The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-10-29
ANSON PHELPS STOKES, JR.
Yale Secretary Preached in College
 Chapel Yesterday.

l | Chapel Yesterday.
 Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes, IT., sec-
 retary of the Yale Corporation,
 preached yesterday morning in college chapel
 | It was a simple and direct sermon
 upon the masterhood of Christ. Choos- | ing as scripture lesson the seventh
 chapter of Luke, in which is contained 1 the account of Christs revealing him.
 self through his miraculous works to | the messengers from John. MT. Stokes
 confined himself to the discussion of | that particular kind of earnest inquiry
 and doubt discovered in the prophets s question, Art thou He that. should
 come, or do we lock for another?" MT. l Stokes said:
 | "I speak to you as young man to | young men. You have come to Yale | for various reasons reasons which all bear upon questions intimately con-
 corning your own lives and the lives bound up with your being In the world. And when I assume this question in your minds which was put so seriously by the great forerunner of Christ, 1 do so that it may be answered reasonably and sensibly.
 Who should he be of whom we must
 answer for ourselves, in the affirmative, the searching question of John the Bap- tist? He who would have complete
 domination over my soul must satisfy
 me in four ways He must show me that he was conscious of a unique re- Ia | 1t,t.. Ln r.,
 me with the authority born of the ab- solute finality of his mission; he must show that he led a perfect life; and finally that he left a unique and last ing impression upon the world. To one with these qualities I must instantly give my allegiance, or lose the high guiding ideals in the progress of my life.
 "The first question of Christ's unique relationship with God, has been an- sWered by the Master, in words framed by no other man during the worlds history. T and my Father are one;" T am the son of God; 'the son of Man" "the bread of life" In these expressions does Jesus Christ assert His unique supremacy among men, that he Is the foremost and universal type of man.
 Secondly, Christ was conscious of the completeness of his mission. No other could have gone to the fishermen with their nets and made of them fish CTS of men, or have uttered the sublime sentence. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My Word shall not pass away. We marvel not that those who heard Him in the synagogue saw that He spoke 'as one having authority
 ITO the question whether Christ led perfect life, I would refer you to our other great types of manhood in the history of the world; and from one and all we find humiliating confessions of sin and limitation. 1n' Christ we find the sole consciousness of utter perfee- tion in God So early as the age of twelve, after His remarkable experience with the doctors in the temple, He be- trayed His perfect communion with God In the answer, 'Wist ye not that I should be about my Fathers busi- ness" Again He said, I do always those things that please Him. I glorfed thee, and carried through completely the work Of God to men, Fellow stu- dents, you and I have had difficulties about the miracles of the Bible; but of all miracles, I regard this as true and wonderful, of the sinlessness of Christ.
 Finally, of the impression that proves the living force of Christs real ity unique upon the world, we have the early testimony of those who looked upon His works and beheld them to be true, that Christ was the Son of God. We have the later testimony of His force in the living church down through nineteen centuries, in this present building, and in the multitudes which surround us of similar monuments to His name.
 For these reasons we are content to face life without anxiety, resting inn pl1cltly in the acceptance of Christ as our model, our author and our savior"