Year: 1878

PROFESSOR PACKARD SPEAKS OF THE POSITION OF


THE STUDENT IN THE WORLD AT THIS TIME,


AND THE NEED OF LOYALTY TO PRINCIPLE.


BRUNSWICK, Me-, July 7.-PrOfessOT Packard
delivered the baccalaureate sermon to-day before the
students OF Bowdon College. His text was Proverbs
XVII 6: "By mercy and truth iniquity is purged; and
by the fear OF the Lord men depart from evil" The fol-
lowing extracts contain the important points Of the
address:


The passage authorizes the conclusion that the true
way to purify the heart and life from nquiy is not by
repression merely but by the cultivation OF the opposite
virtues and that the only true source OF genuine reform
is in the of the orda statement in the manner Of
your moral being, as enuncated by DR.. Chalmers. OF
Scotland, which he termed " the expulslve power OF
new affection" Implant religious affections ana needed
reforms in private or public life, and manners VIII, Dy
the constitution OF our nature follow as direct result


The student TO be congratulated entering active
life in an OF remarkable movement when, by nyen-
top distant lands brought within speech aud hear
ing almost so that new discovery, new doctlne,
new contribution 10 the treasures OF learning ana teA


ent in social life and manners becomes at once the
common gain or loss OF the civilized world Tue chaIges
progress abroad or at home make thls an
era in which is worth ones while TO live and act


The aspect OF things In our own country affords ground
deep sOcitudc regarding responsibilities TO rest on
those who assume the duties OF czcnsmp Cohnlcs OF
opinion politics and morals involving vital issues OF


oneson Sat the Commdntc SPIRIT deterioration Of
principle in high places and lowthe young graduate
The disorders Of the times may be set right" how
ever and Any nation be put in the way OF truth hoaor

private social public ne aud that is loyalty to prn
cip;e which ts q matter which should be pressed upon
the earnest attention Of every young graduate The
sentiment of loyalty not confined to our relations with
State IL embraces all the activities Of men, When TRUTHS
venerable for their antiquity and origin the basis OF COM
mon morality well public faith, honor and welfare
NOT 10 say religion and its Institutions outraged
when marriage degraded TO the level OF brute instincts
when as has been said with great force, woman'5
club has opened its doors to association formed Tor
the express purpose of eXtpaUg from the Constitution


laws and of State and Nation the few roOtets OF
religious faith that remain In them undisturbed, and
consent TO BuCn pOt6, II tneY WOulu open
their ewes TO see direct issues against their own
purity and honor IL is time for those entering on the
stage Of action TO be persuaded in their own minds OF
what they owe not TO political relations merely but to
social life and order Let noisy harangueTs declam as
they may moral order IL maintained by Him who hath
eetSbshed it, and hath implanted in us that which pro-
pouncps for Il, aud which reckless audacty cannot
eecualy disturb, and which every good citizen should


Berger in the early part Of this century advocate
aud politician of France, is said to have WavCIed
whether decide for atheism and repuolcanism or Tor
religion and rOyalism His worldly success, he thought
depended on being settled one way or the other. He
TOOK coin from lis pocket and tossed 1t up, eXcaim
and he became political Bourbon and gained success
The result NAV have been sort OF allegiance, but fell
far short of the dignity and elevation OF loyalty.


We used that law OF life which Bacon wrote OF as the
" wOong OF truth and hearty loyalty TO IT, Victor
Emanuel late King OF Italy, afforded distinguished
example such loyalty TO principle in patriotic life
and action In his ineXbe purpose to effect the unifca.


on Italy against the persistent Tles and energy OF
! the Papacy instgated by Jesuit cOunselors,