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his kindly heart, and his ever-open intellect, moving steadily along till he stands on a pedestal by the side of our Washington. Why enlarge the catalogue? How they illuminate the missal wherein it is written "the light shineth more and more unto the perfect day"; and how do they illustrate the great truth of painstaking elaboration, even as the lump of iron, a pennyworth at first, transmuted into steel, wrought into hair springs, becomes worth eight hundred times its weight of pure native gold!

So surely does the good life tend toward consummation that men place the broken shaft as the fit emblem over the grave of beloved youth. They count it a disappointed hope. Their thoughts dwell on a future frustrated. As the sweet infant lies, his eyes closed in a death so sudden that the bloom has not gone from his fair round cheek, the bereaved mother mourns not alone what he was but what he was to be to her. In the brave young lad that is gone the father laments also the joy of his advancing years and the staff of his old age. As there rises to my mind's eye the college classmate first starred upon the catalogue I see him not alone as the genial companion and true friend with. the athletic form, the vigorous movement, the clear blue eye, the pleasant smile, and the melody of his flute, but I seem to see him as the thwarted candidate for even a higher life and a more noble career than that of his brother, senator and cabinet minister though he became, who laid him to rest in a solitary grave on the island of Cuba. In the distant west, at Gravelly Ford

on the Humboldt River, a lonely spot, once lonelier still, may be seen a small stone enclosure, surmounted by a cross. It was made by the rough hands of graders and masons of the Pacific Railway to save from oblivion the spot where sleeps the young Lucinda Duncan, torn from the embrace of loving parents on the way to a new home. It is the tender memorial of a blighted hope.

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But early departures are not always broken shafts. "That life is long which answers life's great end." Many a dutiful child, many a beloved son or loving daughter, many a young man in opening manhood has left behind a blessed record and a finished work. who accepted the laborer that lingered till the eleventh hour will not be displeased with him who began at the first. For, be it remembered, the final issue, the truly "perfect" and absolutely cloudless day, comes only when the sun of this life has set.

Beautifully comes on our solar day: the first faint tint of light deepening to the warm glow and the living flush, the sun just edging over the hills, tinging the mountain tops, sparkling on the water sheets, pressing on through the scudding cloud, then rising in majesty and strength to shed down the full benignity of its broad glory from the zenith of heaven. It is God's own emblem of the good and godly life.

Young Gentlemen of the Graduating Class: After the lapse of many months I am glad to look upon your pleasant faces once more, and to bid you Godspeed before

you go on your several ways. Though far away from you, following the sun on his three-hours journey to the Pacific coast, I have not been beyond the precincts of Dartmouth College. I passed through states that were empires in extent. I dwelt where the orange ripens and the roses bloom throughout the year, while the distant mountains look on from their snowy crests; I returned by a path where the railway climbed two miles above the sea, and threaded the chasm nigh half a mile in depth, where subterranean fires poured forth their hot springs and where the primitive rocks, upheaved, cleft, and contorted, bear their exhaustless. burden of gold and silver, of copper and iron, of lead and coal; but never long from under the shadow, or rather the sunshine, of the old college, and from the contact of its living graduates. I found them at San Diego, Pomona, Riverside, San Bernardino, Sierra Madre, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, Sacramento, Benicia, Salt Lake City, Denver, St. Louis, and as I looked out through the Golden Gate I could seem to see a little company of four, "a bulwark diamond square," at their work in Japan. I found them in the pulpit, at the bar, in the medical profession, in the editor's chair, in the high school, the academy, the college, in the bookstore and the city library, in business, in the senate of California, and at the head of her whole system of public schools; I found them superintending great Sunday-schools of a thousand children each, pushing societies of Christian Endeavor, sharing in all the plans and enterprises for the uplifting

of the mighty West; and everywhere exhibiting the robust character and doing the manly work for which the old college has made its world-wide mark. If there was one utterly worthless graduate throughout that region, I failed to see or to hear of him. It was good to take such men by the hand, to receive their warm greeting, and learn their fair record. Dartmouth College, young gentlemen, looks well from three thousand miles away.

You now go forth to join the great scattered host. Go, then, illuminated with the light of God. Go with the open heart, the open eye, the open hand. Go with the firm principle, the clear vision, the broad and resolute. Christian manhood. Carry light and strength wherever you go, and never darkness and weakness. Be you, every one of you, that pure "light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day." So will you do, if you but turn your faces ever towards Christ, the great Sun of Righteousness, source of all light and warmth, with the earnest prayer: —

"Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom,

Lead, thou me on."

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THE VALUE OF CHARACTER.

BACCALAUREATE SERMON, JUNE 22, 1890.

Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!-JOHN 1:47.

NOBLE commendation from the highest source.

"An Israelite indeed," says the Master. For, says Paul," they are not all Israel, which are of Israel." Here is the true Israelite, described in words nearly three thousand years old: "Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill? He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh truth in his heart. He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour. In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the Lord. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not. He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved" (Psalm xv). In modern phrase, a man of whole heart who does God's will, loves truth lives uprightly, honors the good, recoils from the wicked, refrains from hard speech and hard dealing, can neither be bought nor sold, and stands for the right, cost what it will; the man of stainless honor and spotless integrity, of devout spirit, benignant life, and guileless heart. Such were the qualities which the Saviour saw

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