Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-08-01

me psssisssfahsd Diviss or for
Europe Yssssrdsy.
Rev. DR.. Hogs, who With Hunter
Mcclure, NJ. D., yesterday sailed from
New York for Liverpool, Is now in bis
sixty-seventh year, and became pastor
Of tho Second Presbyterian church ibis
first and only chargs) in lS45. All bis
life he has been hard worker, and 1t
is probable that but for the rests hs
has secured in bis trips abroad he never
could have lived through the tasks hs
has got for himself. For two years
past he has been preaching four times .
wesk-three times on Sunday and once
on W ednssday--and, in addition to this,
has faithfully discharged the other ex.
acting pastoral duties belonging to q
very large congregation. And through
out il all his sermons have been marked
by 0 freshness, sweetness, and elo-
ouence never surpassed by him at any
period Of his life. His congregation
have now parted with him for two
months, well knowing that he has richly
earned his holiday, and confident that
in this instance, as previously, he will
return to them renewed in health and
strength and with his mind stocked
with new observations and experiences,
in which they will become sharers when
he returns here to his pulpit duties.
DR.. Hoge's first visit TO Europe was
in 1854. After q tour through Great
Britain he went to France, Switzerland,
Germany, and Italy. He went out on
the Pacific, afterwards lost, Of the Col
Inns Line, and returned by the Collins
steamer Atlantic.
In 1863 be ran the blockade from
Charleston, S. O., to Nassau, thence
proceeded to Cuba, and from Cuba
went, ria st. Thomas, to England.
While in London, through the kindness
Of Lord Shaftesbury, he had an oppor-
tunity of addressing the British and
Foreign Bible Society and obtained a
grant of $4,000 worth Of Bibles aud
Testaments for the Confederate army.
Most of them reached this country by
different ports, but some were captured.
He also obtained large supply Of rel.
gicus books suitable for reading in
camp. He came back ria Halifax and
the Bermudas. From st. George he
came by the blocksde-runner A. ID.
Vance to Wilmington, narrowly escap-
ing capture. On reaching Richmond he
accepted an invitation Of the Virginia
Bible Society to deliver IN address in
st. Paul's church in this city, giving
an account Of his reception in England,
of the sensation produced abroad by the
news of the death ofStonewall jackson,
and an account Of the manner in which
the Bibles and religious books he OBJ
tanned were forwarded to Confederate
ports, and the perils Of blockade-run-
ming.
In 1877 he went as delegate to the
Pan-Presbyterian Council in Edin-
burgh; took the Cunard steamer
Scythia, Captain Haynes. He made an
address in response to the welcome to
the delegates on the part of foreign
delegates, and two other addresses du.
ring the meeting of the Council. Mon
cure Conway wrote an account Of one
Of his speeches and published it in the
Cincinnati Commercial, of which he was
a correspondent.
After the adjournment Of the Coun-
Gil DR.. Hoge went to Scandinavia, re-
turning by Hamburg, Dresden, Berlin
Vienna, and Paris. On his coming
home he delivered q lecture on 1.-The
Land of the Midnight Sun" which he
repeated in various places in behalf Of
benevolent societies, churches, &c.
In 1878, he went to England by
the steamer Russia, Captain Cook, with
DR.. Mcclure, travelled through Ireland,
England. and Scotland then went to
France, Belgium, and Holland.
InlSS0, DR.. Hoge crossed again by the
Scythia to England and thence went
to Rome. where be was joined by Mr..
and Mrs. Pemberton and party, and
went with them to Alexandria, Cairo,
Jerusalem, Beirut, Damascus. Constan-
tiDople, returning across the Black Sea
ria Rustchuk, Bulgaria; Bucharest, Rou-
mania Buda-Pestb, Hungary, and
Vienna to Paris.
DR.. Hoge is probably the only min
lister in the South who has preached in
Africa, Asia, Europe, and America.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pemberton have heard
him on four Notwithstanding that
probably never happened before to
pastor and two of bis members.
In 1854 DR.. Hoge was o delegate to
the Evangelical Alliance in Copenhagen,
and made an ertempOre address the first
night of the meeting in the absence Of
the delegate from the United States,
who was to speak, but was called away
by telegram. He did not know the
subject under discussion when he en-
tered the hall, bat was substituted for
the absentee by DR.. Schaff, of New
York, and the president Of the Alliance.
This was the address which attracted
the notice of the wife of the Crown
Prince and procured for him an invita-
ton to the palace, which he accepted.
He went abroad this time by the Ari-
IONA, of the Guion Line, and returned
by the same ship. After the close of
this meeting he went to Germany, visit
ing Berlin and other cities on the
Continent.
On this trip DR.. Hoge and DR.. Nc
CURE will probably spend most of
their time in the British Isles, with the
exception Of the time to be taken for
run through some Of the most interest