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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 1903. Dedicated TAith an Tmpressive Servi - NILERLIC CHIARCH Prominent Pas- tor Delivers the Sermon. S - Work Is Directed to Laudable Purpose. CErEC A e L 48 | ; } £y \ | S J TZLANFORD AXRTVE, 57 SCENES ON THE GROUNDS AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY WHEN DISTIN( N, STUDENTS AND HUNDREDS OF VISITORS ASSEMBLED TO TION OF THE MEMORIAL CHURCH ERECTED BY THE SURVIV JISHED EDUCATORS AND CLERGY- E THE SERVICES OF DEDI- ING FOUNDR OF THE INSTITUTION. s MAN A CHURCH BUILDER. ; ' .Val Teachi f Thi Moral and Spiritual % A TEMPLES iN AGES AFAR .|Value of a Teaching o ings Moral an piritua Religious Work illumines the A Nt 3 > 54 = t & Historic Pages. i i inster Abbay: between | meeting housés, synagogues, mosques. and | R lled he Mind f Coll g n jistoric Page Memories Enrich the Fanes ey Eian AL | Swoschan. sk Tiroagh e alterenecy betwesn | ecalled to the Minds of Collegians. of the Olden Time. Rome; between the all alike find themselves isolated on® & ] the other, withdrawn from the sacred | l Deeper natur . ach of these grea: | chapel to the pageantry 1 of €t. John the D! rising over th th > e | churches, as in es of thought and fes | 8t to find the presence of the Chri t en to sordid m arfect ideal, exigently £ 7 they expfess, something to admire, | 85 18 b B U 58 yeer. Fyther. Witeh ympathize with, to stir a | Fitaal of the . miss the Chr lighted beautifal structur in superstition, is emerg- ¥ c munity of life. to knit more clo | wa turn trom either unsympathetically | above to which men once ality: beginning v, ie 1 through se | honds of hu! fellowship. . chuirehed of history stand & niy into the sunned heights of calm All.these great churches of history stan g . o Chy Ssdumserios [ by such souls ‘seen to stand for some concep- | what is me 1 ant in huma N hem 3 g i merie | tiom, however noble, of tne | thonght, % into the ethical GROWTH IN FELLOWSHIP. |human an¢ of the d perception of ‘ - | interpreted, understc D s 1% and hote ot the highest life, the reverent recog: : ’ s o ljated and made ove awn s et i nition and faithful fulfillment of the refati Benign Influence of Religion | s the New England Puritan poet stands Slains or perc shige- i _which we atw Mouné ene to Whe Siher. | all of us to an infinite and eternal order. beautiful order of the universe, and thus ) the power which ensouls that order, the ine elling God The religion which the great temples of to- day enshrine and symbolize is the religion of cal and spiritual life. nd in_the te deum t tempted to look with Widely Revealed. her but a the same re en to it ething to dif natures thus beginnin; of ar bullding. Ite loftiest ritual is s of aspiration, in the 1 t mpa: parable study | ing reads the of chur \u!‘fiu he n ticles “ g Bt Tittl g- | litanies of reverence, in the psalms of trust, i1 1r own nventicl nd ' in his wonderful poem, So as I svanned th r'(.x ,.."“,5,‘ : e_r‘u xi.shn?ym' meeting: the secred hymae of obsdience to law, in e v bR . T our? sweet ca: s of helpfulness to our fellows, k e e i s ‘the eucharistic realities of spiritual com- o Tt oy M inl oy Py g munion with the divine—in lives made by O e en o Cour shores— | duty epical and rhythmic with the truth.” little building we. are gathered which we find in the church- th THE PRAYER OF DEDICATION. tions an | % e Snd - i g ture, to enshrine and symbolize one the bulld- | 3 d NP, o 2 A " | common type of thought and life within the ne have the By RGV. Dr. R. Heber Newton. the religlous thought and feeling I | . rycture. The body and soul of sacred archi- & f dral crowned | Bige. ‘srestions & FOm 1% | tecture alike reveal the truth that, below ail temples and of the . there is & unity of al and spiritual religion, a somewhat | common to all, though found in different de velopments, and in manifold varieties. The great temples of earth, of well nigh every re- LESSED be thy name, O Lord, that it | hath pleased thee to put it into the hearts of thy servants to build this house to thy | honor and worship. “Thy hand,” verily, of gross hought of man history, becoming > commanding to the to the heart alnt over ¢ faith the blessed sacrament of the body and blood of | Christ may come to that holy ordinance with faith, | charity and true repentance, and being filled with thy grace and heavenly benediction may to their great | rown er, saner. more satis Und stional sende son, pelling in its >ul. 0 t | ‘ras in ‘he;““‘i‘"'s thought.” Blessed be and endless comfort obtain remission of their sins Worship of the Divine Being which now finds e s e & il Ad yee Siat - “ thy name that thou hast enabled thy ser- and all other benefits of his passion expression In the great temples of the modern | 1ol to-day you can trace it, more or lens - i i P vorld we have the flowering of the profoundest - A oo e b vant to carry out this holy desire through the years Grant that whosoever shall be joined together in | | yiieophy. he oeeest T1. , ey Enctent | S e o vy S R e Eemer in which this tefnple has been slowly rearing, and this place in the holy estate of matrimony may faith- | | science of the modern mix Syria and Eypt. of India sad Chine ‘and i that thou hast spared her to see her vision realized fully perform and keep the vow and coventry be- | — front. When been of the in_many life of gr f any « n some ne e result is seen endowed with E h an or- & found In ke the consti- i nufacture but a " u svealing the history of a r five hu for us the n_these great chus of Siena enable us enter 1 - enthusiasm with | a v civic | which her ns welcomed to their Duc ar which had been the work | . might when & . rth, the e Parthenon when t above those level pl les, on the summit of be offered t churches of his- | types of architec- t @ contrast between the Grecian @nd the Gothic minist between How touching the #tories which the mes of Italy ture! | temple way in undertook the | k and to join in the worship now lifted up to thee within these walls. May she know that they who have passed from the earth, but whose names are now