Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 April 1903 — Page 8

THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS, SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1903.

METHODISTS TO HATE A JOHH ISLET DAT

Literary Landmarks of Oxford. Mr. Laurence Hutton haa found “litcrnry AandmarAu” tn many places, and ha* set down his impression* of them in various books, but his latest ramble among the colteaes of Oxford has been productive of hi* most readable and chatty book. That his book, “Literary Landmarks of Oxford." or at least, the gathering of the material for the book, was a labor of love is very evident. In his preface he says: "An overworked and underpaid oid English curate, a lover of his country’s heroes, had a six weeks' vacation once, arid spent it all in Westminster Abbey. A certain underpaid and not overworked mid-dle-aged American writer, a lover of British letters, bad a si* weeks' vacation lately, and he spent it all at Oxford. Ho tells us further that never were six weeks more happily or more profitably or more busily spent. Oxford is very rich in guide books, which may be had from sixpence up, but they fail to tell Just the things that one wants to know; where Sidney roomed at Christ church, what Beaumont and Shenstone did at Pembroke, how John Evelyn conducted himself at Uriel, as well as why some of t^ese men left their colleges without their degrees, and how all of them passed their

lives at Ogford,

Mr. Hutton says that Oxford’s ignorance of Oxford, Is phenomenal and startling, and while the authorities are generally and frankly uncertain, the guides are almost universally Incorrect. Now Mir, Hutton was not to be turned aside by any such obstacle as Ignorance, and ho went to work with the avidity or a detective to discover things. The literary names connected with Oxford he ‘ cuiarly eager in the search of, of his discoveries seem almost He hunted down “Tom at Oxford, and found out where but when he came to our old X Green, who was created Bede” (the Rev. Edward was to discover that that . never been an intimate of university was Durham and b« passed only a few weeks at Oxford: and yet his book is acknowledged to be one of the truest pictures of Oxford life extant The difficulty of obtaining correct information about Oxford is thus explained by Mr. Hutton: Th* cream of Oxford'a academic society he* been deecribed as intellectual, but not intellt“Ut Th* higher university walks are. unlly, trod by certain men who not Infre-

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all about the dative case and of Aristophanes, but who often and scorn to know anything. :u« case or about the sparrows liter in their own back yards; absolutely familiar with all the

of the second Punic war, and who are

Har with the Transvaal difflculthu Americah-FIlipino imbroglio

Painstakingly and with a thirst for inTcnnation in no way to be denied, Mr.

through all of the colleges of outlines the history of all of

as hp walks the cloisters recalls the famous men who frequented ♦ha™ ww are the allusions too Uterary

the general readers.

—.ry man this book is filled from cbver to cover, and sr catches the enthusiasm ’g hunt for the haunts of

' ns to the book add terest- They are very

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— Some Ethical Phases of the Labor

Question.

Under this title Mr. Carroll D. Wright, In an attractive little book, gives four essays dealing with “Religion In Relation to Sociology,” “Th© Relation of Political Economy to the Labor Question,’' “The Factory as an Element in Civilization,” and “ThO Ethics of Prison Labor.” For open-mindedness, breadth of sympathy, and innight into the actual conditions of life they are to be heartily commended. Mr. Wright defines the true la-

in, "the question of industrious and thrifty

the humane, large-

rers, of our country,” this; “how labor may be rengeneraliy attractive and remunerative, without impairing the efficiency Of capital, so that all the workers of society may have their proper share in the distribution of profits,” It clarifies

