Morning journal and courier., 1891-05-21
THE SALVATION ARMY.

ry-mcet1ng or the Alumn1-Whatl They Think of General Booth's movement-Analysis of Its Pleasant
 Reception to the Alumni.
 The Lyceum bell rang out at 10 o'clock yesterday morning for the anniversary ex- ercises of the Yale divinity school, which were held in Battell chapel. President l Dwight presided as usual, the exercise be- l ing opened by prayer by Dr. Bucking ham of Springfield, Mass. The subjects l of the essays were interesting and showed l considerable religious activity among the | students of the seminary. The following were the speakers and their subjects: 1. Two Plans for Church Extension in this City
 Edward Lester Marsh, B. A., Amherst
 college; Leicester, Mass. 2. Socialism or Individualism- -Elbridge Cutler
 Whiting, B. A., Amherst college; Milford, 8. The Duty of the Ministry With Respect to
 e sofia Bo.tcn, 4. The Institution of Chari1ies-Clyde Weber
 votaw, B. A., Amherst college; Geneva, 5. The Revival of Reverence for Nature -F1 ede-
 rick Howard Means, B.A., Harvard univer- 2. Recreant Protestantism- Colton Eel
 loves, B. A., Yale university; Hartford, 8. A Problem for City Mssions-Harry Ernest
 Peabody, ,B.A, Harvard university; Prince g. Lessons from the Greek Drama-Arthur Nit
 chen Little, B. A., Yale university; Wash ''' Chester Merritt Clark, B.A.,.Knox G college; il, Hom aasfSGre sha I've Treat the criticsFrederick
 Bates Richards, BA;, Amherst college; En- 1s. The Gesnean and @ad the Christian !dealIWi:
 Oxford, NY.
 A more detailed account of the proceed ings will be found in another column.
 At a meeting of the Divinity school alumni held in Marquand chapel at 2:30 in the afternoon, besides the alumni and professors, 8 considerable number of ladies and other outsiders were also presenk After the opening devotional exercises pointed to fill the chair. Dr. Day then read the list of graduates deceased during the last year and gave general review of the present status of the Divinity school. This class, said he, was the largest ever graduated from the school and it now numbers the largest number of students, 142. A new benefactor has presented the school with bequest of $50,0O0. with the wise pro- vision that the income be used to the best advantage of the school, whatever that may be. This benefactor is MT. Morris K. Jesup. Another donation is pending the
 
 ated four wants of the seminary: Provis- ion for the repair of buildings, scholar ships for graduate courses, new building for commons, lectures and social enjoy ment and cultivation, and special library of modern missions. The Hooker fellow ship has been awarded to Miller Brown Thorpe of Amherst college.
 Mr. Benton then presented Dr. E. P. Parker of Hartford, who made the follow ing intructive address on tho Salvation army:
 "Whatever the world will say or think of the Salvation army, we must admit it is | one of the most remarkable religious move in twenty years all over the world | and is established in thirty-two coun- | tries. A poor man and his wife with | half dozen children tossed about the world set to work to reform it, and so suc- ceeded that at last his wife lying on her | death-bed with the consciousness that ten | thousand officers were under her and | thousands upon thousands were numbered time when the Salvation army seemed only time is past, but even now it seems to many noisy mob. It is not the move l ment of mob, but of an army. Doesn't t 1 a railroad train make moro noise than a stage coachs So it is noisier than our | church chimes and modern organ music. It is open to criticism; yet when we think | what these have had to deal with-the scorn of the poor and the ridicule of the respectable and religious, the taunts and even denial of common justice, and how | meekly it's soldiers have borne it, can we turn the cold shoulder?
 Let us consider the spirit and see wheth- or yt,,1 nothing about it say no; those who know best about it say they are have seen them in England. Contempt has given way to esteem. I make bold to say and | stand fast in saying that never heard any services more decent and perhaps even as reverent in St. Paul's. When saw these people, men and women brought up in re- 6nement and comfort, leaving all, giving up all, their fortunes and their 1ives-wo- men patrolling in the Salvation army uni form streets whore they couldn't go forty rods without them, going down into at mospheres of the worst filth and degrada- tion, and with all, submitting to all the scorn of the refined by wearing that uni form-I came away feeling that they knew as well and perhaps 8 little better than most of us what a soldier of the cross is. "This salvation movement is set in the the right direction-of aggression and in- vasion, and not mere rotatory and time marking service within the limits of par ishes. Many earnest men are e1horting new religious advance less distinctly Pauline and more universal. These Christians at work have, without knowing it, illumined the Christian thought of Eng land. They give 8 fine illustration of spir- itual dynamics by putting their converts to something else but the salvation of their own souls.
 "Now, Booths work, conducted in al leys and Hobbies and stables and beer | houses, was not intended to be indepen- | dent of the churches. Those people needed l what the churches could not give them | they did not want the churches and the churches did not want them. It is the l merit and not the shame of these, that seeing such things instrumental for them. | they did not shrink from them. They found that uniformed processions and brass instruments would gather in those from the highways and hedges-and they actually did scoop up and carry along mons there could not be understood; and that is just the foolishness of preaching. It is nothing to those pure-minded men and women to be jeered at when they go out at 10 o'clock that they may rescue those who are going down, down, to ter | rible end. If there are any heroes and heroines in this world they are to be found in the Salvation army. Then God be praised for the Salvation army! They may all be scattered in the next twenty years; but whatever happens it has accomplished inestimable good for the cross of Christ and these who now march in the ranks of the despised shall shine like stars in their heavenly fathers kingdom"
 Rev. George Bushnell, D. D., of this city, then spoke somewhat as follows:
 '.I suppose you thought in putting me up here you would have a fight, and I would be down on the Salvation army on account of my criticism of General Booths book. The work and the book are two different things. Now I bid you young gentlemen not to say anything against the Salvation army,-there is too much of God in it. Now will point out some of the places where it's strength lies. The Salvation army is General Booth. It demonstrates the method of re- forming those whom we have deemed unreformable, and it would be strange if we should turn the cold eye of prejudice and not the warm eye of sympa- thy upon it. Is General Booth seen get ting up church, discussing theology, writing sermons, going into a profession which draws wells' No; he went straight for men and has been doing so twenty-five years, and that's the reason. He learned hia Oh ristianitv in the word and b;s o1r,,