Morning journal and courier., 1885-02-06

learned to absorb immigrant nations success
fully, have shown how enormous debts can
be paid without expressing the people.
We have achieved great things in morals
and religion. We have organized free
nent Judgment in the hearts of the people to
that religious faith which is strong. The
last two hundred years has given us a noble
schooling in all directions. It was hard
task we had to perform. Our fathers had to
settle questions on their own judgment for
there was no precedent to guide them, tbs
conditions being new. And it was not the
work of few great men, but of the whole
people. They were at the common school
and the solving of the problem was their
common work.
In some directions greater things are be-
fore us than have been accomplished. The
onrush of Providence and the human unfold
ing is startling. A distinguished professor
in college planted in great city is report
ed as saying, a few days ago, 81 believe that
we are just beginning to enter upon terri
BILE era of history such as the world has
never known" That may be regarded as
the expression of an excited mind, but
it certainly has weight, coming from the
source it does. All thoughtful men will con-
cede that the world whole and our coun-
try in particular has just entered on cycle
of the gravest questions. Christianity itself
is coming to it's final test, the power to deal
with man aggregated in society, to take up
the human tree in its entirety and transplant
it into the Garden of God where it may take
hold on divine soil. The trend Of the world,
the spirit of the age, is not toward lnd1v1d-
ualism, but socialism. Men are moving to
gether into cities, shoulder to shoulder, until
one heart beat throbs through the whole
mass. FtI proclaim the solidarity of
the nass!" exclaimed the Hungarian.
II proclaim the solidarity of mani" says the
spirit of the age. Can it save the soul! has
been the test of Christianity. 1t has done it.
Vow there comes this question, how to
solve right living between whole classes of
men and organize them in the tabernacle
of heaven brought down to earth Com
plants are made that Christianity has not
reformed the world in nineteen centuries.
Has she now the forces and men to admins
ter them so as to drive out the demon of
| lust, greed, brutal wrong, polite as well as
impoGte sin? Humanity demands the re-
suit.
Other questions arise in government and
education Until education forestalls power
ty and vice education is poor and weak. The
future is studded thick-set with great ques-
TONS There is no occasion to fear or hope
for any relaxation in tension. There will be
no let up.
The tines demand of ministers that they
be men of strength themselves and that their
preaching and ministry should be an express
sion of enriching mental work. Our people
have the habit of measuring a man
by his work. Even the machines have
to turn out more work here than they do in
other countries. One hundred locomotives
here do the work of 139 in Germany and $40
in Austria. And it is not mere work that is
required of ministers, but enriching work
Our strongly educated minds are delicately
imperious, they abominate mental poverty
| and court the value of time, even holy time.
Nothing but the solid metal will buy hear
ing. Some ministers are like patent pumps
at an agricultural fair-once started they go
on forever with the same water.
The demands on minister's time are 50
incessant that whenever fresh thought
comes into his mind there is sure to be a
| meeting waiting for him. In nine cases out
of ten a minister's thoughts are mortgaged
before they are born and thoughts move
slowly. Emerson wrote one lecture year.
Members Of Congress make one or two
speeches session. Cough is accounted a
marvel because he can make two hundred
speeches on temperance and still retain rea-
sonable freshness. Some great preachers
occupying chairs in colleges have as many as
twelve sermons.
DR.. Storrs further remarked on the neces-
sity of broad education and strong, mas
culine preaching.
Among those who listened to the lecture
were Rev. DR.. Pa1ck, father of Rev. MIR. Park
of the Howard avenue church; Rev. G, II.
Williams, Rev. Mr.. Samson, Rev. Mr.. Al
word, Rev Mr.. Noyes and other clergymen of
this city; Rev. Austin Putnam, of Whitney
vile, and a number of old townsmen in the
ranks of laymen.