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when nit witned#iad the wickedness of the chil. | | ful and important torus to expose abd condemn. ~ BACCALAUREATE SERMONS Rev. Dr, MeCosh on the “Royal Law of Love.” President Porter, of Yale, on ‘“Chris- tianity and Its Life.” faethe erdacenemscren Exhortation of President Catiell to the Sin- dents of Lafayette College, COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY. THE BACOALAUREATE BERMON BY THE BEY. DR. m’cosu—“‘THE ROYAL LAW OF LOVE.” ‘The following is the baccalaureate sermon preached yesterday before the College of New Jer- sey by President McCosn on ‘The Royal Law of Love.” Great interest had veen excited in antict- pation of the discourse, as it had been believed Dr. McCosh would handle Mr. Beecher roughly. These auticipations, however, as will be seen, were entirely disappointed :—~ THE SERMON, Love ts the fulfilling of the law.—Romans, xili., 10. It ye fuitii the royal law according ty the scripiure, on shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do we jumos, 11, 8. In these passages there ts a reference to three things—to love, to law and a& king. I see before Me an arch set up on earth and spanning the heavens; the one side is law, the other aide 18 love, and the keystone binding and crowning the whole is God. Our theme ts the royal law of love. Let us contemplate love and law first separately and then in their combination in God, I. LOVE. It may manifest itself in two forms, whicu should be careiully distinguished, The love of complacency.—We delight in the ob- ject or person beloved, It is thus tuat the mother clasps her infant to ber bosom; thus that (ne sis- ter interests herself in every movement of her lit- te brother and is proud of his feats; thus that tue father, saying littie, but feeling muck, !ollows the | bright career of bis son in the competitions of the college and the stil) more trying rivairies of the World; thus that the student seexs the society of his classmates, 1s grieved when he has to separate trom them and casts a fond look toward their coming career; thus that threughout our lives our hearts, if we have hearts, cling round the tried iriends of our youth; thus Wat the wile would Jeave this world witb ber last look vn her husband; Thus that the fatber would depart with nis sons 4 bis daughters around his couch. There is a | ‘dast look which love remembers’’—that given, for insiance, when the ship moves away with tho | dear friend in it or when the soul leaves the carth | to wing its way to heaven. Love looks out for the persons beloved. Tue mother soon discovers her — son in that crowd; the biacksmith Hears his daughter's yoice binging m the village chorr. The believer will steal away in fancy from the b scenes of life to meet with his Saviour, and I am persuaded that when he reacnes heaven he will recognize, without requiring to be told, the One whom he has so loved. Ina higher sphere and in an older age, even from the beginning, the love of God, of God whe is love, was exercised in the fel- lowsbip of Father, Son and Holy Ghost; for tne eternal Logos says, “I was daily Wis delight, r Joicing always before him,” and “my delights were ‘with the sons of men (Prov. vill., 30, 31), Itnas always appeared to me to be a very beautiful ex- pression of that love that is given by the Prophet Zephaniah (itl., 17)—'fe will rejoice over tnee With joy; he will rest in his love; he will joy over thee with singing.” “Likewise I say unto you there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.”’ There were music and dancing in the bouse of the father when the prodigal returned. Bot Zephaniah, by a bolder representation than sould have been em- ployed by any but a Hebrew propnet, speaks of our Heavenly Father as so rejoicing over the return | of a sinner—‘I will joy over you with singing.” The Love of Benevolence.— This is a higher form of love. In this we not enly delighiin tne con- | templation and soctety of the persons beloved; | we wisn well to them, we wish them whatis | | good. “Therefore ail things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them; for this ts the law and the propmets.” We will oblige them if we can; we will serve them if in | our power; we will watch for opportunities of promoting their welfare; we will make sacrifc Jor their good. Tois iove is ready to flow fort toward relatives and friends, toward neighbors and companions, toward all with whom we come tn contact; it will go owt toward the whole family of mankind. We are ready to increase their happiness, din the highest exercises of Jove to raise them in the scale of being, and to ex- alt them morally and spiritually. The love of God thus Manifests itseli in multiplying happiness, in spreading holiness. He is not only Light, but the Fountain of Lights; and the light that isin Him, | Jike vhat of the san, suines On all around. God is known by Bis works. He made us and not we ourselves. He provides for our wants; He car for us, and 1s ready te guide and to comfort a Higher than ali, “God so loved the world, that be | gave his only begotten Som, that whosoever b i th in him should not perish, but nave eve: Jasting Iife.”” Abraham saw all this in the mount whioh he called Jebovah-jirem, as it ts said to this day, “In the mount ofthe Lord it shall be seen.” he had been commanded to offer bis son in sacri- fice; he had travelled with him three whole da, exposed to such questions:—‘“Benold tne fire and the wood, but where Is the lamb for a burnt offer- ing?’ He had bound bim on the altar, and taken up the knife to slay him; but now, vo his inex- pressibie relief, he heard the voice, “Now | know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast nos wii! held thy sen, thine only son, from m And At nam liited up his eves, aud \ooked, ana behold, ve hing bim a ram caught in @ thicket by bis horns; and Abraham went and took the ram, and ofere up for a burnt-offering In the stead of his son. Abrabam muat then have comprehehded, ana we, nim by paying a Visit to that Mountot tae Lord, ca: conceive how great the love of God, who spare Jeaac, but spared not Bis own Son, but gave iree!y to the death in our room and stead, “iere- im indeed Is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the pro- pitiation sor our sins.” second 18 | te higher aspect of lov The otner belongs In man to a lower depariment of his bature. It is an exercise merely of emotional at- tachment and may contain nothing virtucus or boly—it May be mereiy like the attachment of a dog to its master. ‘The love of benevolence is of & higher sort. We wish to do good; we strive to do | good to those whom we love. The one is like a xenial heat in @ closed apartment; the other is like a fire radiating on ail aroun The one isa i en on ite bosom; the other is | ng | Up and carry} ireshing iufinence. “Ifa brother or destitute of dally food and parc in peace, it Sows out in a great number and viety of forms—th compassion, ip pity, ta vender- ness, in long sadering, 1p patience. The high priest in old time Wo breastplate with twelve precious stones; but every true Christian is a priest and carries on his breast @ more oipa- mental tablet, thus inscribed :—‘‘Charity suder- etn long and is kind; charity envietu no harity not iiself, 18 MOt puded up, doth not self ungeemiy, seeketh not her own, provoked, thinketh no ev) ejoicetn iguity, but rejoiceth in the truth; bear- 1 Uaings, hopeth ali as ‘tno Jaw.” not in eub all tuings, believech ail toings, ureta all things. 