The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-28
BISHOP BREWSTER TO BOYS AN INTERESTING SERVICE.
Lessons in Courage and Pre- paredness-Reference to
 Vale Princeton Game.

At Christ church Tuesday evening Bishop Chauncey B. Brewster ad- dressed about 300 in accordance with a o.'t' om in this city of the Episcopal churches, to get the boys of the various churches together once year that they may meet the bishop, says the Hartford Times of yesterday The bishop announced nc text and talked to them In a simple and direct man ner He referred to his attending the Yale-Princton football game in New Haven and that as he was a Yale man he was naturally glad to see Yale win. His hearers would remember what happened in that first half Princeton had swept Yale from one end of the field to the other, and from all ap- pearances Yale had no chance of. win- nlng the game against such odds. But in the second half the Yale men came out with renewed courage and then 1t looked as if they had changed nui- forms for Yale did what Princeton was ding a few minutes before. It was because they had the pluck and did not give up. The best way of keeping from getting beaten is not to know that one is beaten.
 The speaker then referred to his re- cent trip to IRichmond and other places in the south where battles had been fought during the Civil war and told several stories of the war illus trating his advice to the boys not only to be firm in their stand and true but to be ready for action, and not afraid to do what they were called on to do. One of the stories which he related was that eighty pounds of powder was concealed under confederate fort and train of powder laid through a secret tunnel to 1t. At o'clock in the morning the powder was set aAre but far back in the tunnel something happened and the explosion intended to kill most of the rebels did not take place. Because of this it became necessary for someone to face death in the tunnel, and learn what the treu- ble was. Two boys from Pennsyl- vania volunteered to go in. They did and discovered the trouble, soon had 1t fixed and escaped injury, but com pleted the destruction of the fort. But the horror of the explosion was such that even the enemy outside wha was supposed to rush in at this time stood aghast at the sight. For fifteen min utes they did not move against the , fort, but in the meantime the survi- vors inside had rallied and repulsed them in bloody fight in which the l loss on both sides was heavy. This 1 the speaker told the boys, warned | them always to be ready. Then | courage was always necessary, but un- less they were ready to do what the occasion demands, it will amount tc nothing. Now you boys in your
 everyday life," he said, "can be just a' brave as were the men who entered 1 the tunnel with torches to fix trair of powder But you will not have tc wait for an explosion to arouse you tc it; you will not have to wait for c age. You will show what you can dt l by carrying these principles into you everyday life, carry them into you games, into your life, and in your figh
 against your besetting sins. Be ready I to be true and be brave. Sometime: the bravest of men feel faint-hearted
 but they don't stop for that; they gt ahead and fight their way through. I
 is one thing to be faint-hearted, an
 other thing to faint. By giving your selves to Jesus Christ you will be ablt to do what have told you to do. Have you ever found that you had ten
 dency to slight your prayers? Per
 haps you have been careless and neg nected them entirely at times. But
 boys, don't do that for that is wher' the danger begins. We need stronI men, to-day, who are able to keeI themselves in God by their faithfu prayers"
 was looking into the faces of boys tha were sometime to be ministers. Tber' might be some among them who would be ministers, and If so the speaker tolC
 them that they should not wait unti they received a special call That | vania boys they should volunteer, H then told of his own experience, saying 1 that all through his boyhood ant
 youth there was nothing that he wa
 more afraid of than that he would b called to the ministry, for he felt tha
 such a call was coming but he did no want 1t. He finally overearne the feel ing and settled the dispute with him
 self by giving himself up to work. "an'
 as soon as you boys" he said, 'begii l to feel that fear which l had. don
 hold out against 1t, yield, and be a
 peace with yourselves" Following hi remarks he dismissed the boys by pro nouncing benediction. He announce
 that the next annual meeting woul