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CHURCHES
Midsummer finds nearly all of Sa
vannah's pastors at their posts, while
the congregations are thinning out. as
people go away for their holidays.
Services have been changed somewhat
for the hot months, but no churches
are closed.
Rev. Thomas D. Ellis, presiding el
der of the Savannah district, will
preach at Wesley Monumental Church
this morning.
At the Duffy Street Baptist Church
to-night, at 8.30 o’clock, the pastor.
Rev. Robert Van Deventer, will speak
on “Social Drinking.”
Child labor in the mills and fac
tories will be discussed by Rev.
Charles A. Jackson, at Grace Metho
dist Church this morning. The an
nounced subject is "The Duty of
Citizenship, Parents and Guardians in
Child Life.”
Elders and deacons will be ordained
and Installed at the night service in
Westminster Church. At the service
♦his morning members will be re
ceived.
Dr. A. M. Williams, pastor of Trin
ity Churoh, has announced that he will
deliver a sermon to-night on the sub
ject of "Savannah’s Shame.”
Catholic.
Services at the Cathedral of St. John
the Baptist will be masses at 6:30,
8:30 and 9:30 a. m. The last mass will
be followed by the benediction of the
Most Blessed Sacrament.
Services at St. Patrick's Church, 6:30
a. m., 8:30 a. m.
Services at St. Michael's Church, Ty
bee, at 9:30 o'clock.
Services at the Sacred Heart Church
as follows: First mass, 6:30 o'clock;
second mass, 9 o'clock; benediction of
the Blessed Sacrament immediately
after this mass. This order of services
to continue until first Sunday of Octo
ber.
EpINCOpAI.
St. John’s Church, Madison Square,
corner Bull and Charlton streets. Rev.
Charles H. Strong, rector. Litany,
sermon and Holy Communion at 11
o'clock; Sunday-school at 5 o'clock p.
m.
St. Paul's Church, Duffy and Bar
nard streets. Rev, J. L. Scully, rector.
Fourth Sunday after Trinity. Early
celebration, 7:30 a. m.; Sunday-school
5 p. m.: evensong and sermon. 8:30
p. m. Eleven o’clock service will be
omitted during the summer months.
Christ Church, corner Bull and Con
gress streets, Rev. Robb White, rector.
Fourth Sunday after Trinity. Service
and sermon at 11 a. m.; service and
address at 6:30 p. m.; Sunday-school at
6:30 p. m.
Baptist.
First Baptist Church. Pastor John
D. Jordan will conduct services at 11
a. m., and 8:30 p. m. The Lord’s Sup
per at the morning service and. Bap
tism at the evening service. By re
quest the morntng sermon will be on
Baptism and the Lord’s Supper. At
the evening service the pastor will dis
cuss an editoral that appeared in the
Morning News. May 24, on. The Heath
en At Our Door.
Regular services South Side Baptist
Church, corner Barnard and Thirty
fifth streets, will be conducted by the
pastor. Rev. D. S. Edenfield, at 11 a.
m.. and 8:30 p. m. B. Y. P. U. 4
o'clock. Sunday-school 5 o'clock. Mid
week prayer meeting Wednesday night
8:30. Other week services as usual.
Duffy street Baptist Church, Dr.
Robert Van Deventer, the pastor will
occupy the pulpit morning and night,
at 11 a. m., subject, ‘What the Church
Is.” 8:30, "Soci'al Drinking.” Mid-week
prayer meeting. Wednesday, 8:30 p. m.
At, Berean Mission prayer meeting
Friday, 8:30 p. m.
Lutheran.
Lutheran Church of the Ascension,
preaching by Rev. Dr. W. C. Schaeffer
at 11 a. m. No service at night. Sun
day-school at 5 p. m.
St. Paul's Church, Bull and Thirty
first, Rev. M. J. Epting, pastor. The
hours for service are 11 a. m. and 8:30
p. m. Sun<fti>-school 5 p. m. The mis
sionary society will meet Wednesday,
6 p. m., at the residence of Mrs. S.
Oppenheimer, 217 Bolton, west.
Methodist.
Trinity Methodist Church, Barnard
and York streets, Rev. A. M. Williams,
D. D., pastor. Preaching and sacra
ment, 11 a. m.; preaching by the pas
tor. 8:30 p. m. Topic: “Savannah’s
Shame." Sunday-school. 5 p. m., F.
