The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-11-27

LECTURE BY DR.. MUNGER
ON THE EMINENT SCOTTISH Divine
DIR. CHALMERS.
Mcleod Present In IA Body-Dr. Munger
Gave Very Interesting Account OF
the Great Preachers Career,

The Rev, DR.. T. I. Munger Of the
| United church last night conducted the
annual church service Of the two local
Scottish societies, viz, the New Haven
Caledonian club and Clan Mcleod No.
81, Order Of Scottish Clans. The mem
bers met at their rooms, No. 400 State
street. and, preceded by Chief r. D..
Pryde of the club and Chief James
Mustarde of the clan, marched in a
body to the church. where they were
accommodated with seats in the center
of the church.
DR.. Munger chose as his subject "a
Great Scottish Preacher and at the
outset said he took 1t for granted that
the bulk of his Scottish bearers had al
ready guessed who the preacher he re-
ferred to was, viz, Dr. Thomas Chal-
mers. The speaker in his opening re-
marks paid a high compliment to Scot
land and Scotchmen He spoke at
length of the many great men that had
gone out from her hills and dales and
made name for themselves in the
world He spoke in unstinted praise of
Knox and Scott and Burns, and refer
red to such heroes as Bruce and Wal
lace and to men Of letters such as Car
lyle. Macaulay, Ian MacLaren and
many Others who had made a name for
themselves and for Scotland.
DR.. Munger then delivered an elo-
auent address on the life and work Of
the great Scottish divine and orator,
DR.. Thomas Chalmers. He sketched
Chalmers early career at college and
then gave an interesting account OF his
nrly til. L.
at Anstruther, Fifeshire, at the early
age of nineteen. This parish was
near, he said, to the University of st.
Andrew, where DR.. Chalmers used to
lecture five days out of the seven, his
sermons for Sunday at this time gener-
ally being prepared on Saturday even
ing.
DR.. Munger then told of Chalmers
removal to the Iron church In Glas-
gov, where he first began to make his
power known as a preacher. Here his
fame and eloquence went forth to such
an extent that the commodious church
was insufficient to hold the crowds that
sought admission and hundreds had to
be turned away at every service. The
Iron church of Glasgow, it might here
be mentioned, was situated in one Of
the densest portions of the city and was
surrounded by dens and alleys where
criminals and people of the lowest type
took up their abode
The town council Of the city have
within recent years made great i'm
provements at this part of the city by
pulling down block after block and
street after street of houses until one
would fail to recognize it as the same
spot unless for one landmark that was
allowed to stand as a fitting memorial
of the past and especially Thomas
Chalmers and that the steeple of the
famous old building. Thee hurch itself |
has gone the way of other buildings,
but the steeple has been allowed to |
stand as reminder of the days when |
Chalmers lived and spoke from under |
the shadows of its befry
While in Glasgow and during the
height of his popularity as preacher |
Or. Chalmers did not content himself, |
DR.. Munger said, with composing and
delivering sermons, but made it his
business to know the condition of the
1000 people who composed his parish
He found time to visit them in their
homes, most of which were wretched
ana poor and did much to improved
heir condition. and lift the people from
he squalor that surrounded them He
instituted mission work and got the
1oung interested in all his movements
Dr.. Munger then reviewed at some
ength the prominent part the Scottish
Irvine played in the disruption of the
Established Church of Scotland, and
he great interest he took in the up
building of the Free church. He also
poke briefly of Cha liners work as pro-
essor of moral philosophy in Edn-
,urgh university, and lastly of his sud
lent but peaceful end, he having been
ound in bed one morning dead with |
10 signs of suffering. 1t was a fitting
ermination, he said, fsthe life of
nan who had lived such life as DR..
chalmers did.
CONGRATULATIONS |
George Davidson of Westville is re- ,
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