Morning journal and courier., 1881-04-29
Suurnal arto Guurier.
Friday Morning, April %. 1881.
Local News.
For other Local News see Second pass.1
Lectures to Yale Theo1ogians.

Rev. pr. Herrick Discourses on the Life
 Work of Ministers-The Duties of Cler-
 gymen in the Divine Commission.
 The last of the public lectures to the Yale theological students for the present collegiate year was given in Marquand chapel yesterday afternoon by Rev. Dr. Herrick, pastor of Mt. Vernon church, Boston, Mass.
 The speaker was introduced by Rev. Dr. Bacon, and spoke in substance as follows: am here to-day in response to the hearty re- quest of your faculty and will speak upon your life work" The work is not to be your chosen profession, but you are to be chosen for it. divine arrest stands at the beginning of every true ministry. It takes him not he it. I shall take it for granted that you have recognized such di- vine arrest and that you are particularly designated for this work. Emphasize the fact of divine commission until you come into the possession of it. Feel that you have been sent by God to do the work that is be- fore you. Under such an abiding conviction it is perfectly impossible to be drone in the parish or a clown in the pulpit. I mean to hold up standard for the Christian minis try which every one of you can adopt. love the word minister, as it speaks only of service. The minister who is true to his name is pledged and bound ever to his work. He is not in the world to do what he would like to do, but to do what others do not care to do. If he cannot conform to this rule he should stop at once. The Lord is ready and the world is ready to be saved by the man u6O ha uopf StndUInn the ministry without conditions and giving yourself to the Lord carte 6E0ncne is noble. To be Gods minister and Christ's minister without condition is what is needed. Again duty is always obvious. true minister must be man and 8 man of men. Efemi- macy has also been more or less associated with the clergy, and, am sorry to say, to the scandal of the pulpit. When l say minis ter must be man, I mean that he must be distinctly and thoroughly human. The great ''text book" is humanity itself and the min ister must be a man and man among men, The threads of minister's life must be con stantly weaving in the web of human experi- ence. To know men and know them well is what is needed. The pastorate is one of the highest functions in the ministerial life. The minister has made but beginning of his work when he witnesses the conversion of soul to God. Not that this is of the highest importance, but then the pastoral relation is often forgotten. The true minister must not only be man of men, but he must be man of God. I like that good old fash toned word oiety, and it ought to be redeemed out of the labyrinth of cant into which 1t has fallen. No man can help men to God who is not himself g, man of God. It is of no earthly use to make the attitudes and tones matter of study in the service. like to think of those words of the Lord concerning the converted prosecutor, 'He is chosen ves-
 
 say that the minister is to us what his Master was, the word made flesh ? It is 0 trusm that he is to be 8 man of God, and to turn it around he is to be Gods man in the world. The atheistic doctrine of Carlyle | must be met by power as subtle and as facile itself, and this power must be exhib- tied in the minister himself. minister | must read everything unless he would put himself to disadvantage. He must begin | with the Bible and the books bearing upon \ it, and then take up other books of informa ' tion. The facts contained in the books of the world, politics and the clean, impartial newspaper of the day think the newspa- per indispensable to the minister. Unless ! you have been born with gold spoon in | your mouth you will begin with very few | books but they will accumulate one by one, | and these books by reading will become old friends. You will know just what one to go \ to in case of emergency. You will know just what nook to go to find your book When you get your book hold on to it. Many a time in the middle of the night have sought out an old trigonometry or old arithmetic ! to find out something I must know before | Sunday morning. You do not always know the kind of men you are preaching to. They l may know more about the subject than you know yourself. The minister must be a mar ! of work he is here for work and for ser ! vice, and nothing else. It is the easiest 1 thing in the world for minister in 8 country
 village to get in laborious way of doing nothing, which finally becomes a settled
 habit. The speaker here gave plan of pas toral work for each day of the week as prac ticed by himself, and which he said he found I very profitable. There was hardly 8 man o
 woman in his parish but that knew what h. I was doing each day.
 Concluding, he said: The pastoral work ii 1 a glorious work, and you are in alliance witl
 all that is true and holy, and all things art yours, for ye are Christ's.
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