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Excerpt from Services in Adams Chapel at the Dedication of the New Buildings of the Union Theological Seminary: 1200 Park Avenue, New York City, December 9, 1884
I see the shadows. Only a few days ago Henry Ivison took leave of us. We miss the many well remembered forms of Founders and Benefactors, of Instructors and Alumni, who would have rejoiced to behold this day. It may be they are beholding it from the other side, gazing down, unseen of us, into these upturned faces, joining with us in the melodies of song and prayer; even more tenderly grateful than we are for what has already been accomplished for the king dom of our Lord; and more exultingly assured of still greater and better things to come. Forty-eight years ago, in a city whose population was only about one fourth of what it is to-day, no human sagacity could have placed permanently an institution like this of ours. Our predecessors were simply obliged to wait. The present location is apparently for many decades, if not for all time. This commanding site, so near the centre of the island, is in little danger of losing its advantages. Right behind us is the grand Central Park; close around us are hospitals, schools, and galleries of art - the trophies and adornments of an advancing Christian civilization. But this institution of sacred learning, which we dedicate to-day - inter preter of God's word, herald of God's grace, outranks them all. Our work lies along far-reaching lines. The spiritual and eternal must dominate the material and temporal. We must steer, not our commerce only, but our whole civilization, by the stars. Reli gion is the supreme arbiter and architect.
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