Morning journal and courier., 1884-01-12

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 Suicide.
 Mr. John K. Pimer, of New London, 17 years of age. committed suicide by shooting himself in the head with pistol yesterday morning. Mental depression was the cause. Gospel Msetfngs-Da Church.
 The Gospel meetings which have been held at the Davenport church this week with in- creasing interest will be continued to- morrow evening and every evening next week except Monday and Saturday, the annual business meeting of the church being on Monday evening. These meetings are conducted by Rev. MT. Meserve, the pastor, who is assisted in the meetings by Rev. ". T. Hutchins, who is also engaged in visiting among the congregation and Sunday school of the church.
 The Wanderers' Hoiiie.
 It is stated by the county ecmmfssioners that they have paid out for the repairs of the home selected for waifs at Tyler City:
 Murray Brothers for timing, furnace
 repalrlDg, & ete.; 79s oe Mason work, including ksls3miniDg, etc..... 14O6O IOtaI,. .S4SS.5o
 The present indications are that the home established by act of the legislature will not be a sueeees Es not child has been sent there. In New Haven children may be sent to either of the orphan asylums for less than they can be sent to the home in Tyler City. Again the parents of children are 10th to permit their children to go to place where they can be bound out to families or adopted by them whether they will or not This may be an inducement te parents to take better care of their children and thus pre- | vent transfer of them to this asylum which | they seem to dread so much.
 The Art of Sermon Making. Rev. Br. Burton of Hartford Tells The Yale TheOIogTcaI Students How to Write Sermons.
 The second lecture in the Lyman Reecher course was delivered yesterday afternoon at 1 Mara uahd chapel by the Rev. Dr. Burton, | of Hartford, before goodly assemblage of embryo ministers, full pledged doctors of divinity and ladies. The subject of the lec- 1 turo was the art of making sermons and it contained large amount of practical infor- nation that must have been of great value | to attentive students and that will be found of interest to those who hear sermons and l perhaps ofter wonder how minister goes to work to write them.
 In the first place. according to Dr. Bur tons lecture, it is necessary to select topic. | DI. ae SoEa ou properly use may be world wide, providing | he always keeps within Christian limits. The l speaker said that he found topics coming to l him from all parts of the compass. The newspapers, secular books, politics, walks abroad on the face of nature, sontact with al: sorts of nteh, the prayer meeting, talks with l Christian men, all these and many other agencies will suggest topics which can be used to advantage by a discriminating preacher. It is 8 good plan to set down 1 everything that occurs to your mind. Tho second requisite for sermon, after l the topic has been decided upon, is hosts oi 1 thought upon it. I go to my desk, said Mir. 1 Burton, and sit there waiting for thoughts l have all my windows open vile for the admission of such stray thoughts as may happen along, and they generally come They often come in focks. filling the win dows They come in numbers according tc the size of the mind Here comes iu ths difference betwe en tnen. Some miuister 1 could sit there all day without receiving any thoughts. But ordinarily they do come. I | a man has mind enough to go through thu seminary and get ifito the ministry he will have thoughts without doubt. I record all the large, magnetic thoughts and the lit tie ones, and continue the work as long as th thoughts come. You might suppose that il this way would get hopeless, tangled mas of ideas, bewildered chaos of thoughts upo1 my table, without connection or order. Bu 1 in fact they will be connected, all strun3 upon one string because the mind had ar ranged them while in some particular state There is in the workings of the human mind certain order, harmonious with the particula status of the mind and the topic it is engross ed upon. In the nature of things only thos ideas come which are germane to that mint as thus preoccupied and are germane to eacl other. l insist upon the original exertioi I because only by that e4ertion does the mint grow. The mind is not pond which can b 1 exhausted, but is rather like an artesian vel continually springing up with fresh, clea water.
 | In every mental act there are two factors the thinking mind and the material upoi which it acts. Men are original or plagiar ists. according as they dominate over tha material or are dominated by 1t. 4 minister can make use of books, common taries upon the subject he is writing about and carefully peruse everything bearinl upon the subject. If the mans mind be ac tive he will so assimilate that material tha what he uses shall bear the mark of hi own genius, and his congregation will no feel that the sermon was the work of another
 The organization of the materials is thu third step in the work of constructing tn sermon The minister's eudienee refuse t, be blessed with unorganized material Il the organization of his materials a really masterly person can show what he is. Ther may be many ways of organizing the materi al This will be especially true if you ar going to organize simply with reference t. your subject instead of to the sermon as
 
 object you will be a lecturer and an intellect ualist. So you must ask yourself, what do wish to accomplish Get your aim elearl! before you and shape your materials to 1t This idea of a clear aim is very importan one. It saves you from treating
 sermon as work of art ant fashioning it as such. A sermon may be work of art, but should be such unconsciousl and not designedly. Every man has righ to have his mind work beautifully. It is pos sible but not easy for man to be an artis and prea cher in one. The safest rule is t consider the peeds of your congregation, an let high esthetics take care of themBelve considerably. It is also necessary to aVoi self consciousness in your sermons. A ser mon should be free from every dallying, al posy work. Unity is necessary. specif aim will enable you to know what portions O your material may be irrelevant. If ha loved men more and subjects less migh have had more to show for my work Given then, an aim and some things are settled among, them the truth that no stock an stuff can be put into the sermon that does no conform to that aim.