Morning journal and courier., 1886-04-23
Friday, April 23, 1886.
RRY. IOHN HALL, DID.

The Closing Lecture of the Course equities of Ministers and the Obltga. tiOns of the People.''
 Dr. John Hall, of New York, gave the last of his series of lectures yesterday afternoon in the Marquand chapel. Having spoken Of the standing of the ministry pr. Hall lectur- ed yesterday upon the obligations under which she people rest. The people owe it to their minister to hear him; when they call
 the minister to the place they pledge them
 selves to hear him. It is the habit of people
 to content themselves with one service per week, never minding the week day services. These are the ones into which the minister is to put his strength and the people will soon feel the need of these services.
 Again, the people are pledged to receive the pastor; he has the privilege of knowing 1 them and their families. People who will
 not receive the pastor are one of the greatest
 hindrances which the ministry has to con tend with
 The people owe to the pastor their moral and material support. If they are enthusias- tic for their minister they will give him | their moral support. There is the greatest possible need of the discussion of material support. The pastor cannot plead his own cause before his own people and they there | fore hear nothing about it. Associations and presbyteries are practically the same thing
 and each ought to do what it can do to keep
 alive right feeling of obligation. | Also the people under obligation to | cooperate with the minister. Many minis | ters are successful on account of their organ izing faculties, but their power is often spent in that direction. Do not rely much upon a multiplicity of organizations, but rather make the church the one great organization with Christ at it's head and the spread of truth for it's object. Bring the church to her duty and keep the church in her place and there is no need of other organizations.
 To develop help on the part of the people the student and minister should avail him self of the biographies of good men in which their experiences are given. When waiting for work take such as comes to you, such as needs workers. Aim at being aggressive with that kind of holy aggressiveness of which Christ was an example The Church of Christ is to fill the whole region with the
 savor of truth and to be a living church. Every church must be missionary church. The pastor has to inspire this spirit with the ble, not with sermons which have the collection as their end and
 object. Make the so--called begging sermons your best ones and you make the
 people to understand the Bible and them
 selves better, and give them the spirit of the speak for themselves, always applying them to the case in hand. Inspire the people to give for 8 cause, not to give because it is missionary Sunday. Thus will the pastor strengthen his own interest by teaching the people broad minded truths.
 The faculty of the Yale Divinity school in the annual circular for 1867 announce as lecturers next year the following: Rev. Washington Gladden., D: D.; Lyman Beech CT, lecturer on FThe relation of the church
 and the ministry to socialism," Rev. John
 Hall, D. D., on ''The pastor in t'e study,
 the pulpit and the parish:" Rev. Edwin P.
 Parker, D. D., on fHymnology and church
 music," and Rev. William Hayes Ward, D.
 D., on "Archologaeical investigations in the
 East"