Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1869-04-09
sksseAss sa Rseent rsr.Isn Travel

opportunity Of going into several rooms which
were once occupied BY persons Of eminent
chamcter and influence. One Of these, q
Cambridge, was that Of the poet Gray, the
author Of thst very popular little piece, enti.
lied " The EIegy io . Country Churchyard." !"
Another was that Of Erasmus, the distin>
guished scholar and fsformer born ia Rot
terdam, Oct. 28th, l467. At The invitations Of
King Henry VIII, in 1910, he bscsms Uni>
versity -lecturef oo Greek, and Lady. Magyar.
Ct Professor Of Theology. The love Of liter.
atufe WAS the passion Of bis nature. He was
. compeer Of Luther, and much of bis life
vas spent on the continent. While 1t Cam.
bridge, / had an introduction 10 Rev. Dr..
Ligbtfooa, very celebrated modern divine,
and Professor Of Theology in the Universi.
~, having. IL ! mistake not, the same posi-
ton that Erasmus did, three huudred and
City years ago. called upon him twice.
snd hs remarked that the room which was
then ir, and which be himself occupies, WAS
the room that Sir Isaac Newton. The ce:s-
brsted mathematician and natural philoso-
phsr, had when In the Cniversity. He was
. Fe1ow, and also . Professor Of MatAsmat
tcs IN ihe Lucasian Chair, affer tho resiena-
tion Of Dr.. Isaac Barrow. Il Mas while per
forming the duties Of this psosessorship, that
be made those wonderful discoveries y which
have ,mmoralized his name. While sitting
in this room, ard thinking Of what was
achieved for science and the worlds I'M
provement BY this great philosopher, vbo
wss accustomed TO sit in the same place
studying the laws Of nature and working out
the mighty psobIems Of the universe, I vas
disposed to do homage to genius as / hsd
never been befFe. It's pleasing 70 know
that his talents and discoveries, 20 we'll -
bic character and pissy, were % much ap>
preciatrd aud boaored - they were. Queen
Anne bestowed upon him The enviable de-
gree Of kni2hihcod in Trinity College Lodg-;
and when George |. ascended The throne, be
vas Sreat favorite at court, thoseh he had
become IN aged man.
! may state, that while in Cambridge. /
bad The privilege Of diaiug in Tiaity Hall,
which i tbe lsrgest Of all the college balls
Of the two usivesities. I sat with d.. Light.
foot st the Fellows table, plaesd On . plat
form st the end oi the hall asd Il wus an
interesting sight 10 witness tn many hum
dreds Of students come il and take theiS
places at The tables below. The honr Of di,
ming was six P. n. also accepsea iavita,
tions 10 dine q halls or othsr eollefss. both
In Csmbridgs and Oxford. II is pesbap,
unnecessary 10 say that, snlike our Ameri.
can institutions, these English universities
include, Or eoesist Of great number Of col
leGes, each With ito distinct group cf bsid.
ines, with separate professors and fellows
There sre. however, some building of . NOR
geasrsl cha aessr, and which pertain TO ths
whole university.
During ny tsrsy in Losdes, saw tbe
psrsonsge of.be Wesley Chapel. situa,sd on
. street called ihe City Road, end sdjoiaiaa
the chapel itself This tensmsns vas occu.
pied By John Wesley, when he vas in charge
ef the Nsebocise eosgrsgaiion worshippins
IN the chapel. Wesleyan ministers and their
fanilies still occupyit.
When ia the city Of Constance, Swisses-
lspd, saw the house in which John Huss,
The great Bohemian refomer, LODGED, more
ttan three hunds d and 6fty years ago. BE
had been summoned to sttsnd the occlssias.
teal council which wAs 70 - convened in
that city. He came, aud The council vas oss
Of The most famous Of nodsra tinss; for il
sought 70 crush the downing rsfoemaiiou By
eosdemnins and sentsseing 10 death its no>
blsst aud boldess advocasea.
During ny s1Ay u iAsssiAyt n Geneva,
owsssesisnd, I visited tvo dswllisgs once oc-
cspied By two wholly different msn, whose TO-
dusoce upon the world, ever since, has been
totally unlike. ! vac in them both The sane
day. and I could net help contrasting the
two illustrious pefsona formerly dwelling
therein. One 0f them, Rousseau, was . po-
ct and philosoper, and the author Of some
brilliantly eloquent works, but be was de-
spending skeptic in religion, and given to
the practice Of . debasing immoeality. He
va . strenuous advocate Of " social equal.
ity," which would do away with Ill ths nat
ural and proper dislinctions 10 human soeie.
~ . system which the eovesnmeat Ffaaee
(whers b vas then residine) % greatly dis.
approved, that he vas obliged 70 lake repose
in svitseriand, bis own native country.
The other individual, John Calvin, wss
one OF the three great continental reformers,
in the early part II the sixteenth century.
and bic name is - familiar % household
word 10 all Protestant lasds. He spent
much OF his life in Geneva, the city Of h,s
birth. and from l54l to 1864, when be died,
be labored there most sssiduously ~ pastor,
writer, ecclesiastical ruler, ard reformer.
HE house, % also that occupied BY Rous.
seas. sre Of stone, and though quite unpre-
tending in appearance, are substantial build.
ines, and capable Of enduring the ravages of
time mach better than many modern struc.
urss. Ifnot mistaken, il was in ,bis very
house Of Calsiu which I visited, wheie, b..
ing in feeble health, 10 The latter portion Of
his life, be engaged in nocturnal study By
The light Of dim lamp suspended from The
canopy Of bic humble bsd and where,
shortly bsfoss bis death, hs summoned the
syndics, OF chietmsgistrates, Of Geneva, and
solemnly adjarsd then 70 adhsss TO the psrs
gospel ofCbsist.
zpsscicA. B.R.G.