The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-09-26
HORACE BUSHNELL.
What pr. Munger Says of the Famous
 Divine.

What Dr. Munger Says of the Famous Divine.
 The long-expected biography of the Rev. Dr. Horace Bushnell by the Rev
 pr. Munger pastor of the United church in New Haven, has appeared and is
 arousing widespread interest. It is writ
 ten in delightful style and reflects great credit upon it's distinguished author. pr. Munger says of pr. Bushnell; He was a typical New Englander, not self-made, but earning the means
 whereby he might submit himself to be
 made by Yale, the son of father with
 Arminian views, and of an Episcopal
 ian mother, yet growing up in a Con
 gregational church because there was
 no other; master of two trades, wool
 carding and cloth dressing, and farm
 ing; essaying in three professions be-
 fore he discovered his proper place.
 Entering Yale at twenty-one years of
 age, studying hard, leading his class in
 athletics and founding the Beethoven
 society, he tried teaching school and de-
 clared that he would rather lay stone
 wall any time;" he served on the staff
 of the New York Journal of Commerce for ten months, and found 1t terrible life;" he studied law for year, intend-
 ing to go west, possibly into political life, but accepted a Yale tutorship, still working at law, and then, suddenly pen etrated by the spirit of one of those
 Yale revivals which make college life mere waiting on miracles, he was con verted and entered the theological school Never was a conversion more unselfish, never one less like conver- sion as it Is fancied by those free think CTS who assert that the Calvinist is q Christian through fear. He himself was happy in negative state, nursing arrant doubts,' he said, but he could not bear the spectacle of his own stu dents indifference, the result of their loyalty to him. He let the doubts lie, saying: "I am glad I have heart as well as head My heart wants the Father, my heart wants the Son. my heart wants the Holy Ghost-and one just as much as the other. My heart says the Bible has a Trinity for me, and I mean to hold by my heart. I am glad a man can do it when there is no other and so I answer my own ques- tion, What shall I do?'
 With his pupils he left two rules that ought to govern every man: ''Be per- fectly honest in forming all your opin- ions and principles of action. Never swerve in conduct from your honest He clinched this advice by saying, "If between them both you | go over Niagara, go!"
 In 1883 he was ordained pastor of he North church at Hartford after six Sundays of preaching to congregation | divided into an old school and a new school party, and in the same year he married Mary Apthorpe Thirty-six years later he prefaced his The Reform Against Nature" with dedication, in which he said: If I have done any hing well, she has been the more really in it that she did not know it. and the more willingly also that having her part n 1t known has not occurred to her; ] compelling me thus to honor not less, | put more the covert. glory of the wo- manly nature: even asI obtain dis meter and mor ewonderful apprehen sion of the divine meanings, and moist anngs, and countless unbought minis ries it contributes to the otherwise very Try world