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JOHN WESLEY, FOUNDER OF METHODIST CHURCH,
HELD THEORY OF EVOLUTION LONG BEFORE DARWIN
He Wrote a Book on the Subject Thirty- ®
Four Years Before Darwin Was Born, J
and Eighty-Four Years Before the *
. “Origin of Species" Was Written. ®
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OHN WESLEY wrote a book in lets have been atraightened In an at-
two volumes on the origin of ape- tempt to Institute a positive criterion
for the line of demarkatlon between
animal and *
, 01 jvCn xortv, in iq2u*
publication Is In two volumes,
nlng altogether #87 octavo pages,
win's book Is called "The Origin
cles thirty-four years before Dar
win was born, and eighty-four years
before Darwin published his celebrated
work on the, “Origin of Species.” The
work written by the founder of Meth
odism is entitled "Wesley's Phlloso-
R hy," and was written In 1775, and pub-
■hed In this country by Mason &
Bangs, of New York, In 1823.
The |
contain
Darwin's book Is called "The Origin
of Species,” but It is not on that sub
ject at all, but on the modification of
species. Wesley's book Is not called
•The Origin of Species," but Is really
on that subject. Darwin's book begins
with species already started, and etu-
dlously avoids giving us the origin of
them.
On the title page of "Wesley’s Phi
losophy” are the following words:.
"A survey of the wisdom of God In
creation, or a compendium of natural
philosophy, containing an abridgment
of that beautiful work, 'The Contem
plation of Nature,' by Mr. Bonnet, of
Geneva; also, an extract from Mr. Deu-
ton's ‘Inquiry Into the Origin of the
Discoveries Attributed to the
dents.' ”
The preface Is dated 1775. Wesley
says In the preface:
"I have long desired to see such a
compendium of natural philosophy as
was not too diffuse, not expressed In
many words, but comprised In so mod
erate a compass as not to require any
large expense of time or money, not
maimed or Imperfect, but containing
the heads (after all our discoveries)
of whatever Is known with any de
gree of certainty either with regard to
the earth or the heavens; but I can not
find such a treatise as this In any mod
ern any more than ancient language.
Anti I am certain there ia none such In
the English tongue."
"I am thoroughly sensible," he con
tlnucs In the preface, "there are many
who have far more ability, as well as
leisure, for such a work than me; but
«s none of them undertake It, I have
myself mad* some little attempt In
the ensuing volumes"
The abridgment of the work of Mr.
Bonnet la In the aecond volume, aa
also Is the extract Ifrom Mr. Deutpn'a
book, but the whole .work receiver Mr.
Wesley** approval and Indoraement,
and la put Into his.own language. It
may be taken aa embodying the opin
ions John Wealey had thirty-four yearn
before Darwljwwas bom, of the origin,
method and order of nature. This book
contains the whole development theory
In n form far more In accordance with
the facte than the celebrated “Origin of
Specea." Wesley represents species es
originating In the only place ihey can
originate. In the eternal mind of the
Creator. Species, types, patterns. Ideas
otean about the same thing, and while
these may be modified by environ
ment, natural selection, etc., they can
not originate • In nor can they be
changed by .natural selection or envi
ronment. Mr. Darwin and his son,
Francis, both confess (pp. 258. 26#,
I.lfe and Letters of Darwin), “We can
“ ■ lea haa
.. v **et*ble beings, and
equally so for that between vegetables
and fossils. There Is such an obvious
gradation In the scale of belngt, that
It appears Impossible to ascertain
wnere one species ends and the other
begins. Again, on the same page, the
missing link between the plant and the
animal Is given In the following: "But
there are Instances wherein nature ap-
peara to combine the animal and vege
table functions In the same beings, and
the polypus may be considered aa the
Intermediate link between the two
kingdoms."
0" pog*" 2«2, volume 2. Wesley says',
"when we consider In a general view
the composition of men and quadru
ples. we shall presently discern that
there Is with respect to all of them
the same foundation of structure, dif
ferently modified In different species.
In order to be convinced of this, we
need only cast our eyes on those anat
omical plates. In which are represented
the skeletons of divers animals that
have been dissected. From man. the
ape and horse, to the squirrel, weasel
and mouse, we shall see, throughout,
the same design, the same arrange
ment, the same essential relations, ex
cept In a few particulars.”
