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then, one didn’t buy any peppermint
drops, the persuasive sweet of the Scotch
nation. One saved his pennies and
bought a little wood and some other
things, and made a box, a box in which
his father could keep his letters, per-
haps. And he saved a little more
money and got a lock and key. It took
a long time. It was very hard work,
and it was a particularly clumsy box.
And then he put the box on his father’s
table at Christmas. His father picked
up the box understanding it all, and
looked at it. Well, you know that it
was about as badly made a box.as could
be made; I don’t know but that the
father doubted that it was a good place
to keep his letters, as it had a very
cheap lock. But he knew the love that
went with the box, and the long time
it took to make it, and the sacrifices
that it entailed upon the boy. And he
took it, and he kept his letters in it,
and I declare to you that it was the
very best box he had. Love made the
box; love finished the box; love locked
the box and love preserved the box.
And then after your father is dead and
you examine his possessions, you come
across something like this, which you
had made, and which you had given
him. It is a poor thing. Ah, nothing
is poor that is saturated with love.
Then suppose your. father had a
friend who was his associate in business
and who was anxious to please your
father and he made him a very hand-
some case at Christmas—for reasons of
his own (laughter). There was this
valuable gift and there was that box.
Which is the more valuable? No stand-
ard of comparison can embrace the two.
There is no comparison between a dead
work and work done from pure mo-
tives, and in a religious spirit; no com-
parison between a work done for effect
and gain and for a work done in the
spirit of Jesus Christ. The beautiful
lives are not always the successful lives,
for success depends upon circumstance,
and God only knows who are the suc-
cessful. The beautiful lives are the lives
of love, of humility; of tenderness and
unselfishness, and these are the lives
that are lived through the faith in Jesus
Christ.
TO THE NON-BELIEVER.
I have spoken too long, but there are
two men I would just like to say a
word to before we part. There is a
man here who has not believed in our
Lord, who sometimes is a little superior,
because he is elevated above Christian
associations and above religious miat-
ters. Now, my dear friends, do you
think you have much reason for your
superiority, and especially for your
grounding your superiority on your
being above faith? Do you see how it
stands? You believe in every good ideal,
for you are an educated and a cultured
man. Accept the greatest ideal that has
ever been revealed—the ideal of a
religious life. You believe in good
men, I have heard you say so and I
do you justice. You have often said,
“though I am not religious, I believe in
good men.” And yet the only good man,
the only perfect good man that ever
lived, who has gathered up the whole
goodness of the spiritual world, you
have rejected, you have rejected. He
came to you and said, “Will you be my
disciple?” You said, “No. I believe in
every good man, but not you. I trust
every good man, but I don’t trust you.”
You cannot feel proud about that, my
friend. You cannot feel happy about
that. You take the good gifts of God
every day and you won’t take Jesus
Christ.”
: Then there is another man who says:
I have believed for years.” And now,
what do they say about you? What do
they say about you in the University?
What do they say about you in your
family? What do your associates say
about you? What is the use of believ-
Ing in doctrine if a man is not true?
What is the use in speaking about Jesus
Christ if a man does not follow him?
What is the use of being a member of
a Christian association if you won’t take
the Cross?
Well, you have your lives before you
and there is only one thing I envy
you for.. I do not envy you that you
are able, and I do not envy you that you
are going to become great. But I envy
you the years you have in which to
serve this University first, and then
your country, before which such a
future lies, and. the Church of God,
which more and more is wheeling into
line and rising to power. I envy you
' special reports of Sunday at Yale.
YALHK ALUMNI
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that and I pray that you have great
lives in the Master’s service. And when
the sun sets for you and me, and we
come home in the evening, after we
have done our best (it will be a poor
best), it will not be Christ’s life, for
Christ’s spirit will not have such perfect
play in us that we shall be able to say:
“Lord, my work is all perfect, all good.”
No, no. When we come in in the even-
ing we shall be like good George Her-
bert, the most representative saint of
the English church. When he was dy-
ing and a friend said to him (you know
what a holy life he lived in his parish;
what beautiful poems he wrote; ‘a sweet
and beautiful life of charity, more than
most men), when he lay dying his
friend said: “Well, Mr. Herbert, you
need have no fear, for no man has ever
written, done more beautiful works.”
And I think his friend was right per-
haps. But, “Ah,” said Herbert, “they
be good works if they be cleansed with
the blood of Jesus Christ, not other-
wise.”
And that is the end of the whole
matter, From the Cross, gentlemen, we
start and to the Cross we return.
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THE QRANGE DINNER,
Prof. Schwab on the Bi-Centennial—
An Association’s Character.