H Marshall and Dr. W. W. Jarrell,
superintendents. Bible class conduct
ed by Mr. J. R. Saussy.
Wesley Monumental Church: Rev.
T. D. Ellis, presiding elder, will preach
at 11 a. m.; after the sermon the sac
rament of the Lord's Supper. All the
members in the city are earnestly re
quested to be present at this service. At
8:30 p. m., the pastor. Rev. H. C.
Christion will preach; subject: "The
Future of Methodism With the Dan
gers Confronting It.”
At Grace Church, corner Park ave
nue and Jefferson street, there will be
preaching at 11 a. m., by the pastor.
Rev. C. A. Jackson; subject: "The
Duty of Citizenship. Christian Parents
and Guardians to Child Life.” At 8:30
p. m. Rev. Osgood F. Cook, a former
pastor at Grace, and who is now sta
tioned at Dawson. Ga.. will preach.
Sunday-school at 4:30 p. m.; stewards'
meeting, 8:30 p m., to-morrow; Ep
worth League, Tuesday. 8:30 p. m.;
prayer meeting. Wednesday, 8:30 p. m.:
XV. F. M. Society, to-morrow, 4:30
p. m.
Presbyterian.
First Presbyterian Church: Rev.
William P. McCorkle, pastor, will
preach at 11 a. m. on "Patriotism and
Piety,” and at 8:30 p. m. on "Paul,
the Man of One Idea.” Sunday-school
at 9:45 a. m.
Independent Presbyterian Church,
usual services will be held at 11 a. m.
and at 8:30 p. m.. to be conducted by
the pastor. Rev. J. Y. Fair. Sunday
school at 5 o’clock; prayer meeting at
6 o'clock Thursday afternoon.
The services of the Westminster
Presbyterian Church will be held at 11
a. m. and 8:30 p. m. in the Lawton
Memorial; Sabbath-school 6 p. m.;
rrayer meeting Wednesday. 8:30 p. m.
At the morning service there will be the
reception of members and the ordina
tion and installation of elders and dea
cons. W. A. Nisbet, pastor
Christian Church.
Christian Church. Bolton and How
ard streets, A. R. Miller, pastor. Hours
for preaching services. Lord's day, 11
a m. and 8.30 p. m. Bible school. 9.45
a. m. Y. P. S. C. E., 4 p. m , Monday,
4 p. m. Ladies' weekly meeting in the
church building Wednesday evening,
8:15, mid-week prayer meeting Wed
nesday, 4 p m., Junion Y. P. weekly
meeting.
Sweden borglnn.
Park Mew Church, corner Drayton
and Huntingdon streets. Morning serv
ices, with sermon, by the pastor, at 11
o’clock. Sunday-school at 10 a. m. Al
exander Henry, pastor.
Christian Science,
“Life" will be the subject of the ser
mon to-day at First Church of Christ,
Scientist, at 11 a. m. Text: “When
Christ, who is our life, shall appear,
then shall ye also appear with him in
glory." Colosstans 34. Sunday-school
at noon. Wednesday testimony meet
ing at 830 p. in. Reading room open
daily from 4 to 6 p. m. at No. 18 Ogle
thorpe avenue, east. All services held
at Metropolitan Hall, opposite postof
fice, and are open to the public.
Y. M. c. A.
The first of a series of Sunday after
noon addresses to be delivered at the
Y. M. C. A. on "Scriptural Problems"
will be delivered this afternoon at 6
o'clock by Rev. T. D. Ellis, presiding
elder of the Savannah district of the
Methodist Church on the subject,
"Reasons for Obscurity of Scriptural
Truth.” Mrs. Smith will sing a solo.
Thunderbolt.
There will be services at Thunderbolt
Union Church at 8:30 o'clock. con
ducted by Mr. W. H. Fifer. Sabbath
school at 5 o’clock. Prayer meeting
Thursday evening at 8:30 o’clock.
Salvation Army.
The Salvation Army will hold meet
ings to-day as follows: At 10 a. m., an
open air meeting, corner Houston and
Oglethorpe; at 11 a. m., holiness meet
ing in the hall, 112 West President
street; at 3 p. m., Sunday-school; at 4
p. m.. an open air meeting at Union
Station; at 7 p. m., an open air meet
ing, corner Whitaker and Broughton,
and again In the hall at 8:15 p. m.
