, 1872-12-12
THE NEW PASTOR.
Installation of Rev. DR.. SWaZey in
the Charge Of the Ashland
Avenue Presbyterian
Church.
Interesting and Impressive
Sermon by Rev. David
Awing.

vs.;
Addresses by tKev. DR.. Patterson,
Rev.lL:H. Reed, and
Others.
The installation services incident upon the
formal mutual acceptance Of one another be-
tween Dr. Swazey and the Ashland Avenue
fresoyterlan ChuFch, occurred last evening in
the chapel Of the Theological Seminary, on Aah-
land avenue. The Ashland Avenue Church Was.
organized in the beginning Of November, and
now has about sixty members. The Attendance
last evening in the chapel was large, and the
members daVoutly attentive and interested.
Thg exercises opened with prayer by the
Rev. David Swing, after which hymn WAS sung
by the congregation. A portion OF St. Pauls
First Epistle to Timothy was read, aud COM
mented upon by DR.. Swing, followed by prayer,
and another hymn.
Professor Swing then took his text from Tin
othyv Y: /: "If q man desireth the Office of q
Bishop, he desireth good thing" He said that
the question whether q man desired the Office Of
Bishop OF minister might be waived, the term
minister being broad and comprehensive enough.
The responsibility Of minister was great
work. st. Paul seldom used unneaning words.
The philosophers of the Apostles time led easy
lives, standing calmly or walked quietly; Hat in
public places the embodiment of repose and
peace as well as wisdom. But the preachers
Office WAS good work. From the plane Of
human life, an estimate such as would be made
of science, the ministerial life presented the
picture of a constant afiliation vi tn the best
phenomena Of mind and 'heart-the best things
Of earth, not Of ideal life. Language, eloquence,
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morals and hope,-and it had always promoted
civilization, the morals OF man to man. No
longer monopoly Of learning and taste, it still
had it's basis in the principle Of man. As soon
as world was created in which impulses had to
be communicated from one to another, and from
generation to generation, it became the censor
Of truth. Thus the minister Of the Gospel Was
the result OF the power, called division OF
labor, which man could not evade. We're it
necessary for us all to do all things, the world
Of this vast law the Office OF the ministry was
evolved. It WAS the result Of society as organ
lied by the Creator. The moment man became
. religious being, and it became evident
teria1 things the minister's Office sprang up. II
society demanded artiBans, or students Of rights,
equally it demanded men to study the duties Of
man and the prospect Of 8 life to come. As q
powers below, 60 the Office of the minister WAS
pressed out Of society, and had it's basis On no
miracles. It Was created to career which WAS
second in honor to none- Whatever Of weak
ness it had WAS the weakness, not Of its Office,
but of the man. Grecian music and Egyptian
architecture were weak and absurd, but the
fault WAS not with the art but with the Greek
and the Egyptian.
The value Of division Of labor depended On
what was divided. The specialization had its
value determined by that which it divided up.
Not only was the ministry the outburst
of the common heart, but having fallen upon
Christian truth, it WAS twice honored- Here the
division Of labor was grand It not only placed
was grand. In these two thoughta-that society
created the Office, and that Christ had endowed
it with fortune OF truth, the minister Of the
Gospel ought to feel q heroism in every duty and
every calamity. Pitt and Burke were no more
answers to humanitys wish than we're Robert
Hall and John Wesley. The distaste Of the soul
against religious things prejudiced q great por-
ton Of society to the minister. The heart
averse to religion was averse to it's priest. There
heart against piety which led Us into q constant
conflict with the minister. He need not
feel that his Office was tolerated
only on belief in miracles and special ProVi-
dences, any more than the lawyer or the man Of
science. The ministry appeared be-
cause man had moral nature and living soul,
and the Christian minister appeared because
Christ WIS the best guide and the best Savior Of
that living soul. The minister appeared Like the
sL1LeS1udu,-u aIlSHaT W d GILL 1IOIn 181k1Qu
He was not parasite, like the mistletoe, but
like great tree he drew his nou1ishment direct
1y from the soil. He did not regard the minister
as existing through special tolerance Of God.
It Was not long ago that young men used to
watch their dreams for call to the ministry; let
o Bible fall open in their hands for an omen.
This practice not only introduced to the ministry
men more fitted to the SEW or the plow, but built
up barrier between the miniater and the secular
man. He (the Speaker) believed in calls, but
not in monopoly Of them by the minister. It
WAS this conviction alone that could build up
those ties which held humanity together and
produced conversions. The professions must
all love one another before they could cherish
its SORROWS and Bins, its mystery Of death, had
grown the ministry, q delicate plant waterad by
tears OF sorrow and tears Of Joy, whose roots
were in two worlds. It is the worlds common
all well that the Bishops hands should be
laid upon the candidate. But there
was d grander laying on Of hands than
these. Society, sweeping along to the grave, in
would be left, had bent down to it and begged
the clergyman to come and assist in solving the
mystery. This was laying On Of hands that
gave the clergyman courage, It is the nature Of
man, his destiny here and hereafter, and the
great presence Of God, that was behind the pull
pit. Thus its character must conform to the
wants Of mankind. It must be full Of friend
ship, eloquence and sincerity, full Of varied
knowledge Of mems wants. Marrow, severe, and
full Of self-conceit, it WAS not called by man,
much less, therefore, BY God. This creature Of
humanity Christ clothes with His truth and
His salvation, as when Pat1oclus was
covered with the heayen-made armor
Of Achilles; Christ filed the heart
with broad love and equipped the ministry with
armor fresh from the skies. Hence there was
no power On earth greater than the theory Of
the pulpit. It WAS greater than statesmanship,
for it had determined the laws Of statesmanship;
greater than the law, for tho lawyer only inter-
preted the law which religion had framed. One
day in every week was set apart for hearing the
preachers voice. Millions, every Sunday, met
in the log cabin and the cathedral to hear the
preachers voice. The statesman spoke to few,
but before the pulpit we're gathered all condi-
tions; one day in every week, and for every week
It's truths we're for all. It was the only e1o-
quence that addressed the myriad multi
tudes Of earth without regard to age, color, sex,