lege, Justice, Beauty, Love. Each of our brothers is removed; but though dead, yet speaketh, informing our understandings, strengthening our sense of justice, refining our tastes, enlarging our sympathies. The body dies; but the page of the scholar, the interpretation of the jurist, the creation of the artist, the beneficence of the philanthropist, cannot die.

"I have dwelt upon their lives and characters, less in grief for what we have lost, than in gratitude for what we so long possessed, and still retain in their precious example. In proud recollection of her departed children, Alma Mater might well exclaim, in those touching words of parental grief, that she would not give her dead sons for any living sons in Christendom. Pickering, Channing, Story, Allston! A grand Quaternion! Each, in his peculiar sphere, was foremost in his country. Each might have said, what the modesty of Demosthenes did not forbid him to boast, that, through him, his country had been crowned abroad. Their labors were wide as the Commonwealth of Letters, Laws, Art, Humanity, and have found acceptance wherever these have dominion.

"Their lives, which overflow with instruction, teach one persuasive lesson, which speaks alike to all of every calling and pursuit,—not to live for

ourselves alone. They lived for knowledge, justice, beauty, humanity. Withdrawing from the strifes of the world, from the allurements of office, and the rage for gain, they consecrated themselves to the pursuit of excellence, and each, in his own vocation, to beneficent labor. They were all philanthropists; for the labors of all promoted the welfare and happiness of mankind.

"In the contemplation of their generous, unselfish lives, we feel the insignificance of office and wealth, which men so hotly pursue. What is office and what is wealth? They are the expressions and representatives of what is present and fleeting only, investing their possessor, perhaps, with a brief and local regard. But let this not be exaggerated; let it not be confounded with the serene fame which is the reflection of important labors in great causes. The street lights, within the circle of their nightly scintillation, seem to outshine the distant stars, observed of men in all lands and times; but gas-lamps are not to be mistaken for the celestial luminaries. They who live only for wealth, and the things of this world, follow shadows, neglecting the great realities which are eternal on earth and in heaven. After the perturbations of life, all its accumulated possessions must be resigned, except those alone. which have been devoted to God and mankind.

What we do for ourselves, perishes with this mortal dust; what we do for others, lives in the grateful hearts of all who know or feel the benefaction. Worms may destroy the body; but they cannot consume such a fame. It is fondly cherished on earth, and never forgotten in heaven.

"The selfish struggles of the crowd, the clamors of a false patriotism, the suggestions of a sordid ambition, cannot obscure that great commanding duty, which enjoins perpetual labor, without distinction of country, of color, or of race, for the welfare of the whole human family. In this mighty Christian cause, knowledge, jurisprudence, art, philanthropy, all are blessed ministers. More puissant than the sword, they shall lead mankind from the bondage of error into that service which is perfect freedom:

'Hæ, tibi erunt artes, paçisque emponere morem.'
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"Our departed brothers join in summoning you to this gladsome obedience. Their examples speak for them. Go forth into the many mansions of the house of life; scholars! store them with learning; -jurists! build them with justice-artists! adorn them with beauty—philanthropists! let them re

* Eneid, VI., 852.-Dryden, translating this passage, introduces a duty which Virgil omits :

"The fettered slave set free,

These are imperial arts, and worthy thee !"

sound with love. Be servants of truth, each in his vocation; doers of the word and not hearers only. Be sincere, pure in heart, earnest, enthusiastic. A virtuous enthusiasm is always self-forgetful and noble. It is the only inspiration now vouchsafed to man. Like Pickering, blend humility with learning. Like Story, ascend above the present, in place and time. Like Allston, regard fame only as the eternal shadow of excellence. Like Channing, bend in adoration before the right. Cultivate alike the wisdom of experience and the wisdom of hope. Mindful of the future, do not neglect the past; awed by the majesty of antiquity, turn not with indifference from the future. True wisdom looks to the ages before us, as well as behind us. Like the Janus of the Capitol, one front thoughtfully regards the past, rich with experience, with memories, with the priceless traditions of virtue; the other is earnestly directed to the All Hail Hereafter, richer still with its transcendent hopes and unfulfilled prophecies.

"We stand on the threshold of a new age, which is preparing to recognize new influences. The ancient divinities of violence and wrong are retreating to their kindred darkness. The sun of our moral universe is entering a new ecliptic, no longer deformed by those images of animal rage, Cancer, Taurus, Leo, Sagittarius, but beaming

with mild radiance of those heavenly signs, Faith,

Hope, and Charity :

'There's a fount about to stream,

There's a light about to beam,
There's a warmth about to glow,
There's a flower about to blow;
There's a midnight blackness changing
Into gray;

Men of thought, and men of action,
Clear the way.

'Aid the dawning, tongue and pen;
Aid it, hopes of honest men;
Aid it, paper; aid it, type;

Aid it, for the hour is ripe,

And our earnest must not slacken
Into play;

Men of thought, and men of action,
Clear the way.

"The age of chivalry has gone. An age of humanity has come. The horse, whose importance, more than human, gave the name to that early period of gallantry and war, now yields his foremost place to man. In serving him, in promoting his elevation, in contributing to his welfare, in doing him good, there are fields of bloodless triumph, nobler far than any in which Bayard or Du Guesclin ever conquered. Here are spaces of labor, wide as the world, lofty as heaven. Let me say, then, in the benison once bestowed upon the youthful knight,-Scholars! jurists! artists! philanthropists! heroes of a Christian age, companions of a celestial knighthood, 'Go forth, be brave, loyal, and successful!'