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College, be its students few or many, may be truly a Christian College. WALKING IN THE TKUTH. The Baccalaureate Sermon, delivered before the graduating class of 1877. " For I rejoice greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walk est in the truth. I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in trutli."— Ill John, 3, 4. When years ago you entered college and com- menced your course, you hardly dared look forward to its completion. The years, however, have come and gone; years of Avork and warfare, defeat and triumph, joy and sorrow. You have at last finished the studies required here, and passed your examina- tion; and, now, it only remains tliat we should address you a few parting words, place in your hands the parchment which you have fairly won, and give you our blessing. The Avords which I have chosen as the theme of discourse to-day, have been taken from a brief note addressed by the Apostle John to the well beloved Gains. In it he speaks of his joy when he heard that Gains had received the truth and was walking in it; and declared that he had no greater joy than that which came from knowing that his children were walking in the truth. John but expresses the common sentiment of the followers of Christ. Wherever you find a Christian man or woman, you

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