Graduating Address to the First Class of 1872 Sermon My discourse today will run in a line parallel with the first clause of the 35th verse in the 11th chapter of Matthew: "A good Man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things." This passage is an extract from one of those inimitable discourses of the Savior recorded in the Gospels. You observe that this sentence, like the one that follows, is cast in the mold of an absolute affirmation. There is no interplay of circumstances to hinder the cause from passing into the effect. There is no softening or potentiating the declaration by may, can, might, could, would, or should. There is no entrance left open by which accident, chance, luck, or fortune can step in between the invariable antecedent good treasures of the heart and the invariable consequent good things. The sentence is