Morning journal and courier., 1886-04-13

ing Sadie's friend does not deem it advisa- ble to come to this city without the custom ary requisition documents, and will keep a sharp lookout for him until those legal pa- pers are forwarded to him in New York.
 LECTURES AT YALE.
 pr. Burton Gives the Last Lecture of
 His COurse-s"The Perils and Value
 Of RoutIne''-Dr. John Hall of New
 York to Lecture Thursday and Fri-
 day of This Week.
 Rev. Dr. Burton delivered the last lecture of his course before the students of the Yale seminary, many elergymen and ladies yester- day afternoon. He discussed the perils and value of routine. Almost everything has it's peri1s. Routine is a fixed round and round and round and then round again. It does not hurt the planets to go round, nor does it hurt the maker of them. Therefore routine what is in the one going round whether routine is lad or not. Consider the grand multiplex circularity overhead in the light of routine. Should I agree to lecture here at 3 o'clock and when I came find that the sun had not yet risen and was not likely to rise for an hour, a week or year, or in short if it seemed that the sun was off on some mysterious lark, it would be a miracle to us, violation of the order and repetition of God. We are made so that it is 8 pleasure for us to be routinists; and our hab- itual action tends to become automatic ton in which there is danger, for in that we use only our artificial and secondary selves.
 The automatic theolegian is the man with d certain limited set of first-class doctrines; he goes over the same track again and again without the ghost of a volition to help him along. You cannot upset or modify his theology for he will not get out of his track. Automatism in man is parallel to instinct in the lower animal. A duck is duck and the moment it gets out of it's shell it will run for the water by instinct, and duck it will remain, even though Jonathan Edwards were to get hold of him. The automatic theologian differs from the duck, in that he was not born so. His theology is the result of his fumblings here and there when taken in the aggregate He does not stimulate his people, for they know that he is not feeding them from the products of his own live understanding. His words are dead to himself and dead to his people because dead to him.
 If minister confines himself to his pro- fession entirely, it will hum drum him in the end-he must range beyond his parish and people if he will keep his spring. Poetry, books of science, everything almost out of theology must be read. His reading and ac- quaintance must be diversified. Some of his friends should be of the humorous twit- tering sort-birds twitter. The preachers friends need not be all of the pious sort; human beings are exceedingly interesting they are put up in different shapes and it is good to go among all in order to get the benefit of few. For recreation, put your mind down upon things which you are not used to. When communing with nature, loaf, for nature takes loafers in her arms she prefers them-and sends them back home feeling like wood-nymphs.
 The value of routine. Be the perils what they may brave them for the value of them foy iG t0 n havA you a fore-calculable man, and it is also satisfactory to yourself. You can do more work and easier by a system than by spurts. There are many kinds of work which cannot be performed without automa- tism; mind and body fashion themselves to the routine, and by practice you can harness up the team of your faculties and routine them together, not routine one of them Every intellectual man can illus trate this from his own history. The minister becomes trained to it and after practice can usually get something from his intellect, be it what it may He could once say and write nothing; now he goes on and on, sometimes forever. Skill, artifcially worked up-worked up by routine-gives him facility. Routine gradually stamps out reluctance in us and cures groanings, turning the good breath before uselessly expended into work. By diligence one can kill his own moodiness and make his mind give down food more or less meet for the occasion for which he is at work
 The next lectures will be given by Dr. John Hall, of New York, on Thursday and Friday of this week.
 Funeral of Robert w. O'Oennell. A large and deeply sorrowing circle of | friends gathered yesterday afternoon at the \ home of the late Robert w. O'Connell, No. | 16 Orchard street, to render the last tribute of affection for one whom all had held in | profound esteem. The beautiful funeral | services of the Episcopal church were per formed by Rev. Charles E. Woodcock, rector of the Church of the Ascension and the deep | silence that pervaded the chamber of death l was occasionally broken by the sobs of the ! afflicted as the impressive words of religious | consolation fell from the lips of the clergy | man. The casket in which lay the remains, | calm and peaceful as if the sleeper had just ! dropped into slumber, was hidden in 8 | wealth of exquisite flowers. Some of these \ floral offerings were pillow inscribed with | Brother at Rest'' from Miss Maria O'Con- | nell, sister of the deceasefi; wreath bear | ing the word f'Uncle'' from little Mamie, 8 l niece; an anchor from MT. and Mrs. Halliwell; | a piece representing the Gates Ajar from | Miss Nellie Mannix; a harp from the Clan-na- | Gael association, of which the deceased was | a prominent and honored member; Q wreath | from ftFriend Dan; "a wreath from Miss Mamie Brosnan, a crown from MT. and Mrs. E. R. Jefcott; a cross, bouquets, etc. Among | the mourners who followed the remains to
 Evergreen cemetery, where the interment | took place, were the Glan-na-Gaels, all the leading and most prominent members of the club being in line. The pallbearers were Daniel F. Brosnan, John Hogan of New York, Samuel Halliwell, Captain P. OCon-
 nor, P. Tierney, William Lynch,
 Lott J. Cunningham and E. R. | Jeffcott. The large attendance of mourners was testimonial to the esteem in which the | deceased was held by all with whom he had come into association, whether in the relations of business or social life; and when the earth closed above all that was mortal of Robert W. O'Connell, all present felt that good man had gone to his rest, man faithful in all the walks of life and worthy of the high place he had held in the hearts of all who knew him.
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