Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-05-02

breaches mostly in the church of St. Mar
garet's, almost auder the shadow of the
great Abbey. His congreg alton is an
arls.ocratlc one, and yet no preacher
lashes the sins and vices of the aristoc
racy with sc uns pairing hand as he. DR..
Fdrrar's chief power lies in his earnest
ness and severity as a crusader against
popular sins, and as a temperance orator
he has hardly a superior in either hemls-
phere. Americans have also had re sent
opportunity of hearing another famous
London preacher,
DR JOSEPH PARKER.
He did not perhaps find his way to the
American heart and mind SIS Canon Far
rar did, as people over here scarcely
knew how much to allow to his eccentric
titles. But in truth, Joseph Parker Is new
er to be met with at his best out of Lon
don. Il is when he is seen in his own
pulpit at the City Temple, with his finger
as it were upon the pulse of the great
metropolis, and as if with the mighty
hum of its myriad sided life ever IN his
ears-it is then stated that DR.. Parker is
in his element. Much abuse and ridicule
has been heaped upon his head, but with
all his shortcomings, his oddities and his
somewhat offensive self assertion, there
can be no denial of the fact that Joseph
Parker is q mighty religious force in
London, placed as he is rig at at the center
of its great heart. Another metropolitan
preacher who is rapidly taking his place
IN the very forefront of the English pull
pit is
REV. HUGH PRICE HUGHES,
the young Methodist minister who re
Gently started the great West End Mis-
sion. Mr.. Hughes is in many respects q
| remarkable fig ure among the many re-
markable public men of whom London
can boast. He is d minister of very ad
vanced views, not so much doctrinally as
with regard to his ideas of ministerial
work and influence. He is undoubtedly
the best London representative of that
pet aversion of the old-fasnioned Tory
the political dissenter. Mr.. Hughes
| breaches of politics, lectures politics and
writes politics. He is the editor OF one
of the most influential and widely circu-
latlng religious journals, which he makes
the vehicle of vigorous agitation in fav-
or of social and political and social re-
forms. He has the reputation of being
| the best platform speaker among London
ministers. Mr.. Hughes is but a young
man-not yet 40-snd there is no doubt
tnat events seem TO mark him unmis aka.
bly, out as the coming leader of dissent in
England. This position is now by com
mon consent admitted to be filled by D.
r. W. Dale, of Birming ham-perhaps the
| most powerful personality in the English
mldlands. There is no ADLER preacher,
no more cultivated scholar and no weight
Ter authority in the ranks of English non
~
great politician, and even Chamberlain
himself has no greater influence in Biz,
ming cham than he.
Space forbids any ailusion to
OTHER GREAT PREACHERS,
such ID Westcott, Moorhouse, CARPENTER,
Magee, Clifford, D kes and Cardinal Man
nIDg-ali of them powerful spiritual
forces in England. But this short sketch
can not be aclosed without a word
of tribute to the name of one of whose
days of activity is now, indeed, past, but
whose voice seems still TO linger in GER
tain sacred spots where he once preached
the gospel with rare power, before he left
the church of his father for communion
Ill which the preacher is lost in the priest.
Most of his former hearers we're unable
to follow him to Rome, but though de-
ploring his error, they could not admire
his courage and still esteem his ability.
No Englishman and no lover of the An
glo Saxon tongue, whatever be his creed,
and who has read the familiar volumes
entitled, "Plain and Parochial Sermons"
with an eye and ear TO their incom para
BILE beauty Of style, their fresh originality
of thought and their intense spiritual
force, can not but feel an eternal debt
Of gratitude to the name of John Henry
Newman. w. l.. [.