Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-14

SEEING THE WORLD,
Rev. DIR. Herrick Pilots a Large Audi
ence to Many Interesting Places.

ence to Many Interesting Places.
The last of Rev. A. C. Herrlck's series of
very interesting illustrated lectures was de-
livered last evening at Calvary Baptist
Church. Despite the muddy condition of
the streets, there was large attendance of
persons, who regretted that the end of the
instructive series had been reached.
The first picture thrown upon the canvas
from the stereopticon was an excellent
portrait of David Livingstone, the cele-
brated explorer. Livingstone was born in
1913, near Glasgow, Scotland. His father
being very poor David went to work when
he was ten years old. He attended night
school, however, and was q very studious
lad. He succeeded finally in getting into
the Glasgow University. and graduated
with honors. Some time later he presented
himself to a well.known Scottish mission
airy society, and requested that he be sent
to Africa The society sent him to the
place where Robert Moffatt, one of the
society's missionaries, was located. Living
stole married Mofatts daughter, and some
years late- went on q great exploring expe-
dition through Africa. covering some II, 900
miles of the Dark Continent which
had heretofore been untrodden by white
men. For this great feat he received the
Wet )ria gCli medal in 1854. About ten
years later he started on another exploring
expedition through Africa. For three
years he was not heard from, and it was
believed that he was lost. In the mean
time James Gordon Bennett proprietor of
the New York Herald, was in Paris. In
1869 he telegraphed to Spain, TO Henry NJ.
| Stanley, one of the Herald correspondents,
requesting that gentleman to come to Paris
! Immediately. Stanley obeyed, and re-
| ceived instructions from Bennett to go to
Africa and find Livingstone. Stanley was
successful, discovering Livingstone when
/ the latter most needed assistance and pro-
visions. Stanley was then thirty-four
years of age and Livingstone fifty-eight.
| After exploring together for several months
| they separated Six months later Living
! stone died. His remains were brought back
| to England and buried at Westminster Alb
hey.
A portrait of Stanley was then thrown
upon the screen and was greeted with ap-
| plause. Stanley, said the lecturer, was
/ born in Wales in 1910 Of lowly parents. At
/ a very early age he was placed in poor
house, and there remained until he WAS
| thirteen years old. At the age of
fifteen be sailed for the United
States, his destination being New Orleans.
! His name was not Stanley, but John Row.
land At New Orleans he was adopted by
a wealthy citizen who changed his name
i to Henry NJ. Stanley. He first gained dis
tinction as the Herald correspondent in
Abyssinia Everybody is familiar with his
recent achievements.
One of SANKEY'S most ardent admirers is
Leopold H., King of Belgium, very
wealthy and philanthropic man. A mag
nficent picture of him was shown.
The next picture was that of Thomas
Edison, the Electrical Wizard" The
| handsome, intelligent countenance was
greeted with rounds of applause. Edison
was born in Ohio in 1647. The only
schooling he ever received was that gwen
! him by his mother at home. At u years
of age he was a newsboy on the Grand
| Trunk Railroad. He was genius even at
! that early age, and always experimenting
with chemicals. He saved the life of the
( son of telegraph operator in railroad
accident, and by way of reward the oper-
! ator made telegrapher of him. He went to
/ Boston and there astonished all operators
! By his ability to receive the dispatches sent
| from New York by man who was the fastest
| living telegrapher-a feat never equeled
! before. Later on he was transferred to
/ suburban office, where there was little to
! do. He had to report "all right every
/ half hour over the wires. in order TO show
! that he was on duty. 1t was tiresome, but
/ his inventive abilities came forward TO his
assistance. He rugged up device, which
/ he attached to the Office clock, that won d
rattle off the bothersome "all right auto
matically Edison would then go off fish
| ing for the day. But one day the clock got
| out of order and the trick being exposed
| Edison was unceremoniously bounced
| That little episode, however, did not serve
! to interfere with his progress as the greatest
! inventor, as his 500 inventions testify.
At this point DIR. Herrick took the specta-
! tors across the Atlantic, and down into
/ Egypt among the ancient ruins, some of
! which are what are left of temples which
I were built 1900 years before Christ. The
| idea was, he explained, TO go about from
| place to place. in the regular chronological
| order, up to the present day and note the
progress of man as a builder-or rather,
/ religious builder, as most of the buildings
| to be visited were temples and churches.
No matter where you go, or in what
| period you stop, you will see evidences that
| the human mind worshiped an Almighty
Being" said the lecturer. They all wor-
! SHIPPED and do worship in some way.
| Now, who of you dare say that the AL
mighty does not accept the prayers of the
! 0rientals, heathens and all, as well as
! yours?"
The great pyramids were first seen, and
then the Sphinx, the oldest idol in the
world, having been build more than 1000
years before Christ. From here the ruins
of the great temples and monuments
erected throughout Egypt by that great
monarch Rameses II; the temple of
Edfou, which is the best preserved of the
remaining Egyptian temples; thence to In
dia, where the magnificent mosques de-
noted the gradual progress in architecture;
! the great temple on Mount Moriah, show
! ing the stone upon which Abraham sacri-