On page 142, volume 2, he says:
"There are no sudden changes In na
ture; all Is gradual and elegantly va
ried. There Is no being which haa not,
either above or beneath It, some that
resemble It In certain characters and
differ from It In others. • • • The
polypus links the vegetable to the ani
mal; the flying squirrel unites the bird
to the quadruped; the ape bears af
finity to the quadruped and the man.”
Again, on page 224, volume 2: "All
la metamorphosis In the physical
world. Form* are continually chang
ing. The quantity of matter alone
la Invariable. The same substance
passes successively Into three king
doms. The same composition becomes
by turns a mineral, plant, Insect, rep
tile, fish, bird, quadruped, man.”
On page 240, volume 2: "When the
evolution begins in an organised whole,
Its form differs so prodigiously from
that which It will afterwards assume,
that we should be apt to mistake It
were It not to accompany It In all It*
progreas."
Again on page 248, volume 2: "Evo
lution Is not uniform In all parts of
the germ; they grow unequally, and
this tnequlalty of growth may Influ
ence the effects of contact, pressure,
adhesion, etc.”
On page 285, volume 2; “The same
general design comprises all parts of
the terrestrial creation. A globule of
light, a molecule of earth, a grain of
salt, a particle of moldiness, .* poly
not prove that a single species has
changed.” Agassis asked Mr. Darwin
one troublesome question: “If spe
cies do not exist, how can they vary?"
This wa* the very. question that Mr.
Darwin failed to answer. All of us can
see how environment, natural selection,
etc., vary species, but what the world
" lints to know Is, How species came to
be? Where did all the types, patterns,
specie* and Idea* In accordance with
which things grow come from? Thla
question Is answered by John Wesley.
He considers at length plant*, Insects,
reptile*, fishes, birds, beasts and man.
He treats also of minerals, metals and
fosslla, of stars, and the machinery of
the heavens,
1 shall take extracts from different
parts of the work without reference to
order, as my object Is to show that
the whole evolution or development
theory was In. the mind of Wesley long
before Darwin was born.
On page 117 he aays: "There I* a
near analogy between animal* and
plants.” In a note on page 258 of
volume 2, In the part which I* an
abridgment of the work of Mr. Bon
net. of Geneva, It Is said: "Nalural-
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=By REV. J. W. LEE, D. D.=s==
THE EVOLUTIONARY TREE
a man, are only different strol
design.”
On page 268. volume 2: "What »
multitude of physiological truths that
were unknown to us In the vegetable
lom has the arm polypus alone yn-
. J to us? How do these truths ap
pear as paradoxes, and yet how evi
dently are they demonstrated? Who
can doubt that there exists an animal,
very animal, since It Is extremely
voracious, .whose young grows like
branches and which, being cut to prices
and actually minced, regenerates anew
In all Ils parts, and even In the small
est fragments, that may be grafted by
approximation or Inoculation, turned
Inside outward like a glove, afterwards
cut, turned back and cut again, with
out ceasing to live, grow, devour and
multiply?" He continues and gives
us a lesson in humility, warning us
not to Imagine we know everything.
"It was not a lit season, therefore, to
make general rules, to arrange nature,
establish distributions, form systemat
ical orders, and to raise an edifice,
which future ages, better Instructed,
will even dread to project. We have
scarce any knowledge of the animal
when we would undertake to define It.
Because our knowledge Is at present In
some measure Improved, shall we pre
sume to think we thoroughly know, it?
How many animals are there that are
even more strange than polypuses,
and that would confound all our rea
soning could we discover them? It
This picture gives us the whole
divine process In creation In the
form of a tree. It correctly rep
resents John Wesley's Ideas, as
welt as those of .all evolutionists
of the present time. Those who
speak of man coming from mon
key* or from ahy lower species
of life, do not understand what
evolution means. Any one, by
carefully considering this tree,
will see that nothing but plants
ever come from plants. Only tril-
obltes come from trltobltes; only
horses come from horses; only
monkeys come from monkeys. The
monkey limb remains a monkey
limb throughout all generations.
