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YALE ALUMN#F WERK LY ~~ DR. MCKENZIE AT YALE. Special Meetings—Characturistics of a Popular Preacher. ea As The Weekly goes to press, the College is in the midst of what has been expected to be one of the great- est religious awakenings of recent times. In preparation for this, early morning prayers were held at Dwight Hall during the last three days of last week. The interest taken in this work now is so great that, although these meetings were held before breakfast, they were crowded each time. On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings of the present week Dr. Mc- Kenzie, of Cambridge, has been se- cured to speak before the students, in the large University meeting room, in Dwight Hall. It was also decided to hold brief meetings for prayer from 1:45 to 2:15 on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, to be led by college men. Of the thirteen hundred members of the Young Men’s Christian Associa- tion at Yale, eight hundred are en- rolled as active members. To each of these eight hundred a circular was sent, asking him to be present at the meetings himself, and to bring some- one with him. REY. ALEXANDER MCKENZIE. Dr. McKenzie is a man in the prime of life, blessed with a vigorous consti- tution, which enables him to do an in- credible amount of work. He is of me- dium height, solidly built, with a broad, kindly face, and high forehead, suggestive of mental grip. His photo- graph has often been taken for that of Donald G. Mitchell. Dr. McKen- zie has enjoyed a continuous pastorate in the Shepard Memorial Chapel at Cambridge for thirty years. He is well known to Harvard men, a large num- ber of whom attend his church regu- larly. His great popularity at Yale dates from February, 1894, when he gave a series of three addresses in Dwight Hall, at the invitation of the Young Men’s Christian Association. His mas- terly and powerful presentation of sim- ple Gospel truth won for him a large place in the hearts of the University, and such interest was aroused that he was invited to return the following week, when, for four nights more, he spoke on “The Essentials of a Chris- tian Life.’ Other colleges heard of his success in reaching college men, and his services were eagerly sought at Cornell, Williams, Amherst, | Dart- mouth and elsewhere. He has also be- come a conspicuous figure on the Northfield platform. Dr. McKenzie’s power may be ac- counted for in various ways. He has natural oratorical ability. His sympa- thetic eulogy of his friend, the late Governor Russell, was a masterpiece. Commenting uvon it editorially, one of the Boston papers said, “Dr. Mc- Kenzie’s sermon at the Russell funeral was the more effective because so sim- ple and so direct in style. The doctor’s heart and brain work wonderfully well together.” His addresses are earefully prepared, but delivered without manu- seript or notes, a good many matters being filled in ‘fon his feet.”” He has a rich fund of choice quotations and il- lustrations which embellish his ser- mons. He is pre-eminently a spiritual preacher, and holds close to the view that the world is lost without Christ. that there is ne hope without Him, and that the great work He came to do in the world was to save men and bring them from darkness into the light. A well-known merchant who has been connected with his church for twenty- eight years says: “His spiritual preach- ing holds his congregation as no go- called modern preaching can, and the more I watch the effect of his preach-_ ing the more I am convinced that the great hold he has in our community and in our country to-day, is because he believes the preaching of the Cross of Christ is the supreme power, and that no reformation has any solid basis to rest upon which ignores this fact.” We H.'s: +e Lecture and Concert Program, The following lectures and concerts are open to Yale students:— March 18—‘‘The German Novel, illus- trated by the works of H. Suder- mann,” by Prof. Wm. Lyon Phelps, in the United Church at 8 p. m., under the auspices of the University Exten- sion Society. March 19—‘‘The Use and Misuse of Statistics,” by Prof. A. T. Hadley, in the Scientific School. March 23—‘‘Recent Explorations of the Deep Sea and Their Results,” by Prof. A. E. Verrill, in the Scientific School. March 24—Hon. Charles J. Bona- parte, Harvard, ’71, will speak before the Civil Service Reform Club in the College Street Hall at 8 P. M. March 25—“‘Grave Monuments, Main- ly Attic,’’ by Prof. Fairbanks at 7:45 p. m. in Phelps Hall. March 25.—‘‘'The Construction of High Buildings,’ Mr. L. W. Robinson, in Boardman School. March 25—‘‘The Scotch Novel,”’ illus- trated by the works of Robert Louis Stevenson,” by Prof Wm. Lyon Phelps, in the United Church at 8 p. m., under the auspices of the Univer- sity Extension Society. : April 1—‘“‘The English Novel,” illus- trated by the works of Thomas Hardy,” by Prof. Wm. Lyon Phelps, in the United Church at 8 p. m., un- der the auspices of the University Ex- tension Society. Y. G. A. Officers. At a meeting of the Yale Gymnasium Association, held on Monday, March 8, the following officers. were elected for. the ensuing year: President, W. B. Con- ner, ’99; Secretary, W. Noyes, ’99; Treasurer, R. G. D. Douglass, ’98. A vote of thanks was tendered to J. E. Heaton for the testimonials presented by him to those members of the team who won a “Y.” FE. A. Lehlback’ 798, was elected Captain. ‘Essays for Junior Exhibition. All essays for the Ten Eyckprize com- petition (Junior exhibition) have been handed in to Dr. Charles 8S. Baldwin, who will have charge of reading them. There were in all 38 essays handed in. The following list gives the number of essays for each subject offered: “Joan of Are,’ eleven; “Armenia,” four; “The Development in South Africa,’’ four; “Sectionalism in American Poli- ties,” six; “The Admirals of the High- teenth Century,” three; ‘‘The Policy of the United States in Regard to the Fu- ture Acquisition of Territory, one; ‘William Morris,’ three; ‘‘The Eliza- bethan Tragedy of Blood,’’ none; “The Book of Esther,’ three; ‘‘The Popular Election of Senators,’? one; “Reform in the Consular Service of the United States,’’ none; ‘Heine,’ two a, Le» Re Ke at Journal of Science for March. The principal articles in the Journal of Science for March are as follows: “Crater Lake, Oregon,” by J. S. Diller. “Origin and Relations of the Green- ville and Hastines Series in the Cana- dian Laurentian’: by F. D. Adams, A. ’ FE. Barlow and R. W. Ells. : “Outline of a Natural Classification of the Trilobites’; by C. E. Beecher ‘(Part Tt). “Scoured Bowlders of the Mattawa Valley”; by EF. B. 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