The Indiana State sentinel., 1885-09-09
FREDERIC ". FARRAR, ARcHDEAooN OF wEsTNIN-
IsTER, EULoGIsT OF THE LATE GENERAL
GRANT AND FRIEND OF REPUB-
LICAN INSTITUTIONS.

GRANT AND FRIEND OF REPUB-
IICAN INSTITUTIONS
The preacher at the service held in West
minister Avbey simultaneously with that
over the remains of General Grant, at Mount
McGregor, expressed his appreciation of the
character OF the deceased and of the institu-
tions under which he had achieved great
ness with such liberality, eloquence and
power, that his intention to visit this country
is regarded with general pleasure. The
various works of Archdeacon Farrer had
been extensively read and admired in the
United States before his exposition Of Demo-
cratic principles of Government, delivered
on the occasion referred to. gave the Ameri-
can people new cause TO admire and love
him. Never before had the venerable walls
of the Abbey echoed political sentiments so
broad and just. The man who uttered them
is OF the quality and calibre which Ameri-
cans particularly appreciate. He is an Eng
lishinan superior to political prejudice, with
out the intellectual tunkeyism which ingen-
iously attempts to find good in, and to defend
what is wornout and inherently bad.
Frederic William Farrar,- Archdeacon of
Westminster, who will sail for this continent
on September 3, was born in Bombay, Hin
dostan in 1881 His father chaplain of
the fort at the time, and, "a matter OF course,
a clergyman Of the Church of England. The
lad received his early education at King VIII
liam's College, in the Isle of Man, from
whence he was entered student at Kings
College, London. After his graduation at the
London University. he was appointed, in
1852 University Scholar. Entering Trinity
College, Cambridge. he took his Bachelors De-
gree with high classical honors in 1884. He
had already obtained the Chancellor's prize
a an
Regions" In 1854 he was ordained deacon,
| and in 1897 was admitted into priests orders.
| For several years he was Assistant Master OF
Harrow SCHOOL and from 1871 to 1876 he
| filed the position of Head Master of Marl-
borough College. His tales Of school and
college life-"Eric; or, Little by Little, ''St.
Winfreds or, The World OF School" and
Julian Home'-were widely read. DIR.
| Farrar was select preacher before the
| University of Cambridge in 1868, and
| again in 1915, and he was an hon
orary chaplain to the Queen from
| 1869 to 1878, when he was nominated
| one of Her Majesty's chaplains in ordinary
In 1876 he was appointed one of the canons
| of Westminster Abbey, and rector of the
| ancient Church of st. Margarets, which
| stands under the shadow of the Abbey.
| Canon Farrar became Archdeacon of West
minister in 1884, when he resigned the rector
| ship of St. Margarets. On July 1, 1879 he
characterized the course which alienated the
| American colonies from the mother country
as folly, and at the same time recognized the
| blessings to civilization and progress, on both
| sides of the Atlantic, which had followed the
| Revolution. Canon Farrar 5 reputation as an
| author rests principally on his late theologi-
/ cal works, among which the Life of Christ, y
| published in 1874, is conspicuous. His
'Life and Works of st. Paul" publish
/ ed in 1879, shows no diminution in vigor OF
| style or Picturesqueness OF description:
| Among his other works are The Fall OF
| Man. lathe Witness of History to Christ,
| and ''Eternel Hope" He is a copious con-
| tributOr to religious and literary publica-
tons, and some of his papers on pathological
| subjects attract wide attention. As preach
| er. Archdeacon Farrar enjoys a reputation
not inferior TO that which he has acquired as
an author, and Westminster Abbey is crowd
ed to its utmost capacity whenever he occu-
pies the pulpit. He belongs to the Broad
| Church School, and the publication of ''Eter-
| nal Hope" in which he avowed his belief in
| the possibility of post-moTtem restoration to
the favor of God, created great excitement in
| Protestant denominations.
| in his American tour DIR. Farrar Will be
accompanied by Or. Francis Gerald Vesey,
| Archdeacon of Huntingdonshire, and a
| brother of Jean lngelow, the poetess. Arch
| deacon Farrar's object is to see the country
and visit some friends; but he will not alto
| gether abstain from intellectual labor during
| his stay. He has made an engagement to
deliver the opening address before the Johns
| Hopkins University at Baltimore. After he
will go to Philadelphia and Washington and
Will te present at the Church Congress which
meets at New Haven in September. From
| New Haven he will go TO New York, where
he will deliver three lectures, and then to
Boston and other places. In Boston and
Philadelphia the lectures will be addressed
to divinity students and ministers, on pure
ly theological subjects. The subjects of the
other lectures will be Dante" 'The Tai
mud and its Author" and "Browing, the
| Poet