The topmost branch of the tree
represents man. He comes last,
ns Genesis and all evolutionists
teach, because God saw the ne
cessity of preparing a world for
him, and all things necessary for
his well-being, before He created
him. Man could not have lived If
simply created, and left hanging
In the air, without any world be
low hltn, or any heavens above
him. But while man waa the last
to appear, on the top of God's
creative tree,"he waa the first In
the.mlnd of God, who created all.
things. The direction of the whole
divine movement was toward .man,
God's child, from the beginning. Aa
a self-conscious, self-determining,
self-active spirit, he came straight
from the mind and heart of the
Almighty. The process has been
called evolution, not because dne
species comes from another, but
because one divine Idea succeeds
another In getting Itself uttered
by the eternal mind. God saw
proper to make the atoms and
plants and tower animals before
He made man. That la what Moses
said, and that la what Weatay said,
and that Is what the latest science
declares. The eaentlal thing about
evolution la that God created all
things from within, rather than
from without. Men make plow-
stocks from the outside of the
raw material* of them, but God
makes all that He haa made from
the Inside of the elehtents of them.
As transcendent, God la ether and
distinct from all things, aa Imma
nent He Is the underlying thought
or Logos of all things. As trans
cendent, according to Christian
theology, God Is Father; as Im-
menent God Is Son, as power dy
namic and active, proceeding from
the Father and the Son, and co
operating with them In creation,
God la spirit. As Father, Son and
Holy Spirit, we have the living
God transcending creation. Imma
nent In creation and working out
the divine program In creation.
“Wesley’s Philosophy” is Sub-Titled
“A Survey of the Wisdom of God,
or a Compendium of Natural
Philosophy, Abridged From Bonnet.”
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tlson. the distinguished rector of Lin
coin College, not to know anything
scarcely of Weeley or his work, when
IVesley had been a fellow of his own
college. Thla waa brought out one day
when Hugh Price Hughes expressed
hIs surprise to Mr. Pattfson that even
hla college had no adequate memorial
of the most distinguished fellow that
ever adorned Ha common room. “What
other fellow of Lincoln,” added Mr.
Hughea “or Indeed of any Oxford col
lege. had twenty millions of avowed
disciples In all parts of the world with
In less than a century after hla death?'
"Twenty millions!" exclaimed Mr. Pat
tlson, with it start, "twenty millions!
You mean twtnty thousand?” Mr.
Hughes had ta repeat It three times
over to him be|ue he could perauadt
him that l>» meant It. "I had not the
faintest conception.'' said the lllus
trtoti* rector of Lincoln, “that there
were ao many Methodists.''
Yet the figures given by Mr. Hughes
to the Rev. Mark Pattlson are Incor
reel. ' There are of all branches o
Methodism a constituency of 10,000,040.
Journeying never less than 4.600
miles In any year, and always until his
70th year on horseback, before turn
like or macadamised roads ware
mown, we would suppose that JVealey
gave himself up to horseback riding.
In the fitly years of hla ministry hs
traveled thus 360,000 miles. He
preached 40,000 sermons In the fifty
years of his aposlolste—an average of
over two each day—we wonder how
the man had any time left for anj
thing but preaching. When we tal
down hla works and see that he
wrote an English grammar, a Greek
grammar, a Latin grammar, a Heb
raw grammar, we are led to con.
elude that he must have given
his Ilfs to tpe study of the structure
of language and the writing of gram,
mars. But In addition to all this Was.
ley wrote a Compendium of Logie, hs
prepared extracts for use In Kings
wood School nnd elsewhere from Phan
drus, Ovid, Virgil, Horace, Juvenal,
Perslus, Martial and Sallust; ha wrote
an English dictionary; commentaries on
the whole of the Old and New Testa
ments; a history of Englnnd from the
earliest times to the death of George
If we thing of Ood as one who
transcends the universe only, we
have the inscrutable absolute of
Herbert Spencer. If we think of
God as Immanent only, we Iden
tify Him with all things and ob
literate moral distinctions,
Splnoxa. The Trinity work
did
worked out
by (he Christian fathers Is not
simply the only Christian view of
God, but the only rational view of
Him.
would be necessary on that occasion to
invent a ne'w language In order to de
scribe our observations. Polypuses are
placed on the frontiers of another uni
verse that will some time or other have
Its Columbuses and Vespucluses. Shall
we imagine that we have penetrated
Into the Interior parts of the continent
because we have taken a slight View of
some coasts at a distance? We will
form to ourselves more exalted Ideas
of nature; we will firmly persuade our
selves that what we have discovered
of her Is but the smallest part of what
she contains. Having been heretofore
astonished, we will forbear being so
for the time to come, but will continue
our observations; we will amasa fresh
truths, connect them If we are able and
bo In expectation of every discovery,
because we will continually say that
the known cannot be a model for the
unknown, and that models have been
varied ad Infintlum." This gives ua an
Idea of how hospitable Wesley was of
all discoveries of truth In the universe.
