Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-11-01

NACI.E.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon, who dlscards
the usual title of reverend, is an English
Baptist minister Of the liberal type. While
he teaches that baptism should be admins
tered to believers exclusively, he admin
listers the Lords supper to those who diff
fer from him in this view. On the other
hand, he is the pastor of church which
refuses church memberships to all except
ing those who hold that only persons who
have been baptized after the profession OF
their faith in Christianity should be ad-
mitted to church membership. All the
members of his church are, therefore, Bap-
fists, but all Christians are welcomed to
commune with them. He has revived
old-fashioned Calvanistic preaching in Eng
land, but those who condemn what is in their
view narrow theological teaching, admire
and love its whole-hearted, manly and ge-
NAL defender. Mr.. Surgeons wonderful
success as a minister seems to be due IN
great part to his sympathetic, sunny and
brotherly disposition, his humor and ready
wit. Associated with these and tending to
the same end, is his uncompromising adher-
ence to the theological scheme which he
embraced in his early life. His teaching is
certain and consistent, and also character
lied by an extraordinary simplicity of ex-
preston, assisted by apt illustration. He
is diligent student of the Puritan divines,
of Bunyan particularly. His delivery is
easy, perfectly natural and unaffected, earn
est but not impassioned, highly pleasing
and impressive but not eXemplifying the
highest form of oratory. His appearance
is dumpy, and neither very intellectual nor
refined, but his smile is fascinating, and his
voice is sweet, clear and flexible. MIR.
Spurgeon is the son of a Congregational
minister. He was born at Kelvedon, Essex,
England in 1884. When fifteen years old
he left school as pupil, and engaged him
self as an under teacher at Newmarket.
After remarkable religious experience he
gave his thoughts to the ministry of the
Baptist denomination, of which he had
become a member His first sermon was
delivered while he held the position of as
sistant master in school at Cambridge, it
was preached in tiny village chapel and
was heard with remarkable interest. His
services were sought eagerly after this, and
he was known over q considerable piece of
country as "the boy preacher" At seven
teen years of age he assumed the pastorate
of Baptist church at Waterbeach, from
whence he removed to the New Park Street
Chapel, Southwark, London, where he at
tained marvellous popularity. His congre-
CATION so far outgrew the accommodations
provided that in 1859 the erection Of a mon
ster building was decided upon. 1t was
opened free of debt two years afterwards,
from that time until now has been attended
by congregation averaging over six thous-
and persons on Sundays when the great
preacher occupies its rOstrum. Mr.. Spur
geon once preached to a congregation of
twenty-three thousand ut the Crystal Pal
ace near London. When during the pro-
gress of repairs at his Metropolitan Taber-
nacle, he preached in the Agricultural Hall,
Islington, his audience numbered about
twenty thousand persons at every service.
Connected with his church, outgroWths of
it's energies, are the pastors college, from
which several hundreds of young men have
been sent out as ministers, and an orphan
age which was begun at the instance of a
lady friend who sent Mr. Spurgeon a check
for one hundred thousand dollars with
which to begin it. About three hundred
orphans are fed, lodged, clothed and educa-
ted in this institution. Other institutions
connected with the Tabernacle are a COL
portage association, aims houses for aged
women, missionary stations, sunday-schools,
a mission to the blind, ladies' benevolent
and maternal societies and many others.
Mr.. Spurgeon was happily married when a
very Young man. His twin sons-he has
no other children-are ministers. Charles,
whose church is at Greenwich, England,
recently visited this country and preached
frequently. Thomas lives in New Zealand.
BsT Little by little the people of the Uni
ted States are recovering rights which were
made nugatOry by vicious, centraliZing leg
islation during the war and the period of
loyal insanity that followed after it. The
decision of the United States Supreme Court
in the civil-rights cases, puts an end to the
vexatious litigations which have annoyed
the keepers of hotels, places Of amusement
and common carries in consequence of the
demand of cOlOred persons to be treated the
same as white persons. The Court decides
that Congress has no authority to make
regulations for the manner drumming hotels,
theatres, steamboats, and passenger cars in
the States. This is the affair of the States.
themselves. This view Of the matter was
impressed upon the attention of Congress at
the time of the passage of the Civil Rights
act, in 1875; but the Republican majority
were in no humOr to consider constitutional
scruples. They held then, as they hold
now, that when constitutional provision
bars the way to political advantage what
is lawful must give way to what is eXpe-
dient.-Philadelphia Record.
a deposit at a Washington bank, and stood
counting large pile of money at desk.
A well-dressed young man stepped up and,
with bow and smile, said: Judge, you
have dropped bill" Sure enough, there
lay clean, crisp, genuine s. ;, bill at the de-
swered the Judge, placing his ponderous
right boot over the bill on the floor, and
calmly resuming his counting. The sharp
er, taken aback by the GOODNESS of the pro-
ceeding, disappeared, and the Judge was
50 ahead by the transaction.
John Quincy Adams received salary
from the United States Government for six
ty nine years, and the sum total must have
amounted to half million. At the close of
his Presidential term he had had fifty-two
years of office holding, and his salary had
aggregated S325, 900. Still, he had seventeen
years of Congress after this, and died at the
Capitol, literally in harness. At the age Of
fourteen years he went to Russia as the pri-
vate secretary of the American legation. and
he was in after years Minister to England,
Germany, Portugal, Russia and the Neither