the labor question

discovery Is regarded as the most important In the work of historical research. There have already appeared French and German transitions, but this is the first complete English translation of this great code and Is of Intense interest to all thoughtful people, whether business or professional men. The number opens with a short editorial Introduction. wnlMi is followed by a translation of Hammurabi’s own Introduction, J.n which the king lauds his own greatness as a law giver. The greater part of the magazine, however. Is devoted to the translation ot the laws themselves, 282 in all. These reflect the social condition of the times and show that there was a high state of civilization in the Euphrates valley over 4,000 years ago. The number closes with Hammurabi's own conclusion, in whioh he calls himself the “Ever wise King Hammurabi,” “The protecting King,” and states that his wisdom has no equal. His eulogy is followed by the typical Babylonian curses which would be heaped upon anyone who should destroy, change or Injure this memorial on which are inscribed the “Laws of Hammurabi.” The number is illustrated by seven full-page half-tones, showing Hammurabi receiving the laws from the sun-god of Sippara and ths entire cuneiform inscription. The whole number will be of great permanent value for reference. Both laymen and clergymen, with the translation at hand, can judge for themselves as to whether or not Moses, TOO years later, copied these laws. The Twin Seven Shooters. In “The Twin Seven Shooters” Gen. Charles F. Manderson has told a fascinating and truthful story of the civil war. The author was colonel of the Nineteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and he tells how on Christmas eve, In the Federal barracks at Nashville, the regiment presented him with two handsome sevenshooters, in a mahogany case, and he follows the fortunes of these weapons through the war. The description of the bloody conflict of the main armies of the West, under Generals Rosecrans and Bragg, is most realistic, and has the absorbing Interest that comes when the story Is told by one who was a leading figure In a great battle in which TOO.OoO men fought, With a loss in killed and wounded of 26 per cent, of their number. The description of the hand-to-hand fight of Manderson’s command with that of Gen. Randall Gibson, of Louisiana, is most thrilling. Most graphically told, too, is the story of the charge of. Van Cleve's brigade of Crittenden’s division, directed by General Rosecrans in person. General Manderson's regiment lost over 40 per cent, in killed and wounded in this charge. General Manderson’s revolvers were captured In the loss of a baggage train by a charge of Confederate cavalry under Gen. Joseph Wheeler, and the story tells how after the lapse of many years the weapons came back to him. One he recovered soon after the war: the other was returned to him when he was Senator by Colonel Reeves, of Alabama. The book Is one that is sure to appeal to veterans of the civil war. The volume is illustrated. (New York: F. Tennyson

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The Story of the Churches. The aim of the series of volumes which Is being published under the general title, "The Story of the Churches,” is to furnish a uniform set of church histories, brief, but complete, and designed to instruct the average church member in the origin, development and history of the various denominations. The two first issues in this series are “The Baptists” and “The Presbyterians." The first is by Hepry C. Verifier, D. D., professor of church history in Crozer Theological Seminary. His volume starts out with a chapter on “Who and What Are the Baptists," in which it is set forth that the cardinal, the fundamental* principle of Baptists is loyal obedience to Jesus Christ. Baptists decline to recognize the distinctions sometimes made between “essentials’’ and “non-essentials" among Christ's commands. They deny, also, the right of any human authority to abrogate or alter any command that Christ gave to his disciples to be observed for all time. The volume tells of the historical antecedents of the Baptists, tells of the beginning and the growth of the denomination and has a very full chapter on Baptist missions. “The Presbyterians” is by Charles Lemuel Thompson, D. D., secretary of the Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian church. This author traces Presbyterianism as a form of doctrine and worship to the personality and teachings of John Calvin. According to him it aims to recover and apply the principle of Christian life announced by Christ and the doctrines formulated by His apostles. As to its doctrine, he explains that the Presbyterian church lays Its supreme stress upon the Augustlnian doctrine of divine sovereignty and free grace. This history deals at some length with the troubles through which the church has passed, with the division of 1741 and the division of 1837. It hats chapters on heresy trials, which seem to be more frequent with this denomination than with most, on “Confessional Changes,” and a final chapter which tells pretty clearly what the church is to-day. The books are well and uniformly bound, written in simple, straightforward style, and will doubtless be found to accomplish useful purpose. (New York: The BakerCompany.)

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Literary Notes. The American Unitarian Association brings out this month an important volume, along educational lines, called “Religious Freedom in American Education,” by Joseph Henry Crooker, the author of “Problems in American Society," etc. The rather surprising news comes from D. Appleton & Co. that that house will shortly publish a posthumous story by Frank R. Stockton. It was written during the year preceding Mr. Stockton's death, and has fofi 1 its scene that part of West Virginia in which he had for some time made his home. The tjtle chosen is “The Captain’s Tollgate,” and the volume will contain a memoir of the author written by Mrs. Stockton. When Louis Philippe was King of France, Houdln, the great conjurer, per-

NEW BOOKS BRIEFLY REVIEWED.

