Morning journal and courier., 1892-10-28
VALE DIVINITY SCHOOL.

YALE DIVINITY SCHOOL.
Opening of a Very Interesting Series
of Lectures Before the Yale Divini-
ty Students at Marquand Chapel
Yesterday Afternoon.
The Introductory lecture of series on
ssModern Missions in the East" was deliv-
cred before the divinity school in Mar
quand chapel yesterday afternoon by the
Rev. Edward A. Lawrence of Baltimore. |
The room was well filed. In the audi |
ence were several clergymen of the city and
q number of ladies.
The lecturer announced as his theme:
"Providence in Missions" The original
and sold master missionary was Christ.
His own divine commands to his followers
were come, to me and learn; and go,preach
the gospel. The Bible is the mission book
of the world. What does history show in
the providence Of missions? One of the
most obvious lessons is the continuity of
missions The spirit of missions is the
spirit of Christ. The result of eighteen
centuries of Christian effort is exhibited in
the present possessions of Christianity. We
have an assurance of the continuous proc
lamation of his gospel to the end of time.
The records of the second and third cent
uries give but little indication of what the
missionary spirit accomplished, but since
that period each century has linked with
it luminous names, standing for it's prog
ress toward conquering the world for
Christ.
The providence of missions appears in
opportunity and fidelity-the one external,
| the other internal. Palestine was train
school for missions. God cast forth five
great race dispersions. First, the Aryan;
| then came the Greek, with its inf1u
| ence upon the nations for learning and cult
| ure, preparing the way for the conquests
of Paul; and again the dispersion of the
people comprising the Babylonian empire;
the fourth was the Semitic, and the last
the Christian.
Grain had been gathered from many
fields, trodden by the hoofs of conquerors
into meal and finally kneaded into one
lump-the Roman empire-and the leaven-
ing of this lump was the inspiration of the
life of one divine Lord.
The time had come when the religions OF
the ancient peoples had been proved of nc
avail, but antiquity could not shake itself
free from its own creations. The fnal
blow to the old religions of heathendom
was struck by the spiked hand.
The second opportunity was the IT.
ruptions ofithe great northern tribes, bring
ing them under the influence of contact
with the legions of Christian Rome
Enduring fidelity mastered this oppor
tunity.
A startling interruption to the progress
of Christianity was the spread of Moham
; mechanism, which overcame the orienta
Christian churches. We may not refus
| to call the crusades q great missionar,
movement.
The modern and worldwide missionar,
movement began with the discovery of tn
west and the recovery of the east. Colum
bus inaugurated the great movement O
population to the west which is the cul
mination of to-day.
Among the greatestinfuences which cal
| be read in the providence of missions wa
the invention of the art of printing, whicl
was the first means of making the Bibl
: really the book of the peoples and making
p possible the general circulation of Chris
: tian literature. Another was tho discov
l cry and application Of the power of steam
1 which was to draw the nations together /
q bands of steel. Not before this time wa
! the church purified and ready to use thes
= means for the spreading of missions.
. The opportunity of the sixteenth Ger
? tury was a corrupt church. 1t accepte
1
was founded thirteen years after Luthe
! began his work. No adequate reason coul
be given for the failure of the Protestar
church to promptly embrace or recogniz
the missionary spirit. The self-sacrifcin
labors of the Jesuit missionaries may we
:. have been emulated, for they stand
strong contrast to the lack of the missio
!. purpose in the early years of the Prote
tant church. The work of William Ca1
:, marks the beginning of the modern mi
K sionary movement, one year after the deaf
!. of Wesley.
), Contact is the great opportunity. tt
opportunities of reaching the women
Il China and Japan have been prepared
n the development of the women here.
= God is casting the nations of Europe in
70 this country, however legislation may ter
porarily retard; he is finging Engishme
= into India, the Germans into Africa. Al
"a in his own time, the meshes of the net ha
d ing caught all together, the conquering
the world for Christ will be accomplishe
= The topic announced for the second lee
d ure of the course, which will be deliver,
"a this afternoon at 8 o'clock, is s'The Tur
ish Dominion"
The X. o. J. Society.
The first sociable of the season of t
l. K. O. J. society was given in Loom
Academy of Music last evening. The E
"a ciety will give series of sooiables duril
no the winter. Tha hall was handsome
> decorated for the occasion. Among tho
present were Miss Barwald and Mr.. W
a. liam Barwald of Hartford, Miss Hat
30 Ortenau, Miss Ray Linde, Miss T. Bre,
70 fielder, Miss R. Ullman, Mr.. J. Gompert
' L. Gompertz, NJ. Weiss, J. Goldbaum,
- Williams, NJ. Stodel, J. R. Bolton. T
sociable committee for 1892 -93 is: Phil
ly b. We'll, chairman; Meyer Stodel, sec1
I'd tary; Louis L. We'll, Hermann Kra
L. Jacob Stodel, Benjamin Bernstein. Edwa
"a We'll.