His faith In God waa In no danger of
being overturned by aome discovery
that aome one might make In the do
main of physics or metaphysics. His
entire work on natural philosophy Is
written In the most simple and unso
phisticated way. It never seemed to
dawn on him that anything In God's
material universe contradicted any
thing In God's spiritual universe. He
wrote these bpoks for the people called
Methodlata tri read, that they might
understand the method of God In crea
tion, as far aa that method could be
determined from a study of hla worka
John Wealey was the most Influ
ential man of the eighteenth century.
He had In his vein* the best blood In
England. On both aides he “belonged
to an unbroken ancestral succession of
English gentlemen.” He was a fellow
and Greek lecturer In Lincoln College
when he was 22 years of age. Zeal
and enthusiasm In behalf of men *led
him Into disregard of ecclesiastical
rules. He was unsophisticated and
simple and human enough to think
that men were so vsluabls aa to be
worthy of saving at tbs cost of prece
dent. This was too much for the
clergy of the time. They closed upon
him the door of every church In Eng
land. Nothing waa left him but the
open air. the fields and the wide en
compassing sky. He lost the pious
light that comes through stained wln-
dowa the soft music from the solemn
organ and the eentlment Inspired by
ths effect of lofty vaultings and ex-
qulaltaly carved columns but he gained
'commerce with nature and the .secret
of Winning men to a better life. His
work began to taks on something of
But, nevertheless
ure from the prescribed lines ordained
by ecclesiastical ronsensas for the life
and work of a clergyman In the Church
of England did cut him off from the
the untyerslty and cultivated circles of
English social life. Because of this
the prodigious amount of work per
formed by Wealey between the years
1718 and 1711 was not noticed or con
sidered by the upper end educated
classes of Great Britain. He had ac
complished more perhaps than any
man ever did before In the same num
ber of years, but It was hidden beneath
the Indifference and conceit and con
tempt of the ruling end thinking
classes of his countrymen.
Herculaneum was burled by the
memorable eruption of Vesuvius In ths
year A. D. 71. For 1638 years It re
mained under the surface of the earth
filled up and covered with volcanic
tufa The accident of deepening a well
led to the discovery of mosaics and
paintings and statues of rare value,
now In the museum at Naples. There
Is no doubt but men often remain
burled out of sight for ages. The re
pose of Wesley, with his marvelous
accomplishments, Is not to remain so
long undisturbed aa that of the city of
Herculaneum. Already excavations
are being made, and Wesley la to be
discovered to the admiring gaxe of
the human race. A hundred and fifty
1 of oblivion, however, la not a
_ price to pay for such work as wss
wrought by the head and heart and
hand of Wesley. And taking ths con
ditions of ths age into con
sideration 1 , perhaps the oblivion was
necessary for the accomplishment of
such work. It may furnish a theme
for the speculation of the curious, how
ever, to understand how It ware pos
sible for a man Ilka the late Mark Pat-
11; a short history of Rome;'a com
pendlum of . social philosophy In five
volumes; a concise ecclesiastical Ills
lory from the btrth'Of fibfkt i4 tM
beginning of the eighteenth century. In
four volumes; a Christian library In M
volumes, consisting of extracts from all
the great theological writers of the
universal church. He prepared also
many editions of the "Imitation
f the principal work
Baxter, M >> ■ i m O0M
Principal Edward* and Rutherford,
besides a great number of abort blog
reptiles, with an edition of a famous
novel of the time, "The History of
Henry, Earl of Moreland." He wrote
: bong on medicine, entitled "Prtml-
ve Physic, nr an Easy Natural Meth-
d of Curing Most Diseases.” He pre
pared numerous collections of psalms
and sacred songs, with worka on music
and collection* of tunes. He published
his own sermons and journals, and
started In 1776 one of tbe first megs-
sines ever published ■ In England, nnd
which continues to thla day. Though
he wrot* In an ags when books were
not circulated as they are now, he
received for his publications not lesx
than 8160,004, all of which he dis
tributed In charity during hla lifetime.
It waa his desire, he said, to distribute
his money so fast that whan he died It
would he found he had not left £60
behind him.
