The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-11-15


that. There too, was Or. Taylor, successor
to DR.. Thompson as pastor dl that old Bull
wark Of Freedom, the Broadway Tabernacle.
Impartial critics generally pronounce DR..
TAYLOR the lest preacher in New York, not
withstanding his habits of thrusting hands
and arms down into his capacious pockets
and drawing through his nose. One of the
few people who do not admire him once said
to me "Why, I'd be willing to drawl like
that for $4,000 a yearl"
Then there W. DR. Newman, late of the
Metropolitan Churchat Washington; friend
of General Grant, eS-iuspeciOr of Assatic
consulates, with a strrhg failing for "Hima-
alyan SHOWS" AMI "Thc Cosmos" portly
kindly, SCHOLARLY, with real title to great
ness which the general world would more
gladly recognize if the Doctor could only
seem less conscious of its validity. There.
too, WIS he Of the prolific pen aud rattling,
ringing oratorv, Dr. 1hee. l.. Cuyler, who
carries in his face and department no sign
of the wonderful capacity lodged in Eis
brain, or the boistcrous humor that keeps
him. old man that he is, acting like a mis-
ch'evnus, fun loving boy. He calls Mr..
and Mrs. Cough
"BRoTHKR JOHN AND SISTER MARY"
for he has Known and loved them tenderly
ever since an awkward yoDng man in COUP
try clothes began stirring with his eoquence
the people OF the Foundry Chapel in Wash
ington over thirty years ago.
Dir. Orniston was there too-with that
heud of hair Did you ever see that hair :?
No? Well then do YOU never visit this
wicked city and 60 away again without
hearing one OF the Doctors good old-fashinn-
ed, solid sermons-and seeing that hair !
Imagine Kaifir, Bushman, South Sea
Islander and Jack -in-a- Box combined-as
to hair then scalp the front half of HIM in
Il straight line across from ear to ear and
polish the bare part with sapolia; then
| comb all the hair on the pusterior half OF
the head out eight inches at a right angle
with the skull line without single ha r
reclining against its neighbor, and without
| q pretensc Of part or any sort ofa highway
through the wilderness and you have only
then begun to get faint glimmering idea
Of the museum this sanity old man carries
about within his hat.
| Good old DR.. Burchard was there, who
after forty years of pastorate surprised his
people with resignation, which nobody
mad asked for, simply because he wanted to
drop out before people wearied of him, and
| getting surprise himself in purse Of some
! $4,000 as love Offering from his church.
]
ing tn.
The awkward Young man in country
clothes has left a wondeful imprint on the
| times in which he lives. lie has addressed
more people than any man who ever lived
except Whitfield, and probably more than
even him. Lecture bureaus unanimously
declare that he draws better houses and pays
better than any other lecturer, and he ha,
travelled and lectured till total of his
travels represent journey three times the
circumference of the earth. For fifteen
months he has been laboring in England
Just before his departure was present at &
Temperance meeting in Cooper lnstitue
when Cough made his appearance quietly
at a rear door and tried to reach a back seal
unobserved. Some one recognized him anc
called out that Cough was present." whel
the entire audience turned round and de
manded that he take the platform. He re
luctantly came forward and made twenty
minute speech, more powerful and tremend
Gus than any bit of oratory ever hearC
from pulpit, bar or platform. His magni
fcent cloquencc burst over that vast audi
encc like swelling tornado, and swayec
and swept and overwhelmed his hearers til
every ordinary expression of enthusiasm
seemed inadequate to convey their feelings
and his auditors abandoned thcmselve
wholly to his magic influence, and wer
swept along helpless upon its tremendou
and resstless torrent.
Cough is an old man now, and while HI
promises TO live many years yet, ten year
more will probably see his honored nam
/, stricken from lccture-bureau lists, and tn
silver-tongued English boy will have strucl
his last hot blow at Intcmperancc and mad
his last public appeal to the citizens of hi
adopted country. He went to Europe 70
rest, expecting to deliver but thirty lectures
but before reaching the dock at Liverpool h
was besciged with committees from ever,
part of the kincdom all utterinG the sam
cry. Come UP and help U.s." The condit
ion OF affairs WAS so stirring that, de(eril
his rest, he plunged into the work as neve
@si2rG lu u hi bfs6s aieIy ssfSr esspousng the caus
OF total abstinence, of Sturgeon at last add
ing his vast influence to tectotaism, of tn
Lord Chancellor himself presiding at one q
his meetings, of the mighty work among tn
lowly In London on the model ofand cope
from Jerry McAuley's Water Street Mission
and of many other things which ill us witt
renewed hope for the suffering middle an,
lower classes of our English cousins. 1t wa
a memorable night, Il notable company an,
a Cause so worthy of every good mans sym
pathy that | regret more than ever tina
newspaper letters must, of necessity, be briei
; MORLEY.