The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-20
AT BAYFIELD, CHAPEL YESTERDAY
Promenade Sunday Sermon Preached
 by Rev George Hodges.

Promenade Sunday Sermon Preached
 by Rev. George Hodges.
 Junior promenade week, the one of
 greatest social activity of the college
 year at Yale university, was f1ttingly
 ushered in by the morning service at
 Battell chapel yesterday. The day was
 an ideal New England one and just
 such as adds to the charm of this aus
 p1cious occasion by permitting the promenade girls, who come from all
 parts of the country, to appear in their ] most fetching frocks, The promenade
 girl was very much in evidence and in
 consequence the freshmen were excus-
 ed from the service to make way for her and her chaperones. The chapel
 was filled to it's capacity The college choir rendered quite an elaborate pro-
 eramme of music. The Rev. George
 Hodges, D. D., of Cambridge, Mass,
 one of the most prominent men in the
 pulpit to-day conducted the services and preached the sermon, His subject
 was "The Wisdom of the Wise Men,"
 and he took his text from the first
 verse of the second chapter of the gos-
 pei of St. Matthew which reads, Now
 when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king,
 behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem"
 He said that the wise men of the east in those days of old displayed their wisdom and worshipped with their eyes, their feet and their hands. In the first place they saw the guiding star in the east and fully understood it's meaning. Many others might have seen and doubtless did see the star but under stood it not. The difference between these two is that the wise men had the power of recognizing it's divination and meaning by reason of their learn ing and followed in the direction it in- dicated Many others who saw the star considered it no more than ordinary, because their spiritual vision was blinded This is one of the eternal diff ferences between men; they both see the same thing but are not able to ap- preciate and undrstand the meaning to be the same. When the wise men of the east saw the guiding star and un- derstood 1t afar off they used their wis dom and with their feet came near the place where the Christ-child lay. They | journeyed out of the east to the west into the land of Jerusalem. There they beheld and worshipped the new born | child and with their hands displayed l and gave to Him their gifts of gold, | and myrrh They came | out of the land of ideals into that of | realities and bestowed on the Holy | One their most precious gifts. Thus | the wise men again showed their wis dom and they glorified God by singing l psalms of praise to the Highest. |
 An unexpected demonstration, but [ one which lasted only few moments took place at the conclusion of the ser vices when the members of the sopho- more class lined up on either side of < the walk leading from the chapel onto he campus and admired the promenade girls as they passed from the building. Their admiration was not wholly in si~ ence, but some of it was quite audible. The faculty having anticipated some hing of this sort removed a portion of he sophomore fence a short time ago n an effort to prevent repetition of ast years occurrence. It will be re- nembered that the members of the lass took places on the fence and ogled he girls. This year, not to be outdone, lespite the fact that their fence was emoved, the students lined up on the walk in double line extending almost 0 south middle. The incident was one ,ntirely devoid of rudeness.
 The university meeting in Dwight lall at GAO was also addressed by Dean Hodges, and he read a very able ,aper before the Mems club of the United church at the evening service, lis subject was "A Medieval Monas- , cry" and the address was one which { pplied the thoughts and conditions of o-day.