The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-12-09
4 PLEA FOR ENTHUSIASM ST. GEORGES RECTOR HERE Rev. Mir, Birckhead Breaches Second Berkeley Sermon at
 Trinity P. E. Church.

To be enthusiastic, to be among the numbers of the burden bearers of the world, such was the theme of the sec ond Berkeley sermon preached at Trin- ity church last evening by the rector of St. Georges church of New York city Rev. Hugh Birckhead Mir. Birck- head Is clear thinker and talker, and he held large congregation, which was made up in great part of students Of the university, perfectly during a sermon of some length.
 He urged his student nearer to dare to be enthusiastic Enthusiasm, he said, is the great force in the world to- day, be one in the business intellectu or religious sphere of life, He spoke Of the enthusiasm charaoteristic of col lege life, and expressed a wish that they might none Of them lose 1t in the l later walks of life.
 IL is just that enthusiasm and broth
 erhood Of college life that the old grad
 uate longs to get back to, after he has
 been away from the college for some
 years. At his reunions at New Haven,
 he enjoys that same enthusiasin, when
 ever the opportunity offers, and goes
 back home afterwards a more cheery,
 and q better man, His renewed enthu-
 siasm has made him tenfcld more cap able of doing the work of the world
 And after you have enthusisin, be
 burden bearers" urged Mir, Birckhead We have lots of men of strength, and lots of men of brains and abilities In this world, but the men who count, aft CT all are the men who are willing to rows, the sicknesses, the great inius- tices and wrongs of the world, that they can so help others to be better. Some lone must bear these burdens. The trou. lble Is at present that they are heaped never fought q fight behind your bed
 room door and won without helping the | whole world; you never struggled to say just one word of prayer upon your i knees but you helped your neighbor to more easily. You have learned to bear
 your own burdens, and to help others
 to bear theirs
 T rejoice to hear these days of the
 struggle that is going on between a
 grasplng commercialism and tho new ideas. Some abler men have become
 burden bearers, and have taken upon | themselves to cloar up matters And | the burden bearers will win, mark my
 word They are with God and right upon their side"
 MT Birckhead told story of meet Ing which he had had during the pre-
 ceding week with a man who is the Virtual head of Tammany Hall. He did 1 not mention him by name. "I asked ths man. who is the prime mover in
 that great nest of political intrigue and corruption, Tarnmany Hall, what he
 saw in the future for America, and he | said, Nothing but anarchy The man lwas so near to the bad side of life, so near the lino of the anarchist himself lthat he could not see the constant waves of truth, tho great well-springs of new and nobler life that are con l'stantly swelling forth into our midst. l He could not see, with his apparent lsuccess and the apparent success of His corrupt organization. that both he and lit were both doomed to failure" | Tn his closing remarks Mir Ef'clShead Ifnade stirring appeal to the university men to prepare to do things when they got out of college. Only bring with | you into the larger life of the big world" hc said, that something Of beauty. that belief that you have found There, and you will do something to wipe off the slate of the country the red word 'Corruptlon.'p
 r. MT. Birckhead is the successor of Dr. Rainsford of St. Georges church. He served three years as curate, and was then elected to the rectorship, although l he was only twenty years of age | St. Georges Is the second largest par fish in New York city, having a com municant list of 5000.