The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-11-12
BUODt'S YALE LECTURES
PROT" Totten and Others Stirred
Up by Their Unorthodoxy.
CALLED A FRANK lNFl0EL"
From a Prominent New Haven Pulpit
Many Yale Men Disturbed by
Budde's Theological
IDEAS.

Ideas.
The chief topic of interest in uni
yersity circles here Is the course OF
lectures which Professor Karl Budde.
a learned t~heologian me scholar from
the university of S~trassburg. Germany
has beer giving In Osborn nail
whether the university was Informed
of the purport of these lectures wnen
the earned German was invited TO
enljghten the minds of Yale under
graduates upon several delicate points
of a biblical history is not known, but
there are many indications tnat the re-
sponsible persons regret the choice'
The matter has gone so far that sew
eral professors in the divinity have
warned their classes against the dan
gerous doctrines put forward by Fro
fessor Budde, and have openly 'x-
pressed their dissatisfaction at the
gentleman's appearance at Yale. An
other well-known or the the-
illogical faculty has attempted 10 ex-
plain away the presence OF TINS au-
NAnctQ I1lnktT dt ldits aho
the responsibility for the professor ana
his teachings to other hands.
Professor Budde a been denounc-
ed from a prominent New Haven pull
Dit as a rank infidel." n the univer-
sity called to ccoun for permitting
him to promulgate his doctrines I'M
der it's protection. Finally. to add a
picturesque element to the episode
Professor Budde has been drawn INTO
a lively newspaper controversy wltE
Charles A. l.. Totten, both upon the
results of their theological points of
view n the personal fitness OF the
two men to discuss such important
affairs.
who is this Totten, anyway ex-
claimed the wrathy German. after
reading several newspaper articles In
which he was severely called TO task;
and the ex~-professor returned the
compliment by describing DIR. Budde's
teachings as the new Budde-ism.'
Mr.. Totten, however, is by no means
alone In criticising Yale for the pat
ronage extended to DIR. Budde. Though
IL has been known for some time that
the New Haven theology had mitigat-
ed the rigor that characterized IL De-
fore the advent of the higher critics,
n that there was more tina one
member OF the theological faculty
who had been converted to their ideas,
there had been no indication that 1t
was prepared to go to the length sug-
gested by ID. Budde. The latter APP
peared In New Haven under the $
pices OF a national committee appoint
ed several years & to engage the
service OF biblical experts of the KIND,
and with the full approval ,of Yale.
This COMMITTEES was appointed for the
purpose of arranging such lecture
courses in the various Intellectual CEN
tiers. after the manner of the Hilbort
lectures in England. Among those IN
terested in the scheme are Professor
Harper of Chicago university. Pro-
fessor ID. G.. Brinton OF Philadelphia.
the Rev. +. +. Hale of Boston and the
Hon. Andrew ID. White, the present
United States ambassador to Berlin.
The purpose OF the organization Is TO
orange for lecture courses in some
religion, or phase of religion, from a
historical point OF view. to be deliver
ed annually in the different cities or
the association, with the understand
ing that all poiemical subjects are
to be excluded.
In accordance with the provisions of
this committee, Canon T. X. Cheyne
delivered a course last year on Re
figious Life Among the Hebrews I'm
Post-Exile Days. and the year before
Professor Daniel G.. Brinton lectured
on The Religions OF the Primitive
Peoples All these lectures were very
popular and strictly orthodox. This
year Professor Budde was invited by
the committee to give the results of
his investigation of In Old Testament
narratives to the students OF the Yale
theological school and other interested
persons. the consent OF Professor an
ders. the Yale member of the commit
tee. having been secured to this ar
rangement. Professor Budde Will also
speak before the Brooklyn institute.
New York university. Harvard. the
University of Pennsylvania and Johns
Hopkins.
DIR. Budde has succeeded in drawing
large audiences at Yale. No course
OF lectures within recent years has
aroused so much interest and enthu-
siasm among the divinity school men.
Osborn and College street halls have
been filled every evening. the attend
ance increasing as the news OF DR..
Budde's surprising disclosures spread
abroad. The doctor has an impressive
personality. He Is tall and largely
built, with bushy dark whiskers and
hair. His discourse II occasionally
brilliant and sparkles with epigrams.
IL Is not so much the personality of
the speaker. however. that has at
tracted such general attention as the
subject matter OF his lectures. His
general subject has been a continue
ton OF the lectures of Canon Cheyne
a year ago-"The Religious Ideas of
the Hebrew People Before the Exile
DIR. Budde belongs to the most ad-
vanced school OF German theological
thought. He discards the inspirat.o on
theory OF the books of the Old Tesla
ment and seeks to explain everything
ON rational scientific grounds. He de-
clares hat such an Interpretation is
absolutely essential to the future OF
the Christian faith: that IL Is useless
to expect men to be attracted toward
a mass of professedly historical data
which are self-evidently false. lie
does not believe that he necessarily
undermines the Bible when he de-
clines to accept a large majority of ITS
statements. His present course of lee
lures has devoted itself to the sub
ject OF Yahweh IJehovah) worship,