Meetings every night In the hall ex
cept Tuesday and Saturday nights.
Children's meeting every Thursday
and Saturday, 3 p. m. All are invited to
come.
THE WORDS WE KNOW.
Vocabulary of the Wayfaring Man
Figured Out of a System.
From the Indianapolis Journal.
There often appears in print an item
which reads somewhat like this: An or
dinary man will say everything that
any occasion calls for with a vocabu
lary of 1,000 words. Of these he com
monly uses but 400 or 500, reserving the
remainder for the emergency of an
idea out of his usual line of thought.
In accordance with this is a state
ment once made by a speaker at an ed
ucational meeting: “The best educated
person in this room will not use more
than 600 or 700 words." And he added
that an ignorant man would not use
more than 300 or 400. Some years ago
a writer in the Chautauquan said: “It
is estimated that an English farm
hand has a vocabulary limited to 300
words. An American workman who
reads the newspapers may command
from 700 to 1.000 words. Five thousand
is a large number, even for an edu
cated reader or speaker.” This is a step
forward, yet it still seems a far cry to
Shakespeare's vocabulary of 15,000
words, or even to Milton's 9,000.
Any one may .with a little trouble.es
timate the number of words whose
meanings would be plain to him in
print or in speech. Of the writer's vo
cabulary an estimate was made in this
way: An abridged dictionary was used
because almost all unusual words
would thereby toe at once eliminated.
Under each letter of the alphabet a
page or more of words was selected at
random and counted. A separate record
was kept of primitive and derivative
words. That is, among the former was
put measure; among the latter meas
urable, measureableness, measurably,
measurer, measureless, measurement,
measurer, unmeasurable and unmeas
ured. Compound words, whose mean
ings were clearly indicated by their
component, were omitted: as, clock
work. draft-horse, hard-earned. Count
ing this way, an average of twenty
primitive and thirty-five derivative
words was found on each page. This
would make, there being 814 pages of
vocabulary in the dictionary, a total of
16,240 of the former and 28.490 of the
latter, or almost 45,000 in all.
Next was taken a page in each letter
and* on it were counted the words
■which it seemed any person of aver
age intelligence would be able to use
and understand. On twenty-four pages
there were 268 primitive words and 221
derivative, or nearly 9,000 in all of the
former and more than 7.000 of the lat
ter. And lastly was made a count of
very common words, such as even a
poorly educated person could hardly es
cape knowing, and they were found to
number 5.700 primitive and 3,200 deriv
ative. No proper names were included
in any of the countings.
It would therefore seem to follow, if
what we are told of the vocabularies
of Shakespeare and Milton be correct,
that a person of average education to
day knows at least as many words as
did the former, and one whose school
opportunities have been quite limited
is capable of walking beside the latter
in this respect. As regards ideas and
ability to express them, however, the
difference may be world wide.
The foregoing facts seem to warrant
these general conclusions: Every well
read person of fair ability and educa
tion will be able to define or to under
stand as used nearly or quite, perhaps
more, than 50,000 words. And the same
person in conversation and writing
will command not fewer than 15.000 to
20,000. and can add 5.000 to 10,000 to
these numbers if he be literarily in
clined. The plain people, as Lincoln
liked to call them, use or read under
standingly from 8,000 to 10,000 words,,
according to their general intelligence
and conversational power, while a per
son who cannot read, but who has a
good degree of native mental ability,
will command about 5.000.
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GHOSTS IN THE WHITE HOUSE
An Old Employe Gives an Interesting Account
of Them.
Washington, July S.—Did you know
that since time out of mind the White
House has been haunted, just like any
other old place? The veteran Jerry
Smith, who has been an employe at
the Executive Mansion for more than
a quarter of a century, since he was
brought there by Gen. U. S. Grant at
the beginning of the latter's first ad
ministration, Is authority for the state
ment. A few days ago I went to see
him, to find out all about it. Seated
in his cosy parlor, he said to me: "It
is the truth, the gospel truth. Ever
since I first went to the White House
I have seen the spirits of Mr. Lin
coln and other Presidents wandering
about the premises. But times are not
now what they used to be, since all
those changes in the Mansion. Spirits,
you know', don’t like new places, and
now-days I never get a glimpse of Mr.
Lincoln, Mr. Grant, Mr. Hayes, Mr.
Arthur, Mr. Garfield or Mr. McKinley.
