The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-21
|BY THE REV. DR. ANDERSON
BICENTENN[A SERMON AT UNIFIED
 CHURCH,
Am Eloquent ana Scholarly Discourse on the Subject "schoIarship and the Study of Go&D

l ph SuDJeSL '5ChDiurAAtp anu tht
 Study of God"
 The United church held congrega-
 ton yesterday morning that taxed it's
 capacity, Rev. Joseph Anderson, D. D., pastor of the First church in Wa
 terbury, and member of the corpora
 tion of Yale university, was in the pull pit.
 Dr. Anderson is blessed with voice
 of rare quality, and hush of unusual
 stillnes pervaded the whole church dur
 ing the hour that he occupied in deliv- ering his sermon. He was the exempli- ! fication of dignity and reposeful power
 and the great earnestness of the
 preacher touched the hearts of his 1 hearers as he made his masterful plea
 for deeper and more ethical relig | ious sense in humanity. The music, which was especially arranged, gave color to the beauty of the service. The following was pr. Anderson's text:
 Thus saith the Lord: Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches; but let him that glorieth glory in this. that he understandeth, and knoweth Me, that am the Lord which exercise loving kindness, judgment and righteousness in the earth; for in these things I delight saith the Lord. .'-Jer- emiah ix, 23, 24
 The preacher began his sermon by pointing out the conditions existing in the life of the Jewish people as the prophet saw it. He said in part;
 It is a protest and warning, first against pride of wisdom, or, as we should say to-day, pride of learning or scholarship; secondly, against pride of strength, including the strength of the athlete and that of which a man is conscious when he represents in his person military organization; and thirdly, pride of wealth. whether it be the individuals pride or the class pride which develops so easily in a life of luxury And the prophets exhortation is that these things be not allowed to take the place in mems thought and affection that ought to be filled by the thought and the love of God and His ways.
 Thus. then, on the threshold of our bicentennial celebration, and with my eyes upon the near future of our uni versity life I make my plea for the study of God But does not that mean theology? Yes, I make my plea for theology" We are told that there are signs of return to this. But if so, are | they not mostly limited to ministerial | or at any rate ecclesiastical circles? | Taking the world of scholars and think | ing men into view, does not the mere | of a plea for theology inn 1 press one with its hopelessness? Yet | brethren and friends, how much room | there is for it. Now that we are learn ing how to use the Bible, are enamel pated from the limitations put upon us by theories now outgrown concerning the nature and range of it's authority, | how free we are to approach the study 1f God with new zest and new exhiler- ltionl And now that we are learning that the last word of science is a cry Or something more, that 1t bends to isten for some voice from the great Beyond, how imperative is the duty of 'e-entering the realm that has been ,losed to so many, and to stand there with "open eyes, that desire the ruthl' And how vast a realm it is! lnd to what heights is the man led on, md beside what depths does he stand yho once enters it with serious pur- ,ose!
 Whatever the present conditions may ,e, one thing should be clear to us to- lay that the great function of uni- 'ersity is to develop and send forth the fight kind of men, who shall carry for yard in the best way the work of the vorld and that this means men who hall do the worlds work not godessly, ut with perpetual conviction of Gods ! resence and perpetual reference to iod's claim. A university should therefore send forth not men of busi- { ess alone, to produce wealth, nor trong men alone-vehicles of physical orce-nor men who are scholars only lstruments of research, purveyors of z knowledge-but pro hets'' also by which I mean men who re in fellowship with the unseen world ( nd can bring other men to look it in ne face and to find therein a God who I elights in righteousness and loving Z indness.