The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-04-12
From the UIncInnaLI COmmercl'
Bishop Calvin KINGSLEY.

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the latter, from heart disease, at Bey-
rout, Syria. The date of his death is
not given. Bishop Kingsley had been
assigned to the foreign work of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, and in
his official capacity had already WIS.,
tied Japan, China and India. and was
returning to Western Europe by the
Suez route. At the time of his death
he had completed the tour Of Pales-
tine, and was on the point of leaving
Beyrout TO attend the British Wes-
leyan Conference, when stricken
down.
The Methodist Church has been
recently called to mourn the loss of
some Of her most eminent men. The
names of DR.. MeClintock, Bishop
Thompson, and Bishop Kingsley will
bear comparison with those of any
~theologians or divines the church has
produced during the last fifty years
of its centennial existence in Ameri-
ca. OF the three Bishops, Kingsley
was, perhaps, the most remarkable
man, though not so widely known as
DR.. McClintock, who was somewhat
before him In point of time, and Ia
bored in a field for the most part
more favorable to the growth of ma
tional reputation.
Calvin Kingsley was born in Ames-
Vile, Oneida County, New York. in
1872, but in his fourteenth year his
family removed to C~hautauque Coun-
~, in the extreme western part of the
State, and I'VE may add, into one of
the widest of the then wild parts Of
that county. The lad was subjected
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Of pioneer life, but his parents were,
for their day, intelligent. and calvin
had a taste for book learning
which he gratifed as he could during
the three months of Winter schooling
to be had in the settlement-a school,
it may be added, of which he was
himself teacher in a couple Of years.
The books which he obtained in adj
? vance of those used In the school, he
: purchased by working a sugar
i. place " on shares, packing his share
of the product to Jamestown, ten
miles distant, ON his own back. and
trading it for such volumes as he
! wanted. He was one of the few men
who literally gained their ru~dimentarv
/ education by the light of a pine knot,
of which, fortunately, there was an
abundance in Chautauque County.
/ while oanaiee--vrv MT TO be had.
Kingsley, who had, by the year
=. 1887, arrived at the dignity of a
school teacher and licensed preacher,
made his appearance In Meadville,
Q with the worthy ambition to go
, through a course of study in Allie
gheny College. We remember to
have heard him described by one who
was q student therein then, as rather
an odd and uncouth specimen, with
the fragrance of the wild pine region
in his coarse wamus" of home-sppn,
He was q rugged, heavy-set. big.nsted
o and big hearted young man, with q
/, tremendous stock of coarse, black
of having been just slept in. To this
!, carelessness about dress that was OF
the coarsest, was added the awkward
ness of positive rusticity, and there
was a disposition among the more
fortunate students to poke fun at the
representative of the pine regions.
But it was soon discovered this
young fellow, whose thirst for knowl-
n edge had drawn him from the wilder.
It ness, and made him willing to saw
wood, draw water or do chores
!, about the dormitories, for means t6
- support himself at school, had the
root of matter in him, and possessed
uncommon intellectual force anC
{. fibre. Indeed, such had been hi
progress in mathematics particularly
?, that he had not been three terms il
it the college before he was made tutor
,, in that department, and probably
, heard the Rotations of those WhC
had, on his first appearance, treated
" him to the choice ridicule of the col
lege campus. Kingsly graduated II
1871, and the same year was elected
3 Professor of Mathematics in his Aims
Q Mater. It was the highest testimony
q the institution could give to the earn.
O est aud mastering character of the
scholar.
i We have dwelt somewhat upon The
L early career of this distinguished
man, because that portion of ones
life In which he conquers obstacles o.
% the most serious character, such as, in
: this case, the want Of money, inhuen.
,e tial friends, books, and the atmos.
p phere OF intellectual life and society
Is the most Instructive and interest.
- ing. Having, as sailors say, wealth.
e cred the point" the success of Gal.
j. vim Kingsley, whether in or out o.
d the church, was assured. He pre-.
terred to remain In the church, ioined
. the Erie Conference, took a circuit
g appointment 10 connection with his
lie professional duties, and in 1913 trav.
eled as soliciting agent for the endow.
ment of the college. 1t was durins
is this year that no held a famous de.
Il bate with Luther Lee and Others
/. who were attempting to create (
y schism in the church on the ground
J. of its strong pro-slavery sympathies
r; and tendencies.
a. The result of the debate, so far a,
: Professor Kingsley was concerned
= was TO give him a wide reputation anG
a commanding position in the miais.
l. try. He was stationed in Erie for two
years, and it was while there that he
4 held a public discussion with a Uni
v~ersalist, which aroused intense feel
s. ing, and was considered such {
triumph for Kingsley that he was
It made the recipient of many very sub.
stantial tokens of regard from his ad.
mirers. 1t was this Universalist, We
q believe, who was so used up by his
b exertions In the debate, that he los
It his voice, and under such circum,
r stances that many persisted inregard.
|, ing it as a miraculous interference
f and divine attestation of displeasure
If Probably as good a case of miracle
could be made out of it as the Revs
= Wisner have manufactured.
Profoesor Kin0slav lovad kha ikiD