The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-01-28
BISHOP LAWRENCE SPEAKS
FIRST OF 4 SERIES OF LECTURES
 IN TRINITY CHURCH.

Duty of the Church to the Privileged oiasses-Why Educated People Arc Not In the Church--The Chureh's opportu- nity.
 Right Rev. William Lawrence, D, D., bishop of Massachusetts, gave the first of a series of lectures to be delivered by various speakers before the Church club of the diocese of Connecticut in Trinity church last evening" A large audience was present to hear the bish- op, who spoke on "The Mission of the Church to the Privileged Classes" in substance as follows:
 During the last thirty or forty years, and especially during the last decade, there has been a great effort made by the churches to reach the masses. The effort has been made to bring the church into the midst of the working people, and it has resulted in religious enthusiasm in the church, and the many lives of the people and of the clergy have been turned towards this work
 TT wish to speak tonight of another mission of the church and one far more difficult--the mission of the church to the privileged calsses.
 Altogether too large part of the educated people of to-day are not part of the institutional church. This neglect of the church by educated peo- pie is true not only of New England, but we have the same reports from the center and west, and the question, Why do not people go to church as they used to? has been earnestly discussed in England.
 The fault of this arrangement is not entirely on their side. but the church has also it's sins. There are great number of men from Christian homes who come to college or to schools to prepare for business where they hear truths laid as truism. They find them selves in contact with two difficult modes of lives, and the question is whether their religious life will develop along with their new life or be neglect ed
 ''Another class is composed of those who, having tasted of all the vices of life, attempt to cover it up by pretend ing that hypocrisy is paramount in the church.
 Again is the church meeting the needs of that large class of young men and women who are led on by the study of the truths of modern science in advance of the ideas of former gen. erations
 .'The upper note of the last fifty years has been the love of truth, truth shrill and .discordant, as sometimes it may be and yet the truth, and there has been less regard for ancient tradition. We must regret the attitude the church has taken in this matter, and we must hang our heads in shame that the curch has been afraid to look the truth in the eye.
 ''As an example of this we may wit ness the reception which the great sci enlist, Charles Darwin, at first met with from so-called religious press. These experiences have taught the church something and enlarged her outlook and sympathy.
 sssThere has been a reaction on the other hand, against the evils which flow from a separation of science from relig ion.
 Here is the church's opportunity and if she undertakes the work she may ac- complish much The large universities of the present time present a field for the church's most earnest effort among the student body We need to put men of large views and wide sympathies in contact with the universities. We need money, not so much to build large buildings as to support strong one. It is time to emphasize the grandeur, con- tinuity and glory of the church.
 Through all the ages only one or ganization has stood for truth ana morality, and that is the church.