Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-20
MILTON MEMORIAL.
Sermon on The Unwilling Of a Window
Presented a London Church
by an American.
Tho Wnup6 IN the Crow, Princess
Throat HesIs, hat HE General
Condition Is Worse.
Private and Official kilograms D'fI THE
First Jeu TO Attain a MiBigteriaI
Position In Germany
England.
A CRISIS IMMINENT.


EUgIord
A CRISIS IMMINENT.
LONDON, Feb. 10. Much uueasiuess
prevails ia poll ical circles. Colonel Pom
sonby, the Q leen's private secretary, has
recently paid several visits to Lord .lis
bury and W Il Smith, government Iesdsl
N the House Of Commons. Such visits
are unusual except when crisis Is immi
nent.
After the Cabinet cou1cil today Mr.
BslfOur, Chief Secretary for Iceland,
walked to the Irish Ofi:e. He was EVIL
IDENTIFY greatly excited. Although the
weather was bitterly cold be wGs hs'lcsE
aud walked With his hand cl4spet TO bis
mead. He YVES followed by two detect
ives.
MADE PEER.
LONDON, FEB l9-Sir Henry Helmard
has been raised to the peerage. He will
retain the cfflce Of colonial secretary st
Indianapolis.
THE MILTON MEMORIAL WINDOW.
LONDON, Feb. 19 Despite the keerlv
cold Hofthwes. wind, coupled with fire.
guent Intermittent snow falls large con
sreg.tiorif cked!toISs. Msrgaret'sichu
Westminster, to-day, the occasion being b
sermon ny ATcadescon Farrsr in connsc-
ton with the uuyeiling yesterday Of the
Milton memorial presented to the chu' CD
oy G. W. ChIlds OF Philadelphia. The
new space was soon full occupied aud
chairs we're plsced in the Sisle to accom-
nodate the Iste arrivals. The congre-
gstiOn included Mr.. Phelps, the American
minister, aud his wife; Baroness Burdette
c utts, 1nd many leading American resi-
dents. The British ari-tCerscy
vas also largely represented
Fae service was the ordinary Lenten
one, except that the hymn before the SER
mon was Milton's:
Let us with gl2dsomn mind
Praise The Lord, for He is king.
Canon Farrar, who preached from
Lamentations, iv, Z, further enphasiz d
the occasion in his opening remarks,
While justly claiming attention to the
fact that ne never neglected TO preach
according TO the cburCh's season, that
year after year, through bot1 the gloom
been and would be his eDdeavor to dwell
With the congregation upGI each sacred
anniversary as it occurred, he plainly
announced On this occasion q departure
from the usual practice, deferring for F
week the usual exnort-IiOns. He devoted
Almost the who'll address sc pointing out
q concrete lesson of Cnrs,isnl'y az ex-
p uuded by the noble life of Milton. A
spontaneous, generous and just express
SION Of approval Of The action of
tue dyBOr Of the memorial window
was succeeded by an eloquent and keenly
Sppreciative resume of Milton as Christ
ian man coupled with 81 unstinted tribute
TO his genius as spost, who derived in
SEPARATION rom divine source. The
archdeacOIs spoke as follows with refer
ence TO the Milton memorial Windows:
sit has been my desire for twelve years
to surround this ancient and famous
church with noble ASSOCIATION, to revive
the memories of these great men with
which 1t has been connected, and to indi-
cate the relation In which it sands to the
history Of England. To conme morste tht
Incidents OF recent dsys the members Of
the House Of Commons, whose church IL
is, have erected window which recsll-
the tragic Death of Lord Frederick Cav
endisn and memorials have BEEN placr d
here to Lord HstherlV, the good L rd
Chancellor, to Lord marlborough, who
spent his life IN the serv ce or Parliament,
and In token OF our gratitude for tittY
years OF almost unbroken prosperity
under the reign OF
OUR BELOVED oUEKN.
The Csxton window was gwen by the
printers If L )pdon In memory Of that
or, q: man who lies buried here; and the
cirizen| Of America in their large handed
generosity and care for crest traditions,
which are their T. ritsg" Lo less than ours,
have presented US with that brilliant W. st
~IndU~, which c3mmemorates nothing
less than the founding Of the new Rorl
BuL this church may also claim it's special
interest in the memory of the great name
OF Milton. That name is reported in cur
register and here lies buried, win Mil
tons infsnt daughter, that be
loved wife, my late IS GU. ed
saint, whose love lung one brief klesu
II happiness over the poets troubled
ster years. Oace more we sre indebted
to the American ci'izeus for the beautiful
Milton window wh ca yesterday WAS un-
yelled. The we'll ccutsel!ed nun Rcer ce
Of Mr. Chlds, VINO has already enriched |
SuhtioId on-AVo1 with N, MORA. Of |
5 lEkespesre, and IVES m ne,eI ABBEY !
WIN window in memory Of Herbert and |
Co"per, has row erected this aoidiu g |
20
THE GREAT PURITAN PORT
Myself debtor tn tue American friend.
or great kiad"ess, Cannot ut rejO,c-
mat the church OF st. Msigarets ssnoule |
'1rnish vt one more illustration Of those |
DoEds Of common blood snG traditions,
md lsngusg md affection which iunii |
Englans 10 the great republic IF the YES.
sud SIN giad tbat the pIolic spirit OF the |
;hu'ch wardens hiss assigned from he5cs-
both the use Of one pew in this CHURCH 10 |
our friends and visitors from the other |
sine OF the Atlantic. There was something |
specially appropriate in the Milton win
low, being the gift CT So American. for
ire United Ststes represent much that |
Milton most deeply loved-a common
wealth which, falling in EoglsId, iBi
America gloriously succeeded; puritan
SIN, which, crushed in England, inspired .
1igor and nobleness into the other kin
1eFOud the sF6 Psrs6i3p I,~at ygaS ,hai