The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-28
TAN MACLAREN'S" VISIT
HIS LECTURES IN THE LYMAN
 BEECHER COURSE.

Beecher course. The lectures on this foundation are addressed to the theo- logical students. and form a part of their training for the ministry, The the College street hall. The seats on the center aisle are reserved for the members of the divinity school, clergy men and officers of the university, The remaining portion of the house will be open to the public.
 The subjects of the lectures are:
 The Genesis of a Sermon"
 "The Technique of a Sermon"
 Problems of Preaching"
 Theology; the Theory of Religion"
 ''The New Dogma"
 "The Machinery of a Congregation"
 ''The Work of a Pastor"
 1.-The Public Worship of God"
 'The Ministers Care of Himself.''
 Four, and perhaps five lectures will be given in the week ending October 3, and the remainder in the following week.
 
 Haven will be the guest of Prof. George P. Fisher.
 Yesterdays New York Times has the following concerning Rev. Dr. Wat son and his career, which will interest the thousands here who have become acquainted with Ian Maclaren through .is book, and will improve the oppor- tunity to see and hear him here.
 IAN MACLAREN.
 With that delightful impulsiveness, which is it's most interesting character istic, the intelligent and critical public decided, some after Ian Maclaren wrote Beside the Bonnie Briar Bush." that it's author came appreciably near being a great man, and that the book was one necessary to buy, inspiring to read and a fine, durable topic for improving conversation. s
 All this having been irrevocably set tied, that portion of the intelligent and critical public which daily and kindly informs the rest of us that it is much more intelligent and critical than the other portion, proceeded to revoke the settlement and to talk with disdainfully 
 yard,'' to wonder wearily if the cultiva- tors thereof were not getting to be more numerous than the relations of literary supply and literary demand were likely to justify, and to declare that, while man doubtless could, in- deed, live for a long while on diet drawn almost exclusively from the in closure under d scussion, yet he was not obliged to assert that he liked it, or to deny that the aroma which haunted the chambers of the mind as a result of such a regimen was somewhat too self -assertiye.
 Both these views of Ian Maclaren and his fellow gardeners are, now rather widely exploited, the latter view more vigorously that the former, per haps; but the people who buy books for the old fashioned purpose of reading them continue to regard Beside the Bonnie Briar Bush as a work full of human interest; continue to believe that, when they are smiling at it's chill humor or come near paying its bitter pathos the tribute of remembering the situation of their thyroid glands, just when they are by no means i'll employ ed; continue, in short, to consider the invention of Drumtochty a praise- worthy achievement and the inventor one whom they would be glad to see and hear.
 Therefore 1t Is quite certain that Ian Maclaren, whom the Germanic brought here last Wednesday, and who is about to give a series of lectures and read ings from his own published and un- published works, will be warmly well comed by vast number of real friends. And the welcome will be no less warm because most of us would rather live behind Sing Sings gray walls than in that artistically fascinating Drumtoch- ty, or because, way down in our hearts. we are convinced that the dear boy who studied and starved himself to death was an unintelligent victim of ignorance and superstition of the most unlovely and unpardonable sort, and not, as Ian Maclaren apparently wants us to believe, a hero worthy of imita- tion.
 Much in the same way, doubtless, that Ian Maclaren's Liverpudlian con- gregation, composed of rich merchants and their fashionably dressed wives, listen Sunday after Sunday with pleas ed approval to his expositions of Q Presbyterianism which, while of init igated acridity, is still sufficiently an- achronistic to drive quite mad any | modern person who might attempt to exemplify its teachings and nominal beliefs in his life and actions, so his | American friends will calmly hear de- scribed phase Of society and a stage of intellectual development with which | they are quite as out of touch as with | that illustrated by the prophets follow | CTS at Constantinople.
 | There may, indeed, be a Drum l tochty, a place to which exposed plumbing and the evolutionary theory | have not penetrated, a place in which | piety would be the most distinguishing | trait of the people if the prevalence of | drunkenness and an amazing number | of nameless children were not even more characteristic, a place where tu- | berculosis, typhoid fever and Calvan- l ism are all endured with heroic pa tience as ''infiictions' or ''visitations, ' 1 tending toward spiritual grace, but | never suggesting A resort to Srch pa-