Morning journal and courier., 1886-04-16
REV. JOHN HALL, D. ID.

Begins His Lectures to the TheOIog1-
 cal Students-ssDut1es of the Min1s-
 try and the Obligations of the PeO- pIe's-A Large Audience.
 Dr. John Hall, of New York, began his course of lectures to the students of the Yale Theological seminary yesterday after noon. He spoke upon "The Duties of the Ministry and the Obligations of the People. :" The two courses of thought touch at great many points and overlie one another. There is necessity in Protestant Christendom of teaching the people what they are in dan ger of forgetting-the dignity and standing of the Christian ministry. People for getting this because there is danger of con- founding the office of the ministry with the unfounded ideas of sacerdotal kind. The ministers of to-day are not priests, but shep- herds and teachers of the people. The pub lie mind has lowered the ministry in it's esti- nation, for we have come to think of it as a profession and in the category of the profes sions Some think that a great many get through the world without calling upon the Lerd for help some do without calling upon the medical profession. From one point of view the ministry is profes- sion, but it is one sui generis. There is a
 
 ministry is not necessary, but the more ad- vanced civilization becomes there is great CT need of spiritual teachers. Professionalism is not going down, but is steadily rising. In the last two centuries there has been a mark ed elevation.
 There is call for ministerial profession in the very nature we possess. We need to have society organized and men social and men religious run in parallel lines. There must be such arrangements and organiza- tious in the church of Christ, as is proved by examples from all history. The church is going along the line in which men by their very nature must go. There are grounds outside of the Bible for a class of men like ministers. If the community refuses this arrangement, be it in social or religious, it will pay the penalty. By his life minister command the respect and be entitled to the difference of the community. The Lord gave his chosen people a priesthood which very soon lost it's power. God then sent prophets to reprove, rebuke and exhort the people with long suffering. The disper- sion of the people into heather lands was one of the consequences of their dlsregardlng the divine message. The office was intended to be permanent.
 To carry the convictions and conscience of the people the minister must fill his office without reproach. Do not believe i'll your selves as much as in the office you are called to fill. You are to be intellectual with consecrated intellect, social with all your social powers sanctifed; you are to fill public positions in the spirit of true benevo- fence and with large hearted humanity. Gcd means his church to be a reforming, purifying and elevating influence in the earth. Christ deals with vice whole and means that his church should deal with it as whole, not with slices of it here and there. Do nos feel when you are pastors that you must have boundless knowledge. Your main business is to be masters in the truth. Give to your flock, one by one, the spiritual uutriment which God provides in such abun- dance, giving it to you to give to them. Dr. Hall will lecture again this afternoon at 3 o'clock in the Marquand chapel.
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