Yet, In this enormous gmnunt of lit
erary work, tbe energy of John Wes
ley wss not exhausted. He founded
an orphans' house at Newcastle, char
ity schools In London and a dispensary
In Bristol. Hs made experiments In
electricity, and believed he had found
In It a surprising medicine, and had
an hour appointed every day when
any one might try tbe virtues of It.
He established a lending fund, from
whlrh many men got the money that
enabled them to lay the foundation of
vast commercial enterprises. Hs had
a room In connection with one of his
preaching placea In London where
poor women were Invited to come and
card and spin cotton. He employed
women who were out of work tn knit
ting, and also sought to I"
rn illstr
Hut with
the progress of thn nineteenth century
the Wesleyan movement took on sucli,
proportions that the tremendous **lg- i
nltlcance of Wealey and hla work could
no longer be kept In a corner. Murat- ,
ley went so fur as to administer a
withering rebuke to tho literary . Imr-
latnna of England, who proposed to
write the history of the eighteenth'
century w ithout Inking notice of Meth-j
odlsm nnd prophesied that the hreedi
would die out. Mr. Lecky, one of the!
beat of English historians, put himself]
on record as to the Ws-D-yan move-I
ment In the following do
"Although the cares
d the splendid vlctn
i' el.|o
I.v Ian.
Pitt nnd
and aen that
ministry form unqusstlonnhly the most
dassllng episode in the ■ *- ,,r George
II, they must yield, I think, In raul
Importance, to that religions revolution
which shortly before had begun In
England by the prenchlng nt (ho We*-
leyn nnd Whitfield.”
M. Edmond Scherer was Impress
ed with the work of Wesley Hint he
wrote to The Revue Des Deux M,miles,
of Paris, that Methodism was n rellg-,
loun movement tlml lin.l ehangod tho
face of England, and Hint “England
we know It today Is
odlsm.” A distinguish,
theology In a German
Ids
d profe
of Moth
er
stty
Ills
nphle
and published tho snm
to hla countrymen, that ‘‘.Methodism la :
on the point of becoming In evangel- .
leal Christlnnlty practically. If also tin-,
known to many, the ruling power, llko
Jesuitism In Catholic Christianity." Ho.
wan by no menns n Methodist, for ho
regarded this fact aa In many respect* |
one of the gravest signs .,r modern
Christianity.
In his esteem Ignatius Isiyola,
has raptured the Catholic churches i
nnd John Wesley lias captured I
the evangelical churches. John Hon-1
ry Newtnan came to the con-1
elusion that there was no middle way
some years ago, and bsram* >t Calh-i
olio. John Wesley also, Jn Ids day,
believed there wnn no middle ground t
nnd became a Methodist. Wesley was
afraid of nothing In heaven *.r In sarin
I,..I .l-.lnir a l "tig Tim higher critic*
the [.resent <Iay would have lut.l
no terrors for htn Tho truth Is, In
ills note on the first chapter <>f Ht.*
Matthew’s gospel, lie discloses and ac
cepts the principle upon which higher
criticism has worked. In lids nets, he
asserts that St. Mark mid Ht. [.like..
In the genealogical tallies which they
1. 1 11.11 - h .1.1 ..III. a - Idst.elans selling,
down these genealogies ns they stood I
In those published nnd allowed records./
Therefore, they were to pike them »n
they found them. Nor wns It ueedrul|
that they should eorreet the mistakes]
If there wore nny. l or th. se n., ..unis
sufilrlenlly answered the end for whl. hi
Ihey were recited." Orthodoxy, wltlij
Wesley, rpnslsted In a holy. ...n-e-j
crated life, and he took delight In quot-l
Ing a piece of novice whlrh the arch-'
bishop of t'anterbury gave him: ri
“If you desire to be extensively use--
ful; do not spend your time nndl
strength In contending for ..r ..gainsti
such things as are of a dtareputnhle •
nature, but In testifying t
notorious vice, nnd In pn
essential hollneas."
Having read the life of Ignatius Icy
ola, he spok* of him as "one of th
greatest men who ever llred" It I
reported of him that he quoted win
npprovnl the words of an author wh.
said: "What the heathen .all reason
Holomon wisdom. St Paul grtor. m
John love, Ht. Luther faith, I'enelot
virtue, la all one and the -arm* thins
the light nt Christ shining In .mr.-ren
degrees under different dispensations'
Darwin's work on evolution does no
begin till things have started Wes
ley begins with the types, patterns
open,
eternal
evolves the universe out
through th* power and .wl
mighty God. The one glr
the other give* us n rogitu
reduces th* unlveree to tei
ter. th* other represents i
the beautiful language
of Ood.
lie universe.
