The New York Herald Newspaper, June 26, 1876, Page 8

NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1876.—WITE SUPPLEMENT. COLLEGE. CONMENCENENTS Baccalaureate Sermons Delivered Yesterday, Vassar, Union, Hamilton, Princeton, Yale, Trinity, Lafayette, Dartmouth, Wesleyan and Amherst. Last Words of Advice from Anxious Presidents. ADMONITIONS NOT SOON 10 BE FORGOTTEN. - VASSAR COLLEGE. PBESIDENT BAYMOND'S BACCALAUREATE SER- MON—THE YOUNG LADIES WARNED AGAINST PREJUDICE. Poveuxxsgrsi, June 25, 1876. ‘The city is fast Alling up with the parents and friends of pupils of the various schools. The commencement exercises at Vassar begin next week. Tuesday is class day, and Wednesday commencement proper. The baccalaureate sermon was preached this afternoon by President Raymond in the chapel of the college, His text was found in I. Thessalonians, v., “Prove ull things; hold {ast that which is good.” THE SERMON. Dr. Raymond commenced by saying that the words Of the text have no connection with what goes before or after, The text stood by itself, and will be found upon examination to contain principies of importance and the widest application. He knew of no_more prudent and all-embracing law of sound thinking® Notions we have in plenty—ideas, {tmpressions, Tancies, caught up by the accident of education or as- vocations; strong prejudicer, decided predilections, fosterea by press or pulpit, by personal sympathies or class interests, leading to ivtense and even passionate asseveration and often upheld with persistent zeal, Opinions they may be called, but they are not worthy of the name, because they do not rest on an intelligent basis; thoy are not the product of thinking, not the result ofa careful and deliberate search after truth, But whenever such a person is found, a man ur a woman of real convictions, of clear, intelligent, settled belief, then we find a power in the earth—not merely 8 self-poised centre of resisting force, sustaining tiself against pressure without, refusing to be tossed to and fro and carried away with every wind of doctrine, but a sonrce of positive infueore as well, ing forth and making i fos and seen. jething 18 plainer than this copvection between opinion and character, Settiet opinions make the Meudiast man; positive opinions inake the positive man; earnest ‘convictions stimulate to eurnest en- deavors and produce active, persevering and fruitful lives. “As @ man thinketh so ix he?’ So will he Speak, so will he do, such will be the measure and character of his influence, such the kind of contribu- tion bo will make to the common weal or (it may be) the common woc. By a# much, then, as we are bound to make the most and the best of oursely should we see to it, first, that we have opinions, and, tecondly, what those opinions are. We are not to con- femn without examining. In the great Held of haman ppinion every thought 1s entitled to a fur trial and wall not be convicted and cast out without a hearing. The most mean and cruel of the foes of truth 1s preju- dice, which is a vice; for what can be meauer than to Ko the defenceless, or what more cruel than to treat as a criminal him who, for aught we know, may be our best benefactor. ‘The world has been slow to recognize Its benefactors in the realm of thought; but it 1s preju- dice that blinded 1s cyes. It was bigotry that kindled ‘he fires of martyrdom; it was bigotry that cruvitied pur Lord. No wonder that Paul, who remembered the biter hour when he himself did its wicked bidding, and now that he had become a minister of the truth and found prejudice the universal bar to its progress, ehould enjoin upon its friends the broadest catholicity.’ Preju- fice is not always malicious, though {t 15 always um- just; not always insincere, but it, 1s always cowardly, lt was meant to serve the truth, but it is by unworthy means _ It does not leave truth to defend itself in an ppen ticld, and strikes 1ts supposed enemy a dastardly blow; it ‘shuts out the day from iteeif and others Vorough fear that darkness may come in at the win- tow. If you are a lover and seeker of truth, then, says the apostle, begin by banishing tbis false ally. Prove ail things; cultivate a broad and brave catbolicity; fear Rot to be just, at least to those who differ with you and with men generally, in opinion. In the formation of your own opinions shut yourself not up to a narrow range of preconceived ideas, bu vpen all the windows of your soul that you may sweep the horizon round. ‘Keep them open ail the time and wel- come light fromevery quarter, And in the commanity demand that the advocate of the most unpopular cause shall have at least a hearing and sali be condemned and stigmatized by those only who give a roason for their* censure, The text seems to raise a double warning, guarding us on the one side against such narrowness ax will excluae the true and the good, because he can- aot speak our shibboleth and “followeth not with us,”? and on the other against such breadth as admits and fraternizes with evil and untruth. Catholic to gener- Dsity toward the opinions of ailwe should in butld- ing on our own beliet be loyal in our devotion to truth, ani to him who is the truth, whose life presents t noblest ideal of such loyalty,’ whose word affords t a— surest teste of the truth we seek. Test everything, but | accept and hold that only which abides the proof. UNION COLLEGE. AM ELOQUENT EXHORTATION TO THE GRADU- ATES TO HAVE STRONG FAITH. Scuexectapy, N. Y., June 25, 1876, Dr.C. D. W. Bridgman, of Albany, addressed a large audience, including the Senior Class of Union Col. lege, in the Presbyter:an church in this town to. wok for his text L Corinthians, xviti., 13—“Quit you like men; be strong’? When these words were written, wid he, religion bad a more tragic meaning than it has to-day; it meant no peaceful, prosperous cou tow, but one of suffering aud asifliction, It was alife offirial that demanded the courage of warriors; and theso words were addressed to the persecuted and afflicted disciples. And now, said the speaker, in applying this counsel to you who are most considered im the prayers and remarks of tbis hour, let me ask you to contemplate your Ife in three aspects:—First, as a thing to be reverenced; second, as a kingdom to be ruled; third, as a training school for eternity. let a man tive for self merely, or for pieus- are, and he cannot long retain the power to en- i He cannot go hopetuily and cheerfully Mbrough the round of his duties unless he behoves ¢ is in training for something beyond what 1s seen Ho needs tue discipline of a tather who is pre- g him fora world where all Scripture mysteries and promises shall have their abundant {ru:t. Settle it now, the beginning of your life, which it shall be, sé be either hopeiuLor hopeless. There is no middle ground of indilference tenavie all through this lUe, Either the hope that maketh not ashamed, tho anchor which is sure and steadiast, entering into that withio the veil or without God and without hope in the world, Which shail it be? There was a man who seemed to have cherished the same purpose with which many of the young men of the day go forth into the world, and whose life was a success, as judged by tho and his history is that of the rich man ground brought forth plentitully and who I will pull dowy my Warns and bi Bat God said to b “Thou fool, who layeth up treasure for himself a1 not rich in ‘here was another who reverenced life and its powers too much to squi or gold, whose life was the altar of duty. sacrifice on There was no tremor when death came tohim. Ho passed up with the words, “I have fought a good fight”? It is His voice which sounds in these