"No Hero,” the latest story by E. W. Hornung, the creator of the gentlemanly burglar. Raffles, Is a very mild and rather pleasant narrative by a middle-aged gentleman, who has been an officer in the British army. Crippled and taking his ease in London, he is sent for by an old flame of his, now a widow, who is very anxious about her son, a lad of twenty, clean-limbed and well bred, who has been sent on the grand tour and who, his mother.heart, Iras become entangled with a scheming fortune-hunting widow in a Swiss hotel. At once the teller of the

a schemir

story Jumps into the breach and betakes himself with all his aches and pains to the scene of action. He makes friends with the young man and his charmer and the story tells how he rescues the scapegrace from his embarrassment by marrying the scheming widow himself. The tale la slight, but is gracefully told. (New

York: Chafes Scribner's Sons.)

The Blow From^Behind,’’ by Fred C. Chamberlain, is a defense of the flag In the Philippines, which sets*'«orth some features of the anti-imperialist ^movement during the war with Spain, together with a consideration of our Philippine policy from its inception. Mr.Chamberlaln is a lawyer of Boston, and the germ of

;**— ‘”7" his present book was delivered as a Medane and for a. time morfal day address at Burlington, Vt., y considerations and in 1902. Mr, Chamberlain shows that the

literature of th© anti-imperialists was made up of ridiculous exaggerations and

— —-—— — falsehoods. It must be said that Mr. the generai reader will Chamberlain’s-book bears at many points

••. the marks of its author’s indignation. He beHeves that the anti-imperialists are outside of the pale that “covers sound, careful'considerate, responsible minds.” One Chapter deals with President McKinley’s

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probably be more Interested than the spe olaliat. The former, however, wiU ilnd. a good deal of information and many suggestive arguments. -nr. ), right classes himself always with the new school-of economist*, which insists upon the broadest view qf its subject. Sociology, for inresources material out of which to construct more concrete and specific and coherent ideals of the appropriate aims of

rvor,” “In tne great command teacher of divine truth the ■ seen, and of inspired and since His birth and command, ‘Bear ye one an- ' l '—- —religion and sociology

expression and their

way political economy is ■ mankind as occupied solely and consuming wealth, it

. as fundamental elements of political economy the humanity of th® MlHHHiH rnorai condition”; it must

wltlr the family, with

te, as the three fea-

t from his conclusion that in morality to at once a result of improvement of upon' the factory’ as an civilization to a frank and resfense of the faetbry system.

M* the traditional

thweby “‘FiclorlM ° a?e Tn the

equal In sanitary condlf a°£Ut W topinvement domestic manufacgreat proof of this Is

condemnation of the sweat-

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of bringing large r. Statistics nr® ory populations

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together. Statistics r l det«-Vt.rntIng P “n a t rife ws.

contends that oners, financial subordinated i„

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convicts

finance. (Boston: Lee and Shepard.)

“Our Northern Shrub®,” by Harriet L. Keeler, is a volume planned upon , the same lines as her “Native Trees.” This new volume is equally authoritative and exhaustive. Its purpose is to supply a complete guide to our Northern shrubs by the aid of which any shrub may be Identified and its habits learned. The book will appeal particularly to those who are engaged in the establishment and decoration of parks, roadways and boulevards; those who are seeking to beautify country roadsides, ichoolyards and railway stations, as well as those who, in the decoration of their own home grounds, would gladly use our native shrubs were their habits and character better understood. The book is fully illustrated. (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons.) • "The Life Within’’ is an anonymous romance in which Christian Science furnishes the motive. In the course of the story the reader learns of many wonderful cures effected by Christian Science. The author evidently Intends his book as an appeal to those outside Christian Science to come into the fold, but there are passages here and there that make one rather doubt the sincerity of the writer, and it is not likely that the novel will make many converts. It to by no means an uninteresting tale, however. (Boeton:

Lothrop Publishing Company.)