11 LAW, Law was in the nature of God from all eternity, 6 the ims\rument of His government; it was the nature of man when he was cre- it was graven by God’s own finger on the blocks of Sinai; it was spoken tractive tones by our Lory, in t oo the Mount, and it ia written by God’s own Spirit as @ hew commandment on the hearts of God's people, It goes with man wherever he goes, vo tell him, if be 18 prepared to listen vo It, What 24 Tight and WNAt is Wrong, and in the end to pun- jeh Rim If he reioses to obey. it iy wo essential a part of Mis natore, that it wtil jollow bin tuto the yeyions below, to torment him more than the ‘Worm that never dies, than the fire that 18 Bot quenched, That law has been broken, bot !8 soll binding, When Moses me down from the moont with the two — tavies, | iwew View 19m Dw, Bhd broke them, | | are now tp the region of the Will, | law; i it did so, it might work only misen! | “ougi any on) th dren of Ilxrac). But he had just to reascend to ‘he MOUDL and have them written again by Goa’s own finger, Which thing may be unto us for an allegory. Man has broken Ged’s law; but that law retains al! it claims, and ever renews them, ‘Tre law is embodied in tue Gospel, All this was inaiructively represented in the ark of the cove- nant, laid up m the holiest of all, and typuying the new covenant. On the lid of ib were the cheraoim, merey seat; and the promise was given, “‘rhere wil | meet with thee, and commune With thee on | | possible that in tuese Limes they may Lat be suf. | clemtiy faithful in restraining sel the mercy seat from between the cherabim,” But within tae ark Were the two taoles of stone, Christ came not to destroy the jaw, bat to fulfil, ‘The Gospel, Wherever 1t goes, carries withia it the law fuldiied %y Christ, the law sli binding on His followers, ‘There 1s @ sense in which vVellevers are iree irom the law; they are free {rom its curse; but in anotver sense they are stili under it; they are not tree irom toe obligation to obey It, When siuners come to Crist He welcomes them; Ho says, Your sine be forgiven you; but He does not give them liberty togo back to their sing, but, “go ana -im no more,.’’ Justas the father, alter rejoicing over the return of his prodigal gon, took bun into bis house to keep Limin salety, so our heavenly Father takes us into His iamily to train us to Ovedience, When the smuer comes to Christ Corist pays his aebus, but it is only to send him to pay bls dues, not in the oldness of the et- ter, but the pewness Of the spirit. im heaven it. seil the soul, brought into unison with the law of love, will be fuifilimg it to perfection, and the music of heayen will consist essentiaily in atvaned hearts, eacd breathing its own melody, and all ia harmony; hearts tn accord with the heart ot Goa, and in accord with one unether, and luifilling the pleasure of God forever and ever, The law has two warked features, Tt ts imperative, It Speaks as one having authority speaks in the name of God. it Bays, on shalt do this, thou shalt not do that.” “The categorical imperative” was the designation given it by the great German meta- eed Its function ts not to Fell us What is, ut what ought tobe, All its aflirmation: x coummanas, all its negations are probibitions, It bas rewards rich abd numerous tor those who opey It. It bas penalties, certain and terrible, jor those who transgress it, God has @ vicegerent to BUstHiIN 1, 1D the Conscience, “Which shows the work of the law written in their hearts, treir con. Bclehce ulsO bearing withess, and their thoughts the meanwhile accusing, or else excusiug ove another.’ There 1s a witness within which con- strains us to acknowledge its right to obedience. It is determinative, It is categorical; it has its definite requiremtats which it cannot forego and will notlower, “Guilty or notgulity” are the alternatives it proposes, It admits of no middle course or compromise; it accepts of no excuse ; it will not listen to any plea or extenuation. In this respect the order, tue regularities of the physical world resemble it. Hence lor the last two hundred years they have been called laws, laws of nature, a3 supposed to have been enacted by # lawgiver. 1t 1s interesting to notice that they are rdioances” in Scripture (Psalms, exix., ) hey continue this duy according to thine ordinances, for all are thy servants,’? much 1N these times of the laws Ol nusure, Of their being so fixed and immutable, ‘Those who speak in this way are apt to forget vhat there ts anotner | law which is still more unchangeable, and shail apide when the heavens are rolied up like a scroll. itis by these two kinda Oo! jaw, tue one moral, the “greater light,” and the other natural, “the lesser light,” thas God rales our worla—by the one moral agents, by the other physical ageats—making them all compine and conspire toward one good “and grand end. In one respect the two are alike; both are inflexible. But they diger. Tne laws of nature admit of no exceptions. They cannot be changed except by Him who appointed them, The will of man cannot arrest them. Gravitation 13 as ready to bring ¢own aD Unsepported stone to crush us as it is to Keep the earth moving on Deue~ ficenvly in its sphere. The winds which drive on the vegsel one day may sink tin the deep the next. The cnemical affinities which prepare food to nourish us are ready (o mix poison to kill us. On the otver hand moral jaws may be broken. We In order to be Amoral agent mun must be airee agent. Love that is constrained 1s not love. Morality com- pelled 18 not trae morality. So moral law may be broken, while physical law cannot. Jaw, properly understood, is quite as inflexible, as unrelenting, a4 natural law. If we negiect the laws of health the consequences may be disease or | death. Kut if we violate the laws of morality the consequences may be, must be, Much more fatal in 8 condemning conssience or’ in judgments to descend in this life or the life to come. Natural law, which moves on 80 regularly, so trresistivly, 80 benefiventiy, is tne fittest Outward sae and emblem of that moral law whick rules the heaven @nd controls the earth. Tl. RELATION OF LOVE AND LAW IN GOD. The planet is held in its sphere by two infin- ences; one impelling, the Other staying it, So 16 1s With moral beings) They are arawa by love, but rt is love reguiated Ic ts weil that the earth without which it would gion of culdness, darku: were there no rest power it would be drawn into the sun's ‘mosphere and be con- -sumed by Dis heat, lu like Manner moral exce!- lence implies of necessity these two things, love | and law; the one to attract, the other to guide in the right path, It is not easy to embody in hu- man conceptions and to express in human lan- guage the relation o/ law and love. We know tuat the two are closeiy connected, Their connection is in God, the source of both. Even as God is the origin of ail otber things, of nature, of force, of matter, of mind, so is He also the origin of love and law. All these streams, if we jollow them up suficientiy far, carry ua to the jeuntain. Love 1s the refreshing water; the iaw is the chan ind the spring is in jove ohe another, for lov “Love ti e julduing tue law.”’ Love takes to ent, When asked by the lawyer, “Which ts the great commandment in the law ? Jesns said into him, *foou shait love the Lord thy God with ail thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all (hy mind,” this is the Great and reat commandment, and the second is like unto it, ‘*Thoa shalt love thy neighbor as thyseiL” On these two commandments hang all tno law and the prophets. Thus imdissoluply are charity ana commandment joined ia Scripture, itis love that like unto God, woo Is love; but the love 19 a love regulated by eternal justice. We cannot by &ny process of analysis get rid of either of these elements. Deiective systems of ethics rise irom omiting one or other, or not giving hh its due place. A stoic, ® pharisaic moraity leaves out love and presents only the expreasion- jeas form of law. Utilitarianism out eter- nai and unchangeable obligation, and offers a flex- itfe morality, sulting itsell to supposed results. iliastrious predecessor, Jonathan kdwari svest thinker tat duced, in whose dazzilng beams the others of us appear merely as the smaller snore paseing over the disk of the sun, has made a bold attempt to resolve all virtue into love. But taen he kas to make it love to being as being. ment shows that there is anotner element as weil as love. There is love (o being as being, showing vhat belng bas claims, aod that & be some means of wetermining — th of being as being. We onght God and our neighvor. * G é B € « to love Yes, but woence tais word respons we attend to it or no. side of love there is iaunding. Far Seen to run paral meet, for they meet in the natare of Goad aud of all holy beihgs. And, though orten dissevered here, they Will meeccat last in the character of All this imphes that along- law, saints in heaven, with whow love will be law and “What, thereiore, God hath There law will be love. joined togetner lec not man pnt asunaer.” 18 No propriety tu draWimg invidious compa: as (0 the relative !wportance of the two. It might be argued that law is the bigger, for it co: ods love, Suys When It is to tow, is to ity. love without law ts a lif oul @ body im whic to reside, Law without love is a channel wit! out a stream; Without law may oe a str bursting jorsh spreading destractio: tue two revalve round hb other like ry each with Ite own color, the one the com plement of the otner. Let Righteousness ud lorever On the pedestal om which he bas been set up, with his bigh io@k aad umoending mien, we master and the guardian, and ever veside Niu, be- neath him, and leaning apon dim, yet bveautiiul and gracerul as he, let there be seen Love, with smiles upon her tade and gitrs in her hands. 1 o¢- eve they Were never separated till sin appeared. Alas, that seaucer ana corrupter mas severed them! ‘Ihere pas arisen a stern doctrine, which | Bas no tenderness; Whore gaze is as unmoved and | immovable as that of tac ‘ey ptian spninx, look- img out srom its desert of sand. if jogians stil dwelling im ® cold pi recommend taem to let the bears of righteousness shine upon it and thaw it, vpon the Shorter Catecniam as the best compend ot Scripture trata whieh we have in any jan- guage; Dut I Dhve sometimes felt that there s of love in it than there is tn the Scriptures, aod That tt serves 2 good end when the teacher put Suille upon its countenance to attract the youtm who has to jeara it.. It-wasrather an empty ark which they had to lookK“Into im Soiomen’s time, when they teund nothing there but tbe tables of stone, and not their accom pauiments—Aaron’s rod (hat budded, signifying lie from the dead bor the pot o/ manna, typliying food for the weak. Bat the defect | am how speaking o: belongs ratner to the seventecuth tnam the ninete century. We are now more in danger o} sentimental and @ simpering nd te consign bim to biindness wet us have charity, they say; vut chari'y without prinetpie to guide it may dis: tribute 1S gills very indiscriminately ayd in- juriow A jaw has been set fortn and enforced which is not the law of love, and has driven men away from God, who is love, and from the Goepel, wich env ialiy & message of reconeriauon trom God to sin- jul man. The terrors of the law have been used, not as by Paul, to persuade men, but to tempt or ative them to reveliion or resistance. In ages pastiaw been used lawiessiy by monarchs and y masters. But in the present day the tendency seems all tne other way. If there were tyrannies in Old- World monarenies Which We In these times are hot #OW to cOndemD, [here Is jeenonADASe NEW YORK HERALD, | } | clatifed as awfully as they were at Sinai, to arrest overshadowing the blood-sprinkled | We hear | Bot moral | country has pro- | commanding and de- | the eye'can reach tue two are | 1 Go not say that they never in New-World republics, which it mignt be as use- People were rather astonished when not long ago | the preacher of a great university look as nis text ona public occasion, “Thou soalt not steal.” But he wus speaking the truth for the time now pres- ent, Which beeds tbe commandments to be pro- the corruptions of individuals and of rings. Some toink that preachers in these tines might proftiia- bly take as their text, ‘‘Honor thy father and toy mother.” If jathers erred two centuries ago in being somewhat too rigid with their caildren, tt 1s nd mgence and in training to habits of self-sacrifice. I! some preachers in ages gone by preacted hell and dam- Bation instead of Crist, It is possible that sume in these times are 30 relaxed by @ weak churity that they have not the courage or faithfulness to bid men fee from the wrath to come. If there have beeu preacners in certain ages wio insisted on nothing but stern duty, there are bot a few in our day who recomménd love without the due re- straints of law, Whe are tampering with the mar- riage relation, lowering the sacredness of wealuck end allowing such linerty of divorce 8 fitted to break Dp the family, which, 1 may remark, is the only means of securing proper moral culture aud aragning ihe rising generation to virtue. evil may arise from lawless love, which 1s fasci- nating, tham from hatred, which is repulaive, so We have no intention here in Princeton of chang- tng the truths of God’s Word on the miserable presence Of Making them softer and more lovabie than God has made them in His Word. Tuere 1s & teaching in our aay antagonisuc to the Princeton theology. It cam searcely be called a theology. It does not take, it cannot be mace to take, any gcl- entific 1orm. It would let down doetrine and ex- alt charity, and would thereby make religion easier and More attractive, as they suppose. ibis “Broad Church” in Kogiand, delivering itself trom ali creed, it is ihe “Religion of Hunanity” in tois country instead of the “Religion of Divinity for Humanity.’ Jt would free humanity from certain restraints and sacrifices with tne view of exalting it, itis not just the same, but it is apalogous to the attempt in the jass century to do away with doctrine on the pretence of exalting morality, and which ied to dry High Churchism in England, to Moderatism in Scotland and Ulster, ational. ism on the Continent of Kurope and to Unitarian. ism in this country, and ended in all in the decay of religion and the lowering of morality, ‘the new gospel which has appeared among us ia evidently running 4 like career, Doctrine 18 discarded frst; duty goes next, in the next man or the next age. it is @ profound saying of one of the brothers Hare, “io lorm @ correet judgment concerning the tendency of any doctrine we shoula ratuer look at the forms it bears in the disciples than in the teacher, For he only inade it; they are made by i.” We may now see the kind of characters that are made in this school of love and humanity. There was first a surning away irom the old doctrine, and this has been followed py a turning away from the old morality. 