The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-11-13
THE BERKELEY SERMON.
POWERFUL ADDRESS BY DIR.
 MANNING OF NEW FORK.

A&s 1A4NN CA ~ AA@H 4 @&h AAs Tells the Students What Is Keeping the
 Church from Being the Power It
 Ought to Be-Wants to be Delivered
 From Spiritual Lethargy and IndiRer-
 enee-LoOks to Students for Recruits
 to Improve the Political Condition
 and ReinyigOrate Religion
 The second of the series of Berkeley sermons delivered under the auspices of the Berkeley association of Yale was preached at Trinity P. E. church last night by Rev. William T. Manning, D. D., vicar of St. Agnes chapel of Trim ity parish, New York. Dr. Manning's address was a scholarly and an inter esting one. He spoke from the words contained in Zephania, 1:12, And it shall come to pass at that time that will search Jerusalem with candles and punish the men that are settled on their lees; that say in their heart, The Lord will not do good; neither will He do evil.'" In the course of his remarks he said:
 What is keeping the church from being the power it ought to be and do- ing the work it ought to do? It is the large number of its own members who are settled on their Iees'-the cOmmu- nicants of the church who are Chris tians only in name, who are as worldly as those who never enter church door. There are those of us who have been in the church all their lives who have no idea of what the mission of the church is. We need to pray that the church would be delivered from spiritual leth- argy and indifference. What keeps many from coming into the church and being a power there is that they are settled on their lees
 "Men who do not come into the church because there are some bad men in it are like man who would say that he was such patriot that he would not join the army in time of war because there were some traitors in it, although that was the very time when good man was wanted in it. Some say they will not join the church owing to intel lectual difficulties, but don't you think there is a great deal of cant and non- sense talked about this?
 ''Romaine tried agnOsticism, but after great thought and inquiry came back to 1 be a believer in Christ; and in his book [ Thought on Religion he stated that unbelief comes sometimes from indo- 1 lence or ignorance, and is never thing | to be proud of. Some such men I have met did not read a good book on relig- ion in twenty years.
 'The trouble is our cold hearts, our dim vision, our sin-stained lives, and we are doing wrong that we do not want to stop doing, ard yet we say the Lord will not do good, neither will He do evil And this is just the way with 1 the deplorable political condition, for which the respectable, stagnant people who say in their hearts, The Lord will not do good, neither will He do evil, are responsible.
 "To the young men, especially those in college, would say that we who are doing what we can out in the Worlo have right to look to you for our best recruits to improve the political condi- tion and reinvigorate religion. Don't ever lose the ideals which come to you in college; don't ever let the devil tel you that they are all very we'll in col lege, but that they would not work out l in the world.
 Let us pray to God to deliver us from indifference. Let us ask Him fol knowledge of Himself so that we may go on, as others have done, in faith ant hope, and not get like that Zephaniaf wrote of, and think that there is no much use in trying to do anything, tha religion is played out, and that it ii best to let politics alone"