"The Workingman and Social Problems.” by Charles Stelzle. is a book by a workingman, now become a minister. His volume consists of eleven short essays on the workingman In embryo, his environment. his connection with the saloon, his leaders, his shop ethics, his social reform, his relation to the church, and on preaching to workingmen. Mr. Stelxie’s views may best be gathered from his essay on the saloon. He finds that so far from saloon keepers being “dev ils incarnate,” as the prohibition papers picture them, they are often the great friends of the workingman. If the workingman gets arrested. It is the saloon keeper who acts as bondsman. “When he is appealed to

formed a feat In magic that for generations has been a mystery. Brander Matthews will tell about it in the May Scrib-

ner’s,

At least one publishing house celebrated Shakespeare’s birthday, April 23, Doubleday, Page & Co. selected this date for the

publication of the first volume of the i * . "Elizabethan Shakespeare,” which was - .

mad© ready after four years of con-! tinuous preparation. The edition is to be I

edited along new lines to make the plays | BICENTENNIAL CELEBRATION TO better understood to modern readers. j , » •

. . j BE CONSIDERED SOON.

Andrew D. White, who has been resting quietly In Italy sine© his release from the cares of the German embassy at Berlin, has Just sent to the Century Magazine!

the first part of a manuscript upon which 1 CAIinilC PI PRftYMAhTQ I IPF he has long been engaged, consisting of rAflHUUo OLCriU I mHIv O L.irb

reminiscences of his diplomatic life. The present part covers his recollections of Beaconsfield, the Emperors William 1 and Frederick. Bismarck, Browning, and other famous European statesmen and writers. Further papers will Include recollections of his recent embassy to

Berlin.

away not less than £30.000. This sum was chiefly derived from the sal© of his writings He was a man of business; his own printer and bookseller, and managed his affairs with economy and success. Hto failures arose from the misapplication <tf those qualities by which he triumphed. At Klngswood, near Bristol, he set up a boarding school tor the sons of hto preachers. He devised the discipline of the school pad ordered that each day should be divided into three parts: Eight hours for sleep, from 8 at night to 4 the next morning; eight hours for study and

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Methodists In this city, in addition to th. propowd Methodist rally., h^neh*

May 3 and closing on May 10, will prob- good habits they were forming, ahiv hflve ft John Weslev day. oelebrat- Klngswood scdio^wouid not work and

The recent death of A. C. "Wheeler, by which it became known that he was "J. P. M.,” author of "A Journey to Nature” and “Tangled Up in Beulah Land.” has, it Is said, led to an advance sale of unexpected proportions for his posthumous novel, “The Conquering of Kate,” which Doubleday, Page & Co. are about to publish. Justus Miles Forman. Margaret Deland, Octave Thanet, Van Tassel Sutphen, Arthur Colton, James Branch Cabell, Netta Syrett, Philip Verrill Mighels. author of "The Motherhood of Beechy Daw,” and Anne O'Hagan contribute th© fiction to the May Harper’s. S. R. Crockett is about to appear with a new book. Its title will be “Flower-o'-the Corn," and its publishers are McClure, Phillips & Co. Three printings of Bishop Lawrence's study of "Phillips Brooks” were necessary to supply the demand on publication last Saturday. The publishers, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., also report that Margaret D. Jackson’s novel, “A Daughter of the Pit,” is in its second edition, and that "The Field of Ethics,” by Prof. George H. Palmer, is in its fourth edition. Definite arrangements have now been made to publish John Moriey’s “The Life of William Gladstone.” October 2, 1903, is the probable date of publication. It will be issued In three 8vo volumes, with portraits and many other illustrations by the Macmillan Company. “Studies in Contemporary Biography” is the title of Mr. James Bryce’s new book, instead of “Biographical Sketches,” as previously announced. ADVERTISED FOR PASTOR.

ably have a John Wesley day,'MSifcsplfr ing the bicentennial of the founder of-the

sect, perhaps in the last week of Juft®. peared' to* hay©-'the least appreciation of

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gave We®ley endless trouble. The rules ; hrero perpetually broken. He never ap-

How a Congregational Church at Port Chester, N. Y., Worded It In the last two or three years there have been In Indianapolis for seasons extending through several weeks, sometimes through several months, a number of pastorless churches. Recently It has become In a number of places the custom to advertise for pastors for such orphaned flocks. A few days ago the Tremont Temple, Boston, made such advertisement for the purpose of filling its vacant pulpit. A Congregational church at Port Chester, N. Y., now comes forward with an advertisement which may serve as a model: WANTED—A live, energetic pastor, capable of raising large sums of money, of smoothing out factions, of inaugurating new movements, preaching notable sermons and in every way promoting the kingdom of God in a great center of population; must be a Congregatlonalist. Apply, with credentials, etc.. King, Drawer A, Port Chester, New York.

