The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-14
BISHOP WARNS
 YALE STUDENTS Life Which They Seek in the Big Cities is
 a Living
 Death. SPEAKS OF DANGER MET IN COLLEGES Woolsey Hall is Crowded With Hearers of Lon don's Leading
 Divine.

pfedcHeu 10 the 4ale StudenlS yeSteI- day morning at the university service in Woolsey hall The sides of the par quet and the galleries were filled to the doors with town people and Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes, jr., who is in charge of the Sunday services in the absence of President Hadley, an- nounced that the meetings would be held in Woolsey hall only so long as the students of other departments than the academic demanded it, the univer- sity not entering a contest to draw the citizens of New Haven from their reg ular churches. With the lord bishop and MT Stokes on the platform were Eli Whitney of the corporation and chairman of the prudential committee, and the deans of the different depart naents.
 Mir Stokes introduced the Episcopal service so far as he was able without the use of an episcopal choir and in voked the blessing on the president of the United. States and the king of England, Instead of on the president and the governor of the state as the American ritual reads.
 The lord bishop took as his text James, 1-17: Every good gift and ev- cry perfect boon is from above" He said
 T could not recross the Atlantic without seeing the Oxford and Cam bridge of America, and I am sure that l bring to you the greeting and best wishes of both the great English unl- versailles. The students at those schools often listen to me and beg you, whom they admire so greatly, to let me speak to you with the utmost frank ness as do to them
 T believe that there is no place ir England or America where an idea goes farther than in a university. Boys come here to school with the old GUS toms and old prayers of their early life They enter upon new life. They fint all their ideas and beliefs thrown into kind of Aux. They find non Chris tians they find pronounced agnostics they find their fundamental principles of morality questioned, and debated, find many men who fling their faith t, the winds before they have been twelv, months in university. Others take III an entirely new line of thought. Stil more and broadened in their belier and this is as it should be for the uni versity Is for the making of men, wh will be men of strength, uplifters o mankind. You have a great chanc for uplifting yourselves in a univers ity. Tn the healthy outdoor life; in tn football, game of which I witnesse, yesterday; and in your other sports. / glorious day like this in a universit, like Yale, puts the heart and soul il tune for the upbuilding of mankind.
 But there are essential point: which one must consider and which will determine whether a course if Yale is a blessing or a curse for the rest of mans life.
 Tn the first place, at the center ot everything is the everlasting father and there is no meaning in life excep that the eternal God wanted million! of people to sun themselves in tht light of His own happiness. St. James picture of God, as each day sendins down a ceaseless stream of blessings and He does. For each one of yot there is the mothers fondness anC sacrifice; you have your sisters, you friends, your sports and your othe healthful pastimes. And to each on, of you sometime will probably b given the perfect gift of woman' love. What a glorious life for every one. And our father meant us all t, be happy and enjoy it. You will say 4God has got very far away from u lately.' Many students I have know who have thrown away their faith a twenty and who long for it at thirty.
 ''You must realize the existence o God and His all powerfulness. D you realize that there must be min and a conscience behind the universe And if it were not good God, woul He have placed in the breast of ever man a witness against Himself?
 ''You might speak of the great sui fering going on in the world and as IT ROOQ GOu -WOhiu dAlON It. IIIS a question of imagination rather tha of reason. God gave man the powe of sacrific and suffering and he sacri feed and suffered Himself
 "Each one of you needs a strong mo ral foundation. know of nothin worse in London than the way tn students come up from Oxford an Cambridge seeking madly what tn world calls 'life;' but what is reall a living death. They seek the mis chievous, spacious vices. Then year later, when perhaps t1ey might marr some noble woman they would giv their right hand or any other limb they had never committed the wrong
 And such is the case in any univel sity. The students seek this life any of you are trembling on the brinl take this advice from one who Ina known of hundreds and hundreds ( cases, For Gods sake stop in time
 ''One thing which prevents the be' work in a university is the neglect ( religious union. There are any nun Der of denominations. Just what
 the reason we cannot now explain, Bt here there should be brotherly unlo of all religious activity. Much as adn1i=2 your Y. M, c, A. and you Berkeley society, still there should more of brotherly spirit. It is til same way at Oxford and Cambridg,