The Syracuse Journal, Volume 3, Number 46, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 16 March 1911 — Page 2

New Neurn B of Jjr IE. 3. Simards

George W. Curtis as Preacher

Famous Literary Man Frankly Read the Sermons of Others to His Little Congregation on Staten Island. In October, 1877, about a month after George William Curtis had made his brilliant speech at the Rochester, New York, state convention of Republicans in defense of the administra■tive acts in New York state of President Hayes and John Sherman, as secretary of the treasury—the speech ■which stirred up United States Senator Roscoe Conkling, at bitter outs Vith Hayes and Sherman over their removal of certain office holders, to make his now historic reply, in which he referred to Mr. Curtis as a “man milliner”!—l went one Sunday to Staten Island to • hear George William Curtis preach. Not many persons knew that the charming essayist, the brilliant lecturer, the editor of Harper’s Weekly, a man of international fame as a writer, was also the preacher in a little Unitarian church which stood within a few minutes’ walk of Mr. Curtis’ Staten Island home. It was a somber autumn day. There had been a heavy storm from the sea, and the wind had not died down at the time of the morning service, so that the branches of the trees whipped (occasionally against the windows of the little church as Mr. Curtis conducted the services and read the serinon. His voice was very rich, his ■utterance distinct, and he so read the sermon as to hold the undivided and close attention of the little congregation to the closing sentence. After the service he came down the aisle and greeted me, and I said to him: “That was a printed sermon, was it not, that you read to the congregation?" “ “Oh, yes,” he replied, “that was one of Thomas Starr King’s sermons.” (Thomas Starr .King was the Unitarian preacher who, more than any other man, perhaps, saved California to the Union In 1861.) “I make a practice, in selecting sermons for the morning service, to find one especially appropriate to the day, sometimes to the weather. I have occasionally read a sermon by Theodore Parker, but it has usually been at a time when there is some stirring public event. Thomas Starr king’s sermons, for some reason which I cannot explain, I find especially adapted to the autumn and early winter season.” I asked Mr. Curtis if his service in that little church was temporary, and if not, what led him to add this to his many other reaaonslbillties. “Why, I just got into the way of it, I suppose," he replied. “Our church was without a pastor at the time, and my friends asked me to conduct the

Glance Hhat Broke Bad Habit

Reproachful Look of a Stranger Cured .William R. Grace of Using Strong ’ Language, Reform Being Immediate. A modern Dick Whittington was the iate William R/ Grace. He ran away rom his home In Ireland when he was ourteen years of age, and thirty-four pears later found himself elected maybr of the new world’s metropolis, to be ire-elected four years later, or In 1884. fee has gone down in municipal history as one of the strong Democratic mayors of New York. , - "I think every man who occupies a prominent public position, or who Is In position of authority in private life, Should be very careful to do nothing jwhlch would give the slightest offense pr cause any shock to those who process and practice a high standard of moral conduct,” Mayor Grace said to me upon an occasion when we were of a lapse of propriety —not * serious—which a man of some public station had permitted himself. “Let ime Illustrate this by an Incident In my pwn career—and it Is one which gives me some gratification whenever I look back upon it “You know, that after I had worked pay way on a sailing vessel to New York and been here about four years, I made my way to Peru, where I spent the early part of my business life. There 1 was brought into daily and constant contact with sailors, for ours was a shipping business and some of them were very rough men. As a reeult, I suppose, I fell Into the habit, which is very common at Lima and Callao, of using strong language, and especially when I was excited. I want Ito say in my behalf, however, that I never permitted myself any oath that was blasphemous; the strong language which I did use would not be esteemed by many persons as very profane. Still, it was not a-good habit and did not set a good example. “In due time I returned to New York as head of the firm which had employed me in Peru, and I brought back with me my habit of using strong language. That was in 1865, and I Indulged tn it to my heart’s content right «P to about the time I was

service and to deliver a short address. I told them that I thought the better part would be for me to select some one of the sermons of our great preachers, and they fell in with my idea. “Why shouldn’t a clergyman depart at times from his customary sermon writing, turn to his library, take down some of the religious treasures that he has there, and say frankly to his congregation: ‘I am this morning going to read you a sermon by Theodore Parker, or by Thomas Starr King or by Henry Ward Beecher.’ “You know, there has been some complaint at the unwillingness, of men, at least, to go to church. Perhaps the reason is that the regular clergyman gets exhausted. Congregations are very quick to detect mental effort, and they know whether a sermon has been perfunctorily written or not. Could not this situation be remedied by frankly reading sermons by the great pulpit leaders? I have found that all the good men of all denominations who have written and delivered sermons have said something that would be of value to other congregations than their own. And I know that our service, in this little Unitarian church, has been very pleasant to us all, has done us much good; and we look forward from one Sunday to another to these simple exercises, when we are able to receive the best thought of the best preach-