of the for aid in behalf of a needy family, he (Boston: contributes liberally, and he always forgets to investigate. ’ It to in the back room of saloons that most workingmen's meetings are held, because the saloon is a sort of free club for these men, with

no dues

the » no aues to pay. Mr. Su lzle’s belief is “ ****'_• that the best substitute for the saloon “ fULpthp home; that the greatest barrier

that can be placed between the workingman atid the saloon Is that of the heart. There to sound common sense;

stand-up,

D. C.,

Dilation of

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at Bus* by J. de had been taken by an a trophy of war. Its

sense without preaching; fair, up, manly arguments here. The to one that ail social reformers may well ponder; and it would do many workingmen good to read. (Chicago. Fleming 1L Revel As CoQ - ,

“Lees and Leaven,” by Edward W, Townsend, is a story in which the author’s newspaper instinct, made patent in his “Chlmmie Fadden,” has been used to marked advantage. The main theme of the story is the gradual decline of a business man from a career of honesty to attempted wholesale theft. This man, Isaac Burton, has transferred a lot of valuable mining property to Dr. Paxton, but the doctor dies before the deed is recorded and the mining property being necessary to Isaac's business he keeps it and defrauds the doctor’s children. The plot that follows develops a detective story and a tangle that involves the fate of a pair of handsome lovers. During the course of the tale Mr. Townsend has occasion to describe the methods of “yellow’’ journalism and this part of hto tale to well told and has an air of truth about it. The story is intensely interesting. (New York: Mc-

Clure, PhilUps & Co.)

“On Satan's Moun.V’ by Dwight Tilton, to a rather sensations, ’ story, based on the present craze for the centralization of wealth; the plot 1s fanciful and imaginative, but rather realistic in its details. The two principal characters are Norton, a millionaire, and hto secretary, Craig. Norton is vulgar and grasping. Craig is an educated man, a man of culture and sentiment. Of course a clash between two such natures is inevitable. Almost as obvious is it that the millionaire shall have a young and charming daughter with whom Craig falls in love. In the parting of the ways that follows the millionaire goes to the United States Senate in the approved way of millionaires to reach that distinction—in novels. Craig makes his way up in the world to a Cabinet position. Then Craig becomes President, and eventually the millionaire to conquered, his daughter is won, the labor troubles of the United States are in a fair, way of being settled forever and—well, of course, they lived happily ever afterward. (Boston: C. M.

Clark Publishing Company.)

"The Philadelphians,” by Katherine Bingham, Is a novel dealing with the smart society of the Quaker City. It is an amusing book, in which the author shares delightful confidences with the reader and talks enough gossip to supply the tea table for a month. The book is written in the first person by a young widow who marries into the exclusive set of whose idiosyncrasies she proceeds to Inform us. The people of the book the reader gets to know pretty well before the author to done with them, and they are all amusing In their several ways. There are two love stories concealed In the sea of gossip and they end happily. The story was first published in a Philadelphia magazine, where it met with

much favor. It Is well worth re] in this more permanent form.

L. C. Page & Co.)

©printing (Boston:

“True Love," by Edith Wyatt, has for its subtitle, "A Comedy of the Affections,” and it 1s a rather delightful story about nothing in particular. The author introduces a lot of characters, very clev erly drawn and adroitly developed, and though they are commonplace people and do nothing very extraordinary, they "Soon seem to become intimate and personal friends. The story is light-hearted and Joyous, the only sad note, and one that does not seem to belong to the tale at all, being the suicide of one of the principal characters. The dialogue is epigrammatic, terse and clever; the characterizations in the book show a trained and keen observation and a fine sense of humor. (New York: McClure, Phillips & Co.) “Young Explorers of the Isthmus,’’ by Edward Stralemeyer, fa the latest volume in the “Pan-American” series. In this tale the scene shifts to Central America, retaining as its principal characters the five boys who have figured In the earlier volumes of the series. These boys are interested In the proposed canal and Journey from Oreytown up to Lake Nicaragua, stopping at many points of interest on the way. At LImon they take the steamer across the gulf to Colon and investigate the successfully competing canal route In the territory of Colombia. They finish their journey by a trip across the isthmus of Panama. Mr. Stratemeyer to one of the leading living writers for boys and this book, like his previous ones, combines much instruction with entertainment. (Boston: Lee & Shepard.)

