Morning journal and courier., 1886-04-02
.pEO.AL LECTURES AT YALE.
Rev. Dr. Burton, of Hartford, Lec- lures Upon ssrhe V erils and safe- ~uarda of The minIstry.o

ux nr. Burton. of Hartford, Lec-
 tures Upon ssThe V erils and Safe-
 guards of the MinIstry.'
 Rev Dr. Burton, of Hartford, lectured in
 the Marquand chapel, yesterday afternoon,
 upon sThe Perils and Safeguards of the
 Ministry" The chapel was well filled. Dr.
 Burton spoke somewhat as follows: sup
 pose that most of you, gentlemen, feel your
 Limitations of character and intellect. The
 grace of God is not finished in you yet; you
 are looking forward to your work and say
 ing. "Who is sufficient for these things?"
 Bodies are good things; if a man has no
 body, i. G., is only ghost of preacher, no
 church wants him; also it is good thing to
 be sufficient in character. There is less ot
 character than of intellect in the world,
 though it is easier to obtain. Goodness can
 be used every day and not grow stale.
 preacher can be honest, truthful and plous every day one after the other, but he cannot present the same ideas over and over to his parish, and therefore I pass to the more distressing question of your in
 tellects. The people want ideas, new ideas, and they must have them. But any old truth re-lived by man seems new and org inal We originate many ideas, but others we consciously do not originate; we are in debted to nature, to externals and to God for them. To make these externals assiml- lated is one great work of the preacher; he must bear down upon the external materials of thought. He cannot get hold of the ex- ternal stock by being an intellectual hermit, he must go forth and multiply points of contact, improve all opportunities one is devoid of views and | underneath ones views lies the great human nature which we all have. This nature must | be tried; bring your theology to bear upon l it and see it squirm. Do it patiently and we'll Make it a rule to attend all the regu- | lar meetings of any connection with the church and religious work. You can gain much from books for sermon-making. The Bible is the first book. If you haveaa habit of going to the Bible to see what it | teaches, you will find yourselves in clined to read other books that | try to expound the Bible; then you will be multifarious reader. Everything contrib 1 utes: the preacher is the universal devourer l for the nutrition of other people. You can possess yourselves of this food for nutrition 1 in two ways, by laws of memory or by way of assimilation The man has not lost his l food because it has left his stomach and no | more has one lost knowledge because it has | left the memory. Sam Jones, in one of his sermons, speaks of small steamboat on the | Mississippi, whose machinery was so weak and inefficient that every time whistle was necessary the machinery had to stop after | the whistle. So the man of the memoriter sort; if one writes a sermon in that way and then fires it off he is like an empty gun; his personal increase is small, it | brings no gusto to the preacher himself and does not give much of value to those who listen, for what is preached out of memory | is received in the memory. Vitalization IS | the real work of preachers. How is the bus | mess of assimilation to be accomplished? It does not take long for our bodies to assimi- l late food the process is mysterious but fea- 1 sible. The physical nutritive pro- cesses are the foundation of the men l an indispensable element in assimilation. Gather material in many ways, often only | for momentary enjoyment. Assimilate your reading, both the receptive and the afhrma- l tive. Newspaper reading is touch and go reading and forms that habit, which is likely to extend to all reading Read for analysis, reflection and judgment or for enjoyment, doing the work for it's sake, not for the | Sundays sermon; otherwise the memoriter element comes in. Chew the cud slowly and never impose it upon parish until it is ready to be taken l into the system. Some materials can be as- simulated more easily than others. The B1- | ble, as a food is the best book to assimilate It is the only book a man can exclusively live upon.
 Dr. Burton will lecture again this after noon at 3 o'clock.
 Dr. John Hall, of New York, will lecture next week.
 Out i'm Milwaukee.
 Ground was broken March 15 for the new Y. M. O.. A. building in Milwaukee, Wis, where MT. Clarence B. Willis has had charge of the Y. M. C.. A. work for two or three years. Mir. Willis was formerly general sec retary of the Y. M. c. A. in this city, and 8 multitude of his friends here will he inter- ested in his success in Milwaukee. The new building will be an ornament to the city. It will have a frontage of 69 feet, depth of S5 feet and will be four stories high. A rear
 lot 44x65 feet will contain bowling alleys,
 swimming bath and gymnasium. The front
 of the building will be Wauwatosa limestone
 trimmed with Amherst sandstone. The en-
 tire structure will be heated by steam, and