Sherman’s Lost Opportunity

Thinking General Mower Was Mistaken, He Missed a Chance to Capture Joseph E. Johnston and ! His Entire Army. How many opportunities Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman felt that he lost no one knows probably. Yet to one man—like Sherman, a veteran of the Civil war—the general once admitted that his lost opportunities were several in number, and he outlined in some detail how he lost a splendid opportunity in North Carolina, after he had made his famous march from Atlanta to the sea, to capture Gen. Joseph E. Johnston’s army, bag and baggage, more than a full month before that intrepid Confederate leader surrendered his forces to his Union opponent. “Some time about the middle of the seventies of the last century, a soldiers’ reunion was to be held in my tountry town,” said Mr. James N. Brown, now a resident of St. Louis, and a veteran of the Tenth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, ’’and thinking that

nominated for mayor for the first time. Then, one day, somethipg in the course of business excited me so greatly that I used a lot of strong language that was as near blasphemy as anything I had ever uttered. “As I was exploding in this rashion I chanced to look past the clerk whose blunder had caused my excitement and language, and beheld a young man —a caller at the office —looking at me with an expression of astonishment and, I thought, reproach, which I shall never forget. He was a young man who regarded me very highly. He knew that I was active in some of the work of my church. He knew that they were talking of nominating me for mayor of New York. And there, all of a sudden, I stood revealed to him as a man who made use of strong language. “That glance burned Into my soul, it seemed. And as It was still upon me, or seemed to be, I said to myself that, leaving all other personal considerations out of view, no man should do anything which should cause a young man to feel that he was being set a bad example—which would give him a moral shock. And then and there I determined that never again would I make use of any manner of speech which would justify the slightest reproach being visited upon me by look or word. “It may not have been a very serious or glaring defect, but I broke the habit immediately, and I have never made use of strong language since. And in consultation with others about it we came to one opinion: that, besides being a bad example, strong language of the kind I had used was vulgar, something no gentleman should permit himself to indulge in. And you will now see some of the results of that view In the spread of an association whose cardinal principle is the refraining from the use of strong language of any sort whatsoever." The association that Mayor Grace referred to was one of the local organizations whose success eventually resulted in the formation of the now powerful and widespread Holy Name Society of the Roman Catholic Church. (Copyright, 1910, by E. J. Edwarda. AH Righta Reemred.)

ers through the medium of the printed page.” I could not help thinking that if all the clergymen had George William Curtis’ charm of personality, his beautiful voice, and the elocutionary power by which he was able to convey by tone of voice and by gesture the thought that was in his sentences, then others might do as he had so long done in that little church on Staten Island, and read to the comfort and joy of his congregation sermons written by others. (Copyright, 1910, by E. J. Edwards. All Rights Reserved.) Small Girl Invents Kidnap Yam. There will be no Black Hand arrest for the kidnaping of 11-year-old Marie Coleman whom Father McGuire found crying in a confessional, according to the New York Times. After hours of questioning by the police the little girl admitted that she had Invented the whole story to shield her from the wrath of her mother, occasioned by her having failed to return home directly after school. The little girl said she went to the church because she thought it beautiful and liked to sit in it. It got to be late before she thought of going home. Then she was too frightened to leave, and so hid in the confessional. Latest Methods. "I see your son has gone into your bank. Has he Introduced any improved business methods as yet?" “Oh, yes. He lias the clerks served with afternoon tea.”