The sixteenth annual dinner of the
Yale Alumni Association of Essex
County was held in Upper Music Hall,
Orange, N. J., Friday evening, Febru-
ary 17. The attendance, the enthusiasm
and the whole spirit of the meeting
were quite in accord with the tradi-
tions of this Association, which is
known as one of the livest of all the
Yale group. To no banquet is an
invitation more prized. than to the ban-
quet of the Yale Alumni Association of
Essex County.
The dinner has usually an embarras-
sing wealth of material for an account.
It is especially embarrassing this year,
as the WEEKLy’s decks had to be
pretty well cleared Monday, which is
the last day of composition, for the
The
time at which was possible to secure a
complete report from the Orange ban-
quet, was later than at first hoped for.
The material is of a kind that a paper ©
desires to put in print at once instead
of holding over, and so this issue gives
what it can, and regrets only that it
cannot give more. The meeting had a
good representation from both Harvard
and Princeton. The feeling, shown
between the colleges was quite in
accord with the more liberal spirit of
these latter days. <
Mr. Emile Schultze, Jr., ’85, who
continues to preside with conspicuous
success over the Essex County Asso-
ciation, opened the evening with a
speech which he described as intro-
duced only for the purpose of making
“conversation,” on the plan of Mrs.
Flynn’s classic passage with Mrs.
O’Reilly. President Schultze reminded
his hearers that the idea of a Yale-Har-
vard night at New York, was taken
bodily and without credit from the in-
variable practice of the Essex County
Association, which had always had at
its dinners the complete representation
of Harvard in Orange—one alumnus.
He added that the Brooklyn alumni
even went so far as to copy a menu
card.
Mr. Schultze called the past an “all
blue year” for Yale. But as a sign of
a reawakening in athletics, he instanced
the victory of the basketball team over
the Seventh Company of Rough Riders
of Hartford, and said, “I am also as-
sured that with the exception of the
piccolo player, the Yale orchester is
now able to play ‘The Stars and Stripes
Forever’ without skipping a bar.” Re-
ferring to the joke of President Cowles
of the Chicago Association, that the
Crew was like an angry cat, in that it
was stroked the wrong way he said:
“To many it might seem that the Crew
would have been better off if they had
been more like a bag full of angry. cats
and had humped their backs more.
However, our generous Yale spirit
gladly offers the heartiest congratula-
tions to all victors over us, and if we
cant celebrate any victories in the past
year or two, we have plenty of them
WH hK LY
stored away in the cellar for just such
cold weather. In all branches of sport
too, and all glorious enough to keep
us pretty warm.”
After paying a very warm tribute to
President Dwight, he asked in the
name of the Orange Association, that
the representative of Yale who was pres-
ent, would go as a special delegate to
tell President Dwight the feelings of re-
gret of the men of Orange on his with-
drawal.
Professor John C. Schwab’s toast
was “Yale.” The sentiment was:
* * * Stronger than the trowel builds,
Deep-laid by toiling scholar-guilds,
Her corner-stone’s free-masonry
As broad as this broad century,
Our new regenerate Yale shall be—
Our Yankee university.
BEERS.
Professor Schwab spoke in part as
follows:
Speech of Professor Schwab.
“An occasion like this one empha-
sizes once more the solidarity of Yale
alumni; .we are standing together to
further a common cause, just as we
formerly and in a much smaller way
learned to stand together for our Class.
At the two hundredth anniversary of
our University’s foundation, now draw-
ing near, this solidarity of her sons
will assert itself. On that festival oc-
casion we shall in retrospect recall what
~ Yale has accomplished for our Nation
by honoring the scholar-patriot Nathan
Hale and the long line of distinguished
men whom our alma mater has fitted
for their leadership in American man-
hood, American scholarship, and Amer-
ican culture. : |
“But the celebration in 1901 will not
confine itself to reflections on the past;
it will also concern itself with answer-
ing the question: How is Yale fulfilling
her mission? But especially will it con-
cern itself with the prospect of the new
conditions which the twentieth cen-
tury. has in store, and will put,
and we hope answer, the question:
How does Yale propose to meet those
conditions, and how is she to remain
true to her past traditions as the teacher
of the leaders of men and thought in
this country?