words, ‘Quit you tike men." He found the secret of power, the ciew toa glorious destiny in believing in Him who loved him and gave Himseit tor him, Exercise the same [aith and give yourself to Him; exercise the same faith and life shall be to each of you A victorious progress, and death the gate that opens to the presence of God. GOVERNOR TILDEN DECLINES. Scurynetanr, N, ¥., June 25, 1876, Governor Tilden has declined to deliver the univer. sity oration at the Commencement of Union College, on weaday next, and Professor Taylor Lewis will sup- piy his place with an appropriate address to theainmnt regarditg the long and honorable earcer of Dr. Isaac W. Jackson, who this year ce obrates his semi-conten- tial as a member of the faculty, Distinguished grada- ates of the last dive decennial classes wili respond, HAMILTON COLLEGE., MENT EXERCISES—NAMES OF THE GRADUATING CLASS. Chixtox, N. ¥., Jame 21, 1876, The commencement excreises of Hamilton College opened to-day with the customary baccalaureate sor- mon before fhe graduating class by the Rev. Samael G. Brows, D. D., President of the college. The college holds {ts commencement and other exercises tn this pleasant littic viliage of 2,000 souls, although the col- lege proper is situated a mile distant. No buildings of sufficient size to accommodate the numbers that as. semble are as yet on tho campus. Yet tho college boasts extensive grounds, more than fiiteen acres, tatd lish style, Walks wind about among the rom aimost any spot on elevated cOMM) plateau the eye can look down on Clinton village, the valley of the Oriskany, further to the lett that of the Mohawk, and in the blue distance the spires of Utica and the DeerGeld bills, We are nine miles southwest from Utica, THE GRADUATING that goes out to try its luck m CLASS the ‘cold world,” as bo colleg:ans call their fellow men, numbers eighteen. e} are:— W. tH. Albright, Northampton, England; Clarence L. Barber, Albany; George P. Bristol, Clinton; James , Hammond; Jobn R 8. Dey, New York; Eells, Cleveland, Ohio; Julien M. Bihott, Philip, M. Hull, New Kingston; Fayette burg; Wiiham E, Kimball, Utica; Sidney Clinton; Humphrey MacMaster, Arch. 1. Herbert R Handail, Amenia; Eawin A. Rock- Louis, Mo. ; William Perry Lucien Stafford, Deansvitle; Edward C. Stringen, Auburn; Byron Wells, Valley. ening Dr. Allen, of New York, is to deliver k, an address before the Society of Christian Research. PRINCETON COLLEGE. BACCALAUREATE SERMON BY PRESIDENT M'COSH—THE WORLD A SCENE OF CONTEST— BIDDING THE SENIORS GOODBY. Princeton, N. J., June 25, 1876, President McCcsh delivered the baccalaureate ser- mon in the chapel this morning. The text was trom Genesis, 1i1., 15:—““I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel.” THE SERMON. The Doctor said two extreme views have been taken of the character of the world; one, that it is without wisdom or design or goodness, the sport of chance or bound in the grim grasp of fate. On tho other hand there are some who sce nothing in our world but order and beneficence. But, asked the Doctor, Coes either of these views, taken by itself, account for the whole facts? As against the one, we have beauty and bountilulness pressing themselves on us so that we have only to open our eyes to behold them in beaven and earth, in revolving sea- | sons and untolding Providence, But our world cer- tainly presents another and a very different aspect. Sin and pain are also in our world and force themselves upon us whether we will or no, Whatever else is trae, this is true also, There is to be acontest between the two and be- tween the seed of the two; the serpent crawling in the dust isto bite the heel of the seed of the woman, but as he does so the seed of the woman 1s to put his heel on the serpent’s head and to crush it, We have here, in epitome, the history of our world, the history of man, the history of redeinption, ail in one. After speaking at great length on the conflict, the Doctor asked and answered the question, WHAT 18 THE CHRISTIAN Lire? It isa work, it isawariare. It is a campaign in an enemy's country. It is a voyage through winds and waves, It consists in the conquest of sin ina sintul nature; in the attainment of holimess by an unholy heart, The Coristian life 1s tife from the dead. FAREWELL. The sermon Onished, Dr. McCosh turned to the graduates and said:— G&NTLEMEN OF THE GRADUATING CLassEs, ACADEMIC AND Screntivic—We would send you orth from these walls as soldiers of the cross. We shall be disup- pointed should you turn out to be of those who aim simply at obtaining a8 many as possible of the com- forts and enjoyments of this world, saying, with the epicurcan, ‘Let, us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die;’’ or even of those who have the higher ambition to distinguish themselves and gain the laurels which this world places ou the brows of its vowaries, only to find how soop they witner and become an encumbrance. You have to “fight the good fight of taith, and lay hold of eternal lie.” ‘ou have foes within and withont to contend with. You have to defend the right, to oppose the eviland propa- gate the good. This senior class in the academic department is the largest that has graduatea from Princeton college. Tho best members have been distinguished for their sterling ability, the solidity of their acquirements, and the weight of their character. senior class, the first graduating in the scientific department, gives goo promise of What our School of Science is to be. it will be an inexpressible pleasure so mo to confer on ‘ou ail that degree you have earned by years of qtudy. Ve have been meeting together from week to week, in- deed trom day to day most of us, for now three or four years, 1t would be a proot that’ our natures were very coid it we did not feel, and feel deeply, at the thought of separating. Your alma mater will look aiter you with deep interest, rejoicing in your joy, sympathizing with you in any sorrow with which you may be visited, pleased above: all when she hears of your being good and doing good. She will inquire after you, and she wishes you to visit her from time to time to report what you are doing, and that she may keep up her acquaintance with you. We cherish the hope that at Jast we will mect, no wanderer lost, in that place where ‘ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.” Breast the wave, Christian, when it is strongest, Watch tor day, Christian, when night is longest, Onward and onward still’ be thine endeavor, The rest thet remaineth endareth forever. Fight the fight, Christian, Jesus is o'er thee, Ran the race, Christian, 8 before thee, He who bath promised faltereth never, Ob, trust in theJove that endureth forevep YALE COLLEGE. BACCALAUREATE SERMON BY PRESIDENT POR- TER—HOW,TO ATTAIN SUCCESS IN LIFE— ADDRESS TO THE GRADUATING CLASS. New Havex, Conn., June 25, 1876, President Porter delivered his baccalaureate sermon before the members of the graduating class and a large congregation in the college chapel this morning. He took for his text Joho, xv., 16—‘‘I have chosen you and ordained you that you should go and bring forth frait, and that your trait should remain.”” THK SERMON. ‘The times in which we are living are called eminently uncertain and depressing, especially to those who are forming their plans for lite. Fifteen years ago and the country was convulsed by the throes of civil war, For four years or more the hitherto stable structure of our government was heaving to and fro as in the perpetual vibrations of an carthquake. Then ensued a sea- son of unnatural financial and speculative excite- ment, with feverish expectations of wealth and dreams of easy success with