Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-24
DIR. STORRs, LECTURE.
The Second In The Lyman Beech
 Course Im Preaching.

! The Second In The Lyman BeecheI Course I'm Preaching.
 In opening his lecture to the Yale Tbao- 1 logical students in Marquand chapel yester 1 day afternoon, the Rev. Dr. Storrs said that | he had resigned the secretaryship of the l Home Missionary society and was now the | pastor of a country s'They call it city, , he added, 'sbut they call everything city that has municipal organization and town l pump Wendell Phillips well suggested that
 one never gets into America until he gets l through New York city. And that remark | was wise Our large cities are now foreign. If you will touch the real American life you ! must get out of the cities into the country. s'I.et us take gene ral survey and outline I of American life. It will not do to say that we as preachers are to work only in some one locality and that we have no interest in an inquiry concerning American life in general The spirit of the nation penetrates the locality It is impossible for any particular section to cut itself off from the universal life of tho nation. Men are too apt to localize them selves They have no outreach, no wide out going of thought and power.
 ''There are difficulties in the way of grasp
 ing American life. It is protean, illusive.
 There is certain humor in foreign judg-
 ments on our nation. I once spent some
 months in England, studying carefully the
 life of the country, but I came away feeling
 defeat. Two sons of John Bright
 came over here with the avowed
 purpose of doing this country
 in six weeks. They were going from New
 4o Io1 fo l.
 cago, Niagara Falls and Boston and thought
 that by that time they would have broad
 and comprehensive knowledge Of the Am
 erican life. When they returned they made
 some very pronounced judgments upon
 America Lord Coleridge, after his tour
 here said T do not feel that I understand
 America Herbert Spencer after more
 careful study said on his return to England,
 T have but all imperfect idea of American
 life.'
 Americans are & mixture. We have peo- pie various in blood, various in thought, va rious in morals and religion. This makes 1t difficult to get definite, positive idea of American life. But there is growing con sciousness of our individuality l was anus ed when a-1member of the school board of Cincinnati to hear & German argue for the 1n- troduction of the study of his language in the public schools. When told that the English language was the language of the people he said he did not know about that. He said the German language was becoming more and more widely spoken. He recog- nized the idea that the language of the future might be a better language than we now have and he wanted German to contribute it's share in the development of the national language.
 '.The war did us a great service in rub bing out the barriers of dissimilar idea of labor between the North and South The North is now melting into the South as a snowflake melts into tle sea and the South becomes strong and fragrant with our thought and feeling.
 I've have little interest in dynastic revolu- tions, but we have great interest i'll the human element, the urgency and pressure of human desire and necessity lying back of it. What we are interested in is the birth throes of the nations. A great British economist says that the great masses of men in the world have been poor. Another emi- nent thinker says that this eont1- neut is Gods great charity to the human race This country was settled ! by the poor The birth throe of this nation l was humanity, the opportunity to create on new continent a greater race, a race that should present Gods ideal of a man. And poor as we are, we take more comfort than ] my other people, although it may be, as has been said, an unbuttoned comfort. But it is l honest in it's way"