
longer meet the needs of the day. The
growth of popular science, with its
mixture of truth and error, has shaken
the hold of crecds. The growth of
democracy. in thought and feeling as
we'll as in public affairs; has made
people impatient of authority and it's
symbols. They seek leaders who shall
reveal God to them in terms that they
can understand; leaders who know
modern science and modern politics,
but who have at the same time an in
stnct for spiritual truth, and per-
sonality and self-forgetfulness which
will carry others with them.
Exactly what form the religion and
the Christianity of the future will take.
no man living can tell 1t remains tc
b. revealed, and to be revealed through
men. Christianity was never in its
essence set of creeds or a set of
lorms, though one age after another
mas tried to make it so. 1t was a con-
tinuation of the personal influence of
Jesus Christ in the lives of people who
Rad heard of him and wanted to be
like him. Forms change from genera
ton to generation. The creed that
was useful as a rallying cry one day
becomes an outworn formula the next.
nut the influence of God as revealed
through the man Jesus Christ remains.
Character in Steadfastness
I'm proportion as we share His spirit
We nave 1t in our power to exercise
'ne same kind of influence; to be our
selves, in our own sphere, revelations
OF God TO men. He who sees further
~~">AS NoA Si'C tHc WOIlO NlSlOu,
ne who stands steadier than others can
give 1T character; he who forgets him
sell IN doing things for others can
give 1t religion. May it be ours thus
70 become children of God, and if
children, then heirs-heirs of God, and
JOINT heirs with Christ, to an eternal
anheritance!"
After paying a tribute to the men
VINO had died in the service of the
country DR.. Hadley, at the commem-
orative exercises, declared that the
paramount duty of the living was to
see that the work of the dead was
not left half done. He said: "To-
Gay we have to secure freedom to men
OF many races, with many standards
OF law and morals, more accustomed d
70 despotic authority than to the ex-
ercise Of self-government
Liberty is threatened from below
ss well as from above. Those who
oied have protected democracy against