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CHALLENGE TO MINISTRY.
W0RLD WILL DEMAND A PROOF
or FOUR ABILITIES.

Says Rev. III. III. Tweedy to Graduating
Theological Students in BaceaIaure-
ate Sermon at Center Church--"Cau
Have Powers If They Can Use Them
Challenges I'm Many Forms and the
World Can be COnvinced--Anniver-
sary Exercises to Continue.
The anniversary exercises of the the
illogical department Of Yale university
were begun yesterday afternoon with a
communion service FOR the theological
students at A o'clock. This exercise
was conducted by Professors Brastow
and Porter.
At o'clock last evening guests, min
listers Of the city, students, faculty,
members of the corporation and the
president assembled in the corridor of
East Divinity hall and proceeded to
Center church for the baccalaureate
address, which was delivered by Rev.
Henry Hallam Tweedy, of Bridgeport
Seated on the platform were President
Hadley, Professors Curtis, Stevens,
Porter, Walker and Beach, and Dr.
Charles Ray Palmer President Had
ley introduced Rev. Mr.. Tweedy, who
preached on 1.-THE Challenge of the
Modern World to the Ministry" The
text was IL Kings, 1S:25-"I will give
thee two thousand horses if thou be
able on thy part to set riders upon
them" The sermon in full was as fol-
lows:
That was a challenge fitted to make
man either a coward or a hero--a
challenge magnificent in its audacity
and singing in its scorn. Two thou
sand horses If thou canst set riders
upon them! Powers if you can use
them; gifts if you have the strength tc
possess them; carriers If you can saddle
and mount themi the largess Of bound
less resources if you can receive them
and make them your own. If you can
not-and the Rabshakeh meant to in
sinuate that Eliakim could not-of what
use will they be to you? Why give yor
powers, gifts, horses, which you cannot
utilize and control? What a gauntlet
that was to have flung at ones feet by
an invader! Stand by the side of those
three men on the walls of Jerusalem
and see if your fingers do not tinglt
and your cheeks burn. They ought to
even though you had never read thai
scene from ancient history, for it is
precisely such a challenge that the life
has ever made to you as you go out
into the work of the ministry-a chal-
lenge without a touch of scorn or en-.
nifty, but none the less inspiring ant
real. What power, what truth, what
spirit have you? it cries to the watch
ers on the walls of the Christian cita'
del. Here are almost boundless re-
sources at your disposal. Just so much
as you can master you may have. Fol
the weakling, the Ounce and the idler
have little, not because l would rot
them, but because they cannot use my
bounty. Two thousand horses for hin
who can set two thousand riders upor
them! If he cannot, why give him the
horses? I want to think with you con-
corning the challenge which the worl(
Is making to the ministry of to-day.
1t sometimes seems as If life begar
and ended with a challenge chal'
lenge which is almost synonymous will
life itself. We come into the world lit
tie helpless Jumps of humanity, ant
wake TO find ourselves in what Profess
sor James tells us must seem one big
buzzing, blooming confusion. And a
The very threshold the world meets tina
life and asks, Can you conquer me-
ere is air; can you breathe it? Water
can you drink it? A body; can YOU