the presence of General Sherman would be a drawing card, I visited him at his home in St. Louis to invite him to attend our reunion. “With my regiment I had followed Sherman from Atlanta to the sea, and into North Carolina in the late winter of ’65, or, as some would put it, the very early spring; so, while we were discussing various incidents of the war, 1J occurred to me to ask the general about a strategic movement made by the Union army in North Carolina that had always puzzled me more or less. “It will be remembered by those 1 present that Gen. Joseph E. Johnston attacked the left wing of Sherman’s army at Averysboro, N. C., on March 19, 1865, and handled it pretty roughly. The Seventeenth Corps, under Gen. Francis P. Blair, was on the right of the army and headed straight for Goldsboro, N. C., some twenty-five miles east, where we hoped to meet the commands of Schofield and Terry coming up from the coast. Orders were given to Blair to change his course, which he did, marching all night and gaining a position near the Confederate left. Then, about noon of March 21, orders were given to Gen. Joseph A. Mower, commanding the first division of the Seventeenth corps, to force a crossing over the swamp which protected Johnston’s left. This was accomplished, and, much to our surprise, we found ourselves at Johnston’s headquarters where we recaptured some of our own men who were held as prisoners. “Mower learned from our men that the Confederates were surrounded — Sherman’s flanks resting on Mill creek, a deep stream —and that the only way Johnston could retreat was across a narrow bridge, and this was under the fire of our men. He at once sent a staff officer to Sherman to explain the situation and ask reinforcements. Sherman, instead of reinforcing, ordered a withdrawal, which was being made just as Wade Hampton’s cavalry attacked Mower’s right, and the Confederate infantry his left This opened the pocket and let Johnston out. “I led up to this situation and asked General Sherman why he gave the order to withdraw. In his vigorous manner he replied: ** T thought Mower was mistaken in his position. I knew him to be a brave, .hard fighter, but looked on him as reckless, and I could pot believe Johnston would ever permit himself to be caught in such a position. I also knew that if Mower was where he said he was, Johnston would not surrender without a desperate fight, which meant that many of you boys would be left in the pine woods of North Carolina to the tender mercies of the Confederates. My spies had reported that Lee was reinforcing Johnston, how much they could not tell. I did not know what Schofield and Terry were doing down at Newbern, and it was possible that I might be forced back to the seashore somewhere. I also thought I could maneuver Johnston out of bis position and, after making a junction with our army at Goldsboro, give him attention later on. •“But If I had known the exact situation,* the general concluded in his clear-cut, characteristic style, ‘I would have sent a division to reinforce Mower, and sent orders to press the enemy all along the line to prevent his sending troops against Mower, and Johnston would have been forced to surrender before night—one of my lost opportunities, M7. F (Copyright, 1910, oy E. J. Edwards. All Rights Reserved.)

CATHEDIAL TOWN’S SENTINtx Historic Structure Is Built on a Ridge High Above City of Lincoln, England. Lincoln, England.—“ The most imposing sight about European cities is that of a whole district dominated by one great building,” said a tourist recently. If this be true, then Lincoln might be classed as among the most imposing of cities, for her superb cathedral dominates not only the city spreading down the hillside in a pretty pattern of red-tile roofs and green foliage, but JL - . Turret of Lincoln Castie. the entire pastoral countryside for miles in every direction. The cathedral is built on the highest point of a ridge. In former days, the entire city clustered about it, and the citizens did their marketing in narrow streets so steep they could hardly walk up them. Now, however, two lines of railway have drawn the city toward the lower levels. But from whatever point a look is cast toward the upper city, the great towers of the cathedral are to be seen, pointing skyward with their gothic pinnacles. Its Interesting history and its fame for beauty attract thousands of tourists every year. There are always a few Americans to be seen, guide book in hand, peering about the ornate old facades, whose stones are now stained beautiful shades of yellow and cream by the weather of centuries. It used to be a favorite delight of the town boys to pay a sixpence to climb the central tower, and stand Inside the monster bell, called “Great Tom," when the 12 strokes of noon were sent vibrating over the city, but this diversion is not much indulged in by tourists. 5 1 A WOMEN NOW ON AMBULANCES New York One of the Few Cities In the World Which Engages Them. New York.—This is one of the few cities In the world where women are allowed to act as ambulance surgeons and only one hospital in the city allows the practice. This hospital graduated Dr. Mary Crawford into housework and now Dr. Elizabeth Bruyn Is serving her novitiate on the back step of an ambulance. Dr. Bruyn began her antics as ambulance surgeon quite recently and had the opportunity to set a broken leg during her first day at work. She did the job neatly and promises to be a success in her field of work. Dr. Bruyn the other day responded to a call from a saloon in Kent avenue. She found a policeman holding three Polish prisoners in a corner at the point of a pistol, while a wounded man was stretched out on the floor. Dr. Bruyn got down on her knees to repair a long slash in the side of the man on the floor. He tried to edge Woman Ambulance Surgeon. away, but Dr. Bruyn got the bartender to hold his legs while *she put some stitches in his side. She never winked an eye or paused a moment in her work when the prisoners made a demonstration and the policeman waved a pistol and told them to be still. They protested that they did not want any woman doctor to sew up the wounded man, but subsided in response to a suggestive movement ct the revolver.

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