1 beg thatit may be understood that {have no reference to any one individasl, and that I enter on no doubtful or ais+ pated pomts. I proceed on what is visiole to all, on what, indeed, has been forced offensively on the attention of all, The feeung of many of us jis, “O my soul, come not thou inw their secret; into their assembly, mine honor, be not thou united.’ Notwitn- standing all the efforts to suppress the “secret,” awiul disclosures lave been made. We see Low the milk of hutnan kinda when not restratued by law, is @ptyto be soured into hatred, how hu- Manity sinks Into selfishness, We see vow peril- Os 1b 18 bo begin to tamper with the most sacred ofall earthly relations, 1b looks as if whe genera- tien now springing up needed to Know what sort us, and What the practical consequences of the sentiment passing current in the eircie. The young needed to know what Kind oi men are seek- ing to guide opinivn in the puolic preas, even the so-called religious press—Mecn wuo keep no Sab- bath, but work on it as on other days; who go touo place of worship, whe are supposed to be capable of teaching others, ie they bave abandoned the reiigion which is the basis of etnics, anu ridi- cule thé holy doctrine which they know con- | demns them, The watchmen who are set on thy | wails, O Jerusalem, need to proclaim, as loud as | whem seven thunders uttered their voices, that love 1s to be guided by law, that love cannot ex- er tO shelter the persons them- selves or Others; that 1u contradictory statements there mast be lyimg, and that in centradictory oaths there muss be perjury of the deepest aye, oifeusive in the Bighest degree to God and to be denougced wisn terrible reprobation by man. Our genera! subject ieads me to remark ‘hatin Prince- ton College we seek to combine affection with dis- cipline. nota few of our larger colleges toe authorities have virtually abandoned all attempts | to exercise any oversight except in the way of securing order ln the recltadon rooms, amd stu- | dents may and often do fail into viciou 18 without their instructors having any knowledge ofit, or the parents having auy hint of it till tt is too late. But surely it is a very serious matter to | Beparate buadreds of young men irom the re- straints of nome and then take no charge of tnem, Felgen ana morally. 1tis @ very diicuit task, | cuse lying, wo and faithiulpess, Ido pot venture to afirni that | we have perfectly succeede that, on the one hand, we bave always wo much sympathy | and vendérness as we should; or that, ou the other hand, we have been frm enough in re- | pressing evil. But! can say for the authorities of Uhis college that we have becu anxious to do wnat is right. So far from discouraging amusement and maniy sports, we provide them, aod Keep tuem under proper regulatious as to hours, We frown on studious insuvordination and vice, on every form of equivocation or lying, and on practices wuich degrade tnose who ¢ ese. in tuem. It will be admitted by ail who know our slate that weave now got rid o/ avarly all the oid practices that disgraced American in ica we have had so muca quietness aad pru- priety of conduct and 80 mock mutual confidence | ou the part of the lacuity and students. In teach- ing other bigh braaches we aim to impart religious | mastrection. 1 feel this to be a dificult work io & large college with young men of such varied | character, some of th with as yet no taste for spiritual tongs, But we bold that the mind is nut jurnished as 1t ought, if, on opening to our stu- dents the riches o/ literature, scienee and philos- ophy, we do mot make them acquainted with the chgracter and wil of God. Bas this can be done only by the Scriptures; 1 kOOw Of No other religi- ‘ous instraction which ¢an be of any valae practi- cally. So [ labor to take the stadents through the | Bivie in & general way in our collegiate course of four ‘This last year | have been expound- ja doctrines of the Word, with the Epistle to tue Rom: as ourtext book. Here we bave a full and periect combination of and precept, joetril law and love. Those versed in this portion o | Scripture should be in a position to form a correct jncqment on ali subjects, religious and moral, aud in possession vt are body of principles fitted to to whatis nd te hoia them 1s evil. fe bell that by im. parting such instruetion not only ao we best ser u Master, Dut are taking the to train for work aud useful mitted to our care by anxious 0) nts aud guardians. mtiemen ef the graduating class, | ve been associated with most of you very closely tor | ue last four years, During this time, besides | praying with you from day to day in the chapel, | aad lecturing te you and occasionaily preaching to youen the Sabbata, | have met with yeu as a clas’ once & week for Bivie instruction. Dering one year J had a meeting with you once a week for the stady of haman mind, tion of yea durin: tory Of philosopay. These meetings were pica: | antat the time, and the remembrance of them 101 I realize it as a very serious t Tha ‘vhis day to inquire whether | have done my auty as | ought towara you; whether | Bave been sam- ciently taithiul on the one band and saficientiy tender on the otner, 1 feel more deeply than | can express that I have lost reunities of dor; good which [ should have emBracea and that have not been so sympatnetic asi ought ia my ex- positions and in my counsels, But I bless God bi cause He has given me & glorious opportunity of bringing Defore you great truths, bovh in religion and philosophy; and my prayer to God and to you is that you new take them with you and use and ein In your beliels and your actings in the of life, overlooking any imperfec- may have nat ed wil fee! as if I had left shouid have said; but the om tifled by trying to say it now. All l can now do is that “what is sown in weakness may be = 3 z, 2 5 2 << 3 3 5 5 3 | of | ‘You have ce | tanly received vaiuavie ins: tion trom nd lsborious teache: t in this college; and we enherisn t able, the faithfat whom you nave a the hope that the Knowledge More | acknowledge, to combine these two tnings, love | development of science and art innocent | | colleges, and that a0 proiesser rememoers @ year | gained, the habits | formed, the principles tnstilied, the virtues ac- | of “assembly”? or society has been formed umong | | i { | disciples quired, may be so Wrougat :nto your nature and incorporated out in your general aims aod purposes, in your character and professionali work. 1 would send you forth irom toese walis with cnese two words, ‘“jove”’ and “law,” written a6 @ motto on your he one will be ello: living wate: you, ever sprin: refre: lady to Now out & gitt jor his mother; sprayers, and he rose to eminen knew another youth wae consecrated his arst money 40 @ Missionary eause. He lived to be one | of he great mussionar of our age, There is® beautilul incident told of the greatest benefactor which our coliege has Nad in thiscentury. | | | young man in his first busim transaction