Brothers and sisters in Christ, you must already have some idea of how new to me is this business of giving formal lectures. But I have preached some, so you will please forgive me if I make the transition from sermon to lecture a little slowly. For this, my first address, please allow me to have a text. You may immediately presume that the text about which I would like to have us think would be that famous verse from the book of Ecclesiastes: Of making many books there is no end,and much study is a weariness of the flesh. For me, at least, it has a lot going for it. It is, after all, an Old Testament text and it does, of course, speak of books. But this is the last week of the quarter here, and the full truth of that verse has become so existe ntially clear to everyone involved in the process of ministerial training that there would be little that I could say in addition to what all of the students already feel. So, wonder of wonders, I am going to go all the way to the New Testament for a text, and I invite you to think with me for a brief while about the fifty-second verse of the thirteenth chapter of the Gospel according to St. Matthew: Therefore, every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heavenis like a householder who produces from his storeroom things new and things old.