The first time I saw anything at the
White House was one evening long
ago. about dusk; I Just caught sight
dimly of a form that I recognized at
once as being that of Mr. Lincoln. He
was going up the big stairs that lead
to the President's office. He looked at
me serlous-like, then kept on right up
the stairs till he faded from view. I
have seen him hundreds of times since,
always gliding silently about the
stairs and rooms and always with a
sad. serious expression on his face, as
if he did not like the w*ay things are
going.
“After Gen. Grant died I saw him
frequently, and he soon began to talk
to me. Yessum he did, frequently.
Whenever I wanted any advice, or was
worried about something or other, Gen.
Grant would come in his old-time,
friendly way, and tell me what to do.
This is the gospel truth that I am
telling you,—if it had not been for Gen.
Grant's spirit telling me what to do,
I would never have kept on s'aving up
and saving up, until I owmed my own
home, as I now do. Although I sel
dom see him any more in the changed
White House, he comes to me here,
most any night, and still tells me what
to do. I can see and talk with him as
easily as I do you this minute. Aft
er Mr. McKinley was shot, he came
to me very soon; but he was not able
to talk, only in a feeble, childish way—
for everybody knows that over there
spirits just born into the new life,
so to speak, have to learn to talk all
over again; according to the old ray
ing, ’twice a child once a man.’ They
have to be really born again, as the
DR. LORENZ AND
THE NEWSBOY
Dr. Lorenz and his gentle way with
children have been the subject of many
anecdotes. This story is told of his
stay in Rochester, says a special to the
New York Sun.
One day, worn out by his professional
work, he set out for a walk. In the
course of his ramble he came to the
falls of the Genesee river. There Dr.
Lorenz and a friend stood gazing into
the depths of the gorge below.
Three little newsboys caught sight
of them, and darted over, crying shril
ly, "Poiper, mister; poiper here; all
about it.”
Dr. Lorenz turned and nodded to
them, and one ran ahead of the other
and with outstretched hand presented
a paper. As he did so his hand sud
denly fell and his shrewd eyes stared
hard at the kindly face which looked so
squarely at him. Then he turned to
ward the other two and beckened fu
riously.
"Come here. Vouse kids; come here!
Here he is!” he said.
The other two ran up. The first
one pointed at the great surgeon and
er’ed:
"Dat’s him, dat's the feller wot I was
telling you about. He cures legs like
wot you got, Shorty.”
Shorty looked at his leg. He had a
home-made broomstick crutch tucked
under his shoulder, and his left leg was
drawn up and shrivelled.
Dr. Lorenz had watched and listened
Then he said, in his broken English:
"And who am I?"
“W'y," answered the spokesman of
the trio, “you're de great doctor wot
cures kids wid game—wid bum stilts—
lame legs. I means.”
Curious to understand how the boys
knew him. Dr. Lorenz asked:
“And how do you know I am that
doctor?”
"W'y, mister,” said the first boy.
"couldn't we tell dem whiskers a mile
away?”
Dr. Lorenz leaned against the bridge
rail and laughed long The three boys
gazed at him In doubt. Then he turned
his eyes toward the little cripple and
bade him come nearer.
The boy, with some embarrassment,
obeyed. And then, upon the bridge,
high above the foaming river and under
the bright sky Dr. Lorenz gave one of
the queerest consultations in his his
tory. lie felt the shrivelled leg, and
Bible says and learn how to live and
act exactly as they learn as babies in
this world. At first. Mr. McKinley could
only make a sort of faint buzzing
sound; but I could see him clearly and
he is learning very fast -to communic'ate
with mortals. His spirit used to love
to walk about the White House, until
the mansion was all torn up last year;
and then it disappeared from there en
tirely, like all the others. Of course,
there are plenty of white folks .hat
laugh at my talk about spirits—they
think they know everything; but what
I say I know to be a fact, and it is
a fact that all the dead Presidents
have left the White House for good
since the so-called improvements. They
don’t seem to like the change, and I
don’t believe they mean to be seen
there any more. But they come to
my house still and any evening when
1 am sitting alone, qUiet-like, in the
twilight, they come right in and we
have a talk. That’s the truth.”