little cost or by dis- honest means, Then an ominous stagnation and quiet subsidence, followed by the crash after crash of gigan- tic interests, Enormous assets shrank into nothing or were transformed into heavy burdens Promising en- terprises disappointed the confidence of sanguine or deluded investors, Stupendous frauds began to be ex- posed, The character of those conceived to be of tho purest and holiest were assailed, whether rightly or wrongly 1s of little consequence, for faith in man is perceptibly aying out of the community, and inthe same proportion faith in goodness and faith in God. ‘The uncertainty and distrust thus begun in commercial, political and social circles still continues, The faith of men in the laws of trade seems almost to fail them, as season alter season disappoints their hopes. The grinding procosses of adjustment aye etiil going on, and, it would seem, will not ceaso tll the masses of accumulated capital are ground to atoms. The faith of man in moral jaw, which ought to in- creuso under this discipline, seems rather to be dis- turbed by a morbid sympathy with the uncertainties Of trade and of politics, Science, even, is infected with a spirit of romancing. it bewilders its own vo- taries with extravagant and contradictory theories, in- duced by the richness of its revelations and the excite- ment of its brilliant discoveries, It moro than whis- pers that the immortality to which man might tarn with hopo, im his experiences of change and disap- pointment, is more thao an uncertainty. And to com- plete this mockery of our woe philosophy confidently | toils us that the universe, in tis present condition, is uncertain und unstable, borne forward as it is upon mighty Waves of tendency, of which we only know that they exist, only that they will displac his interests by noble torms of being, their wovement our individual existence and hopes and Jears. To complete the climgx, we ure as positively assured that God hiusell 1s © ol uncertainty, the only ceria know being that novhing can be ce Uhat something ot Him that wo very Wonderiul and very grout, look of uncerianty is not very an who siands at the threshold of is tempted to depression or des- pair, on the other to reckiessness of faith and hovor aod duty. Some of you will think that this pievure is overdrawn. lecapnot bottbhnk that there is some trath in the feeings with whieh thoughtiul young men are now looking out upon file. Lot me remind you (buat the times were anything bat hopetul wher Christ uttered tue words of the text Surely there never were so many and never such ex- ainly kuown, only | treme paradoxes of inct and of promise asare pre- | sented in Christ's condition and the pledges ho makes to His disciples He was to leave them ulone in a des- perate struggle with powertal foes, and yet by ,being jot alone they would gain ther victory. He was Himscif to aie, and it was oniy by dying that, as a. ‘seed disappears, He should bring orth fruit. He was to die upon the cross, DULIL was only vm the cross that He could | ascend to the throne of power in His kingdom. Hus iples feared that in 4 lew days they should be scatiored and their work destroyed. But He assures: them that He seuds them forth, that they alone sboald bring forty ‘rut and tbav iherr fruit should remain. ome is success in fe, vut not i the general such as is irae vi ail men, bat in the 8 true of Christian wen, AMP UL LIP, Of 4 snceessial life and who is forth to bring forth trav? rf. hh constitutes a disciple bas ides, the ou wh and the personal. From the one side aman exisisin | by Rev, & A Washburn, | highly refined aud elaborau Christ's spirit and delights in Hisexample. From the other he trusts in Christ as a person. Normally the One involves the otber, but the ethical comes tirst to our notice, Christ came into orld & peculiar spirit and life. The world at understand and it to believe im it, But tt is tim @ man have not the spirit of Cas he is not i His, Christ pleaded not Himsell, and Christ delared that the disciple 8 not above bis master; and if # man will come after Me let him deny bimself and take up his cross and follow Me. The ethical side of discipleship approves itself to the consciences of all men, The can- did thivker and the Christian student can easily appro- Ciate its Worth and power, and bence to such a man it 1s the fundamental condition of Christian success = No stiff dogmatism of theory and orthodoxy; no partisan zeal for this or thut physical formala; no passionate trust in Christ’s death can take the place of a loving Jaith iu His temper and |i no ecstatic worship of Christ as adivine person can be set off against the neglect of Christ as an example of the ideal of human perfection, PERMANENT FRUIT. xt condition of permanent frait from life is nce in tho exemplitication of ihe Christian ideal. To consent to Christ as the inspiration of one living is not enough. We must learn how to realize the conditions of our everyday life. The Son of Man same eating and drinking—this friend of publicans and cinners. Though He lived as no man ever lived in the transcendent purity and biamelessuess of His spirit He irequented the scenes of*public and domestic activity, waiking in the highways and byways of common life, being present ut feasts and in the synagogues by day and resting in the quiet of modest iricnds at night. So should it be with His disciples if they would ve like their Master. So must it be with any man who proposes that his life should be truitiul He must not only accept the ideal Christ with bis heart, but he must use bis intellect Fistianity to make him practical. 18 is not abstract Chi which the world waits tor or car Christian in the con parent and Christ aod the Christian triend, the Christian toa Christian pupil, the Christian buyer and the Christian trate and the Ci zen, the Christian politician and the Christian citizen, and all these togetber living and organized as the Chris- tian commonwealth and the Christian Church by the intelligent applications of Christian prin- ciples and ideals \o the varied conditions of human society, Such applications require in- telligence to discern between what is possible and what 1s simply quixotic—experience that is siow to ob- serve and willing to be taught by faith. The world has bad its fair share ot Christian romancing from that band of children which went forth to disappointment and death in imitation of the tanatical madness of priests, kings and knights and peasants, down’ to the thousands and tens of thousands now living who waste their energies and squander tieir fortunes and dream out their lives in some quixotic enterprise, or some r mantic theory of the Kingdom of God, unmindful of the simple words of the Master, ‘Lo, the kingdom ot God is within you.” “Whuatsoever things are trae, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are jos, &c., be not children in understanding, but in un- derstanding be ye men,’’ Tho preacher then proceeded to show that practical wisdom which studies the relation of means to ends will not overlook the attractiveness of refinement and culture, that energy is another condition of frattful discipleship, and that such energy only comes irom faith im Christ's person. He then considered, under several heads, elaborately and in minute detail the, permanent fruit which follows tho life described, con- cluding with the usual address to the graduating class, bumbering 123 students, who occupied seats in tho chapel near the pulpit. The language of tne address was of the most beautiful and touching kind and many im the congregation were affected by it. The exercises of commencement take place on Thurs- day nex TRINITY