YOUNGEST CANTOR
IS VISITING ATLANTA
FASTER ISRAEL ROTHSTEIN, BOY
WONDER, TO CHANT IN
SYNAGOGUE.
'taster Israel Rotluteln, a 18-year-
New York wonder, the youngest
Hor In th* world, la In Atlanta and
I take part In several public ser
es. v .
fhe boy will conduct religious ser
es Friday night at 7:10 o’clock In th*
rlsh synagogue tn Piedmont avenue
I again Haturday morning at 8
lock. H( will chant th* evening
yers in the synagogue Sunday at
0 O'clock and will also give a con-
t afterwards. - - ..
taster Israel has a woofi'Hully
ret voice end has recelved much
Is*. He has been traveling for the
t three and a half rears and has
n In every section of the United
tes. He has been awarded, three
1 medals for hi* superb .-Inglng.
MOM* Bablngt.i* M«C» day, Eoftlrt kls-
la, su.iu ,-t. sad statr-iaea, wss
U.i»telr fond of rtchlr .mlmiM-ted
Up UW»h1 oaljr th«* rviily
- EI.LANEot'H • • •••
he world la full of foolish l.ache-
L, & II, PASSENGERS
SOON TO RON HERE
It la officially announced that the
Louisville and Nashville road will be
gin operating regular passenger trains
over Its Cincinnati-Atlanta line about
the middle of September, the freight
service having become thoroughly es
tabllshed. In the meantime, the com
pany will employ a large force of men
on the line putting the track in first
class condition, and when the first
through trains are put on In Septem
ber they will run over one of the best
railroads In the country.
The tracks of the new line are being
ballasted with rock from one end to
the other, end the heavy rails will
afford easy running for what the
Louisville and Nashville will terip the
fastest trains In the south. Ample lo
cal trains will be put on, and. In addi
tion, a test train will make the run
each way dally.
The city passenger and freight of
fices on Peachtree street, near the
viaduct, ore practically completed, and
n large force of solicitors In both de-
portments are being estaMIsbed there.
District Passenger Agent J. G. HoUen-
beck will have on his force one trav
eling passenger egent and three solic
iting less*tiger agents, In addJUon to
ticket force*, and will make a
n* itT'.rt to control tm northern
travel from Atlanta and the south-
east.
When this line Is completed, and In
good running order, the Louisville and
Nashville will again give Its attention
to bettering th* line from Louisville
to New Orleana, through Nashville,
and the building of another new line
from Scbttsvllle to Stanford, Ky.
KAISER AND THE CZAR
TO HOLD CONFERENCE
By MALCOLM"”CLARKE.
Special Cable—Copyright.
Berlin, June 10 I am Informed by
a very high govemipent official that
s meeting between the exar and the
kaiser haa been arranged for tbe very
near future. It la said that when th*
kaiser returns from hla visit to
Trondhjem, after havlhg congratulated
King Haakon, of Norway, he will meet
the RuseUn Imperial yacht which th*
exar has even now ready for a cruise.
To Build Churches,
Special to The Georgies.
Oriflln, G*-, June 80.—The four-
weeks’ tent meeting nt Lakewood
Height* conducted by Rev. J. Q. Watts,
of artflln, Oa., has dosed. A Method-
lot and Baptist church have been or
ganised and steps hare been taken to
build bouse* of worship for each or
ganisation. Rev. J. Q. Watts will
preach at th* tent next Monday night,
and receive the applicants for member-
Ip In th" Methodist church which
ve not been tcevHed.
(I, S, MAY CAUSE
NEW WAR CLOUD
By Private Leased Wire.
Berlin, June 30.—The United State*
will probably be tha cause of raising
another war cloud on the European
horlson. American Inaction, U Is be
lieved here, will be the cause of reopen
ing the whole Moroccan queatlon and
so give the German emperor a suffi
cient pretext for again menacing
France.
The convention of Algedrsa was par
ticipated In by the United States nnd
on* of Its provisions was that It should
not become operative unless all tha
signatories ratified It The United
State* senate has not even discussed
the signing of the Algedrea convention
at thin session and has put off a rota
on the question until December 12
next.