Maybe the alterations are a good
thing after all If they have rid the
White House of spooks. The old man
rambled on with a good deal more of
interesting talk. Said he: "There is
always plenty of work going on now in
the mansion when the Roosevelts are
at home. Mr. Roosevelt, is not like
any of the other Presidents—he don’t
ever take any rest, unless he goes away
from town. Gen. Grant would come to
the office about 10 o'clock and work
until 2, then he would take a lunch
and go for a drive. Generally he and
Gen. Beale start out at the same
time, each in a single buggy, and they
got to racing outside the city limits
most every time before they came back.
Grant never went into the office after
2. except by special appointment. Mrs.
Grant was a fine housekeeper, and she
saw that everything was kept ship
shape. If anything went W'rong she
spoke her mind right out, you may be
sure. The Grant boys just doted on
their mother, and her word was taw.
The General nad great respe-t for :t,
too. Mr. Hayes kept about the same
hours as Gen. Grant, but he was much
more of a churcn-going man th3n any
of the Presidents.
Mr. Garfield also left his office about
2 every day for a lunch and n drive.
The Garfield boys were a merry ciowd,
and many a prank they played, riding
their pony into the cellar and jumping
into the big fountain in their bathing
suits. Mr. Arthur was the finest gen
tleman that was ever in the White
House in the ways of having an ele
gant time. He usually did not go to
the office till past 11 and then left at 2.
As for dinner, it was often midnight
before that was finished, and the serv
ants were in rare luck w r hen they got
home before 12. But he was alw'ays
very kind and gave more liberal tips
than anybody else.”
he turned it and twisted it. The other
two boys had pressed closer. He shook
his head.
"I am sorry," he said. “The case Is
hopeless. It cannot be cured. It Is
indeed too bad. I cure, or try to' cure,
your hips and your feet, but I cannot
cure when life has gone. It is paral
ysis. not hip trouble, that has afflicted
you, my boy. I am truly sorry.”
There fell a silence. The spokesman
said:
"Den if he says it’s all off. Shorty,
it’s all off. He's de limit in dat game.”
Shorty's face fell. Dr. Lorenz beck
oned the three to approach. He had
slipped his hand into his pocket un
observed.
“Will you shake hands In turn with
me?" he asked.
The three shook hands. In turn three
pairs of eyes lighted up and three
pairs of cheeks flushed with delight as
each palm felt something crushed into
it. With common impulse each cap
was removed. “Aw, tank youse. sir;
you is all right, you is,” they said.
Five minutes later the three were
holding excited consultation.
“Wot did he give you?’’
"I got a dollar bill.”
"So'd I. Wot did you git. Shorty?*'
"He gimme two.”
"Dat's all right. He oughter done
it. Rut, say, he's a sport all trough,
dat feller is.”
And the next minute the three were
racing as fast as they could to sell a
paper to a man who was waiting for
a street car which was just coming
UD.
Dies In Belief He Is nn Ox.
Kokomo. Ind.. Telegram to the Chicago
Inter Ocean.
Edward Stanton, aged 80, died sud
denly here to-day. He was formerly
a wealthy physician, but lost his for
tune.
For years he has labored under the
hallucination that he had been trans
formed into an ox of scriptural men
tion, and for years has eaten grass in
the fields with cattle on the county
farm.
He lost his power of speech almost
entirely, the only sounds uttered being
those in imitation of beasts. It is be
lieved that a poisonous herb caused
his death, as his mouth and stomach
were filled with grass when a post
mortem was made. He was sane on all
subjects except as to his personality.
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MANY BRUSHES WITH DEATH.
Remarkable Adventure! of a Hunt
er of Big liamt.
From an Exchange.
After playing hide and seek with
death for nearly half a century F. C.
Selous, the greatest big game hunter
in Africa and the Alan Quarterman
of Haggard's novels, is still a hearty
and healthy man, ready at a moment's
notice to go out and face new dan
gers.
It would be understanding it to say
that he has faced death a hundred
times, as his estimates of danger and
the estimates of ordinary persons vary
as widely.
Selous has had a thirst, for danger
and adventure ever since he was a
boy at Rugby. Even in those early
days he was never so happy as when
he was risking his neck or doing some
feat of exceptional daring; and he had
so thoroughly made up his mind to be
a huntsman of renown that he used
to sleep next the dormitory window,
which he opened wide on the coldest
nights, as the nearest approach he
could get to "sleeping in the open.”
They still tell at Rugby how Selous
robbed a jackdaw's nest one dark night
finder the window and nose of Dr.
