The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1905-05-13
ADDITIONAL LOCAL.
THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.
22d commandments of Presi-
dents Sermon-LiSt of Graduates, Etc.


Protestant Church. this city, last Sunday morning
with the Baecalaureate Service. DIR. Hugh L. FL
derdice president of the seminary, delivered the
sermon taking for his theme Loss of time in the
Ministry" He said in part:
"Some ministers lose time by laziness. The holy
office has its share of parasites who absorb living
rather than give life. They sweat neither brow
nor BRAIN fatten at every family feast in the parish,
loaf and lounge in selfindulgence during the week
and on Sunday have the Ubiquitous impudence to
face an audience crying for bread and give TO them
only stone. Here is case in which time destroy
ed is suicide where more than blood is split A
lazy preacher has mistaken the call: God has no
place for him in the pulpit; man has no use for him
in the pew; his life is clog TO every wheel in the
machinery of the church
Some ministers lose time by INSTRUCTED study.
They spend more time with printed pages than with
flesh and blood; study everything except human
nature; their bookworn thoughts are of on tan
gent from the sphere of practical preaching; they
reve in the realm of ideas until unfit to play their
role on the stage of pastoral action they love their
books more than they love their fellows; lnger In
the library when they ought TO be talking Christ in
the shop of a sinner; ponder over philosophy when
they ought to be praying with a penitent; search
science when they ought to be comforting saint
in the chamber of death; and burn the midnight oil
when they ought to be seeking the lost sheep in the
mountain death shades or healing the bird with
the broken wing dying under the wayside hedge
Well Balanced Education Needed.
ylhis is not discountiug an educational ministry,
but D scing premium on well-balanced education
There is a vast difference between his mastering
books and books mastering him. Let him be eul-
tured but not the cost Of his passion for souls
If he bury himself among his books all week he may
appear on Sunday with profound production, but
it will sound stale and smell musty 1t will lack the
freshness and the fragrance OF real life, showing
familiarity with what dead men have written,
rather than with what live men need, and dealing
with the facts of philosophy rather than with the
philosophy of facts in his parish.
some ministers lose time by the wrong use OF
the pulpit They magnify the nonessenIials, dwell
on secondary values. bushwhack on the outposis,
never storm the fort. The denominstionzl debates
makes every pay tribute to his creed the liter
ary lecturer degades his sunday evening service by
a hero worship of an author, the iireSome theolo-
giau unravels whole sections of theology
every Sunday morning and the sensztionAlist
catches his crowd by circus dverising and holds
by blssphemous yellow pulpiEism.' Enter the pull
pit TO do only the one thing-Preseh the Word
There need 10 dissect the claims Of the higher
critics for light Preach the contents OF the Bible and
the expositious Of modern scholarships 80 called.
Nor need you waste much time with series Of Ice
lures on the evidence OF Christianity which you
have mastered 1T school
Busy In The Right Place.
some ministers lose time by having too many
irons in the FIRE. In society he inaugurAtss some
reform: in politics he champions some crusade; in
charitable organizations he identihes himself with
every good work from the Prisoners Aid Associa-
ton TO the Fresh Air Society The church club to-
DAY and the brotherhood tomorrow; the Temperance
meeting and the Christian citizenship rally
at night; a missionary meeting saturday afternoon
and union evanEelistic service Sunday afternoon
Listen TO every signal OF distress bat do not be side
Tracked Be busy In the right plsee. He whodoes
well one work At a time does more than all To
all calls that interfere with your legitimate 6asi-
ness answer with Nehemiah; I am doihg great
work 50 that cannot come down
.Thc remedy against lost tiHsc In the ministry -
haste. This does not mean that you arr TO be pos
sc-srd with the Split OF the are which discounts
the intellectual and the spiritual TO pisre PIE
MUM on the material
Get-rich-quiek Is the commercial creed which
reiKns IN the maTkets compes educational snssitu-
lions TO abandon classics for . short cut 70 the
realm Of .frenzed finance and bids even The church
glory In tall spires rather than In lofty character.
You are summoned not to this haste Of hesileAs
hurry. this sadaenness that spolls ibis rush that
rz.sas. shis speed that Stambles 10 defeal-e1t to
that haste which is Inspired by perpetual psc.sGrs
from powers above. Which responds 10 the Divlns
urgency. and wsieE keeps steady step In the EiREs
highway.
Here IL the need OF aaste--yoa the Kings
business Not human king bat the King Of
'KfnEs whose council chambers are thu halls Of
eternity aud Whose decrces ars never vetoed BY
hostile cabinets; the King vhose kiagsiom Is Be-
yond the range OF telescope geographical survey
and within whose border lines the whole earth Is
bat an island ia the sea- You are his ambassadors
to the courts Of earth: your commission e Sritca
in the blood Of Calvary end seAe b. the gn Of The
cross. Iappoint youA Kingdom High ycar 0nAee
and urgent your work. To a world besottsi tn stn
mindful Of body aud forEetfai Of soai living and
dying like beasts OF The Reid. you 70 proclaim
Kingdom. not Of meat and drink. bat Of Fighisoas
ness. peace Aad Joy in the Holy Ghost
AT night Tie Alumni Sermon preached b.
Rev B. W. KindIey. Of the class Of -. Of oentre-
willie. Nd
owing to the large Increase OF students the re-
union and banquet Of the stockton Literary Society
was held in the basement Of the church Monday
night Instead OF the seminary. as formerly.
Tuesday morning, at I0.so. The annual meeting OF
the Board Of Governors was held, and the improve
mentS TO their property inspected
AIS O'Clock TUESDAY eyeBing the coEancncemeut
exercises proper were held. The service Was open
ed with singing by the asiieDoe and prayer By Rev.
j. NJ GIL. OF Washington. D. C. AfleT quartet By
seminary students the class Grafton vas delivered
BY Rev Arthur T. Kvans. OF Cuh&, III. whose Sub
ject was '.Eyolution-Fact or Fancy
The address 10 the graduating elAss Was delivered
by Rev =. C. Klein. Of Baltimore. and diplomas
were presented By Rev. DE- J. D. Einzer. Of BAlii-
more
The members of the class. with the Subjects OF
their graduation theses, were Noah caxpar ClouKh.
Of Hope. Md. Peters View u the Atonement,'
john David Keith OF Cooley. Ca. 'cATist in Mod
ern Thought;' William Lyail Mortar. OF Alben-
wood, n. J.. The Adsmic Fall Thomas Henry slA-
ter, Of Alenwood. \. J.. Gods Opportunities,
John Hewlett Tuthill. Of PASSPORT. \. Y. Demon
oIogy' Arthur 7. Evans. Of Cuba. H. The IneAr-
nation infred Ponlson Roberts. OF HArpers
Ferry. W. Va. Church Union" MesxrA Evans and
X oberis were graduated with the degree Of hache-
Tor of divinity.
Four prizes were awarded to members Of the class.
as follows. Rev. DR. C. D. sinkinson debate prize.
70 william Lyan Morton; DR.. J. W. Herring. Hebrew
prize, to John Hewlett TuthilI; Mr.. J. Norman wDls
thesis prize. 10 Arthur T. Evans. and the Z. o.
Grimes Greek prise 10 John David Keith
All the exercises we're largely attended, and the
music was OF the highest order.