The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-22
YESTERDAY AT BAYFIELD,.
COLLEGE PULPIT OCCUPIED. BY
 REY. MR. TWICHELL.

COLLEGE PULPIT OCCUPIED BI
 REY. MR. MITCHELL.
 Hundreds of Promenade Guests Att l tended the Services President II HadIey | There-Rev. Mir. Twichella Strong l Sermon.
 1 Battell chapel was crowded to the doors yesterday morning with college
 men and their promenade guests, and
 1t was probably one of the largest con- gregations that ever assembled in the old chapel on Prom. Sunday, as it is called in the language of the Yale men. | Rev. Joseph L. Twichell of Hartford was the preacher of the morning. | President Hadley was in the pulpit for the first time since college opened for it's mid-winter term, and the stu dent body was glad to see him in his accustomed place. The side seats of the chapel and the north and south
 middle aisles were practically occupied by out of town visitors who began to arrive at the chapel as early as 10 o'clock in order to secure seats. From that hour until 10:30 o'clock a steady
 stream poured into the chapel, when
 the chapel was filled to it's capacity,
 many people standing along the walls
 at either side, both in the gallery and
 down stairs
 This was the first opportunity that
 great many of the visitors have had
 of seeing Yale's new president. and
 also of many others of seeing him in
 the pulpit. The sophomore class of the
 university was excused from attending
 the exercises, thereby making room for
 the hundreds of visitors.
 Rev. MT. Twichell took for his text
 Matt. xxi, 37 and 3S: Jesus said unto him. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all
 thy soul and with all thy might. This is the first and great commandment"
 Rev, MT. Twichell spoke in part as follows: Not only in the command ment given on Mount Sinai and en- dowed in this striking manner by Christ, but in places of Holy Scripture from beginning to end. almost without number and in very great variety of ways of saying 1t or of arriving at 1t, loving God supremely is made the un- questionable first duty of man. A notable phenomenon in this connection is the justification of the command on the part of men in it's wide acceptance. Taking human society through where the word of it has been heard, where it haa been announced, and probably no moral proposition whatever is more generally alluded to than that to love God Is the chief obligation.
 That Is true is a verdict that 1t is not too much to call at least prevalent | How many who allege their inability to subscribe any further creed will say readily enough, I believe in loving God | and in loving my neighbor as myself. | "A notable fact this. And considering | how little men know of God and that | He is invisible, considering too their common notion of love- fact upon | reflection, somewhat surprising as well. For it cannot be supposed in the case of most of those who acknowledge so exalted a duty that they would for one moment claim that they fulfilled it. In this so extensive a confession of 1t, whether with a less or a more conpe- tent sense of It's import, there is ob viously much significance, to one effect and another, might we finger to exam. inc 1t.
 Tt Is surely no mistake to judge that there are not a few dutiful in the tenn per of their minds, who, with regard to what almost everybody owns. another very sincerely, Is the crown of duties are wont to acknowledge to themselves their performance of it except in a most inadequate fashion, and their feel ing of perpexity about 1t altogether.
 "One of the greatest novelists, re- markable for his penetrating observa- tion of human life and human nature, sndows one of his characters, who is false to the core, with a kindly heart and an open hand
 MT Jefferson, the actor. in his auto- speaking of person of that sort we'll known to him who was highly popular for his pleasing social traits, put who by his selfish, reckless spend- thrift habits was drawing down the loom of poverty, which in due time be- ell those dependent on him, says of Jim, I felt that under the genial and lospitable garb he wore in the world, here must be cold and stny heart
 "To say of one who makes light of lis most serious -and binding human and Is corrupt in life that till because he IS cordial in his man. lers and is easily moved to tears, and Ill that, he is good-hearted, is pro- ound contradiction of terms. He is A good heart is some hing more and a great deal more than uch an one illustrated. In judging : what goes to good heart toward God. o loving Him, it Is not in the light of hings analogous, necessary or just , o lay chief stress in the feeling of af- ,, ection."