Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-04-14
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measure, promulgated. DR.. Samuel
Beiler will occupy the chair of practi
cal theology and his ideas of the train
ing Of children in the church and o
the lifting of young ministers to su
pervise the children's work. will forn
| an important feature Of the curricu
lum. Beside having a complete knOwl
edge of theoretical theology, the youns
preacher of today must have a grasl
on the methods of practical church
work, and it is to this end that the
Boston University theological faculty
will aim to attain.
! Rev. ]. c. Floyd, D. D., field agent OF
the Cincinnati district of Ohio, was the
next speaker introduced to the confer.
ence, and DIR. Floyd told of the Home
and Foreign Mission work that is be.
| ing accomplished by the Methodist
| church and urged that the clergyme1
| present would endeavor to perpetuatt
| the enthusiasm of the mission work
| in their own charges. DR.. FlOyd's ad.
| dress was calculated to encourage the
ministers i'll the futherance of the mis-
sion work, and although his talk OF
| this interesting and very importan!
subject Was limited to few brief mo-
| ments, it created an impression.
Rev. II. r. Dunnack of the Augusta
district Rev. ID. i. Holt of the Lewis
ton district and Rev. ]. r. Clifford of
the Portland district, were appointed
| as special committee to deal with Il
finance question of the conference.
At 10 o'clock, three candidates came
forward to be accepted into full mem
hap of
each in the service Of The church. They
| were J. H. f. Richard Of Portland. j..
NJ. Potter. of West BaldW in. and Felix
Powell of Long Island. Bishop Fowler
invoked Divine Blessing. and announc-
eG that in accordance with his usual
custom on such occasions. he would
speak to the young men before them
on the responsibilities they would as
Sume should them be admitted to the
conference.
Bishop Fowler spoke for over an
hour. and his address was one
of the most brilliant that has ever been
heard in a sacred ediiice in the State.
Frightened with flashes of original and
spontaneous kumOr, cutting in sarcasm,
tempered with kindness, and witlTal a
spirit of fatherly love and guidance.
the venerable Bishop took the class over
a journey into the higher responsible
ties of the ministerial calling. In part
Bishop Fowler said DO not commend
to me the man who is SO broad in his
views as to make no differences III the
Christian churches. for you may as
well commend the man who makes no
distinction between his wife and an
other woman. | would ask that yOu
young men. after you have delivered
your sermon on the Sa bbath. arise at
Il O'Clock on Monday morning and go
to your study to prepare your sermon
for the following Sunday. l know that
there are lots of temptations that will
beset you. and lots of the older men
here will not appreciate this when | tell
you what the temptation is.
1t is not liquor. and it is not
women-but it is something that
is fully as harmful. il is lazi-
ness. The ministerial calling offers
a verdant field for the cultivation of
this vice-this lazness. The pastor Of
the church has no task master over
him to egg him on to MS duties. and
if the pastor is lazy. 81 De the presiding
elder, and Intimately more so may the
Bishop become. l can sit down in my
broad cloth. 1 can nurse my dignity and
can draw my salary-and to whom
must l answer, no one-sSve God. Ana
there is another thing. You must have
wives-one apiece--to assist you in
nghting off this laziness. You must get
into that study at I O'Clock on Monday
morning, and if there is any little thing
about the house that demands atten-
tion-yOur wife must DO it.
If you haven't got a wife al
ready-gn get one. Don't select
ner because of her piety-she may
backslide. and you will probably
give her just cause to do so. Sc
lect a woman of good hard common
sense-that's better than a fading plety.
| would give more for a man or woman
gifted with common sensa. ana without
the pieiy. than one who has got rell-
giOn'' and who is totally devoid of COM
mon sense. Religion is free and may De
acquired by those who seek it. but COM
mon sense is d gift cultivate IT. nave
talked on this little long perhdpS-Due
I'll stop sometime. When you prepare
that sermon in your study. delNe deep
into the book. and bring up the big
things Don't De small ana preach about
sonnet hing that does not amount to any
thing. anyway. that you wont make Il
mistake if you're wrong. Preach about
the big things Don't tell your congre-
CATION about the last baseball game or
dwell on the most recent society sGuab-
bic, don't indulge in such 'tittery-"yeI
things-dOn't want them.
Go to the library and borrow the best
books. if YOU like them take them home
with you. Don't use big words in your
sermons: big words were invented solely
COR the colored preacher and are but
tombs for our little ideas. Put in lots
of hard work on your sermon, begin at
I clock Monday morning. on Wednes-
day you will have draft Of your ideas,
and you can then begin to write your
sermon. and on Saturday noon. You
ought to have an object that under the
most favorable conditions. might be
| considered an impression of dream of
a faint conception OF what would be
considered by the charitable, as SER
mon" Continued laughterD In an eX-
temporaneous sermon, when you stop
snort for the want of an idea-when
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