Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1876 — Lawyers Studying the Bible. [ARTICLE]

Lawyers Studying the Bible.

The Rev. Dr. Vaughan, one of the most distinguished clergyman of the Church of England, has commenced a course of public reading in the Greek Testament at the Middle Temple Lecture-room, London, at eight o’clock in the morning. The course is intended specially for Ihe benefit of the lawyers in whose courts the lectures are delivered, and it is to be continued every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday during the law term. One who was present at the opening lecture writes: “The announcement to which we have referred awakened our curiosity. We were anxious to see how such a man would, to such an audience, expound the words of the great apostle. Despite, therefore, the early hour and the six or seven miles which lay between our house and the Temple, we resolved to be present. With some difficulty and after a good many inquiries the lecture-room of the Temple was reached a few minutes after eight o’clock. To our surprise and, let us add, pleasure, the room was full. It looked like a theological class m one ot our colleges. Ranged along desks or seated in odd corners, where some lacility for writing could be found, were seated thirty or forty men—some»in the early morning of life; some who were drawing near to its evening hour. Judging by appearances, nearly all belonged to the legal profession, which finds one of its favored homes in the winding courts and halls of the Temple. Here and there, however, appeared a dress which told unmistakably that its wearer belonged to the clerical order. Everyone, however, meant work. Note-books and interleaved Greek Testaments were being rapidly filled with the words which fell from the lips of Dr. Vaughan. Hewas seated at a little desk with Greek Testament and Concordance before him, and with a rare grace of manner and finish and precision of statement was discoursing of Paul’s second letter to the Corinthian Church.” It must be an interesting sight, an assemblagb of men learned in the law gathered at such an early hour to study the word of God in the tongue in which it was written. But what could be more appropriate!— N. Y. Observer.