forever linked with this house of prayer, are not far from her in the joy of this high hour—are with us here in the communion of saints. For the memory of the strong man wrought into these precious stones before our eyes, and for the memory of the gracious youth who lives on immortally blessing the earth in this university—we bless thee, father of the sons of God. kternal rest give them, O Lord, and let light perpetual shine upon them. Accept this work of love and faith and bless it now and ever. Give grace, we beseech thee. to thy servants to whom the charge of this congregation is now com- mitted, and so.replemsh them with the truth of thy teaching and imbue them with innocency of life that they may faithfully serve before thee to the glory of thy great name. Grant that by thy holy word which shall be read and preached in this place and by thy holy spiri grafting it inwardly in the heart, the hearers thereo! may both perceive and know what things they ought to do and may have power and strength to fulfill the same. . Grant that whosover shall be dedicated to thee in this house by baptism may be sanctified by the Holy Ghost and received as a living member of Christ’s church, and may forever remain in the num- ber of thy faithful children, having power to fight manfully under Christ’s banner and to continue Christ’s faithful soldiers and servants unto their lives’ ends. Grant that whosoever shall receive in this place tween them made, may live together according to God’s laws, and may remain in perfect love and peace together unto their lives’ end. Grant that whosoever shall draw nearer to thee in this place to give thee thanks for the benefits which they have received at thy hands, to set forth thy most worthy praise, to confess their sins unto thee, and to ask such things as are requisite and nec- essary, as well for the body as for the soul, may do it with such steadiness of faith and with such se- riousness and devotion of mind, that thou mayest accept their bounden duty and service, and vouch- safe to give whatever in thy infinite wisdom thou shalt see to be most expedient for them. Grant that they, who may draw aside from the daily tasks of life to seek strength in quiet thought here, communing with their own spirits and being, still may, as they leave this place, say unto them- selvgs, “The Lord was in this place and I knew it not. Grant that when the form, silent in death, is laid before this altar, and stricken hearts are bowing here in anguish, thy presence may be revealed to them, and they may know that even though they walk through the valley of the shadow of death thowart with them, and through that dark valley may the light of the life bevond shine, filling their hearts with joy and peace in believing. Grant that this temple now dedicated to thee may so fulfillthe purpose of its erection that men and wo- men may here be fashioned into the tabernacles of the living God and that God may awell in them for- :‘ver“i All this we ask throug.. Jesus Christ, our ord. e HIGHEST LIFE THE AM. All Creeds Upite in a Faith in X Immortality. HE worship lifted up in man’s pri temples, how shocking to our sense to-day! The venerable ori German forests with their long flowing white hair, lending the shrinking maiden into center of the great stone circle, their uplifted for the horrible act of Immola- the frantle priests forming a cordon round the brass figure of Moloch on the their attendants beating drums to drown the cries of the wretched victims slowly roasting to death within the brazen figure; the great temple of Mexico, with the stone altar upon which the fairest youth of the land was placed, bound and garlanded, that, as the fir rim of the. sun’s disk rose above the eastern horizo his throbbing heurt might be plucked from his body and offered as a_sacrifice to “‘our Lord the Sun’’—how inconceivable to us to- these could have been the forms in whi ever worshiped ‘our father which beaven.” From these far back beginninzs of most in- conceivable _cruelty, basenesses of supe t the sun-lit heizhts on latest born of the temples of man the exercise of the mind's sa in the awed recognition of the Gr cloug Power from which we spring, in which we live; the trustful uplock of our moral natures to an infinite and eternal goodness: the up- lifting of our Imagination's finest vision in il loveliest dreams of poetry and art concerning the infinite beauty which s one with the eternal truth; the outgoing of our hearts’ credest feeling in the glad and joyous per ton that all human Ilife is born {rom a infinite, eternal, divine: that every human af- ‘ection 18 a sacrament, an outward and visibi sign of an inward and spiritual grace or gr Aiuamana af a haine: the unward soarine man art in a- yrian plains, | How illuminatingly significant such a fas the varieties, Below pellant, 30 contradictory and re to every sect and ing every confession of faith h k of every system of y sect of Christianity hold the faith in immortality ttual mastership and leads hrist of God. The conduits are dif- ferent, the spring and fountain is one. WORK OF THE ;:HURCHES. Noblest Forms of Life Being Nobly Ministered WE may coin a nobler phrase than that Dean Stanley there is a ‘“‘common hu- in religion. There is a somewhat all religions, how alien or contradictory each to seem. Each holds somewhat that by the others, and that which it holds in mor. with the others is the inmost, vital, 1 ta all. This is a oneness of eth piritual religion in which Christian, , Jew, Hindu, Japanese, Chinam: 41l alike stand confessedly the children of ons om- | Father. With the Persian mystic we. too, may each say—'1 am at home In mesque or syna- gosue, in temple or in church e great chufches which man has reared n earth have ministered to all noblest forms Of life. They have been the cradies of art and Poetry and music. Architecture has found its noblest inspirs n in the endeavor to rear worthy of Ged. To paint an altar piece for some great Duomo was the highest ambition of the noblest painter. To fill those great min- sters of the Middle Ages with the dim, re- | Continued on Page 7, Column &,