The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1874-10-22
Grares or De Foe, George Fox, and John
e'-A'@t~'' Runyar. 49, - ~ 4 = At q,


A london letter TO the Cincinnati
Commercial describes visit to Bunhill
Fields, London, as follows: "a few
steps moro and we stand on the spot in
Smithfeld where the martyrs OF con-
science were burned-a spot long used
by the atheists and Infdels fer their OPP
en- air meetings, but now covered by the
finest meet market in London. We pass
th.nce by the house, now being demol-
ished, where John Milton was born,
through the street where he wrote par
adise Lost and sold it to publisher for
five pounds, and onto Crosby Hail, once
the finest mansion in London. Here
We have the best preserved relic of me-
dieval England; the house repeatedly
mentioned by Shakespeare (see Richard
lII); the house whore Queen Elizabeth
was entertained by the Lord Mayor of
London the house where Erasmus Wis
tied Sir Thomas Moore, of whose home
he gave such paradisalcal picture.
Thence our pilgrim path leads us to the
smart Wesleyan chapel in the city road,
mother of the Wcsleys, and behind it is
the monument which rises above the
dust of John Wesley bimself. We have
only to cross the street 10 enter Bunhill
(Bonchill Fields) Cemetery, where the
bones of many Cromwellian and other
revolutlonists and reiormers have found
repose which the commercial progress
of the city has long but valnly tried to
invade. The huge factories and ware
houses wall in these two cosecrated acres
and millions have been offered for the
privilege of building over their but
the veneration of Nonconformist Eng
land for this sacred dust is too strong
for the shoplleeping interest, and 1t will
be many day before the dust Of Rich
ard and and Henry Cromwell, Isaac
Watts, Daniel DcFoe, and John Bun
yan is disturbed.
"Here the two tombs which are first
sought out are those of the authors of
the Pilgrims Progress and Robinson
Cruso.' The greatness Of each is de-
scribed bv the simple inscriptions which /
with the dates of birth and death, say
ono that he who rests beneath was au-
thor Of the Pilgrims Progress, the 9th
Ell that be was the author of Robnson
Cruso.' For the rest it may be stated |
that though the op-keeping interest
has not awaited to overrun Bunhill Fields
with shops it has been strong enough TO
mar both of these two most interesting
tombs which the cemetery contains.
The inscription on the monument OF
DeFoe, while stating that it was erected
by the contribution of 10000 English
boys and girls, is careful to add tina, this
was in response to ali appeal in the
Christian World newspaper. The tomb
of Bunyan advertises equally to the no
bility by informing us that the commit
tee which repaired it was under the
Presidency of Lord SALISBURY. But
tho most impressive grave that we visit
ed was that of George Fox, founder Of
the society Of Friends.
passing down Coleman street, we
turn aside into what appears to be SIM
ply square covered with greensward.
No mound even is seen, and yet every {
sod covers the dead. In America, | be-
here, the Quakers, while eschewing
gravestones, at least have little mound
over their dead, but here the ground is
unmarked, and the grave J
yard is simply lawn. But one except
ion is made in all the Quaker burying- {
grounds of the country. Near the CEN
ter of this one is a plain slab on which
are the words: George Fox; born !
thirteenth day of the eleventh month,
1924. Died $780," When we consider !
the to wering monuments we have pass
ed, the columns raised 10 soldiers and {
sa Tiers, to saints like George L., and !
slayers like the Duke of Wellington,
this little solitary stone, about a foot
high, marking the resting place where a !
great religious genius was laid to rest
s exceptionally sublime. Ono end of :
The ground is occupied by large tent, I
in which the Quakers are now holding .
nightly meetings for preaching tho gos-
pei"