Morning journal and courier., 1883-11-23
Princeton's President.

| fore the Yale Theological school. The sub ject was "The Evangelistic Work Devolving Upon Ministers of Religion" He will de- liver the second and concluding lecture on the topic this afternoon at the same hour. The l lecture was well attended. The members of the Divinity school were present in body and much of the space not occupied by the school was occupied by ladies and clergy men. Among the clergymen present were Rev. Mr. Buck of the First M. E. church,
 Rev. MT. Lines of St. Paul's Episcopal
 church, Rev. Mir. Meserve of the Davenport 1 Congregational church, Rev. MT. Ford of the George street M. E. church, Rev. Mir. Moves
 of this city, acting pastor of the Congrega-1 tional church in Stony Greek, Rev. 0. Fl. 1 Williams, formerly of Howard Ave. Cong
 church, also Rev. MT. Squires and Rev. Mir.
 Kidder of West Haven, and from the college
 there were present President Porter and
 Professors Harris, Fisher, Dwight, Day,
 Lyman and others of the faculty. President
 McCosh is over three score and ten, man
 of fine presence with silvery hair and whis-
 kers and an intellectual face He is rather
 above tho average size and frame. He
 warmed with his subject toward the last, es- | pecialIy as he recalled events and incidents in | his early ministry which admirably served to illustrate the line of thought he was pur- | suing He read most of the lecture from manuscript in clear, distinct voice and at
 times spoke spiritedly, and his informal talk was spiced with Scottish terseness and hu 1 nor.
 I Professor Harris gave out the 535th hymn,
 which was sung with great spirit by the stu dents of the seminary. He then introduced
 President McCosh, who in substance spoke | as follows: There have been great many
 lectures here on the subject of preaching. | am to speak on a subject second in impor tance to that of preaching. Before I finish I will be specific. am to speak of the spirit
 which should govern evangelistic work. A l converted man is 8 new creature in Christ
 Jesus. He sees no longer after the flesh, but | after the spirit. Before he loved sin, re- l garding it as light and triiing and easy to be | forgiven. Now he sees it as exceedingly sim | full He finds Christ the chiefest among ten 1 thousand and the one altogether lovely. Be- I fore he was self complacent. Now his pride
 is broken down. He abhors sin and sees his
 own shortcomings. Human nature as
 God made it at first and as it
 may be made again is grand. Let | us strive to restore it. The stiff formal l ist may not be the best fitting to gain the
 heart of young people. They are the best l ministers who obey the apostolic command
 and rejoice with those who rejoice and weep
 with those that weep. Christ was called by 1 his disciples the Son of God. He called him. self the Son of Man. ''Jesus wept" is the
 shortest verse in the Bible. How these
 words strike humanity. We say Eece Deus. l We also gay Ecce Homo. Let us seek more l 1@
 showing brighter and brighter-but let us | also cultivate our humanities A man is bet | ter I think to address men than an archan- gel The man who has felt the fire is best | to exhort against fire. The man who has 1 felt sorrow can best touch the heart stricken. We have come to see the worth of our own 1 souls We therefore feel more the worth of 1 others We feel, ''What is man profted to l gain the whole world and lose his own soul?'' The mother knows of chiIdhood's
 wants and fears. Every man has soul, has
 future life beyond We must meet with
 our fellow travellers The eyes of hundreds 1 look up to ministers on the Sabbath for
 words adapted to their situation. Now in 1 Christ we see the army of men who need
 Christ We feel deeply that they need
 Christ. When do we feel most for our l friends? Is it not when we know they are most exposed to danger or death? How love burns in the wife when the husband is in peril, or the mother when her son is on the tempest tossed ocean. So the Christians
 heart goes out after the lost sheep.
 So in com compassion sba ths;o.1 the father her ran @ Christ left heaven and descended to earth
 and died the death of the cross. What com
 passion was that Having the peace of Christ
 the impulse is to share our joy with others.
 A blind man cannot speak of the beauty of colors; 80 an unbellever cannot share our joy
 in Christ. We love the pearl of great price, we would not part with it for all that the l world can give; all else pales before this pearl. It's possession makes us yearn that
 others should possess 1t.
 | Fourthly. When we love Christ ourselves
 our hearts are drawn to others who have the game joy. Man is 8 social be- ing; he loves association. It is the common faith, love for 8 common l God and Saviour. They will seek out one
 another, will share each others feelings Fellow travellers, they are bound for com
 mon haven of joy and rest. There is the
 communion of saints. There are ties in the i world beyond. There are voices forever
 hushed on earth which call us on to heaven. There were hearts which burned on the jour- | ney to Emmau.
 Again they all feel impelled to do good to
 one another. All genuine religion begins
 within, but it does not end there. Streams | commence in some elevation or mountain,
 but as they proceed they enrich and fertilize.-
 So the man with the new life wants others 1 to possess the same. The blood is sent forth
 from the fountain, the heart but it is sent to
 the furthest extremity. Christ would have | the light placed not under bushel, but | where it will reflect all around. Such is the | spirit needed in the work of the ministry. And now look at the example, the spirit of | our Lord in his evangelistic work in the early church. The Saviour imparted this spirit. | Without this spirit the minister's work fails. | The orderly means of grace are the proper
 means. Seek not the sensational, which is
 like the cracking of thorns under pot.
 Christ embraced opportunities to pro- | claim the truth as they ofered-on the deck
 of ship, on mountain, or from house to house He stops to heal Peter's wife who was
 sick of fever. Heis in house at Caper-
 naum and multitude fill the house and he
 heals the sick man. It was thus that our
 Lord preached to people as he got them to-
 gether. The disciples were commanded to go
 out in the highway and hedges and compel l them to come into preach the gospel to
 every creature. ''To the Jews first and then
 to the Gentiles." Accordingly we find Peter 1 at work preaching at the temple and healing
 the sick We find Philip preaching the word
 of life to the Ethiopians. We see Paul thus 1 at work also breaking the word of life as
 all chances came to him. Other examples
 abound. Thus the gospel was propagated in
 the early church, not alone by stated sermons but by work at all points. The means of holding church in the houses was maintained
 after the apostles left. By the end of the
 second century these meetings became cen- tsrs of light and centers for the diffusion of
 the faith. So by and by the church became an organization with subdivisions. When the State became united to the church there
 were territorial divisions, and every district and sub-district had some one to look after it, to administer the sacrament and collect the dues of the church. The parish priest
 hood became lazy, while there were glowing hearts sorrowing over the abuses. The l abuses became at last intolerable and re-
 formers arose who, when they corrected the
 abuses, retained the parish system. The
 Puritans brought this system,-the parochial, in a modified form to this country.
 now devote the remainder of my lecture 1 to-day on the means taken by the Protestant | church in Europe to difuse the gospel throughout the world. In my next lecture
 will speak solely of America.
 After further allusion to this branch of the topic, the speaker continued: The students
 were expected to take pains to have the l onsneI nreached to every man SO far as they