The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-10-23
THE RESTORATION PERIOD
Continued from Ninth Page.)

he looks a that picture on the wall.
Let us in sentence or two see what 1t
means:
The Preacher, as Bunyan conceives of
him, has eyes lifted up to heaven, for
from thence comes his commission, and
from thence also his sufficieucy and
strength THE best of Books Is in
His hand" for He is the setter-forth Of
a. divine revelation; His work is to
know and unfold dark things to sim
ners;" he has not to tell men merely
what he thinks, but what God thinks,
what God has said and done. THE law
Of truth is written upon his lips for
he aims ever at reality, he Is genuine
man through and through, transparent
ly sincere, having no faith in pious
make believes, or unrealty of any sort
or kind. 1.-THE world Is behind His
back" which is as much as to say that
the spirit of the world is not His spirit
its ambitions are not His, and the re-
wards it can offer have little attrac-
tion for Him, for a greater world has
risen to His view, and the less fades
before the greater. He stands as If He
upleaded with men, He has in His
heart the love, the divine compassion
for men who were in Chrlst's heart; He
pleads with them for their own souls
sake and for the sake of Him who died
for their souls-pleadS as the mother
pleads with her boy whom she loves as
her own life Finally, over the head of
the man seen in the picture there did
hang crown of gold" that is to show
thee that sighting and dispisng the
hat nv the love
that he hath to his Masters service, he
is sure in the world that comes next to
have glory for his reward When the
long days work is done and 'the Chief
Shepherd shall appear we shall receive
the crown of glory that fadeth not
away" May I not, as l pass on. say to
every divinity student what the Inter-
prefer said to Christian, Wherefore
take good heed to what | have showed
thee, and hear well in thy mind what
thou hast seem"
But besides this instructive picture on
the wall, in the Pilgrims Progress Bum
yam presents a manysided ministry in
action and life. He supplements that
picture by varied succession of char
acters which appear on the scene of his
story and sustain helpful relations to
one and another of the many pilgrims
whom we see on their way to the City
of God First we have Evangelist, who
is the Christian minister scarcely if at
ALL transformed by the requirements of
the allegory. AS his name implies, he
is the proclaimer of an evangel; he has
good tidings to tell. The story opens
before us with the sight of man
II i. e
whose lips as he wanders the fields
there comes the pitiful cry What must
I do to be saved?' TIe is, he says, not
willing to die nor able to come to judg-
ment, and he is afraid the burden upon
his bacy will sink him lower than the
grave. This is the sort of man with
whom, of all others, Evangelist loves
to deal With brotherly heart he says
to him, DO you see yonder wicket
gate? No. Then do you see yonder
shining light? You think you do.
Well, keep that light in your eye and
follow 1t till you see the gate There
you have the Christian minister in the
character in which I trust it will be the
pleasure of your own life to be found
through the years God may spare you
to work for Him-as the guide of sim
stricken, alvaton-seel<ing souls. All
things are of God, who reconciled us to
Himself through Christ, and gave unto
us the ministry of reconciliation.
And now let me take you to the Pal
ace Beautiful for another phase of
your life work as the minister of Christ.
There at the gate stands Watchful the
porter, with kindly word giving well
come to the man who with timid, trem-
bling step has just come past the lions
in the way. Before introducing the
pilgrim to the rest of the household he
has free and friendly talk with him;
finds out what sort of man he is, where
he comes from and whittier he is
bound. So that in Watchful we have
the Christian minister in his function as
president of the church. feeling himself |
responsible, as to some extent he is re-
sponsible, for the spiritual character of
the community committed to his |
charge. He is right brotherly and kind,
still his name is Watchful He knows |
that he is only steward, and that it |
Is required in stewards that a man be |
found faithful. He is conscious that he |
has no authority to make a church of |
Christ other than Christ meant it to |
be- and he is aware that when churches |
cease to be made up of spiritual men
they cease to be churches at all; that |
If you bring the world into the church |
you have destroyed the church and you |
have not benefited the world: that if |
the salt have lost it's SAVIOR there is |
nothing on earth more pungent than |
itself to give it back it's sadness.
Yet again: While the minister of |
Christ is to be Evangelist, the proclaim
ar of truth, and Watchful, the porter at |
the gate, he is also to sustain certain
important relations towards the BROTH
srhood within He must be man
among men, the guide of pilgrims. the
champion of right, the CONSIDER of sor-
cow, the inspirer of hope--in short, ac-
,ording to Bunyan's idea, he must be
he Greatheart of the Christian pill
grimage. Mr.. Greatheart is the man
servant of Interpreter the guide, con-
1uctor and protector of pilgrims. II
I'M" said he, Eat my Lords command
nent I have it in commission to COM
ort the feeble minded to support the
weak" Other work also has he to do
It times, not more manly. but more res
lutte. for again and again there comes
@ him the call to go into action against |