COLLEGE. FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY COMMENCEMENT EXER- CI8ES—BACCALAUREATE SERMON BY PRESI- DENT PYNCHON—‘‘PROFESSOR JIM” ASSISTS IN PLANTING THE CLASS IVY. Harrrorp, Conn., Jane 25, 1876, The events of Trinity College Commencement week began with class day exercises on Thursday, on which occasion Mir. H. V. Ratherford delivered the class ora- tion and H. 0. Du Bois the class poem. After the awarding of essay prizes, seven in number, the grad- uating class formed in line, headed by the President and “Professor Jim,’ who has been janitor to the col- loge during fifty years, and marched tothe upper sec- tion of Jarvis Hall, where they planted the ivy. Mr. T. A, Porter, of South Carolina, delivered the ivy oration, showing that the act of planting the ivy was not a mere form, but a bond between cach departing class and its Alma Mater. Mr. B. E. Warner, of New Jersey, made the farewell address, iu which he thanked the citizens of Hartford for kindness extended auring four years. The college song to the air of ‘“Litoria” concluded the exercises, Examinations in mathematics, natural philosopby and Greek took place on Friday; examinations in Latin and English on Saturday. On Sunday evening in the college chapel PRESIDENT FYNCHON’S BACCALAUREATE SERMON was preached. The reverend gentleman selected his text from Romans, xv., 18, 19, 23:—‘'For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me to make the Gentiles obedient by word and deed, through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem and round about the Illyricum I bave fully preached the Gospel of Christ, &c.’? President Pynchon said:— The lilyricun, of which the Apostle bere speaks, and where he says he had preached the Gospel, was on the Adriatic Sea, just over against Italy, on the extreme western side of Macedonia, aud from seventy to 120 miies only distant from the Italian shore, From Jerusalem and Antioch, through Asia Minor, across the Helles- pont, ovr the entire width of Macedonia, cown through Athens and Corinth, then across the sea by us to Jerusalem, thence back to Antioch, through Galicia and Phrygia, theuce to Ephe- sus, Where be spent three years, thence once more over to Macedonia, a secend time into Hellus ana thence to Cormth, where this epistle was wrivten. St Paul says “ho bad tully preachod the Gospel of Christ,” and all this in litle more than thirteen ' years atter he first commenced his missionary traveis. For we must remember that it was eleven years after St Paul’s conversion before he began actively to preach the Gospel of Christ and before he was ordained to the Apostieship of the Gentiles. says, he intends very soon to cross over to Rom to continue his journey e¥en to the remote ri Spain in lulfiment of a great ds which he had for iy cherished to visit the Roman Christians and preach the Gospel inthe Eternal city. He says, moreover, that one reasou why he desired to do this was because he (elt that ge had no more any place in these parts, having fully preached already the Gospel of Christ through all that portion of the world. From ali this it ts evident that no sooner had our Lord Jesus Jett the carth and ascended into heaven than the knowledge ol His advent into the world, and | of the great work of redemption which He had wrought out, began to run like lightning throughout the earth. This was owing wainiy to two causos—itrst, the pecu- liar character of the Gospel as the prociamation of the visit of a divine person to the earth, who had given Himself as a sucritico for the sins of the whole world, and then 6ffered His sacrifice upon the altar of God in the heavenly places above; and, secondly, to the tacili- ties for rapid communication which then existed, ex- tending from the Holy Lund, especially in the direction ot the West and toward the great capital city of the Empire. The speaker, after showing bow Christianity spread, by adirect and oasily traced channel, trom Jerusalem to Italy, and from Italy throughout the West, until it Teached the shoros of Pagan Anglo-Saxon England, proceeded to trace the bistory of Christianity in that ‘sland own to the present time, for the purpose of showing how it bas been transmitted trom the spot where it first began the present time, and bow it has roached us in a clear and dis- tinct form, notwithstanding the distractions tnat have been produced by the conflicting teach- ings of modern sects. In conclusion he said, ‘The origin of the religious contusion around us may be traced to the fatal Jeaven introduced into the Western Church vy the pride and sell-concert engendered by the passage of Christian.ty through the liperial city, lead. img men to preier their own fancies and imagimations in matters counceted with religion to the fixed faith tor apostolic times, and thus converting Christianity into a tem of doctrinal the- ology on the oue band, or, on Ube other, into a vague, dreamy und sceptical mysticism. The efforts, of which the author of one of the books which we le ly read together speaks (1 reier to “Rs Bampton Lectures,”’) and which he says, ‘weak and contemptible as they aro feit by critics and scholars to be, bave nevertheless had a certain inifuence on the general tone of thought, and bave caused many io regard the early infancy of Christianity as adim and a shadowy clotdiand, in which nothing is tw be seon excepta few figures of bishops and martyrs moving uncertainly amid the gen- noss,”’ These eflorts bave had no influence because you are convinced that these iacts on which the Christian religion reposes were per- formed in the broad light of day, in the very centre of the world, and in one of the must sceptical and at the same time one of tho most eatightened ages. They stand, therefore, upon a basi surer than the everiast- ing hills, and one which no power can possibly shake, because an act, once periormed, can never be annihi- jated—can never be made never to have taken place. In the second place, Lockie: § bas not been pre. sented to you as a collection of barren, oe tact ® whieh, from mere age, although absolutely certain, have lost their power, but as a great present fact—viz., the existence of a living intercessor, At this very moment engaged in working out our sal- vation, and just as mnuch engaged in it exactly as He when on earth, Christ's work was not completed He died upon the cross, Seek not, then, with proof of thin; wi pain and avxety for . "Wilt thoa believe?” plorer trembles and stam 1 the true process ot simple reception ot its t ‘This ts the faith, my fe in this faith may yoor Divine ver keep you, and receive you at jast inte His glorious kingdom, amen, Examinations tor admisst occur ou Monday and Taesd: loge corporation and the Pai in the various Moe branches th ta D.D., of | are weary workers who have never driven the take place on Wednesday. The meeting of the Senatus jcus, precession on the campus, Commence- ment, divner and President’s reception on Thursday. The graduating class after leaving col! will proba- bly be divided as follows'—Laq, 4 ine, 2; the- ology. teaching, 2; business, 4; machinist, 1; farming, 1; total, 17. LAFAYETILE COLLEGE. BACCALAUREATE SERMON BY PRESIDENT CAT- TELL—ST. PAUL'S WORDS TO THE CORINTH- IANS BEPEATED TO THE SENIORS. Eastox, Pa, June 25, 1876. President Cattell delivered the baccalaureate sermon to-day, taking as his text I. Corinthians, xv., 58— “Thorefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stead{ast, im- movable, always abounding in the work of the Lord; forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not in vail in the Lora,”” "yun suxxox, President Cattell said:—It is well for the young if they early learn