New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-11-09
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HENRY WARD BEECHER ON preaching"
A LECTURE TO THEOLOGICAL sTUDEETs-HE
TELLS THEM HOW TO BECOME GOOD
PREACHERS.
Henry Ward Beecher delivered a lecture on
Preaching the students of the Theological Seminary
at No University place last evening Many others Oh
both present 10 hear the lecture, whco was
given IN Mr. Beecher's best vein. After narIau"s No
first experience preaching, he said; Young eeu,
Uemen When you have received all the inS'iu
that can be given YOU here You will find that theroS
chat winch cannot he impaired in the leeturo,'
There is that which has got 20 be learned Oy "S''N
Preaching is trade and must be learned a. tfennt 10
would suppOse that a who WOuI9 at.oiw ~
make a watch without having learned tne I'm,
makers business would have poor on ar naval
I0amd a feet never having learned navgato y. ,Hnid
drill II lie man should say cannot DO IT, IL womb
n"t S U5 s1ecI and well drilled knowledge. GER
fanly preaching does; aud YET pe4o pi SIanV ~
Of things which comes as slt 81 bas cot m he
its adaptations do but the business tse mas gO ~ U
sarned ana d thai ne did MT mean 10 nndervaue
theological preliminary study that their wh0ie aIte5
ibonan ehness here 81 "a vigorous student" said he
in spots laughter and look back with regret 10
every one Of those spots that did Mt cultivate" II ne
had 60 60 through seminary again he would get
all the knowledge it would give He would gorge
IEinstrs-and that won hurt YOU II strong you VIII
Mud the things you study here are not the Things tns' you
will mos. need though they will give you impetus anu
be Of tho greatest use TO you say TINS because YOU
will be discouraged at first. You will feel as you were
pie This is the experience OF ten thousand men who
had 10 creep before walking and walk before running
10 your familiarity with work, little by ntie year
by year your contact with human nature that IS gong
make YOU Bnisters There are two elements in every
truly Christian ministry, the Divine and the Human
The grand instrument the minister employs ms know
Jesus PREACHING ia the utterance Of the life and soul Of
Christ IN far you have been able to take
arc but extensions Of God and that Christ brought down
into This world was the Tnest manhood expressed III ne
selves in small degrees, the divine nature and when
upon bus fellow-men he is Christian preacher; Inc
other element is the human element You are empoyln
all this knowledge Of the Divine nature for the purpose
Of producing definite results upon the minds OF your
felOwmen. Here are two elements, Ineh, Two ci ,nn'
mvscIi accprsed for nv brethrens sake" He have
a feeling OF intense sympathy, ahecuon, yeaIhhg
said that his first criticism on much Of the preaching
I'm vogue would be that il is preaching GO9lg Cod
Hou must distinguish between that part OF a ministers
life which is ecturesbp and that part which is preach
ing The preaching part Of is the heart power the
kndling OF enthusiasm by enthusiasm, love Dy love.
The chief instrument IN your own ministry is tnat subtle
underlying element that fires mp your consciousness
every single thing you 40 ~ Is that sense 0iOISt III S,
Young gentlemen, give TINS as my testimony 70 YOU,
If God has blessed my labor II has been because nave
nSd # as Seen Se mSnspH
OF my ministry. Mr.. Beecher then impressed on his
hearers the importance OF closet devotion II we are 20
preach Christ we must be ourselves like Him He loved
10 do good, not upon earth alone. but ne
Tor others. 1t is that which is moving the uni
verse to-day; H. therefore man goes INTO MO
machine that his whole business keep the nstru
ment all oiled and secured he is not preacheI-he
only has heaven in his soul but God in his head It is
very easy TO baptze mans forehead but to wash folks
feet is very different and ministers that take to one
e / am the way" as if lie laid down aud said Now
walk on me; let bear up your weakness" This is
very hard to vanity very hard to pride but you must De
servants for Chrsls sake. II is hard to everything
but love To love it Is natural sweet omnpoIen tent mr.
Beecher then criticised the mistakes OF people who grad
nate from seminary. They think they are all equipped
when they He thought the most important chair
seminary that OF the pastor OF theology and
that should occupy largely the last years OF seminary
life that is teaching men how to use what they learn
he sees he must about him as he would about
bon6ard him at once lLanghter.l There are compare
lively but 70 ministers that ont their Congregation
gross aud God retail it in his providence. Here the
students testified their appreciation by prolonged
his sermons They always made on typical cases
When be knows s Of p SG PgS
Of IT, and without single alluson to the case the
permanent, so bring to their mind the ugness of
the quarrel Study each of your congregation Preach
the eyes and then II you don't hit don't blame anybody
but yourself lIaughterl If you want TO have com
Portable ministry take all the blame of anything that
goes wrong in your parish II economies Immensely
laughter You have got to put yourself IN their
places. You have got to know how mean man feels.
This is variousy difficult or easy according to ones tenn
liability of becoming caste" preachers. He would call
no names, but lie had in his mind one whom
noble in heart and whose lachets not worthy to
loose his fruit comparatively small in preaching
and have often talked with him and said: Sir, you
have sympathy with God, but you have MT particle
sympathy with You all the time thinking OF
Gods honor Gods glory, which is all very we but you
don't think Of man, and the consequence is you
preacher" There another that breaches ideas
almost wholly He breaches sermon that is thorough
bred intellectual sermon Some OF his flock OveEoyed
and, said Mr.. Beecher. humOTOusly they say
linn, The most refreshing sermon have heard for
years and that thing and he wants preach
another and he knows that every time he throws
such a club the apples will fall Iaughter.l Never
preach twice alike preachers let the history Of
years sermons DC like string Of sausages hanging the
shop Two sausages there two there two there and he
takes them mp from the bottom and every is made OF
precisely the game meat all through. prolonged
laughter Nj BeecleT closed with the remark that
ought 10 have fest, aud ought TO all the way
through from beginning to en-.
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