The convention provided for the ex
change of ratifications by tht powers
on December 81. It is believed here
that the American senate will nqt vote
to ratify and even If It should. It ll
thought Impossible to ratify In time.
Germany, whoso Moroccan pretension*
were worsted, will. It le now generally |
the
In Berlin,
this op
portunity for reopening the whole
Moroccan controversy.
BEAUTIFUL HOME
DESTROYED BY FIRE
With the exception of the old family
silver and Mrs. Hightower's jewels, ev
erything In the beautiful old home at
160 DeKalb avenue, owned and oc
cupied by J. B. Hightower, of the hard
ware firm of.Hightower * Kirkpatrick,
80 Whitehall street, was Friday fore
noon almost completely destroyed by
fire. The total loss will probably ag
gregate the sum of 816,000, the house
alone being worth |»,000. This wss
well covered by Insurance.
The family Is at a loss to know ths
exact cause of tbe fire, which started
In the roof of the building shortly be.
fore ll o’clock. The fire alarm was
turned In at 10:14 from the corner of
DeKalb avenue and Hunter street, bat
before the fire apparatus could reach
tha seen* of th* conflagration the
names had become unmanageable. It
waa not until ths entire roof had been
burned*nnd tbe house completely gut
ted, as well am several of the sides
burned before the names were extin
guished. The destruction wss th*
quickest of any fir* In Atlfnta for some
time, the age of tbs building and th*
heat of th* Inst few days probably be
ing the cfcuse.
The furnishing of th* Hightower
jn* waa especially beautiful and qe-
■acted with th* hand of a connoisseur.
Among th* most r* grettqd It^ites uus
AUTO PASSENGERS
NARROWLY ESCAPE
Special to The Gserslsa.
Orantvllle, Go.. June 10.—A peculiar
accident happened her* Thursday aft
ernoon.
An automobile driven by Charles
Stewart Colley was completely burned.
The occupant* of th* car, Mrs. Colley
Leigh and two little son* and Misses
Emm Bell* nnd Estelle Zellers, nar
rowly escaped serious Injury, wing
to some defect In th* mechanism of ths
machine, th* gasoline tank become Ig
nited and In an Instant ths automobile
was a mass of flames. Completely
burning th* machine up. The accident
happened about 0 o’clock on th* out
skirts of the town, and caused con
siderable excitement.
OIG CROWD ATTENDS
FIDDLER^ MEETING
CLARK HOWELL AND JUDGE RUS
SELL WERE PRESENT
AND SPOKE.
fl.MIo
School Bonds Sold.
KprHat to TV Uforftas.
ItoldvIUo, OAra Juno Id.—Bonds to tho
•mount of Sld'OOd hav« been sold for
th« new school buIMfn* and work on
It will boob begin.
an antique piano and several other val
uable musical Instruments.
At the time of the fire tht entire
family waa In the house.
Mrs. Hightower considers herself es
pecially fortunate In being able to save
her Jewels and ths silver, the loss oi
which would have been irreparable.
Kper|«l to The Georfls
Kofierts. <is., Jon# V
vestlos, wbti’h took tb# piece >-f th.* nnuual
ill-day slnfing given fo <’rawf. nl muurr,
brought to Roberta ZMKe p* r*.>i * from till
peris t.f the stjrrtmn<lln* eountrj. In.-luillng.
Houston. I’psoo. Te/Jor, JMbb. Mnoro* and.
even from Pike end J"n*** end Twig**.
A cordial Invitation w«* rxtewbwi &> all oi.
tbe five esodldates for K«>\.rnor to m
ly two of them re»j>»nd*«V
Clark Howell end Judge It. It. Ituasell.
Resides tbe reed Ida lx for K-.v.-rnor, ths
candidates for co*n*r. •vemnn In the* Third,
district ami for Judge «>f th.* rlr.-nlt w.»re
In eviolence. t’«>ngn—mmi K It Lewis
nnd bla oppor,. nt. Il-n hndl-v IT.igli.-a. of
Twiggs, stiff Ji.dK* Wtfflmn F. ftt.n Nnd bts
snfsgonlat. Il«n. if A. Muttheu**. ficus-
>n. were ho*re.
Ho far «■ hum king w.n . ..neemed*;
It Win t."t a polttl4*iii iK'.n«.i..u Many rt«’
r.- to hear nddr.*»A*>t Mr.
ell
dl.
mult-
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