The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-30

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 Receives Excellent Advice on Duties
 of Young cIergymen-Great Gather
 ing to Hear Famous Preacher in Gen.
 ter Church.
 The baccalaureate address to the graduating class of the Yale Divinity school was preached at the Center church on the Green by Rev. Dr. Nehe- miah Boynton, of Detroit, last night. The church was crowded with repre- sentatives of congregations of many churches throughout the city. The the ological seniors occupied the pews i'm mediately in front of the pulpit, and 1t was to them that Dr. Boynton spoke directly. With the speaker was Presi- |dent Hadley, who introduced and an- nounced the order of the service. The faculty of the Divinity school was also present on the platform, including Dean Sanders and Professors Walker, Kent, Fisher, Brastow and Stevens.
 Dr. Boynton is an interesting speaker, whose active mind and unexpected turn of expression keep his listeners atten- tive as long as he wishes to talk. AL though he made no startling state- ments, his sermon was replete with wise advice and hopeful prophecy for the embryo clergymen to whom he spoke particularly. The main point of his discourse was the necessity of keeping ones ideal 'pure and white.'' In connection with this he spoke of the danger of falling away from the ideal, be 1t ever so little, and at such times he said 'the soul scrapes, and you hear it, if you but listen.''
 In opening his address he said that he wished to state that the business aspect of the ministry should not be overlook ed. The business of the clergyman is as much business as is that of any other calling" said he, and his busi- ness is to square the accounts in one generation of the debts that are con tracted in another"
 He continued by warning the young men not to become half hearted, or to apply narrow criterion to what should be judged in spirit of universality. He quoted from the autobiography of Herbert Spencer in which "the peril of the partial'' is set forth.
 He also warned the senior theologs against the applying of sounding adjec- tives to the word ministry. If you call your ministry anything but a ministry |you are starting on the way to the will |derness and the juniper bush. Your |soul will scrape,'' he explained He then adjured simplicity and manliness. He quoted the remark of Charles Kingsley. who said: Sometimes I begin to hate those lady preachers like the devil" and lat this sally the congregation laughed heartily.
 He then spoke of what is really a call to the ministry. He said that many years ago Henry Ward Beecher was addressing a class of Yafe Divinity school, and on this point said: When you get q call to the ministry you will know it." Dr. Boyntcn said that it will be a call to the whole man, and that nothing short of this should be inter- preted by the receiver as true call.
 He said that the great question that agitates the world to-day Is, What do you think of the world?' On this he talked much, pointing out the wider feeling of sympathy and toleration that is characteristic of the present day. He explained that there could be no free dom of appreciation without freedom of ideal, and to this end all men should strive. '"The man who lives beneath a warped ideal" said he, ''cannot have q spotless soul"
 He said that the business of an excel lent and broad education, such as the seniors had enjoyed, Is Ito make ones tastes go out to the aristocrats, and ones convictions go with the masses. In concluding he said that the watch word of the young clergymen should be: Fear not; only believe The benediction was said by Profess Isor Brastow, who was introduced by President Hadley