’ Saints’ Days. The saints’ days for th/ week, beginIng Sunday, May 26. are as follows: Cletus and Marcellinus, popes and martyrs of the early church. Cletus was third in succession from Peter. Monday—Thuribius bishop of Mogroveja, South America: A Spaniard sent as missionary; died 1625. Tuesday—St. Paul of the Cross; an Italian; a great preacher and missionary of the seventeenth century; founder of the Passlonlsts. Wednesday—St. Peter of Alexandria; a martyr; put to death by Moors in Spain in 1252. ’ Thursday—Catherine of Sienna; bom in 1347, died in 1380; one of the greatest women of Christendom; became a Dominican nun in her eighteenth year; had a marked influence in the history of her time; no woman ever had such influence upon the popes and the hierarchy; in the time of the factions Guelphs and Ghibelllnes preserved the peace in Florence; largely through her influence that the popes after seventy years at Avignon were made to return V> Rome. Her shrine is the church of Minerva at Rome. Friday—Philip and James the Less, the Apostles. Saturday—Athanasius, died 373; the great patriarch of Alexandria and doctor of the church. Gregory of Nazlanzen the great upholder of orthodoxy in the fourth century said of him: “When I praise Athanasius virtue itself fa my theme, for I name every virtue as often as I name him who possesses all virtues.”

Sermon to Young People. The Rev. F. O. Ballard, D. D„ of Memorial Presbyterian church, will preach a series of sermons to ycong men and young women, one each Sunddy evening during the months of May and June. His topics will be “The Value of a Good Name,” “What the Bible Teaches About Business, “ “What the Bible Teaches About Politics," “Habits,” “What It is to Keep the Sabbath,” “The Student’s Challenge to the Churches," "The Cowardice that Sin Creates," “Living the Christian Life in Difficult Situations,” “After Death, the Judgment."

on June 17 or on June 28 depend* upon whether the “old” or the “new style” calendar to to be considered. According to the old style, John Wesley, the founder of Methodism was born June 17, 1703, at

Epworth, England.

He was the son of a clergyman of the Established church, and became a clergyman himself, attaining his thirty-fifth year without doing anything remarkable beyond a missionary excursion tb the

American Indians.

Being in London on May 24. 1738—a date which perhaps may be called the beginning of Methodism—he went to a meeting in Aldersgate street, where one was reading Luther's preface to the Epistle to the Romans. Listening to the reader, "at about a quarter before 9 o’clock” light , flashed upon his mind and he was converted. . *: Until that evening, as Wesley himself said, although a teacher of others, he had never known what Christianity really was. He began preaching in the open air, and hto life from that time until its close, March 2, 1791, in his eighty-eighth year, was consecrated to religious labors

among the people. His Early Efforts.

His early efforts were directed to supplement the services of the Church of England, but gradually he superseded them. He built chapels, organized a ministry and worship, allowed laymen to preach and at last found himself at the head of a great and independent religious community, which in the year before his degth numbered 76,000 In Great Britain and 57.000 in America. In the whole range of biography it would be difficult to find a man who worked harder and longer than John Wesley. For fifty years he rose at 4 o’clock in the morning, summer and winter, was accustomed to preach at 6, an exercise which he esteemed “the healthiest in the world.” He said that this early devotion was “the glory of Methodists. Whenever they drop It they will dwindle away to nothing”—a prophecy, however, which has failed to be ful-

filled.

