Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-04-11
CHAPLAIN MCABEs SCHEME.
lie Proposals to Raise n Million Dollars
for Hethudist Missionary work.


for Hethudist Missionary work.
Fra,o me Baltimore Americ1n.
NEW YORK, April 4.-The man nick
named chaplain" McCabe is a doctor Of |
divinity, but he does not, in appearance, !
suggest the popular notion OF reverend |
theol0gian. HIS whole expression is that |
OF tremendous power and indefatigable |
energy, holding himself In so as to please |
others. He has a big, square tace dark, |
warm eyes; hair and eyebrows heavy |
black as night-with closely trimmed |
mutton-chop whskers. His jaw is as |
square rs Gen. Grants, and he looks as /
determined as Grant ever did, but with |
more fire in his competition. The Chap /
lam mas a tremendous scheme on haud. |
lie means to employ bis remarkable per- |
-uasiveness in getting ST 90 900 from |
generous Methodists throughout the cOun- |
Try. He is a wonder, i'm his way, and |
there is small doubt that hls intention, |
Wnfea~ihle as it may seem at a glance, |
viii be realized. Az the last General
Conference OF the Methodist Episcopal !
CHurc the idea was preached Lhat the
annual expenditure OF the denomination
for missionary work, in America and
abroad. on ut to reach 81 100000. Such
a thing, however, was not deemed posi-
of the current depression in trade. On
Feb. Is, i'm the Spring Garden Street
Church, Philadelphia. the missionary
collection footed up S. 600. One of the
contributors said TO Nc abe: Bring the
collections up to a million this year and
| VII double my subscription" The con-
gregatlon were told Of this, and another
maze the same proposal These offers
Were mentioned elsewhere, and every
man approached on the subject responded
isVOrably. McCahe at once asked au-
lhorty from the Bishops to undertake
the feat. They have consented, and he
nas begun the big job by writing to every
| presiding elder in the country, soliciting
| support and making dates for his per-
| sonal appeals 10 the cOngr cations. The
| letters in reply are generally favorable,
| though some of them advise postpone
ment until better times, but he is ready
/ 10 so eight ahead. lie has spent week
! In figuring out what each conference
ought to give, in order % compose the
aggregate of million, and. like a rum
/ uer IN a siX-days' foot race, he will try
/ 10 keep up to this schedule. A popularity
/ Of his effort Will be that the special con-
/ trbutious shah he payable only in case
/ the en- ire million is pledged.
/ The Bishops have been induced chiefly
/ by Chaplain McCahe's phenominal sue
cess as q solicitor to ack him in this at
4 tair lie was born ia Athens, Ohio,
/ IN 1895, and he became a preacher in 1850.
/ Z o years afterW ard he enlisted as chap
| lain Of the One Hundred and Twenty
/ sixth Ohio infantry. lie was taken pris-
/ 0ner on Winchester battlefield and sent
/ 70 Libby prison. In four months be was
/ Xch8nged. Pressed INTO the service Of
/ the Christian Commission, he made large
/ collections Of money. In the Methodist
! centenary year he was made nm agent for
| collecting money, ana in lS6S became
/ agent of the Church Extension society, of
which at present he is Corresponding
| 5 cretary. How does Chaplain McCaie
! coax money out Of the pockets OF the
/ faithful and the uniaithful2 He knows
all the weapons Of his art, and long skill
/ has made him proficient i'm wieldinsthem.
| His voice is round aud fun, and he never
/ tires his hearers except by long speeches
! This s'part of his art. People are glad al
/ last 10 yield 10 his persistence, give their
/ 80 cents or $50 and 90 homo. He Waudtrs
/ way from the point, apparently forgets
/ all about what the people and he are
/ there FOR, tells story 90 the remarkable
/ seli-fOrgettulness and sweet unspl6sh-
/ ness OF some struggling body of Chris
/ iians who reused M their might and paid
\ the debt weighing down their church, ana
/ then suddenly ne pouncps on his audience
With the moral that they can raise tho
/ money he Ia after so easily that they will
/ not feel o.. And no one can feel agsreved
/ at tine application Of the moral 10 them-
| selves, for he makes u with such "a sweet
smile. Az another stage in his discourse
\ he drops all show Of art and comes out
/ with tne ndretacod assertion that ne
+ wants money, not IN ten-cent sums, but
500 90 Slm; and proceeding from this be
lll Justify himself 10 the satisfaction of
bis hearers. Finally. when 10" old de-
vioo of the subscription of $1,000. then
5000, then Of $3.50 ana So on down, is
I hl1u. ht uUt and made 20 do its part, and
thU $50 bills are becoming very scare.
hcttue plum 1s down ON q piauO stool
AID sings rouslng song. He has
voice both powerful and mplodioua. Then
be- heglns airpsh, and be has never vet
iouni an audience that could beat him.
When he ls iuclncd 90 talk about the
glorious thin ts he has done. and the more
glorious CunQuesis ht Us gOiu % make
fnr Mrthndism, ho tells about the leht nf
#l0OIO that be once raised from me Meth.
Udi~t church In Salt Lake cry with his
own tongue, and fhe debt of 100000 on the
Metropolitan Church On Washington.
"IUat feat OF clearing the Wash.
ineton debt was the most wonderful
thing ~ the kind / ever knew" said
Methodist minister to-day "Ihe mem.
h.r, didn't want 90 paw o. and outsiders
14i nO reason 90 boz interested. Even the
Bishops did not look On the project very
warmly while many of bis brethren
Thought hc was wasting his powder. even /
. D.. accomplished his object. n was F.
douHtiui IL Coo property was worth $50 600 |
% tne church. Yet The chaplain ruispd /
D.. Every city Methodist CONGREGATION I'm /
America VIII this year have an Opportu. .
my 90 compare Chaplain McCahe I'm their /
oNn pulpit with the description mere .
given Oi his manner and method.
Browns Bronchial Trochea
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