the importance of having a definite object in view and of being steadfast in the pursuit of it, Assiduous and well directed labor is essential to success in all the affairs of this lite. There 1s no easy bypath that would lessen the toil or shorten the ais- ‘tance to the high places which his youthful auditors had in view, The text exhorted the Corinthians to be steadfast and immovable, always abounding in work. After describing the wretchedness of an aimless, tdlo life, he said it was equally true that no man welcomed toil or labor for its own sake, and since no great or de- sirable object could be secured without work, all men, especially the young, necded constant admonition and exhortation In this respect, It was a mistake to ro- strict the term ‘working classes,’’ as is so trequently done, to the toilers in shop and field. Thero plough or swung the hammer, A man may often chooso the kindof work he prefers, but work in some form ho must, or the greatest natural endowments are worth to him but little. But the text was not a maxim for the present hfe alone, The apostic was writing to those whose immortal interests he had in view, and he ex- horted them to be steadfast in their convictions and to be abounding in the ‘work of the Lord.” Here foilowed a discussion of the nature and object of this work; its extent; the limitations of our respon- sibility in carrying it on and the means for its suocess- ful accomplishment, dwelling especially upon the bigh obligations of scholars to be ‘fellow workers with Goa” in His great scheme of restoring to the world the truth and joy that were lostin Eden. The sermon concluded by a presentation of the motive to Christian work, as given in the text, Such labor for the highest good of men undertaken from Christian motives, with an enlightened and intelligent zeal, and conformed to the principles of God’s revealed will would never be in vain. Many reforms in society inaugurated by humanitarians failed, not from lack of euthusiastic labor, but because the principles upon which they were based Were not God's truth, It was not “the work of the Lord.” Nor would the Christian work be “4n vain,” a8 respects its reward to the doer. The honors and riches which men of this world seek, though not to be despised, are nevertheless as nothing compared with the peace and joy of the humbiest Christian worker, oven in this hfe, bat in the world to come the joy would bo ineffable and eternal when the Master should say, “Well done, good and taithiul servant,” ADDRESSING THE SRNIORS. Addressing the senior class, who rove and steod for the remuinder of the sermon, the President said-— Young gentlemen of the graduating class, twelve months have rolled away, but 1t seems to me as yes- terday that the men of '75 stood where you no nd, and | addressed to them tbe parting words that I mui now address to you. Perbaps the time seems shor also to you, yet you will find as you grow older that the years are swilter footed; they will seem sborter tian the months or weeks of your college days, and this gives emphasis to the exhortation of the wise man—*‘Whatsoever thy hands fing to do, do tt with thy might,” Apply these admonitory ‘words to the truths 1 have thig day endeavored to present; let “the work of the Lord be promptly undertaken and steadfastly performed. Beware lest the years steal past you so silently and so swiftly that the end of life shall come and your work be not done God grant, if you are spared to oid age, that you may Jook back upon a life, not of indolent selfishness or ir- resolute and itftul efforts for the right, but upon a lile ateadiast in well-directed labor in the Lord, such as the world tha? needs your help expects and demands from tho cultured Chrisi ‘The year of your grad- uation is @ noted one in the history of our country, but I do not propose to dwell on this nor on the fact that this year, in one sense, is the semi-centennial of the college. Although no classes were formed until 1482, when Dr. Junkin accopted the presidency, yet the college charter was obtained from the Legislature in 1826, two years after the meeting of the citizens of Easton was held, when it was resolved to estublish nero an institution for the higher education, and, in view of the signal services rendered to the cause of American treedom by Lafayette, to call it by his honored name, While the celebration of our semi-centennial may, therefore, be appropriately deterred a few years longer, this year is, nevertheless, 6 of those periods in the history of the college when tte iriends should gratefully call to mind the nobic men who planned it and who, with assiduous and unweaned labor during many dark and trying yeurs, carried it forward. To the enlightened zeal and self-denying toil of those men, who now rest irom all their labors, wo to-day owe much, and the year should not go by without our laying tragrant garlands upon their hon- ored graves, It isa notable year, too, tor the college arge number of your oiass, by far the largest in history, A college that numbers seventy upon its senior roil has a right to be regarded as an impor- tant centre of education, and if its work be well done, what can meusure the oxtent of its influence? Not. ‘without a deep sense of our own responsibility, as your guardians and instructors tor tour years, do we see you go from these hails, whether it is to enter at once upon the active daties of lite or by further stady in proies- sional svhoois to build upon the foundation here laid. We have tried to do our duty, and you have tried to do yours, The past cannot be re. called. It is with God and ourselves, and for the judgment day, when the secrets of all hearts shall be reveuied. But the future is before us; let us all, with renewed ang solemn consecration of all our pow- ere, resolve to be steadfast in Christian faith, immov- able in our purpose and always abounding in work tor God’s glory ana tor the weliare of men. PARRWELL And now, my young friends, for myself and my co!- leagues, 1 must bid you farewell, To many beloved youth have | thus addressed the parting word, and not- withs! jing its official and somewhat formal charac- ter never withont sincere emotion. It tsa duty that touches me more deeply year by ycar, I find that my lie, us I grow older, is knit more and more closely to” my collego boys (as I love to call them), and whether you have been kinder to me or more thoughtful and considerate than others I cannot say; but it seems tu me 80 as I come to take leave of you. I assure you it 18 with a full heart I recail your constant kindness dur- ing the four years we bave beea thrown so much together, and out of a ow and carnest love for you my prayer ascends to God that His richest grace and His choicest blessings may ever rest upon you. DARTMOUTH COLLEGE. THB BACCALAUREATE SERMON BY PRESIDENT SMITH—THE SOURCES OF INFIDELITY—aD- DRESS TO THE GRADUATING CLASS. Hayoven, N. H., June 25, 1876, The baccalaureate sermon was preached in chapel this morning by President Smith in the presence of a, very large congregation, including all the students of the institution. ‘The text was Isaiah, xliv,, 20—'‘He feedeth on ashes; a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that be cannot deliver bis sou}, nor say, is there nota lie in my right band?” ‘THR SERXON. The saying of tho wiso man was quoted:—“Bettor fs the ond of a thing then the beginving thereof,” Yet he by mo means intended, it was said, to speak lightly of the latter, There ie evermore a special interest in beginnings. They awaken our curiosity, as when the source of the Nile is sought in the certre of a vast continent. They are intrinsically important, They