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LAFAYETTE MONTHLY.

Editors for July.-R. H. CAROTHERS, W. S. HETRICK, S. W. SHADLE,

With this, we present to our readers the last number of the LAFAYETTE MONTHLY published under the auspices of the Class of '75, thus completing the fifth volume. Whether, or not, this ends the existence of the MONTHLY, remains to be seen, as an effort is now making to supplant it by another publication. It is hardly our province to pass an opinion in this matter, but we must say a few words about the present condition and the prospects of the paper. Since it came into the hands of the Class of '75, its subscription list has been increased, and more, our subscribers have paid up so well that we are able to announce to our readers that we close the volume without debt. Besides, it is a pleasure to announce that among our exchanges the MONTHLY is ranked among the best college magazines. As an evidence of this we print the following from one of our exchanges, The College Transcript:

"At Lafayette they are talking of changing the monthly to a

semi-monthly, and giving it the form of a paper. This would probably be an improvement in some respects, but we imagine that students would miss the monthly. Lafayette ought to continue her monthly, and publish a paper in addition to it. She would surely support them both. The Monthly is one of our best exchanges."

With this we agree, and we think we express the sentiments of the entire staff when we say we will be sorry if '76 does not go on with the MONTHLY, and if, in addition, the Alumni or any other body wants to publish a paper let them do so. This is our parting advice to our successors. To others, we say that we do not think our Faculty is surpassed in any respect by any in the country, but that it is infallible, we do not, and can not, admit; and hence to those timid souls who are troubled at every item in our columns hinting at any dereliction on their part, we say that it is done for their good as much as for ours. Students often know best what is for their own advantage, and who denies them the right of making it known? Yet this is the argument some use for supplanting the MONTHLY by a paper virtually controlled by the Faculty.

It only remains for us to return our sincere thanks to our patrons and friends. The business men of the town have done well in keeping up our advertising department, and we hope they may have profited by it and are ready and willing to continue to do as liberally in the future. To our many subscribers we return our thanks, hoping they may have found something in every number to instruct and delight them, and that they will enroll their names on the books of '76. To those who have not paid we are compelled to say we are not done with them until we have their two dollars. We are under many obligations to our contributors for favoring us with productions, oftentimes when we knew not where to go to obtain them. But we must not forget others. Our relations with Charley Hilburn and his assistants in the printing office have been very pleasant. Our work was thus rendered more pleasant and agreeable. The feeling of the staff, is, that we have acquired such an insight into "the art preservative of arts" as will be of great advantage to us throughout life. Too often students leave college without any knowledge of how to write an article for the press, and it is no small advantage for twelve men in each class to obtain this knowledge by working on the MONTHLY. We wish success to Charley and all who have aided him in his work.

COMMENCEMENT.

We give up all our space this month to the account of the proceedings of Commencement week. It has been carefully compiled from the daily papers of Easton, all of which gave excellent reports. To them our thanks are due.

The first thing in order is the Baccalaurate Sermon, which was preached on Sunday, the 27th.

At 101⁄2 o'clock, the members of the graduating class entered the north door to the left of the platform, and took the front seats reserved for them. After them came President Cattell, in his official robe of black, and the venerable Dr. Coleman, who occupied the platform.

After the invocation by the President, a hymn (the fourth) was sung, and a Psalm read, and prayer again offered by the President.

A hymn, “All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name," was next sung, after which President Cattell announced his text—"My Kingdom is not of this world," John xviii., 36,—and delivered the sermon, of which the following is a synopsis :

song.

The earliest promise made to our first parents, amid the deepening shadows of the sin-cursed earth, was of a Deliverer who should come to free the human race from the power of Satan-one who should crush beneath His heel the Serpent's head. From the lips of the Patriarchs, who spoke as they were moved by the spirit of prophecy, came still clearer references to the promised Deliverer as the Shiloah unto whom should be the gathering of the people. It was declared that His sceptre should rise out of Israel. These prophecies of His kingly character became more frequent and luminous as the purposes of God, with reference to His church, were unfolded in the history of the chosen people. The throne of the Prince of Peace, the increase of whose dominion should have no end, became a prominent figure in prophetic vision, and the ever-recurring subject of inspired Almost at the very opening the Psalter swells into the majestic cadences of a coronation hymn. "Yet have I set My king upon My holy hill of Zion," is the august declaration of the eternal Father, as He covenants with His Son to give Him the heathen for his inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for his possession. That grand and Messianic psalm (XLV.) ascribes divinity to this king and perpetuity to His kingdom-"Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever." But it was not even for this chosen people to whom were committed the oracles of God and the ordinances of His church to append the true meaning of these utterances. Some of the more devout, whose thoughts were not of the earth, had, indeed, caught the vision of the Messiah's spiritual kingdom; but the great mass of the people looked for a king like David—a statesman and a warrior who would again rear "the Lion of the tribe of Judah" at the head of the bannered hosts of Israel. Such expectations, while they showed a want of insight

into the spiritual meaning of the Messianic prophecies, were natural to the heart of this downtrodden and oppressed people. The mailed hand of the Roman was always heavy upon the nations they conquered, but the unsubdued spirit of the Jews, who abhorred their masters as heathen as well as hated them as oppressors, gave abundant pretext for unusual severities. When, therefore, the wonder-worker from Galileee appeared in their midst, we are not surprised that they greeted Him as the long-expected Deliverer from Roman bondage, and that 'the multitude would even come by force to make Him a king."

After describing the disappointment of the people that followed the teaching of Christ as to the spiritual nature of His kingdom, and the humiliating fact of their having sought his life at the hands of the Roman Governor upon the very charge of His aspiring to the throne, the Doctor proceeded to unfold the nature of Christ's kingdom as suggested by His words before Pilate, which he had taken for his text, showing in what respect His kingdom was unlike the kingdoms "of this world.” It differed from them in the extent and scope of its laws. The lex scripta of civil government refers only to such overt acts as are prejudical to society. The laws of Christ's kingdom reach to the thoughts and motives of the heart. The reason for the infliction of penalty, and for the exercise of the pardoning power, was also shown to be different. So with the duties and rewards of Christ's kingdom. How strange to hear from the throne room of an earthly king of the beautitudes that fell from the lips of Christ-"Blessed are the poor in spirit." The universality and permanence of Christ's kingdom were also contrasted with the restricted and evanescent character of the kingdoms of this world. But the chief discussion of the discourse was upon the spirituality of Christ's kingdom as belonging to another sphere from that of the civil government, showing that it was a kingdom of "the truth," and that it was to be established only by the proclamation of the truth. The followers of Christ are, indeed, soldiers, but the weapons of their warfare are not carnal. The visible or organized kingdom of Christ, which is the Church, was not inimical or antagonistic to any form of government adopted by the people or submitted to by them. The subject, he contended, was one of vital importance at the present day, when Vaticanism seemed to have revived the claim of spiritual rulers to an authority over the civil government.

Turning then to the "Young Gentlemen of the Graduating Class," he addressed to them parting words of spiritual advice as