bad ime $3,000, What is he to do with tt--to fund tor famuy is now in circum- It earn spend It on pleasures or lay tt u There estaplishing a business? befriended bim, bo stances Of privation. He offers it all to them, quired strong iaith But, er all, be made # Wise disposition of bis money, He | jent to the Lord and so had the best security. The | gaming a reputation; but le established a char. acter of jar more value than gold even for the pu fawJ of gaining gold. To the individual who thus ean lle we owe these Magnificent buildings and these professors’ chairs, Which will be the means of shedding light for untold generations. We send you forth from these Walis, spread liuht and love, bapoy aod pakowed jafuence, boy did all this trom principle, and with no idea of where you have re- caived penedt from the bounty of benefactors, to to aifuse around you a to reioie © wih © your being that they shail come | MONDAY, JUNE 28, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEE}, them that rejoice and weep with them that weep. ‘You will seek in your spheres to advance educn- tion, to promote refinement and to lead tn ali movements which further literatare and science. | Your Alma Mater expects snore; she expects you to promote tne Dighest good, which is spiritual good. Auumber, | know, are to devote them- selves to What they believe te be the bignest work & converted man can engage in, and as ministers and a8 missionarics are to scatter everywhere the unsearchabie riches of Christ. Bus while love gives the steam andthe sails in the veyage, you Will always take with you moral principle as the anchor and the rudder, You will snrink from the temptation to evil, irom the appearance of evil; ‘on Will turn back when you ‘come near the order country tat divides vice from virtue. “By reason of use you will have your senses @. ercised to discern boto good and evil.’ In the end, duty a5 @ Whole will be seit to be Pleasant as being Wrought into your wr nature, On certain Occasious a strong eifort will require to be made; but yoa will gird yourseives for the battle, wax Valiant tm the fieht, and stronger for the victory. ‘Finally, brethren, wha’ soever things are true, Whatsoever things are hon- est, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, if there be any virtue and if there be any praise,” you will think on these things and dothem. This time oj gradua- tion constitutes an epoch in your history, You 4 have come to an eminence whence you can look | back on the past and forward to tle fusure. In surveying the past you may bave to rejoice over successes, but beware of trusting inthem. You gained these by application, and you will need the like application in the more arduous career on which you have Dow to enter. Quite as possibly you may have to look on failures, perhaps great failures; time and opportunities of improvement lost. Surely your purpose this day will be to let nothing more be lost; you will gather lessons from your very disappointments. You have also to look jorward to the future which you see stretching out before you; and you make this a profitable Sab- bath in forming resolutions and laying out plans. See that they include plans of doing good, and that they all be undertaken in 4 sense of depend- ence on divine wisdom, We will :olow you in this career on which you are entering with some anxiety, but with greater hope, We pray for your happiness, but we pray more earnestly for your higher good, for the blessings of heaven to water the fruits ofearth, While we remember you, we expect you to remember us; to Visit us irom time vo ume} to pray for us, and heip us to promote the great ends which this college lives to accomplish. ‘Thus while scattered, tt may be widely, you srail all be one in the family relation to your Alma Mater, The last tle that binds you to this inatitu- Mon is soon tobe loosed, and you have to set out ‘on @ Voyage on which there may be more or fewer tossings. But two things abide and are stronger than the wind or the steam that drive you along, and firmer than the compass or the anchor. One is love im the heart, love more eucuring than life, and wh will not die when the body dies; the other is law, which, like the arms of tne Omnipo- tent, will guard you forever. Met as wo are this day for the last time ag a band of drovhers tn the house of God, let us arrange, ore we part, another Meeting place to which we may ali come. Let us pledge ourselves, in the presence of God and of one another, that, whatever our separations, that wherever else we meet, or whether we ie again on earth or no, we will all meet, no wan- derer lost, in the presence of God in heaven, YALE COLLEGE. BACCALAUREATE SEEMON OF PRESIDENT PORTER ON CHRISTIANITY AND ITS LIFE—PROGRAMME OF THE COMMENCAMENT EXERCISES. New HAVEN, June 27, 1875, President Porter delivered his baccalaureate | sermon tals morning in the college chapel, in presence of the senior class, The text was from Philippians, 1., 9, 10—“And thas I pray that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment, that ye may ap- prove things thas are excellent.” These words of prayer express the best wishes of the apostle tor the pupus who had been under his training. They bring out in contrasted relief the two elements of the Christan life—iove and knowledge. Love, the amimating force, is kindled and sustained by Christ and his promise Knowledge enlightens and directs man in his jadgments, concerning the arte and illustra tions of duty, and is capable of an indefinite refinement and culture, What is true of the individual is true of the race. If Christtanuy is permanent and divine it must be equal to all the possible wants of man in these two sides of man’s nature, It must go on to the end of time, kindling a new life of teeling and spirit- ual force, and adapting itself to every condi- | in the most advanced if Christian- ity cannot do both the things ft is ‘neither permanent nor divine, If man or bumanity suailever outgrow the need or the capacity tor it imeitheror both these plications Clristianity must take its place among the religions of the past Jt is no secret that Christianity at the present time ts assailed at ail points, and that to all the assaults which are mace upon it men of education sad culture are especially sensitive. it is assailed asa history and peculation. It is assailed on the side of posi- tive science. It is also assatled as unequal to the tion of human progress new places of our private and public life. Uf all | these forms of assault the eubtiest and the most dangerous ts that whicn is made upon it as a prac- teal system. As long as Christianity can show tt- seifto be the bust and strongest of ali existing moral fgrces and to be equal to the new deman of individaal and social life, so long will it stan But so sare as the faith of men shall be sbaken in it as tae bess inspiration and guide of human life it must suffer a temporary or inal eclipse. I pro- pose te speak of Ubristianity ag an ethical force in relation to modern questionings and obdjectfons, RELIGION OF SENTIMENT. It is charged that Chrisuamity is a re ligiom of sepitment, and that sentiment ts inconsistent with or hostile to science. life must hereafter be regulated by scientific principles, and very soon no piace will be left for Christian impulses and max- | ims. Science now rules the worid, and sentiment must give way. To this we answer—Christianity ia not @ religion of sentiment alons, but of senti- ment directed and enlightened by knowledge. It calls iteelf the truth, and therein implies that its ould accept whatever is approved as trae. The light and Knowledge which Coristianity recognizes are limited to few objects and rela- tions, Christianity professes to despise the pres- ent life. Many obvious virtues it does mot even recognize, much less does it enferes them. Staart Mill asserts, “While in the morality of the best pagan nations duty to the State helds even a disproportionate place, in pareiy Christian ethics that grand department of duty is scarcely noticed or acknowledged.” The new science of bumenity tells us that the widows | and cnildren of parents who have not |imsured their lives ought to suffer as a lesson and a warning against tmprovidence. Everywhere tue sctence of living is organized on solia principles, the logical deductions from which are eniorcea with unsparing rigor. 