The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-21
DR. BATTERSHAIL SPEAKS.
PREACHED 1T TRYNyTF CHURC1Ys
 YEsTERDAY MORNING. z

The WcIi-Known Preacher Spoke Sn
 "rhe Old Faith and the New Knovvf fx
 edgc"-1mmcnse congreEation yssS'
 There to Hear Him--Cne of tho Opsis- N
 ing Services of the Yale BtccntsnH 1T N
 Celebration. BEASH
 A beautiful sermon wss preached ot Trinity church yesterday morning sbY
 the Rev. Walton W. BattcrshaIl re0f0f8
 of St. Peters church at Albany. NJ .3]
 before an immense congregation fhi2
 completely filled the spacious cliurcf
 It was one of the opening serviceS S2 t
 Yale's bicentennial celebration. T1fY Y8
 subject of his sermon was 'The U{d Faith and the New knowledga, SIIfI 1 the text was taken from Joel III &S St4 Your old men shall dream dreafnHs
 your young men shall see visionss ~ S W
 Rev. Dr. Battershally spoke in part ~ < follows: As the sons of Yales gather to d0 llS1{3 homage on her two hundredtll aii i{1{ {a versary, around her stately strti6tUtH4
 two tides of life, an outsetting tide &f32 E
 refiuent tide, meet and interfioW. If3z
 ref1uent tide brings to her festiv&f
 host of men from the stretch of tliA M
 public between the two seas Al1SH6H & them bear her mark. Many of tl}
 have carried her colors to high pl8U3 8 of trust and dignity. This hicent4 m " & celebration declares in striking 8Yyx tacle not only the antiquity, but i}y vitality, of Yale university, hcr rai ' of intellectual motherhood, her poNSf to evoke love and fealty, her wide 8jE El penetrative touch on the trained nIal33 35 hood of the nation. az S '
 The continent tides of life this Afi4 cient drill-camp and arsenal s33 thought, this anniversary week! HI v $ gest the theme with which, in th9 dt charge of the honorable duty, assignS2E me, I stand in this place: The 6{ faith and the new knowledge; the 6xl1{ fluent tides in the thought of to~dS There are pages in the early history k Yale, not unrelated to my theme. M e show that this hist oric parish fttin x has part in this august commeiyi6& M tion. N A
 The educated man of to-day iI}}1 above all things secure to his hi4t self integrity and freedom. He nIl1 hold together his convictions and M M facts with no lurking sense of dfS16< N tion or smothered truth. He cafl this only as he discerns the real permanent relation of faith and kaiQS (y edge. In the, interest therefore 0S x highest life and the two great fact0fx in the worlds life let us glance at HI facts declared and emphasized 6y f4|E last two centuries of scientific com quest. Bs Y
 The world to-day is facing probI which perplex it and appa1 1t, wlif6l start up from old savageries which dreamed it had battened down with of it's civilization, which etl& the moral pillars on which it's civiljXg ton has been built which corEoJl} its mooth-tongued prophets and 05i& eyed philosophers, who tell it that nanity for it's order and we1l-bSlII and it's development into happy 4Iid ,ontented life, needs belief neither III Sod nor the soul nor immortality; Nxfj )nly the spur of selfishness, the ,traints of the police and prudence 6aid he hope of clutching the prizes III thS
  mould gain large percentage Of ,erts, like those who burrow and p1Qf3 II subterranean Europe, like some 6G ur recent importations, like the 6lk4 vho month ago struck down the pr4 dent and sent wave of horror around he world, civilization would collapse ike a house of cards. A man may hink that he can fulfil his life without he Church of Christ and the trerne4l ous forces which 1t propagates in t1iN onscience and conduct of the world 'here will be crises in his history HI which he will discover his mista nd, if he look outside of his curtAiNAd he will see that the gr6Sk Jorld, if it keep it's hold on ite nl46& recious things must have reli81 hat puts the voice of the Eternal E}(s ind the social moralities and thG nm an immortal hope within the g4pUk* hre. *ys Let us not fear that the inheritore hf ne new century will fail to find a laf66 nd honest version of the religion nat transcendent One, in Whom the roblems of this age declare their r6@ ltion to the problems of all ages. m vho has put into our life the dreafm8 lat are its deepest truth and tho yiSr M ms that gave it grandeur. Never nA ow did the world so need, and so re6S gnize it's need, of the Christ, the S0!1 , God, the Brother and Interpreter oxs an. sS And this pray" ye men of Y1lo. that your love may abound yet mora Id more in knowledge and In III that ye may approve thiMKs lat are excellent; being filled with le fruits of righteousness, which ars 7 Jesus Christ unto the glory and 'aise of God''
 BIC CROWD AT WARNER HAIsIs The mems service held at Warner III yesterday afternoon under the lsrices of the Y. M. C. A., was great icCesS. Tic audience was an unusually large le. The singing by the Hoosier oess4smsrU rio was truly star" singing, It cra-