Morning journal and courier., 1894-03-20
DIR. JOHN HALL AT YALE.

The Eminent New York Divine Ad. dresses the Y. M. o. A. on ssBible Study.''
 Rev. Dr. John Hall of the Sixth avenue Presbyterian church, New York, spoke be. fore the Y. M. 0. A. of Yale university in
 Dwight hall, last evening, on "Bible Study" There was large audience pres snt and he spoke in part as follows:
 "Look at the way the Bible commences it's narrative, God created the heavens the answer to our question of how the
 world was created. True the narrative is weak. It is hardly scientific. Yet how did the old writer get the order of the creation If he was not directly inspired by God. They had no Isaac Newtons or astronomical towers in those days. So the first thing I want to emphasize to you is
 the fitness of the Bible in beginning with the creation. The Bible then describes how man wac created. He was not made ss q machine. He was made @ rational being with the power of choice. We must always keep in mind that the Old Testa- ment and the New are one and we cannot understand the one without the other. Christian ministry Is to preach the word of God. We hear 8 great deal nowadays about preaching to the times, which is understood to mean destiny with the cur rent topics of the day, such as are dis cussed in the magazines and the popular literature of the day. This is all very we'll. But we must remember that we are preaching for eternity. When Jesus Christ was preparing to quit the world and leave His work here, He put 1t in the hands of twelve trained men to perpetusts His teachings and found what we call the church. So the church goes on from gen eration to generation with Christ at its head and whose principle function is to proclaim the blessed gospel.
 ''Now, young gentlemen. wish you would think upon these things. For we have a lot of people in the United States who see too little distinction between Pro- testantlsm and Roman Catholicism, and against whom we must be warned if we are to perpetuats the blessings ws now enjoy. The confessions, indulgencss and all that machinery of the Catholic church which was the curse of the dark ages and is the curse of some nations to-day, was due to gross perversions of the Holy Scriptures. And it is our duty to know the truth re- garding these things.
 "The apostles had no successors. How could they3 They appointed ministers and 0AooAc nAo 6o ROARosuok00 b10 ln6bkGutlOu which Christ came to found. The ques- ton might also ariss if the Bible gives us any rule for living. There is no book fol- lowing which ve can gain . truer insight into the true philosophy of living.
 ''In this book VIC find no justification of what WE have now come to call anarchism, with its diabolical bombs and its diabolicsl methods. The rich are not condemned be- cause, they are rich. It is only when they
 T. ~G kh~s- -ln goes down from the parlor through the dining room and kitchen and tells the ser wants what they should be and what they should do.
 "Another question that might arise to any thoughtful man; and that is, What will be the end of usi Where do we go at the endP The Bible is very explicit on this point. It tells us, that the children of God shall enjoy the blessings of eternal life, and that the wicked shall enter into the punishment prepared for the devil and his angels.
 study the Bible. We cannot get along without 1t. We need the spirit of God eyer present with us. If we try to eet along without Him NC will make failures of all our lives. You all remember the story of the men who started to build the tower of Babel In opposition to God and their dismal failure. So ws Babel builders If we are trying to work out our own shall Do disappointed just as they were.
 So try to bring yourselves near to God by the study of His word. When you are doing this you are brought into . mystical union with Jesus. You are made mem- ber of the invisible church. Ba diiigent students of Gods word % that we may be- ,oms intelligent and deyeut teachers of {"