1t would seem that when the new science of life small bave reached its perfection marriage will be no lenger & matter of affection but of the coolest calculation, based upom date and grounds that ally us with the brates in respect to our earthly lie. Education will be a rigid and umpersonal drill process, makiag ma- chines by means of the wost improved educational machinery. Weak aod unpromising infants will be disposed of as burdens to society. Feeble in- val nd URpToftable old men and womea will be scientificaily and painlessly relieved of the lile of which they and their iriends are wearying. Last over death in iis special version of tae song, "0, | Geach where is thy siing! Ob, grave where is tuy vietory.”’ WHAT Is THE TRUTH? But what is the truca? simply tais—Coristianity does not profess to be in any & actence @: human condact or e a perfected jones at will, en code of morals, neither rude nor scientific. Kkindles anew spirit, it wakens a living energy which 18 subtie eno to penetrate all haman relation: ive enougA to most repned an tifigial structure of human society. If we are to Know We nast learn, and as soon as we begin to learn in the school of jife we begin to study science of human living and acting. As generation makes new advances in the science of whe liviag OAristianity takes up the results into its practical creed and eniorces them by & code of duty which 18 ever making progress. The brief maxims of barter Xchange, wrich held @ood between Abraham the sons of Herth, are time expanded into the refined and compit- cated pri po dy political But, o n ud science begin: point at Which Christianity can be di No science of human l1f¢ and dut | rapidly into being as to outrun Christianity; none can expand so widely as not to be flied ou the instant with the subtle element of Christian love, THE CHRISTIAN IDRAL. It is urged that the Curia:tan ideal of character Will be dispiaced in tue progress of modern cul- ture, The Caristian ideal 1s love to man that is disinterested, sincere and seli-sacrificing. That Vis love Deed DAE and HHent nat te be DACTOW OF unintelligent has already been shown, but th: must be fervent, coustant and supreme is self- evident. Socrates bad some longings for, and dim joresnadowings Of, what it might do j tor the heart of man, but of its moral pathos he had no adequate conception, | Father no conception at ail, Marcus Aurelius | syinpatnized with its Justico and its considerate- ness and had some presentiments of its pity for human (frailty and sorrow; but it never entered his thoughts that & human being could soberly propose to bimself and successfully realize the ideal of which Paul sketched the salient features. The great tragedy opened to man a momentary look into the buman love that is stronger than death; but the fervent and patient and long-sul- jering moral affection that at this Moment blesses ten thousand Christian homes and watches vy Wwonsands ot sick @, Was strange to the purest | and loitiest records of its imagination, A ROYAL LAW, There is no imagiuable condition of spiritu being where the law Of love is not a royal law. est writers of the present generation, Who seemed to grope aiter Christian truth to the end of his ite without finding it, after standing long in sience, gazing at the silent stars, would turn from their oppressive maguificeuce with such words as ‘Love must be better than hate in ail Culture, Whether in scieuce or art, & necessarily seif-absorbed; it tends to self-occupa- tion, lt may easily become selfish even when rosecuted im the Dame of iove and duty, as life becomes more artificial aud the demands of cul- vure are more exacting. Even morai culture sometimes degenerates into artificial rentiment- wilem. Culture requires special seli-occupation, lt brings many dangers peculiar to itseit It creates hew tastes waichk are over refined by grat- ification to @ siniul excess. By and by the Chris- tian community, which owes to the self-sacrificing love of Onrist, uke men, aliits well ordered libra- ries, it# schools, Its Colleges, its galleries and its hospitais, 18 80 Occupied With the fruits of the tree Wat 1t forgets the root from which it is nourished, SOLENCE AND CULTURE. It tg charged that the special notions of Chris- tlauity are being displayed by tne progress of sclence and of culture, We claim that they are as much needed and are as powerful as ever. Ohr Hianity enlorces upon man’s attention, not the na- tural order of the universe, hot the conception of self-sacrificing love, but tue living God and the pitying and loving Christ, Ourisvanity is not system of ethics, albeit with the loftiest ideal and unexhausted adaptations, Cnristianity is more than love to man, it is love to God and @ love to man for Goa, It 18 & religion that brings each living man iuto personal reiations with # personal God, with bis indiviaual conscience and hus own future life, An eralization, It concerns itself with principles and laws. fand theories of religion. Itstrives to find thougat in everything, from the development of the unl- oyerse Lo the crystallized snowdake whick melts, as it Jails. It personifies its abstractions and then ips the work of its own the chosen iribes of culture brings tts separate piece © hens high atry, ani comes out one or many gelden calves and the shows goes up for the monareh. ‘Tuese be thy gods, on Israel.” Force, @ mere abstraction, tain enough to be mysterious and prismatic enouga lo reflect the parti-colo Bues of a lively Janey, i8 wWorsbipped as the unknown uod unkhowable God, which is capable of in- definite transformations of matter and spirit, but of mo creation of either, ‘Ihe methed after which the divine tninker acts is exalted ato @ personified, but not @ personal, energy called evolution, Law is substituted for the law- giving and law-abiding God, The abstractions of ethica are lifted higher (ban the one great moral Person, to be snificient without Him. The astroa- omer no sooner discovers a mew thought of Uod than he thinks that he or his theory made ana controls the universe, and that it is the glory of his system which the heavens deciare, and his handiwork which the starry firmament suows The political philosopher, the historical theorist, she critic in literature and art, each loses sight of tae living God in some favorite tne- ory of law or principle. When Coristianity comes into question it is the