Morning journal and courier., 1889-01-11
A YOUNG pREAoHEK,s ovrF1r.

A YOUNG PREACHERS OUTFIT. First of the Lyman Beecher Lectures
 by Professor y. A. Broadus-A Splen-
 did Diseourse-Entrance of a Young
 Man to the eministry-The Many Qual-
 ifleations-The 0uGat of Habits-The
 Young Ministers Motto.
 Narquand chapel was crowded with people yesterday afternoon to hear the first in the course of Lyman Beecher lectures by Profess sor John A. Broadus of the Louisville, Ky., Theological seminary. The subject of yester days interesting, instructive and entertaining discourse by the professor was .sThe Young Preachers Outfit" He held his large aud fence in rapt attention from first to last.
 In opening he said that as rule men amounted in life to about what their student days promised. This has been variously con frmed, especially by Macauley, who careful- ly investigated the records of Oxford and Cambridge universities. A young man ought to be entering the ministry from an internal impulse. First, he should be conscious of some turn for teaching, didactio turn Of mind. The first efforts may be failures. It's 8 credit to have them so if you succeed after wards. Yet there must be 8 natural adapta- tion for public speaking. Some say orators and poets are born, not made. I say they are born and made.
 Secondly there must be feeling of desire and sense of duty to engage in this specific hesitate to take up the ministry until coerced. A young man ought to cultivate 8 self desire to be minister. Can you be willing to be a minister? An, young man, can you dare to be a minister! There should also be earnest efforts to do good as 8 man may find time and opportunity. Old Daniel Baker once wrote: "Do good in great things, do good in small things. in all things do good"
 young minister ought to have some true and deep religious experience. First, strong convictions are indispensable to power. Let it be a real thing for young man that God is. Cherish faith in Gods providence that every mans life is plan of God. Maintain indwelling of the holy spirit. We must seek not inspiration, but the indwelling spirit of God that we may be a strong symmetrical Christian character. Let us remember that the real power of preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ must be an unction from the grace all expressions of Christian life will help to qualify him for the art of preaching. Great moral conflicts, even where one is not always the victor, and spiritual temptations, though subtitle, are to some of great DO wer.
 Thirdly, the young preacher greatly needs vigorous bodily health. Vigorous health is necessary for nerve power, that mysterious something which goes thrilling through great assembly of people. It is so with every highly effective public speaker. Nerve force is also the physical basis of force of will and character. Good digestion is great factor also.
 Fourthly, 8 young preachers outfit must include certain natural and acquired mental powers. First, clearness of statement; 8 clear conception does not always insure clearness of statement. Second, power of vigorous argument Special attention should be given to debate. Third, power of creative imagination. Every sermon ought organizing thought. Every sentence and paragraph should be production of imagina- tion, of art. This is found in that stern dis cipline of studying prose or verse that makes us cultivate or exercise the imagination. Fourth, the power of passion. The soldier cannot be cold. The soul must swell in passionate purpose to prevail. From Whit field, Patrick Henry and Henry Clay we have but few cold fragments of preparation. The rest was swelling passion and imagination that set the soul on fire. Speakers of the northern States are apt to lack passion. They have magnificent strength splendid energy and culture but lack the overpowe1ing pas sion of the South. They are, however, better writers than their southern country men. Passion, too, may be cultivated. Why nota
 Fifthly one of the most important elements of power in a public speaker is sympathy; he must sympathize in intellect and emotion with the peoples thought, but always with the higher minds. How valuable thing for a minister to really understand religious peop1el He must be the connecting link be- tween Bible times and our own, between the future life and the present, between learning and the thought of the common people; he must bring the two together.
 Sixthly, to control and utilize all other powers, public speaker must have force of will. A truly great speaker does not so mad for strong passions are controlled by strong CT will. A young preacher must have a cer tain outfit of knowledge. This may be under One will promote the other. There must be an Second, habits of observing; observe faces Third, habit of refecting upon things ob- served. Fourth, an habitual command of easy expression. He should be at homo in all colloquial simplicity. Our eye is in love with colloquial simplicity in public speak ing. Fifth, a habit of upright, easy and graceful personal bearing. Sixth, habitual good manners. A minister above all, should be gentleman.
 For the last topic, @ young minister's out fit ought to include elevated aspirations. God forbid that you should ever be con- tented with any sermon you have preached. What is the use of being alive if man can not hope to improve: In closing, would recommend to you famous German motto: "Immer Hinaus and Hinauf." It is good motto for young minister.