The Chautauquan, Vol. 04, December 1883Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle
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The Chautauquan, Vol. 04, December 1883
Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle
Chautauqua Institution -- Periodicals; Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle -- Periodicals
I really ought not to have mentioned these things to you. I have never
done so anywhere except to a limited circle of friends. When I watch boys
in college, their pleasures and struggles; when I look at the buildings,
at the bronze statue of the first president of Yale, the libraries,
the art department, the scientific department; when I hear that old
bell ring from day to day, when I look on the _campus_ and see the boys
marching or lounging, singing the college songs; when I see them striving
for preëminence in the athletic arena; when I remember that certain
prerogatives depend upon victory on this side or the other; when I see
old men who were students fifty or sixty years ago, the oldest that are
left, and see the joy that comes from the inspiration of such memories,
then I see that it is a great thing to be able to give old people and
every-day people a touch of the joy and hope and memory that colleges
alone can give, and no one unless identified with such an institution can
feel.
It is for that purpose that we have the “Hall in the Grove,” and the
“Arches,” the “Memorial Days,” the “Badges,” the “Diplomas,” etc.
Privileges heretofore limited to college life are thus and now guaranteed
to the old and the young. This is another benefit that comes from the C.
L. S. C. [Applause.] I should have taken a shorter time to tell it, but I
could not.
WRITTEN PAPER: In accordance with your request for the members of the
Circle to remember each other at the throne of grace each Sabbath
afternoon, would it not be well to have a set hour, say five o’clock,
Sunday afternoon?
DR. VINCENT: The suggestion is a good one. We will call five o’clock
Sunday afternoon “Our Sacred Hour.” Mr. Bridge, make an item for the
columns of THE CHAUTAUQUAN, that it may reach all the members of the
Circle.
As I said the other night, we are not all of the same way of thinking,
but we may all think upward, and whatever the degree of our thought and
the kind of our faith, if the look be upward, there will be an uplift. If
with sincere desire we pray for others and seek God’s glory, he will lead
us into all truth. Let us appoint with your approval five o’clock Sabbath
afternoon for the uplook in order to uplift. Those who approve lift your
hands.
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