The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-06-18

but of quiet, pleasant, everyday occur
renoes interspersed with well-drawn deduc-
tions. Thus the interview with Kingsley, the
author. is well told, as also is that with Miss
Marsh. We give them
"The Archbishop of Canterbury, in playful
mood, is said to have sent a message to Miss
Marsh, the authoress of The Life of Headley
Wears asking her when and by whom she
had taken orders? 1 wished to see this noble
Christian woman, and the barn where she
the south of London, leaving Sydenham and
the rystal Palace a little to the west, is Beck
pretty enough. as that part Of Surrey eounty is
but in no way remarkable. Walking past the
inn, and the butchers shop, and the bakers,
and the blacksmith's, l did indeed at last come
to the barn in the meadows, where Miss Marsh
collects her motley audience of delivers and
ditchers Her own residence is at the other end
of the village, in a pleasant mansion set back
little nom the road, with many line old trees
Su laWn WI ap0uI " , DeUle saw MISS MISS
is monument recently erected to the memory
of Captain Wears. 1t Is neatly designed, with
the ornament of carved sword, sash knot, and
scroll. This is one expression In the epitaph:-
He fell in battle, and slept in Jesus on the
night of the 22d Of March, 1896, and was buried
before Sebastopol.'
"Miss Marsh, as she entered the parlor with a
new me- with % her dignity and winning feminine
kindliness. In personal appearance she is
commanding and handsome, and she dresses
with exceeding good taste. She does not neglect
this means of personal influence with the poor
and humble. can well conceive how the rough
'navvies' might be quite carried away with her;
for there is nothing in her looks or conversa-
ton that bes peaks the straight laced reigionist
but rather the noble and accomplished Chris
II do not feel at liberty to trespass further in
describing the frank courtesy which took me
Immediately into the family circle, nor the very
pleasant hour l spent, especially In converse
tion with her father, DIR. Marsh, whose vene-
benedictlon @ The widow wv of the hero OF VIC
tory Won was making visit in Beckenham at
the same time, and she was put under my escort
was true friend, and that when she once be-
came interested in ones welfare, she never left
that person till the good she strove for was
her power lay. 1t is in her perfect trust-her
great-souled confidence in God and man. She
believes that sympathy shown to any human
being will meet some return, and will afford
some standing place, some opportunity Of good
To a masculine Will she unites q true woman's
heart. and both are consecrated TO the work Of
educating and raising up the forsaken classes
OF society. She leads this 'forlorn hope with
cheerful courage that should inspire Imitation.
She is the Florence Nightingale to the religious
wants of poor soldiers.and seamen. She showed
me the method in which she kept the accounts,
or acted as Savings Bank for hundreds OF these
people. These two noble women were the en-
Samples of our own American and Christian
Commission ladies during the war, and they
are only worthy of more honor, not that they
have done more. but because they were first In
'I am now going to take my reader a little
further down into the county of Hampshire, or
da0LS. Win a lGILeF OF INTRODUCTION quite
unexpectedly put in my hands to the Rector Of
Eversley,' which offered a temptation could
not resist, sought out on the map of the county
leaves the railroad at the Winchfield Station,
on the Southwestern Railway. Here hired a
carriage, and drove some twelve miles over the
sandy moorlands, skirting around the village of
Hartley Whitney. The last part OF the way was
through wilderness OF blooming heather. 1t
could reach, and the ride through 1t was exhila-
rating. 1t was, If 1 mistake not, the common
ling with bell. shaped blossoms, quite fragrant,
and the delight of the honey. bee. In the midst
of this purple waste, down in a little hollow,
by, almost in the garden, was his church; and
they formed the only village that % could see
rs OF from mural nops or gs9Gen
lawn were ornamental without being stiff, and
the windows and walls were smothered in luxu-
RANT vines and roses. All the apartments and
be a free communication with outdoor Nature.
The birds might Sing through and in the house.
Unfortunately the ma master ,, Of T., this pleasant
in MIR. Kingsley's own study, which was indeed
next to seeing himself l could not help glauc-
Some staIwart old folios of the Fathers
looked like the rough bark out of which the
honey of Hypatia' and other books of exqui-
site flavor and spiritual richness had been
drawn. There appeared to be good collection
of historical works, and the whole, as far as
could read at q glance, formed an interesting
and RAJ Q library-jHst the one that awakened
the appetite to look and search further. An oak
Armada hung over the fireplace. Pipes were
not wanting and walking -sticks-but enough of
this raiding upon mans private domintons in
his absence.
"Kingsley is still what may be called a young
man, as are indeed many of those living
authors, such as Ruskin and Matthew Arnold,
who have breathed new freedom and power into
English literature. He was born at Holne
Vicarage on the borders of Dartmoor in Deyon-
shire, and was at one time a pupil of Derwent
Coleridge. The spirit OF freedom has long lived
in his family. The Kingsleys of Cheshire were
"a m ha lfnN NvaN
civil wars, and one branch of the family emil
grated to America. from whom the late Profess
A relative Of Froude the historian he has per-
haps thereby been brought in contact with thu
new and independent ideas of English History,
OF which he forms as 1t were the prophet or
poet. And whatever may be thought by some
of his theological shortcomings as the ardent
champion of his friend Maurice, he has vigor-
ously striven to carry Christianity into practi-
cal lite and to tnfuse Its higher spirit into the
very framework OF society. He has advocated
religion which has warm blood In it, and can
feel, think, run, and work. He considers relI-
gion, in the words of an old English divine as
the seed OF deified nature Let us hope that
he may never be taithless to his principles
as some OF his latest utterances awaken the fear
OF his being. He must deny himself In an un-
scrupulous and bad sense to become a defender
OF Injustice, or of power against the poor. II he
40 tnls, Notwithstanding great enthusiasm
many dead heroes have gone before him, This
is indeed, small threat as far as myself is
concerned, but, If mistake not, 1t will also be
the united Judgment of an American public
opinion which has heretofore passionately hon
ored and loved Kingsley, and the entire loss of
whose favor, which has been called an English
authors verdict OF posterity, no man living be
ne ever SO great, can well afford to suffer-
where Mr.. Kingsley then ministered to his
NUM- nun pie congregation. A young relative OF his
@ Tolu me thot his congregation was chiefly COM
pIg p0IggeI oI laborng people, d-hoppers,' as he
itSu inteSudt mem. But he added, she manages to
nasoasC asotSsC them wonderfully. He said that young
U1hSsrs UaIIos rom the camp of Aldershott q few
~ 1IlSs Instant. Were in the habit of riding over