Christian temple aod caar- acter whicn are recognized, and not the pert Christ. fhe only wortay Positioa which a wise- minded man can take, {8 not to care for it, but to Le above ail concern in respect to it. indeed, he may even question whether a continued exist- ence would be worth accepting even tt tt were offered. Lt 18, pe: APE better our departure 18 at haud to say, C E00 5 1 will pass into @ dreamie: | Heuceforth my existence shall be in she thougors | Woich I have evolved and the impulses which I bave imparted aud the tmagimative creations | Which Ihave given to the coming generations,” This is the so-ealled religion of huinunity, the only religion deemed wortay of a scholar, tue very designation of which reveals its emptiness, RELIGION AND RBASON. riest ut the altar of intellectual idoi- | \ 5 FS 2 3 ” J 3 a 4 = 2 4 5 4 3 5 = 3 2 3 3 £ g 3 end a self-worahipper, tue Most unsssial tog ol ali worships, T' 0/ speculation b. Hoation of the ima; In tae last analysis, tisns: not because it neither sutishes the intellect nor Gils the heart. Science, if true to itself, mu: come back to a personal God as the best oO! @ universe in Which there is thought. lure must ackbowiedge tnat Corist and an im tal life jurpish the noviest apd the most sustained inspiration. ame THE LIVES OP MEN, It fotlows that Cnristiantty can demovstra practical power by being applied in & living men, As tue Gospel acts by means of per- sonal agencies, #0 it requires living believers through whom it may mavifest its power. it culls upon the Church at tais time, especially on educated men, to see that love should abound io Knowledge and ip all judgment. ff Christianliy is from God, ali these things should be known and approved and mastered by every peliever. Whar mught not happen if with the Teviviag sense of spiritual realities tor Which we pray there came a | revival of Caristian morality? PDUCATED MEN. — with special force me, especially to edu- } cated young men. They are forced to know some- i sing ‘of modern doubt and unbeilef to confer | wi | hose questionings which disturb so many a and darken so many gh They are s; romises 0: | ney know bow biessea and exail | 1 is to believe im God and in Christ, for they best measure the greatness of God and the con- descension of Christ by tae vastmess of tne unt- verse and the insignificance of man. They go forth to oceupy places of influence and power at | atime when ideas earnestly and eloqueatiy, or | 1aiseiy and piansibiy ses forsh, rule the worid, AN APPEAL TO THE GRADUATES, I commend tions to you, young men of tne 38, 28 YOU go iorth Lo | tne res] Most of tnese | primeipies are taunt Th this pulpit You ave en taught t traths of Christianity are so far from being incon- sistent with scieutific trato that they confirm it aud are conirmed@ by it, and that the practical principles of Christianity are broad and stabie enouga to mappers aby suverstractare of indi- Vidual of public life, however elaberave and Bately, While its refiging influences cannot fail You have ed vy precept, | least, Lt not by example, that ardent aevotion the Kingdom of God rather favors th: no way disqu: Kiance to science nor ¢ culture oi letters, Y theory at least, is i love and progressive enlightenment. Standing ‘tand fo! 01 view your col- Jege hile in ita relations to God aly immortal life, and, casting one inquiring and tea- der look upon its opportunities now gone by, it may be that you regret that your own faite tu Gow and devotion to duty ave not been more fervent and progressive. Similar otten come to you. You go Jorth jn life at a time when the current of modern life throatens to take every man (rom nw feet whose feet do ngt stand upon duty and hands }o% strecched toward God, To one ambition t ia prize—the ambitios may De achieved and literature and art may be enjoyed. Buti the soul is ouly refined in its tastes amd 18 not refined in its conscience and in | its aifections toward God and he very re- ubiversity men of our country are Dow appealed to, a8 Never before, to snow a neble and more | intelligent pubic spirit to make and enforce a more eMcient puolic sentiment for honor aad They are entreated to unite for the eieva~ tion, and it may be for the saivation, of this land. tn this sacred to an unseifish pray ior you more for you teat ts better ir lives may avotng yet more and more in knowledge aud iw ail judgment, ti | may approve all things which are excellent, you may be singgre and without offence tii the @ay of Christ? With these wishes aad tails prayer 1 bid you an affectionate farewell. | COMMENCRMBNT WEE! | The following is tue oificial programme of excr- | cises for Commencement week at Yaie:— (UASDAY, June 20,—Presentation exercises. with the ciass Oration and poem, im the chapel, at ten | A. M. Anniversary Of the Sheffield scientific School, in North SneMeid Halk at eigne P. M. WEDNESDAY, Jone 30.—Annual meeting of the alumni im the gradual hall, at Ralt-past mine | AM. ‘The polls will pen in tke porin wing of the library irom two te four P. M., for the election of & member of the corporath Anniversary ex- of the Law Department at the Centre at haif-past two, M., with orations by five members of the graduating class, in compe- tition forthe Towasend prize, to be jiowed | by an oration by the Hon, ). A. Chamber. | lain, L.L. Governor of South Carolina, on “Some of } the Relations and Present Duties of the Profession to Our Public Life and Admatr e@izut P. Me, reception in the rooms of tne flaw old which he has wrougut to some emi- | 1 | regrets and wishes will | it | Sehool for the alumni of the school, with their 5 families and invited guesis. FHURSDaY, July 1.—Commencement, The exer- cives at the Ventre churcn will begin om the ar- of the processiog, wiico wil form at nine ., In front of toe Lyceum batiding, Graduates ne culieges Will accompany the officers ant graduates 0; Yale in the procession, and are in- vited to dine w President and Fellows tn the graduates’ all, alter tue c.ose of the exercises in Tue churen at two), M, The sixth aunual of the Pine Arts will week. The exawination for admission to the academ!- cal department and to the SneMeia Sclentitic School wil! begin on Friaay, July Staustics of the class of 1875, collects Blovdgood, W. A. Fulierand L. F. Reid, College, show that a swaller class Ras not gradu- nibition of the Yale School be open dauy during the | ated in twemty years. Of the members 32 velong in 1s recoraed of one of the most honest ana sweet- | age of culture is an age Of avstraction and of gen- | It constructs theories of the universe | When many are cast into the fire there | | with tne restricted aud ev: | to clothe it edifice with ever-growing grace | aod Death learn ¢ sen 7 | dom. May tne trucns you dave here learned be | danger they incurred »; } | give Him the | and entreaties aud exoortations to bis service New York and 28 in Counecticut. The average age on Commencement day will be 22 yeurs, 2 months, The class hus 7 men over 6 feet high, the Nest belug 6 feet 245 inciies, the shortest 5 feet 3/4 inches, One student has taken 13 prizes. Wiil- jai is the predominant firac namé, 64 studenia play cards, 45 play billiards, 63 have habttualiy studied during prayers, 72 pave used “ponies,” 60 Us9 tobacco, lv gamvie, 42 do not Indulge uv lutox~ icating drinks, 49 sing anu 60 dance, Of tie 9%, 28 are Congregationalists, 9 