Temple, then head master, and how,
one bitterly cold March day, he swam
across to the heronry at Coombs Ab
bey, removed his wet clothes, climbed
a lofty tree, and swam back again
with a couple of coveted heron's eggs
in his hand.
This vyas the boy who, in a few
years later—he was only 10 then—
bearded Lobengula, gun in hand, and
asked his permission to hunt elephants
in Matabeleland. "Hunt elephants?”
the dusky King said, with a laugh,
“why, you are only a boy; you had
better hunt antelopes,” little knowing
that the slim, fair tripling would prove
to be the doughtiest huntsman who
had ever set foot in Africa.
This was years ago, and practically
ever since that day Mr. Selous has
made his home in the wilds of South
Africa, waging war against the fiercest
and most dangerous animals he could
find, rubbing shoulders with death a
hundred times, and surviving hard
ships and adventure such as probably
no other man living has faced.
Hunting has been to Mr. Selouse no
idle pastime, but a serious business, for
all the capital he had in the world was
$2,000, and for twenty years he had to
live on the spoil of his busy gun. How
busy it was may be seen from the fact
that of elephants alone he has killed
78, and of lions more than a score—
three of them falling in four successive
shots.
Within four years, from Jan,. 1, 1877,
to Dec. 31, 1880, his bag reached the
unrivaled total of 548 head of big game,
including twenty elephants, 100 buffa
loes, 304 antelopes, thirteen lions, a
dozen rhinoceroses, eighteen giraffes
and forty-eight zebras, and in six
months, in 1874, he accounted for nine
ty-three head, including twenty-four
elephants, nineteen buffaloes, nine rhin
oceroses and a lion.
It is eloquent of the daring of the
man that of his seventy-eight elephants
all but one were shot on foot, and that
one nearly brought the hunter’s career
to a tragic conclusion. He and his
companions had slaughtered twenty
two elephants out of a herd of sixty,
when an enormous bull charged him
furiously, and, striking his horse with
terrible force, dashed both horse and
rider violently to the ground. When
Mr. Selous recovered his senses he
found the leviathan kneeling over but
luckily not on him. and he was able to
crawd from the dangerous position and
escape Into the bush.
On another occasion, when he was
pursuing a wounded elephant on foot,
he found himself hotly chased by an
infuriated bull, which was literally
whirling its trunk over the huntsman’s
head and screaming with rage. "How I
got away,” he says, ‘‘l scarcely know.
Urged on by the short, piercing
screams, I bounded over and through
thorn bushes which in cold blood I
should have deemed impossible. I
emerged from the bu3h without a shred
of clothing on me."
Still undaunted, he turned round on
his pursuer, and. raising his gun, fired
at him at short range. The gun, how
ever. had been loaded twice, and the
recoil dashed him to the ground, in
flicting a serious wound on his face,
of which he bears the mark to-day.
But many of Mr. Selous’ most dan
gerous adventures have been with buf
faloes, of which he has shot consider
ably over 200. “At one fierce bull he
pulled the trigger twice, and twice the
gun missed fire. As he was charged
fiercely, plunging his horns deeply into
the horse's body and sending his rider
sprawling on the ground. In a moment
the buffalo was charging at Mr. Selous'
prostrate body, but, although he was
struck heavilv by the animal's horns,
the points failed to touch him.
Of such narrow escapes from death
Mr. Selous could tell scores if his un
conquerable modesty would permit him
to talk of his adventures. Several
times his life has been attempted by
treacherous and unfriendly natives and
in one midnight raid on his camp his
escape was nothing less than provi
dential. When he found himself in
safety he was clad in a shirt, a light
coat and a pair of shoes, and for four
teen terrible days he wandered alone
in the Jungle before deliverance came.
On another occasion he spent ninety
hours without food or water: at one
time or another he has broken almost
every bone in his body; he has been
at death's door with fever and ague;
he has defied for a score of years every
law of health and safety, and yet at
51 he remains the picture of health and
strength and boasts a constitution that
has few rivals in the world.
JOHN WESLEY
Poem by Richard Watson Gilder
Read at Middletown, Conn.
In those clear, piercing, piteous eyes
behold
The very soul that over England
flamed!
Deep, pure, intense, consuming shame
and ill;
Convicting men of sin; making faith
live;
And—this the mightiest miracle of all —
Creating God again in human hearts.
What courage of the flesh and of the
spirit!