are casual and prophetic. They are seediike. There is a type and a law in thom, a law of descent and propa- gation, Beginnings, as types, shed light on the anti- types. They help our underst ing of them. Ascor- tained, besides, they may be the better controlled and modified, Especially important are beginnings in the moral and spiritual sphere, and nowhere more so than in relation to that protean infidelity so rife in these Jatter days. To understand it thoroughly and so to be fuilf armed against it, you must know its sources ; and these are often not in the receut, but far back in the past history, They are to be sought for mainly not in tho open plain, but in tho thick jungles of the soul, in its shrouded morasses, or on rugged and cloudy heights hard to be reached. Latent as they often are, and un- suspected—doing their deadly work subtly and in the dark, and doing it tlie more effectively because so stealthily—it is ball the battle to eclaircise them, With an eye to tho case of those who, feeding “on ashes,” as tho text has it, are turned asido by a deceived heart, so that they cannot deliver their sopis, nor say “Is there not a lie in my right hand?” it was proposed to consider some of the chief SOURCES OV INFIDELITY, 1, Tho first named wore early associatons, Though it is not true, a8 some hold, that the moral intuitions and sentiments are the mere creatures of association, it 18 doubtless one of the most far-reacking and potent of all the laws both of our intellectual and moral being. It has much to do in fashioning and. coloring tho web of life, Especially is this true of the associations of early years. Home associations were dwelt on at length—their power for good in a Christian; then and = endaring r for = evil tical spirit is jant in the when a household, The influence of youthful companions wag li fide: now? (0 yoison toe minds and the collego touched on—the evil in- uence, expecially, that must be exerted by honored and revered teachers, who, with whatever reticence, are known to have ings. Much more, if infidel views are ly though only occasionally ins:nuated. 2 The next source of infidelity mentioned was a need- less stumbling at mystery, There is in falien man everywhere the old Edenic desire to ‘be as gods,” koowing good and evi In beg Ld “vain man woul be wise, (hough man be born like a wild ass’s colt,” In respect to divine a = especially, many are im- patient of imevitabie limitations. They are un- willing to receive what they cannot understand. ‘They call in theology for what they find nownere clse. We id myi everywhere, even in the lowest range istence. bh one of us isa breathing, walking, working mystery. So far as the circle of concerned, the achievements both phitosophy have only served to broaden it, Itt be 20 with the finite, how much more with the iniinite! If it be so with the human, how much more with the divine! ‘Two errors poken of into which men of philo- sophic thoug! @ tallen, as they have grappled with this subject, They have tailed yn sea discriminate (1) between facts and modes, ana (2) between apprehend- ing und comprehending, These kindred errors were Pennie at longth.and their important bearing shown, 3% A false independence was named asa fruitful independence was de- th as cousisting (1) in an unaue independence of others—a disparagement and even contempt of all human wis- joolish scorn of whatever 1s traditional, a re- punciation of important helps which God desigued fer us; and (2)1n an affected independence of our own moral nature. The doctri indifferentism as to all religious truth, which some have stoutly contended for, was considered at length and its fallacies pointed out. 4 The unbappy infiuence of mach of our periodical and popular literature was next adverted to, The com- parative parity of the American press was thankfully aamitted and an emphatic encomiumewas passed on that worthy class of journalists, in particular, who are never Oblivious of the moral and spiritual interests of their readers, and who carefully exclude from their columns whatever would favor cither lax modes of lite or scep- tical tendencies. Anda yery different class both of books und periodicals was deacribea and dealt with. 5, Anether and a prolific source of infidelity 18 izno- Tauce of the Bibic, No other book of importance suffers in this respect hke the Word of God. How little some literary men know of itis shown often by their blundering quotations, and more abundantly in other ways, There are not a few of those who berate and re- Joct it, who know little more of its contents—nay, in ‘some cases, less—than of the Koran or tho Shasters, The advocates of Christianity are often charged with ignorance of various fields of scientific research. And tho charge ia, in many cases, wéll founded. An ac- quaintance with that Elder Seripture writ by God's own hand ‘s every way profitable, It binders not, but bolps rather the wise and effective defence of the sacred vol- ume, For there is no antagonism between nature and the Bible, They have one author, one great ena; aud to the reverent ear there isa glorious harmony be- tween them. ‘The more nature is studied, if it be with true docility, the more clearly will this appear. Bat to that end the Bible should be studied also, and that not ‘m the manner of a mere sciolist. No less than nature, it requires profound study. bis was urged by various considerations, particularly by the fact that the Bible t# not only its own best imterpreter, bat its own best defence, ‘If it were daily and diligently read in all the families of the land scepticism wonld go to its own place and the nation be saved, This point was dis- missed, with an emphatic protest against the ex- clusion of the Bible from the common schools. 6 A misapprohension of the evangelical faith was next named as being an occasion often of sceptical leanings. Men of straw are never particularly seemly, and this is especially true in the sphere of religion. + It 1 not strange that one becomes an infidel when the fair form of Christianity is transmuted—wbether by his own fault or that of others—into a scarecrow ora hobdgobiin, Sach transtormations the leading doo- trines of our faith have often undergone, and the sad Tosult has been the rejection of the genuine coin be- cause of the counterfeit. Various illustrations of this were given. This has sometimes beon due to the in- competency or wrongheadedness of the advocates of Christianity; but it bas resulted often from ignorance of the Bible, from lack of taithiul investigation and of a fair and candid coasideration of what the delenders of the trath have had to offer. 7, The source of infidelity last named wasa lack of sympathy with the Gospel. This is not merely the complement of the series, but is intimately connected with the whole. 1¢ is said, indeed, you must beware m your discussions of the odium theologicum. True, very trao, In a certain relation of the phrase. But we may salely follow the Divine method; and God has de- vlared that it 1s ‘the fool’’—the foot moral sense— who ‘hath said in his heart there 1s no God.” 1t was because men “liked not to retain God in their kaowl- edge,”’ the Scripture affirms, that He ‘‘gave them over to a reprobate mind.”” if men like not the Bible we have ample warrant for saying it is because the Bible likes not them. ‘He that is of God,’ said our Lord, “hoareth God’s words; ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.” It is not affirmed that men of sceptical lean- ings are always immoral—far from it; albeit the tend- ency of infidelity, in itseif considered, is to all manuer of deterioration. But immorality apart, there isa natural contrariety botween the proud and selfish human heart and the humbiing demands of the Gospel of Christ, So the heart, reluctunt to yield, fortifies it- self with some specious form of scepticism. ‘The discourse closed with an address to the graduat- ing class, in which affectionate reference was made to a deceased inember of the c! only one who had been taken irom it by death in the whole four years’ course—Mr. Walter C. W. Puffer, of Lowell, Masa. WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY. BACCALAUREATE SERMON BY REV. CYRUS D, FOSS, D. D.