Presbyterians, 7 Episco- palians, 3 Methodists, 2 Free !ninkers, and 22 are totally indifferent, Politically classified, 26 are straight repudlicans, independent republicans, 19 gemocrats, 2 copperheads and 4 doubtfal. OF the 95 82 are free traders and 91 hard money men, One 18 married ana seven are engaged. ‘The Jargest individual expenditure during the course Aas been $4,500, tke smallost $1,875. Of the class 47 will become lawyers, 8 miniscers, 7 doclors and 2 journalists, Tae class has lost two members by death. i THE CLASS PORT is Eugene Bonton, Jefferson, N. Y. ORATOR, Charles Forest Cutler, Princeville, Ill. é HISTORIANS, 5. R. Betts and Samuei Isaam, of New York city, and A. F. Jencks, of Brooklyn. CLASS DAY COMMITTER, Charles W. Oochrane, Waite Piains; Guy How- ard, Omaba, Neb. ; J. A. Post, Newburg, N. J. KR. Grutin, Topeka, Kan.; A, ¥, Metcall, Canan- daigua, fs The Yale Glee Club, which nas enjoyed such an enviable reputation aurimg iour years, Wl give their final concert Monaay eveniog, LAFAYETTE COLLEGE. CATTSLL PREACHES ON THE KINGDOM OF CHRIST—AN EXHORTATION TO THE GRADU- ATES, DR. Easton, Jun |, 1875, This morning Rev, William ©, Cattell, Dy Day President of Lafayette College, preached belore a large audience nis baccaiauerate sermon from the text—“My kingdom is not ol tas world.’’ John XVUL, 36, The earliest promise made to our first parents amid the deepening shadows of the sin- cursed earth, sait Dr. Cattell, was of a deliverer who shoula come to free the humam race from the power of Satan, one who suould crush beneata Hya hee) the serpens’s head. Frem the tips of the patriarchs, who spoke as they were moved by the spirit of prophecy, came still clearer references tu the promised deliverer as the Shiloh unto whom should be the gatnering of the people, 1t was de- clarea that His sceptre sould rise out of Israel. Those prophecies of His kingly character became more irequent and luminous as the purposes of God with reierence to His Onurch were uvfeldea in the history of the chosen peo- ple. The throne of the Prince of Peace, tue increase of whose dominion should ave no end, became a prominent figure in pro- phetic vision and tue ever recurring subject of in- spired song. Almost at the very opening the Pealter swells into the majestic cadence of a core- nation hymn :—"Yet have i set my king upon mr holy hill of Z.on,” is the august declaration of the eternal Father He covenants with His Son to then for His inberitance and: the uttermost parts of the earth for his posses= sions, That grand Messianic psalm (Xiv.) as- cribes aiviuity vo this King and perpetuity to His kingdom:—“rhy throne, 0 Goa, 1s for ever and ever.’’ But it was noteven for this chosen and favored people, to Whom were Committed the ora- cies of Ged and the ordinances of His Church, to apprehend tae true meaning of these utterancer, Some of the more devout, whose thoughts were not Of the earta, had indeed caught the vision of the Messiah’s spiritual king but the great mass of the people looked Jor a king hke David—a statesman ands warrtor—who would again rear the lion of the tribe of Jagab at the head of tne Dannered bosts of Israci, Such expe-tations, | while they showed a want of insight into tue spiritaal aning Of tne Messianic prophecies, Were natural io the heartyof tals dowuiroauen aud oppressed peopie. TH MAULBD HAND. jailed band of toe Roman was always veavy nations they couquered, but the unsuo- Jews, Whe abhorred their buen as weil as bated them as uppress- ors, bundant pretext ter wnusual s*verities. Wnen, therefore, the wonder worker irom Gace appeared in their midst, we are DOL surprised tbat tuey greeted Him as the jong expected aciivercr from Roman bondage, aud that the multituce would even “tome by forve co make him @ king.”” After descrioing the disappointment of the people that followed the teacoing of Cartst as to the spiritual mature of His Kingaom, and the bi- millating fact of their baving sought His life at toe hands Ol the Rowan governor upon toe very iz to the throne, the Doctor re of Carist’s king- Suggested by nis words beiore Ptiate, which he ti jor bis text, spowing in what respect His kingdom was unlike the kingdom “of bis world.” It differed from them in the extent and scope of The lex scripta of e.vil government r only to such CVert acts as are prejudicial to society. THE DUTIRG AND REWARDS. The laws of Christ’s kingsom reach to the thoughss and motives of the heart. The reason for the inflection of ity and for the exercise Of the pardoning power was aiso shown to be difereat. So with the duties and rewards of Christ's Kingdom. Mow straage to hear Irom the throne room of an earthly King the beatitudes that fell from the Lips of Christ, “Blessed tn poor ia sper rhe universality and uence of ist’s Kingdom were also contra: Py CussioD 01 the discourse was upon ity of Chrisy’s Kingdom as belong! irom th = the civil government, sho: trute. diers, but rs ol Onrist are, weapons of their warlare are not rDal. ‘he visibie or organized kingaom of Christ, which is the Church, was not inimical or antagonistic to apy jorm of government adopiea by the people or submitsed to by them, The sub- ject, he contended, was one of vital mmportance @t the preseut day, waea Vaticanism seemed to have revived tne ciaim of spiritual rulers to an authority over the civil government. i ADUAIBS ADDRESSED, on, tne memoers of the tor spoke of their duiy to You are THE Addressing, 12 con graduating class, the L s educated mem trained tained by those crown and Kimg- wrought into your dally lives, and may you mong men.’ Review! orsefy e college ior the four years during which they becn connected witn it, Gwemlng more particularly upon tue revivais of religion they Rad witnessed, he exhorted those who pro fessed allegiance to Christ to be loyal and earnest in His service, and Warned those Whe still reused ihe oder of citizenship in Curisse’s Kingdom of the the delay. Now tne them with persuasions yowe of the King ioilowe but In that other world, to which every pat shrough this life ied, and oO which even now some of them might ve ding, tue fnatly te. peattent would liear onty tnese reartal wor “As for these, Mine enemies, that would not I should reien over them, bring bither belore me! COMMENCEMEN MANHATTAN COLLEGR. Tue Commencement Exercises of this institation take piece oa Friday next, attwor. M. iis Emt- nence Cardinal MeCloskey, who has not had time to visit the college since his elevation, will pre. side and be received, fis reception will be the great feature of tue day, as extensive prepara- tions have been made ier the event. Mr. John J. O'Rorke, of the graduating class, is to read an address to His Eminence. All the judges of the supreme Court, now in tne Firss district, will be present, and Judge Brady will adaress tne grad- uates, ¢ THE NORMAL COLLEGE. The Commencement of tnis great and successful experimeot in female education comes of on Wednesday, June 30, at ten A. M., in the college building, Sixty-ninth street and Fourtn avenue. Commissioners Woot, Kiamroth. Townsend. Hal jd Faller, wiih Mr, Thomas Hunter, the have made great preparations for this the sixtit annual Commencement, OTHER COMMENCEMENTS, St. John’s Collewo, Fordham, June 90, Traine eave Grand Central depet at tweaty minutes to twelve A. M. Seton Hali College, Orange, N. J., Jane Monet xt Vineent Coavent. July iQ. ——— }