Traveling did not suspend his Industry, “Though I am always in haste.” he said of himself, *T am never In a hurry, because I never undertake any more work than I can go through with perfect calmness 6f spirit. It is true I travel 4,000 or 5,000 miles In a year, but I generally travel alone in my carriage, and I am as retired ten hours a day as if I were in a wilderness. On other days I never spend less than three hours, and frequently ten or twelve, alone.” In this way he found Um§ to read much and write voluminously. Ih eating and drinking he was exceedingly abstemious. Suppers he avoided and sometimes for years he never tasted anliqal food. Once for three or four years he lived almost exclusively on potatoes. From wine, beer and spirits he habitually abstained, preferring water. Throughout his long life he enjoyed nearly uninterrupted health. He could sleep at will and said that he never, from his childhood, lost a night’s sleep. He attributed his fine health to his regular habits, his temperance and tfl the changes of air he experienced In traveling; also to his serene temper, for although he had many cares resting upon him, they never worried him. Fret at Nothing. “I feel and grieve," he said, “but by the grace of God I fret at nothing.” To the end of his life his complexion was fresh, his walk agile, his eye keen and active. Those who saw him in his old age had a pleasant memory of his lithe, little figure, his long hair, white and bright as silver, hto beaming countenance, his active step and energetic air. He died painlessly, not of disease, but healthily worn out. Order and method were in all his doings. At the middle of the year 1790 he closed his cash book with these words, written in a tremulous hand: “For upwards of seventy-six years I have kept my accounts exactly. I will not attempt it any longer, being satisfied that I save all I can and give all I can; that to, ail I have.’’ From his youth he lived on a trifle yearly and gave away the remainder of his Income, when at Oxford he had £30— $150—one year. He lived on £28 and gave £2 away. Next year, having £60, he lived on £28, and gave away £32. The third year he had £90 and the fourth year £120, yet he still limited himself to £28, and gave away the remainder. It is said that in th© course Of hto life he gave

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and meditation.

iHHRIUJd see ofi fine for play.

Amusement .was proscribed at the Kings-1 wood school. The hours not spent in!

sleep and .study were to be used for prayer, self-examination, singing, working in a garden in fine and iff the house in wet weather. The bbys were never to be left alone but always under the eye of a master who whs to keep them busy and from idle talk. There were no holidays and no vacations for, as Wesley

of EngUikVjobSrhood -yrfm j its inherited love for cricket football and other a'hletic sports, he bad no conception. 1’s could not understand why he could mt turn out rows .of young Wesleys caring for nothing but work and devotion. In his forty-eighth year he married Mrs. Vlzelle, a widow, with a fortune and four children. Her money Wesley would

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and” advised the unmarried, who found ft possible to do so, to remain single, alleging that he himself was a bachelor because he thought he could be more useful

in that stale.

It was a sad day for John Wesley wh< he changed his mind and fell In love wl , the widow Vlzelle. He stipulated wit her that he should not preach one sermon the les© nor travel one mile the less after marriage than before. With thee® views, what could iy wife be .to him but an Intnimbrance? At first sifhe confdrmed to hto ascetic habits and traveled with him. She soon grew tired of this, and of the society of the humble Methodists to whom she was introduced. She began to grumble. Wesley was too busy to attend to her wails. Then she grew Jealous, opened his letters, followed him from town to

town as a spy.

Wesley was not a man to be henpecked. “Know me,” he wrote to her “and know yourself. Suspect me no more, asperse me no more, provoke me no more; do not any longer contend for- mastery, for power or money. Be content to be a private insignificant person, known and loved by God and me. • • • Of what importance is your character to mankind? If you were buried Just now, or if you had never lived, what loss would

it be to the cause of God?(’

After having been a thorn in his side for twenty years, she left his house carrying off his • journals and papers which she never returned. In his diary, be wrote. "I did not forsake her, I did not dismiss her, I will not recall her.” She lived ten years after her flight and died in 1781 at Comberwell, where a stone in the churchyard attests that “she was a woman of exemplary virtue, a tender parent and a sincere friend’’ but it mercifully says nothing of her

conjugal life.

Southey said of her: "By her outrageous Jealousy and abominable temper she deserves to be classed in a triad with Xantlppe and the wife of

Job as one of the three bad wives." DOING A GREAT WORK.

