Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-07-09
Kew. 3. Y. EkiIlpS,

Kew. y. y. EaaEsfPS'
James G., Clark, the poct-singer,
in a we'll written article III the Inter
Occan on the co-worko rs with the
late VIM. Lloyd Garrison, speaks OF
| Elder Hines as follows:
Il viii close with a scene in the
life ofGarrisop. A few days since,
while a guest in the hospitablo house
of Judge Blair in Elk Point, Dakota,
! was happily surprised to find an
other of the early anti-slavery apes
ties in the person of Rev. J. Y.
Hines, the recently appointed rec
tor and missionary for the Episco-
PM churches in Elk Point and Yer
million. Mr.. Hines was q dissent
ing clergyman in Boston at the time
OF Garrison's adventure there, and
was one of the agitator's earliest and
most earnest adherentS, being the
president of the Young Mems Anti
slavery Society in the city.
Last Sunday, while taking din
ner at the residence of Col. Hughes
at Elk Point, in company with 9TH
cr guests, including Judge Blair and
wife, and Elder Hines, the latter,
in referring to those exciting times
when respectable Christianity joined
with the mob to prosecute practical
Christianity in the person of Garri-
son, remarked, yes, | saw Garrison
with the rope around his neck. True
to his doctrine of non-resistance he
aimed to overcome evil with good,
and made no resistance. The crowd
did not dare to strike or bruise him,
They seemingly put the rope around
his neck and led him. ! shall see
that picture to the latest day Of my
life on earth. The victims face, so
full of moral graneur, sclf-possession
and spirituality, was lifted slightly
above the rioters and shone with in
ward peace and conscious strength,
in the right. 1 could think Of moth
ing but an angel OF light being led
to the cross by u legion of demons
"Elder Hines is - years old, but
more full of energy, cloquencc and
brotherly love than when | first met
him eighteen years ago at Our
Home Evansville, n. Y, where he
claims that DR.. Jackson's treatment
added more than fifteen years to his
lease oflife."
Commenting OH the above the
Tatcr- Occon makes the following edi-
torial notice:
".Joshua Y. Hines who was men,
toned in the letter from Mr.. Clark,
published in the L4.T- Ocepa Of Sat
urday, as one of the old-time Abo-
litionists of Boston, and who it seems
has now at the age of IS years been
received into the Episcopal ministry
under Bishop Clarkson in Dakota
Territory, and assigned to missiona-
ny duty, was indeed q dissenting
clergyman, Us Mr.. Clark says. For
ty years ago he was well known
throughout New England as a very
earnest, ifnot q very talented follow
er of William Miller, who had then
recently undertaken the job OF bring-
ing the world 10 an end. Elder
Hines published the Advent Herald,
a weekly newspaper printed in Bos-
ton, and showed therein all the beasts
in Daniels visions, and in forty 9TH
or ways that the last trump would
sound ON the 18th day of April, A..
d. 1913; but the wise Elder oontin-
ued taking subscriptions paid q year
in advance to the very day of doom.
The publication ofthe He,uM was
continued by Hines for years which
according to his calculation, must
have made up the first quarter of a
century of the millennium during
which the great dragon was to be
chained. Not many years ago he
was here in Chicago preaching in u
tent about the second advent of
Christ. He has apparently conclu-
dcd to let the world wag for awhile
longer, or perhaps he thinks the In
dians, who viii constitute some part
of his audiences in Dakota, are not
sufficiently advanced In spiIital
knowledge to comprehend exactly
how it is that the Adyentists all the
while fail to connect.