“The text of the anniversary exercises
will be the motto of the University,
Lux et Veritas. We shall emphasize
that the first object of the University’s
existence is to learn the Truth. As we
look ahead into the distant centuries,
our buildings may crumble away, our
students may desert us for inland uni-
versities, the intellectual and educational
center gravity of the country may have
moved from New England for ever, but
Yale will still be remembered for what
she has contributed to the advancement
of the Truth. To-day her widest repu-
tation throughout the world is not
primarily based on the number of her
students, not on the size of her build-
ings, not on her athletic or debating
victories, but on the success of the men
she has selected and trained to extend
our knowledge of the mysteries of
nature and man. Yale’s fame in the
past rested on the world-wide scholar-
ship of a Woolsey, a Silliman, a New-
ton and a Dana; and the present
strength of Yale rests primarily on the
efforts of their successors who are striv-
ing to learn the laws of nature, of the
human body as well as of the social
body. In 1g9o1 it is planned to honor
those of past times who have thus con-
tributed to Yale’s glory; and also to
show by a series of publications on
scientific subjects that the scholarly
traditions of the past are still alive,
and that we of to-day have at least the
same ideals before us that those giants
of old were aiming at.
PRESERVING THE TRUTH.
“Next to the University’s object to
learn the Truth, stands its aim to
preserve the Truth. At immense cost
the accumulated knowledge of the past
has been preserved in museums and
libraries: for the guidance of future
generations of truth-seekers. For all
time will they be indebted to the skill
and unselfish devotion of such men as
Professor Marsh, whose collections,
recently so generously presented to
Yale, stand unrivalled in the world.
Our library too will stand for all time
a monument to the skill of our
librarians. te.
“This most vital part of our institu-
tion must be strengthened at any cost.
No part of our plant needs more care-
ful guarding and more generous endow-
ment. It is proposed to draw on OUF
museums and other stores of knowledg©
in 1901, and prepare exhibitions of 27
educational and historical character, 17
which the collection of Trumbull paiztt-
ings-will figure prominently. as due tO
the University’s position of custodian of
the leading pictures of that famous
American artist. We, moreover, feel
ourselves to be the custodians and pre-
servers of the best traditions of Amer—
ican manhood, which we deem synony-
mous with Yale democracy, and take a
pride in assuming the responsibility of
that office.
TEACHING THE TRUTH.
“But not only does the University
accumulate and preserve the knowledge
and traditions of the past. It must, to
be true to itself, teach the Truth. The
graduates of our institution did not
know by sight even many of its officers
whose researches are winning fame for
Yale; nor had they as a rule any inti-
mate acquaintance with the University
Library and its officers; but they do
remember the officers of the University
who met them in the class-room as
teachers. To most of the graduates
Yale is a teaching institution and little
else. And quite naturally so. For the
living force we felt in our student days
and the recollections of those years are
grouped about the men—scholars as
well as teachers—who taught us
geometry, or physics, or the laws of
human society. When we alumni
gather in 1901 in the new Alumni Hall
to do honor to our common teacher,
we shall have in mind the same lesson,
taught in different ways, by different
men, at different times, the same lesson
of the true inwardness of the human
heart and mind.
THE QUESTIONS OF THE FUTURE.
“And from recollections of the past
we Shall turn to the problems of the
opening century, and ask ourselves how
the University is to attract the proper
men to lives of scholarly research and
away from the more remunerative pro-
fessions. We shall certainly never be
rich enough to offer a sufficient money
inducement. Must we then rely upon
offering the attractions of a quiet life
spent in study, the satisfaction of help-
ing in the solution of the problems of
the future, or applying science to poli-
tics, business, and the professions?
“This question the future alone can
answer. Another question will suggest
itself: Will Yale continue to be a Na-
tional University? She has succeeded
in wiping out sectional lines; will she
be equally successful in amalgamating
the various nationalities that will be
increasingly represented among her
students. Fifteen years ago German-
American names were rare in the
University catalogue; now they are
quite numerous. Irish names are grow-
ing in number. Students of Scan-
dinavian, Polish, Italian and Russian
ancestry present themselves in increas-
ing numbers. For my part, I foresee
only a successful amalgamation of these
new elements, and a broadening of our
usefulness. I am almost equally san-
guine in believing that the University
can fulfill her mission, however large
the number of her students. But the
cost—there is the question that causes
us alarm as we look into the next
century, and compare our scanty re-
sources with our immense needs in the
way of endowments and buildings, with-
out which we must yield our proud
position in the educational world. —
“But even these material resources
count for little without the codperation
of the body of the alumni. If they lose
confidence in the University, if they
withdraw their moral support, all is
lost. Fortunately that moral support
is strongly in evidence in some of the
University’s activity. Would that it
were more evenly distributed, and that
some of the enthusiasm which follows
an eleven to the field or a debating
team on the platform, were so directed
as to encourage those that are guiding
the broader and deeper interests of the
institution. The selection of a recent
graduate to supervise the training of
the Crew was very properly received
with enthusiastic approbation. The ap-
pointment of the same gentleman to a
position on the Faculty some years ago
was hardly noticed at the time, but