What the Y. M. C. A. is Accomplishing in Europe—New Associations. The Y. M. C. A. in Europe is doing a great work. At Copenhagen, 1,690 members, besides 1,200 boys and 1,500 in the soldiers department are enrolled. There are six railroad associations In Finland, on® being at Torneo, the most northern town in Lapland. Eight associations have beeh formed among the soldiers of Germany. There are forty-four associations in Berlin. One of these has 1,600 members. A university association building has been erected at Nanking, China, costing *2.500, the gift of W. w. Cooper,' of Kenoshp, Wis. i 1 . An association has been formed at Singapore. This is supported largely by England and Wales. TO PREACH TO TRAVELING MEN.

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT WILL SPEAK ON HISTORIC GROUND AT FREEPORT, ILLINOIS

FREEPORT, HI., April 26.—When President Roosevelt reaches Freeport, on June 3, he will speak from a platform erected on the spot where the famous debate between Lincoln and Douglas took place. The spot has been, marked through the efforts of the Freeport Woman’s Club. A large red granite stone was brought from Devil's lake, Wisconsin, and set on the corner of the lot where the speeches were made. It required months for the oldest inhabitant ; definitely to locate this lot, which, in the 50’n, was a grove, among the trees of which the platform had been erected. There were many disputes about the matter, but. after weighing all the evidence, the committee placed the marker on the corner of the lot, within two squares of the Brewster house, where the

politicians stopped during the famous meeting.

There fa now being prepared a bronze plate with suitable inscriptions, and

this will be placed in position on the marker by June 3.

Commercial Travelers’ Association will Attend Third Christian. The members of the Commercial Travelers’ Association are to attend! the morning service at the Third Christian church to-iporroig. They will assemble at the corner of College avenue and Eleventh street and'go to the church In a body, seats on the main floor to be reserved for

them.

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- Corner Stone Ceremonies. At the corner stone ceremonies «rt the Holy Angels’ church, North Indianapolis, at 3:30 p. m„ Sunday, the boys’ surpliced choir, of St. Bridget's, will sing: the Rev. Anthony Scheideler, of St. Mary’s, will lay the stone; the Rev. F. H. Gavisk, of St. John’s, will deliver the oration and the Rev. George Smith, of SS. Peter and Paul, will be master of ceremonies. A festival for the benefit of the church will be held at Tomlinson Hall on the evening of May 21. There will be a voting contest for “the most popular little girl, not over twelve years old. In Indianapolis.” AH names of children who will take part in the contest are to be sent to Miss Agatha Cissel, 920 Camp street, city, before May 4. The names will be published on May 7. The first prize will be a gold watch.

The Rev. F. E. Lyon to Speak. The Rev. Frank Emory Lyon will speak at the Y. M. C. A. hall, at 3:30 p. m., Sunday, on "The Hope of the Prisoner.” Mr, Lyon 1s superintendent of the Central Howard Association, at Chicago, which looks after the welfare of prisoners in the State penal Institutions, and gives a helping hand to those who give promise ot a desire to reform. He will speak briefly at the Meridian-street M. E. church, Sunday, at 10:30 a. m., and at the Second Presbyterian church later In the

morning.

Fourth Presbyterian Election. At the annual meeting of the Fourth Presbyterian church, held last night, the following were elected to fill vacancies; Elders, John C. Buchanan, John C. Trent, Wayne Hanson; deacons, E. L. Plummer, Charles B. Hauck, Victor K. Hendricks, George J. Mayer; trustees, Joseph E. Ludlum. Henry L. Beveridge, Robert L. Dorsey, H; T. Adams, William H. Cook. Christian Endeavor Mass Meeting. The Indianapolis Christian Endeavor has planned to have the local union mass meetings continue for three days, June 7„ > 8 and, 9, opening at 2:36 p. m. on the first named day. The union has added 300 titb its membership in this city since January L 1903. Church Notes. The Rev. J. T. Williams, of Ft. Wayne, who has been chosen pastor of the Congregational church at. Brightwood, will enter updo bis pastorate on May 3. A conference for leaders, of missionary .work in Sundsty-schooto and young peo-ple’s-'societleB of the. Southern and western States will be held on Lookout mountain July 1 tp July 8, Inclusive.

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A quartet, composed ot Mrs. Goetz. Mrs. Mcrrison. Mr. McGlbcny and Mr. Laut. will furnish special music at the 4 o’clock vesper service at Mayflower Congregational .church, Sunday afternoon. •5XM«r, SV 1 ** ■ 0, °

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