The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-13
LYMAN BEECH LECI URES.
opening of Series by Rev. John Brown
 of Bedford, England.

Key. John Brown, D. D.. of Bedford
 England, Author of "The Pilgrim Fath CTS Of New England'', Life of John Bunyan," and other writings of great
 interest and value, gave the first lee. ture of the Lyman Beecher course on Preaching in Marquand chapel Wednes
 day afternoon at o'clock. There are nine lectures in the course, the subject of Wednesdays being from the intro ductory, "The Preaching of the Friars' and was an exceedingly interesting one
 The course of lectures similar to these l Is delivered to the students of the Divi- ity school of Yale every fall. The gene ral subject of the course this fall Is
 Puritan Preaching in England" | The body of Marquand chapel was | filled with members of all classes in the Divinity school and large number of outsiders were seated around the hall. | The course of lectures is always a very popular one, and each one of the | nine lectures will doubtless be very well | attended. The subject for to-morrow's S | lecture will be John Cole and the Preachers of the Reformation" 1 Dr. Brown spoke of all the different
 
 many authors sand relative incident from lives of former preachers. In opening Dr. Brown said, He who realizes the living preacher which in its most fatal forms has even taken in the spiritual life of the Church, well need no further assurance of it's great im- portance.
 When life has gone out of the preacher you will find it has gone out of the Church. On the other hand when there has been revised message of life from the preachers lips, there has come in consequence a revised condition in the church itself. The relation between them CD things has been found to be constant and uniform. If it be truth and true it is, that lowliest and love- Hest may be transfgured by the grand eur if in heartfelt associations, the Christian preacher may well be inspired with a noble enthusiasm as he surveys the past.
 There too historical review, not merely of preaching, but of Puritan preaching may have one other advan tage in this place. It may seem to strengthen those bonds of brotherhood between America and England which If recent years have been growing stronger to the joy of all right minded and God fearing men. It could be seen all through Dr. Browns lecture that he is strongly in favor of Anglo-American Alliance and when the two great coun- tries when mentioned in connection with each other, applause greeted the noted preacher.
 Dr. Brown quoted many beautiful pas sages from former authors and showed in way that was clear to the young ministers, the various styles of preach ing and how thew were brought out.
 The subjects and dates of the lectures in the course are as follows:
 Oct. 12 John Colet and the Preachers of the Reformation.
 Oct. 13. The Cambridge Puritans.
 Oct. IT, Thomas Goodwin and the Cambridge Plationists.
 Oct. 19. John Bunyan as Life Study for Preachers,
 Oct. 20. Richard Baxter the Kidder- meister Pastor.
 Oct. 25. Representative Preachers of Modern Puritanism, CD Thomas Blaney and C. H. Sturgeon.
 Oct. 26. Representative Preachers of Modern Puritanism, (2) R. w. Dale of  Oct. 27 Representative Preachers of Mod-rn Puritanism, (3) Alexander Maclaren, of Manchester.