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y mani manhood, ,-the thirty-nine articles which
Kingslcy and Stanley somehow managed to
that paper at your peril you mou you do not be-
lieve it; better starve than barter your manhood
for living and 80 he turned aray,-hoH sadly
only those Of us know who have hsd to leave
mother church because va had no home there
any longer. He found q home with US. "a 40
many do who can find one nowhero else. cook
such parishes aa he could get, until now he fills
one Of the best va haYe. Simple as child, he
knows enough to run Univeretty and 6H most
Of the Chaira He can tell you about plants
from the cedar Of Iebanou to tho lyssop On the
wall. He knows the stara. whore tbey are, what
thew are. and what thev are doing. about I'd well
as Hichnrd Proctor. and is more delighted when
.ha hears thoy haya found another planet than il
ho found nurne Of eold.. ETerY old stone and
fossil in Central NV York his had to take a
pfca IN his cataloRnos. You cannot take him
With .tha ou;ta nf Iowa limestone cut
intn the firm of a man in = Chicago
etone-vard. Faiev writing to friend, II shall get
hacL n nv Natural Theology when dy-6shing ia
nnsn ~ n,d 10y .va b.iied hin as brother: and
T.ho1nn,s Hughes would respect his stroke aud
ro,'nd hi AZ cricket. Yet he is man Of q deep
rsl;cious heart. full Of his work, as d minister
raverent n11re and trao as his predecessor in
tb.t nnInt. a Christian Of the new Christiun
world who is not afraid to uae all the powers
cod hna given him. because he believes that d
III ,a.n IN tha GOOD old aenae o. that word is
vhola man. :, =.
Hcro is another; I will not give you fis name.
bfnnv Toars ugo nroto paper for tho Indepentl-
cnf about nv oid homo, which caught his atten-
ton. because he was born undar the shadow OF
the sanaa mountain side. He MAS then student
came to see mo, told me all about it,
and we became great friends. 30 was
and Lived On crust that be might sit 1t the feet
Of the great uastera; came back at last and
settled, He has done grand uo1k where he
is,-w1estled with IN Archbishop, among other
things. and thrown him fairly on ground Of
his own choosing. He has = fine power as
writer. and could take first place on thepress !;
but tho burden on his heart ia to preach, and
preach he will. though he caunot live On what
thcy nay him, and 60 ho struggles on. II he held
up his finger tomorrow, lie might leave tho
pulpit.-cet rid Of the problem hon to pay SIS
With aio-biu. but something in him whispers,
Voc Is mo i preach not the Gospel; and 40,
noor fclloT. hn nreaches aTayto . hundred peo-
nie Of which one-half como in after the prayers
to hear the sermon; and there is another man Of
this nav order. :. So
r And here is another. As yet he is something
day d. ~ When b1u va, out IN the West, ao las bsen
for eome years an apoatle in the Methodist
Church out in Iowa, n man Of ra1e popular g1fts,
Int bin broad ympathies made him preach broad
fr7,ths aud he nreaently cot into trouble for
herasv., and eo he had to leave the church of
fis early faith and love. He went to work On
h;s o,yn account He has \ great tent he carries
ahort in that semi-wilderness. all summer long,
nreachinp the ercat word wherever be finds an
rnan;nC asking no chnrch or conference what
he shaii preach. and vet for that reason preach
ing pennina Iiberal GOSPEL. They came to tell
1ns. sh6,7t him o7t there in Iowa, md mentioned
his name With the rreatest respect. He has Or
c.nized three chnrches. and will 70 On this
enm1ner to oroanizo mora vhero he finds
fair posgibility and SO far there is this differ
ence between these churches and those started
fyat Tim tha chnrchea Of our foundiue do. as q
,1s r. t nv to Doston for aid and Keep On cryius
xe.r affnr 1ear Int these Iova churches. Of
ywhich thare arc now some bali dozen, really did
e,rth wnnld rive them dollar. nnd so they have
rona m in their simple way and taken
earc of themselves. I NAV be mistaken, but I
ioolr fo- = narfectIy new revelation Of the power
~ trnth and freedom together over that Iowa
mind. I believe that it tits man goes on in sim-
pIcity and fidelity to CARY out What ho has be-
r'h Fun he ~ vii leayen the whols State with our
Rroa'd aucet +rnth.. 1''
Then Dauthit came this year, the most
aincnlar fellow Of them all, fulfilling
afresh tho prophecy out Of Egypt,
have called my aon. He has tried to tell mo
half q dozen times how he camo to be dissatis-
fed when ! boy. with the rough, red dogmas Of
tho hnrd-sheu Baptist Church, Of which his
mother was d member, and which bis father
cursed with ali the rest he over heard Of for the
o1d man is IKE great multitude in our country,
simply Pagan.
r must ba 4 dozen years since 1Ir. Dnuthit
came % here t to see sen nc. after writing; then he
attended our Conference at Detroit, where VIC
cot him some money then he went to Mead
S4;}ia to onr school. and then ho went right back
to The MACE where be vns brought up, ,.and began
his work. It is the most singular work, so far,
that has ever been done by any man Of cur faith
in this conntry. Shelby County, where he is set
lied. has no New England element; the low, fer
tie prairies, twenty feet deep Of black loa am in
some places, they told mo, was settled almost
not not made M for our faith. but for our nationality
h ony lad xsa the gffa trouble srss ss
than half-a-iozen who got ont words for us that
were halt battles, and would not be silencsa,
feyer RACED at its highest, and DID, believe, fire
once ut 6im, though he thinks they only used
powder. = -
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