—THE MISSION OF OUR LAND. Rev. Cyrus D. Foss, D. D., President of the Wesleyan University, preached his baccalaureate sermon betore the graduating class in the Methodist church at Middle- town, Conn., the seat of the university, yesterday morn- ing. The reverend gentleman selected for his text the eighth and tenth verses of the eightieth Psalm, begin- ning—‘'fhou hast brought a vine out of Egypt; thou hast cast out the heathen and planted it,” After referring to the Centennial and to the fact that highly educated men had been among the foremost pro- moters of the glory of this country. the speaker said it would not be amiss to devote the hour to a considera- tion of the mission of our land. I believe, said he, that God has a plan for nations as wellas formen. He as- signs to each nation the part for which it is especially fitted in working out tho grand problem of the civiliza- tion, the enlightenmens and the Christianization of the world. ‘The uprooting of the vine which had been growing in Egypt 400 years, the driving out of the heathen from Canaan and transplanting it there under such benign suspices that 1t took root and filled the land so that “the hills were covered with tho shadow of it and the boughs thereof were like the gooaly cedars," were accomplished by a serios of illustrious miracles, In the planting and tra:ming of America there was no miracle, but there was the constant working of the same good hand of God, Lot us ask to-day what isthe work of this nation? For what part in the solution of the mighty problem of the ages bas God prepared it? To what magnificent achiovements docs He summon it? The thesis I shall attempt to maintain is this:—The August Ruler of all the nations designed the United States of Americaas the grand depository and evangelist of civil liberty and of a pure relig:ous faith. And these two are one, We cannot consider them separately and draw out distinct lines of proof. It is idle in this age for any nation to expect greatness or permanence without acknowledg- ing God. iu ancient times the case was different; but now Christian nations control the world; and, depend upon it, the hands will never go back on the dial, France tried to get on without a God; but Napoleon, purely for reasons of State, restored the Roman Catho- lic religion. There are three criteria by which the purpose of the Almighty Ruler CONCERSING THIS NATION 1s clearly indicated—the location he hus assigned it, the providential training he has bestowed upon it and tue resvurces Ho has put within its reach, Notice the placo of this nation on the face ot the globe and on tne scale of the centuries. God’s last opportunity to plant a great new nation was here, There remaived no other field for the good seed of freedom broad enough for a mighty barvest aod clean ugh ior such « harvest to grow unchecked by the tares and thorns of deep rooted abuses. Let us now pass on lo seo what was tbe seed God plauted im this virgin so, The question is all impor- tant, for the handiul of seed sown determined the character of immeasurable harvests in after ages. God seareped the Olu Word over and took the very Lest seed there was to piant the New. Why aid not this cowatry come under the baletul dominion of the Crescent? The discoverers were Romaa Catholic, and what should save (his trom being a Papal country? Rome wanted it, Who were the settiors? Not Mohammedans, not Papists, not Britons with merety Protestant creed, but Puritans, clarum et venerabile nomen, mon who came to these shores with the noblest motives that ever in- spired the bosom of au emigrant; not as paniards went tG Mexico, for gold; nor as the poor of Europe now throng these shores, for bread :—~ th ith of seas, the spoils of war? ‘They sought « taith's pure shrine. The same God who planted the colonies moulded their history. He bound them to the mother country until they were strong en ugh to stana al among nations, and then he overruled the c.rcumstances of their breaking away 80 as to inspire them with @ per- petual hatred of all oppression, Why did Engiand per- sist so long in treating “oglishmen here as KEnghshinen there would never huve submitted to be treated at all? The c 1s but one explanation: Engiand was judicially blinded in order th: Merica might be ire The same Providence which made nation bas guiaed all our progress; and never more manilestiy than in our cl Th that eventiul time our pride ‘was humbled by the bitter experience of repeated ais- asters, notil we learned to trust not in colambiads, nor Jn jronclads, nor in mighty hosts, Let us consider the resources of this nation for the accomplishment of the mission to which it was so man- {festiy caliod and for which it bas been, in the whole course of its history, 90. marvellousiy prepared. These #85 map hus w& come a part owver of the soil. No law of primogeo ture or entail distinguishes between the children of the same parents, In Eui jand ws one of tae chiet enemies of civil equality. We are also a compos- ite people, made up of ail the peoples into ler the guidanee of the Puritan spirit, I once from the lips of Kirnan this figure:—‘*We have ip this couutry a great mill; the lower ssone of it is our com- mon —— Clagtl se : eae stone the haart ag ee into the hopper the heterugencous immigrat! all lands, and it comes out an enlightened and Chris- tianized Protestantism.”’ 1 venture to thas it it Is to do its work well the two stones of miil must be kept close together. We speak a language whick ig emphatically ‘A PROTESTANT AND A YREE LANGUAGE. A nation whose vernacular is that of Milton and Cro1 |, of Patrick Henry and Abrabam Lincoln will not readily bow the knee to Pope or despot, Roman. ism conceals itself under the darkness of a dead lan. Ld ee Protestantism courts the light. No great English-speaking pation 1s Roman: No other is em- batically Protestant, The time m come when alt the race will speak, nglish. How imperative the obligation of those whe do speak it to fill it with the twin ingel of irevdom and faith! Let those who will insist that bee rag 19 rowing worse, I point you to the tacts that within the life time of some of this audience more copies of the Bible nave been circulated and more successiul have been expended {or the conversion of the heathen world than in all the ages before since Moses wrote the. Pentateuch. To the graduating class of this university, said the speaker, in conclusion, the truths 1 have unfolded must be my argument and cation, to sirix cry to you, bé heroes, be lovers of truth and battle for the right. ‘Other men labored and ye bave entered into their labors.’’ Guara wefl your sat it ite ance. Goid is dross. Man’s applause is breath which dies as 1t leaves his lips, Seek t! Teal honor. ‘By patient coutmance in wi seek for glory and honor and immortality.” domg Then, when on the great commencement day, your examina- tious all honorably passed, tho King shall come to dis. tribute crowns, your brows shall be decked with lau! that shall never fade, and you shall each hear from Hi lips those, oh how weleume words, swecter than thé symphony of all the heavenly harps, ‘Well dono, gooy _ faithful servant; enter thou into the Joy of thy AMHERST COLLEGE, BACCALAUREATE SERMON BY PRESIDENT STEARNS—A NATION'S LIFE CONDITIONED OB INTELLIGENCE AND VIRTUE, At Amherst College yesterday President Stearns de livered his baccalaureate sermon before tho graduates, A nation’s life, said he, is conditioned on intelligenos and virtuo, If a government defies the eternal laws of righteousness; if perjury and corruption prevail amons a people; if the fear of God forsakes them and moral recklessness runs riot among them, the certain conse- quence is political death. So said the Hebrew lawgiver more than 3,000 years ago, and all history attests the fact ‘That is a wonderful chapter of prophetic statesmane ship, the twenty-eighth ot Deuteronomy. The author, in a religious civil ode, through filteen verses, enumere ates blessings which are pledged to God-fearing na tions, especially to the elecied people waom, as vice gerent of Jehovah, he controlled. And then, reversing the picture, in filty-four verses bo pours down a haik storm of denunciatory eloquence, certain to blast and beat them into the earth if thoy should cease to foar tke glorious and fearful name, the Lord thy God, and become rebellious and vile, And now America is on trial, dear native land, belore God and mankind, and all the blessings expressed in this twenty-eighth chapter of Deateronomy are prom’ ised to us, and all the curses, the same in measure If notin kind, are threatened us, It is our destiny; the foresight of wise mon, even without a written inspira: tion, perceives it; to be exalted above all nations or te sink down into the lowest hell of political disgrace, The air ts fragrant and bracing with centennial rejoic. ings to-day. But who knows whether our posterity will be jubilant or ashamed 100 years nence? The answer to this question will depend greatly upon us, If wecan keep the body politic healthtul, if Wo cau achieve reforms and transmit sterling virtues to out more immediate descendants, we may hope. that they also will hand over to generations following a glorified republic. It is with these sentiments that I come t you this morning with a plea for the - nation I exhort you, first of all, to love your country, Do you realize, as has recently been called to your notice, that in building the carth your Creator selected North Central America for His best adaptations to the human race? Immense rivers, vast spaces of the richest intervales, mountains piled up to the heavens and filled with mineral wealth, countless bays and indentations of coasts, great oceans, connecting it with all the rest of the world, while separating it therefrom. lt was treasured up and hidden by the covering of the Aimighty’s band till, for our iathercs and for us, the time of its showing should come. Love your country, ior it 1s worthy of love; our si worth Christian ancestry, self-government instead ppevpperead gf Acdiggenred pod by laws acre! pro tect ; schools, churches, open es; a t sacritoes of blvod ia mighiy aid suctessl il eontios fat human treedom and the right; the sacred dust of sol- diers’ graves, vur lost ones and our loved, with moaa- ments of glory above them; how they call to us fo# affection aud patriotic devotion! Love your country; it is anation, And this nation is yours; yours to honor, yours to save, yours to make great, Eacourage and promote general education. I isan truism, & saying which has been fepeated in this country ten thousand times, that no republic cag prosper or loug exist without inteiligenco among th¢ people. It wasthe ignorance and semi-barbarism’ of the musses of our Southern States, quite as nach af the ambition of their leaders, which suook the pillare of our government, And there are miliions now grom ing up without knowledge, without training, just the material to break out, by and i ont Ube goadings of demagogues and rush forth like berds of :ufuriated buffalo trampling down ail good things in their way, But it is not of the training of tho inteilect alone that I would speak; the pubiic conscience must be Sovak knee re her as ga Mere now! shar; eo” me: ercepiro strengthening the faculty of contrivance without peperes| principle, is just tue way to make devils in humas form. By such an education you arm ten th 4 fou mischiet. This fact ts well known, but needs to be ree peated with ever recurring emphssis. Moral trainii must accompany the intellectual, or we are rali ‘The recent uncovering of public frauds—stealings by the million carried on vy respectable men, the every duy tailing of stars m our political firmament, to nothing of sensualities which might make the an; biush—ali go to show that, where the intellogt is quick. ened and the conscience neglected there we may ex- pect crime and shame. If this condition ot things be- comes general we shall be regarded with disgust: and terror by all nations. The iathers of our American in- stitutions understood this, hence the constitution of Massachusetts says:—‘‘It shall be the duty of tures and magistrates in ail future periods of this monweulth to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences and ail seminaries o/ them,;’’ and again | says that ‘‘a constant adherence to the principles Piety, Justice, moderation, temperance, industry and frugality are absolutely necessary to preserve the ad- vantages of liberty and to maintain a free government.” Our fathers would not ieave these duties to the caprice ot legislative enactment, but embodied them in the primal law of the Commonwealth ; and no man, however deep sunk in political corruption, bas over had the daring to move their repeal ‘ashi his Farewell Address, reiterated the same princi and ail the statesmen of America have echoed and echoed the same. It ts not without roason, a I say encourage and promote education, pe ie the department of conscience. And here jet it be understood that this never can be ver may be said of select persons, naturaily amiable, disinclinea to low vices, the million must tear God or they will not keep His commundmenw, and ia order to this there must be an intense religi somewhere. I exhort you again to be raithful more immediate duty as citizens. In all the untitled man ia more Dietary? A yo by securing a good government than yourselt, come down upon an ungodiy none milions of us will deserve them, if you obligations, more than you. You must thought, effort to promote the common Republic is yours and you must take care indolence, no shrinking from comtact with aud vulgarity drive you into social seclusion or neu- tralize your power. If you aspire to bigh national trust and think you can do good service jor the country, there is nothing dis- honorabie in the ambition. Fit comtroiliag Ppo-itions aad then wait till they call for you. Oh, thie ignoble! Tho Patriots of s i Ay as Hy if =f Hi # 5 3 3 persons days when the reverence which characterized our English before the Revolution had not deserted ua But the spirit of Freach cummunism came in and it rulgarized the nation. Ob, it is so mean, this sacrificing of man- hood for piace! Thank God, it is cause jor honest pride that, when the cyuic’s iantern was going round in search of incorraptible men, it ound a candidate as udies of philosophy, just erst, who could not be made to fawa upon the genteel or kiss the un hand fre thd uae Soa, thou, ta Waa you to trai. fulness 19 po.i' ap too, Layo ang throogh the press, There are jrauds at the ates on and bribes often in disgusting forms to secure votes, ‘but these vicos are almost jal compared with the enormous lyin .s with whicn every great election stands charged. Encourage honest journalism, Its sagacisy, [CONTINUED ON NINTH PAGRI . «eat