Morning journal and courier., 1891-04-25
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 Characteristics of St. Paul Worthy 5 of Mention.
 Dr. Stalker gave his last lecture in Mar quand chapel yesterday and the people of New Haven, as well as the students, made good use of their opportunity by crowd ing even the vestibules outside the chapel. He spoke on the intellectual side of St. Paul and preaching. "Both prophets and and apostles" said he, "speak with an authority peculiar to their time. We call this inspiration, but the reason they did so was because they thoroughly believed in what they said. St. Paul was particularly strong in intellect, and the man of all men, to whom it was of necessity to know the why and wherefore of everything. He also expected men to think and prayed his converts might abound in mental qualities" Here the lecturer, as usual, quoted number of passages in illustra- tion. ''No small time had to be spent on refuting wrong doctrine. Gentlemen, you are going to be Christian teachers; many will depend on you for their gospel, and as you teach it, it will be narrow and mean or spacious and noble. Often in great moral crises it is only the force of convictions that holds men fast to Christ, and you therefore must so reason as to bring it home to their conviction. spoke formerly of the blessed privileges of ministering to the lambs of the flock; but you ought not always to be simple. Is the Bible always simplea Are Romans, a,ll s-f1 ~l E,,ta simple throughout Don't fall into intellectual laziness We must have meat for men as well as good to any one than to the preacher him self. He may at first be cumbered with doubts which will be lifted off him. l knew a young preacher who regularly once month gave one of a course of intel lectual sermons and though unknown to his congregation it benefited both. Lit erature, I have said, should supplement
 his preaching, but never be substituted for it. Besides the theological studies of the place in general, each student ought to be known among his fellows as the man who
 has a special knowledge of some one sub ject. Such a man is like well that never runs dry.
 ''There are, finally, two characteristics of St. Paul would like to call your spec ial attention to. The first is, that the thinking of St. Paul went hand in hand with experience. He thought experi-
 mentally. If his epistles be arranged in
 chronological order, we find wonderful
 and steady growth running through them. He thus made new discoveries continually;
 and never is sermon so grand as when
 the preacher comes forth after discover ing truth he has been thinking about for the past week and tells it, as it flashes up | on him with all the force of l novelty and conviction. The second feature is that of the balance of | duty and doctrine. Each of his epistles l will be found to be divided into part on the doctrine of the gospel and another giv- ing practical rules for life. don't know
 which predominates in our day, but the | preaching of doctrine apart from living
 connection with duty and with the faith is | dry husk without seed"
 Dr. Stalker ended by thanking the col
 lege, faculty and students, for their pres
 ence and attention, and after prayer the | people poured ont of the doors and went on their several ways.