How grim of wit, when wit alone might
serve!
What wisdom his to know the bound
less night
Of banded effort in a world like ours!
How meek, how self-forgetful, courte
ous, calm!
A silent figure when men idly raged
In murderous anger; calm, too. In the
storm —
Storm of the spirit, strangely immi
nent.
When spiritual lightnings struck men
down
And brought, by violence, the sense of
sin.
And violently open the gates of peace.
O hear that voice, which rang from
dawn to night.
In ohurch and abbey whose most an
cient walls
Not for a thousand years such accents
knew!
On windy hilltop; by the roaring sea;
'Mid tombs, in market places, prisons,
fields;
'Mid clamor, vile attack—or deep-awed
hush.
Wherein celestial visitants drew near
And secret ministered to troubled
souls!
Hear ye, O hear! that ceaseless
pleading voice.
Which storm, nor suffering, nor age
could still —
Chief prophet-voice through nigh a
century’s span;
Now silvery as Zion’s dove that mourns.
Now quelling as the Archangel’s judg
ment-trump,
And ever with a sound like that of old
Which in the desert, shook the wander
ing tribes.
Or, round about storied Jerusalem,
Or by Gennesaret, or Jordan, spake
The word of life.
Let not that image fade
Ever, O God! from out the minds of
men,
Of him Thy messenger and stainless
priest.
In a brute, sodden and unfaithful time.
Early and late, o’er land and sea, on
driven;
In youth, in eager manhood, age ex
treme —
Driven on forever, back and forth the
world,
By that divine, omnipotent desire —
The hunger and the passion for men’s
souls!
Ah, how he loved Christ’s poor! No
narrow thought
Dishumaned any soul from his em
prise;
But his the prayer sincere that heaven
might send
Him chiefly to the humble; he would
"be.
Even as the Galileean, dedicate
Unto the ministry of lowliness;
That boon did Heaven mercifully
grant;
And gladly still the harvest ripens
round the earth;
And many own the name once given In
scorn;
And all revere the holy life he led.
Praise what he did for England, and
the world.
And call that greatness which was once
reproach.
Would we were worthy for his praise.
Dear God!
Thy servant never knew one selfish
hour!
How are we shamed, who look upon a
world
Ages afar from that true kingdom
preached
Millenniums ago in Palestine!
Send us, again, O Spirit of all Truth!
High messengers of dauntless faith and
power
Like Him whose memory this day we
praise,
We cherish and we praise with burn
ing hearts.
Let kindle, as before, from his bright
torch.
Myriads of messengers aflame with
Thee
To darkest places bearing light di
vine!
As did one soul, whom here I fain
would sing,
For here in youth his gentle spirit
took
New fire from Wesley’s glow.
How oft have I
A little child, hearkened my father’s
voice
Preaching the Word in country homes
remote.
Or wayside schools, where only two or
three
Were gathered. Lo, again that voice I
hear,
Like Wesley’s, raised in those sweet,
fervent hymns
Made sacred by how many saints of
God
Who breathed their souls out on the
well-loved tones.
Again I see those circling, eager faces;
I hear once more the solemn-urging
words
That tell the things of God in simple
phrase;
Again the deep voiced, reverent pray
er ascends.
Bringing to the still summer afternoon
A sense of the eternal. As he preached
He lived; unselfish, famelessly heroic
For even in mid-career, with life still
full,
His was the glorious privilege and
choice
Deliberately to give that life away
In ?uccor of the suffering; for he
knew
No rule but duty, no reward but
Christ.
Increase Thy prophets, Lord! give
strength to smite
Shame to the heart of luxury and
sloth!
Give them the yearning after human
souls
That burned in Wesley’s breast'
Through them, Great God!
Teach poverty it may be rich in Thee;
Teach riches the true wealth of Thine
own spirit.
To our loved land, Celestial Purity!
Bring back the meaning of those an
cient words—
Not lost but soiled, and darkly dises
teemed—
The ever sacred names of husband,
wife.
And the great name of Love—whereon
is built
The temple of human happiness and
hope!
Baptize with holy wrath Thy prophets.
Lord!
By them purge from us this corruption
foul
That seises on our civic governments,
Crowns the corrupter in the sight of
men,
And makes him maker of laws, and
honor's source!
Help us, in memory of the sainted
dead.
Help us, 0 Heaven! to frame a nobler
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