The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-02
NEWMAN HALLS WORK.
an ENGLISH cLERGYMAN VINO
EMULATEs ROBERT ELSMERE,

EMULA1ES ROBERT ELSMERE,
How Japanese Author Work Washing
ton the Goal of Young Elopers-Bar-
barrie Splendor of Russia's Old Rulers.
1t is an encouraging fact that, while the
"Robert Elsmere" methods in London
have never come TO anything, the men
who have the ear of the city, Il of Eng
land, are thoroughly evangelical. Spur
geon, Canon Liddon, Newman Hall, DR..
Allen, John Mcneil, DR.. Farrar, Dir. Mac
laren, OF Manchester, and DIR. Dale, of
Birmingham, are the preachers whom
England listens to and reads. DR.. Joseph
Parker also mixes his eecentricities with
much fresh and weighty Gospel truth.
Nj. Spurgeon, at the age OF ffty-flve, IS
growing gray, and he hobbies TO his pub
pit leaning on his cane, IL the weight OF
his spear is like a weaver's beam-he
breaches as powerfully as ever, and his
immense administrative ability still con-
ducts his Pastors College, ~orphanages,
mission schools, ETC., with increasing mo
mentnm. | spent q Saturday afternoon
with him very delightfully."- ut his lovely
home near Sydenham, listening to his
raey talk and to his wonderful prayer at
family worship. When | told him that
my catarrhal deafness was worse than
ever, he uierfily replied, well, brother,
comfor yourself that there are not many
things in these days worth hearing"
In Newman Halls noble Christ Church
! saw over $500 mission school children
gathered on a Sabbath afternoon at their
annual floral festival. His strongest
families are moving out Of the neishbor-
hood, but Brother Hall, with unimpaired
vigor 1T seventy-two, still keeps his colors
flying. DIR. Henry Allen is another
splendid example of British longevity.
He has been settled over the same London
church (the Union Chapel, Islington), for
more than forty years. The tide of emil
grafton is setting away from him, but he
Keeps his large and beautiful church full.
On the Sabbath morning that [ preached
there | heard the finest congregational
singing in the kingdom. His well
drilled church maintained three auxiliary
chapels, two ragged schools, several Sur
daY-schools, Dorcas, benevolent n mis-
sionary societies, Bands OF Hope, a penny
savings bank and a "Social Guild" for
mental culture. What Yankee church
can beat that9
These two veterans are leaders i'll Con
| gregationalism, but Presbyterianism has
received a powerful accession i'll the Rev.
John MCNEIL who has recently been in
| stalled over the Regent Square Church,
| formerly DR.. Hamilton's and DIR. Dykes.
Mr.. McNeill was once a railway porter
and preached for a time in Edinburgh.
lie Is u DTOWn-lHlFDu ScOGCQfndu OF GulTbA-
five, with keen wit, tender pathOS
immense percussion in his delivery. In
the best qualities of popular preaching he
resembles Spurgeon more nearly than
any man in England. Young Prof.
Elmslie, of the Presbyterian Theological
College, is one of the rising stars OF the
| London pulpit. The Rev. Mark Guy
Pearse and the Rev. Price Hughes are
doing capital work as Methodist mis-
sionaries in the West n of London |
found that some of the most eminent
preachers over there have rather an
easier time than most of us city pastors
in America.-Ihe C0ngfegdtj0n0tiSt.
Painting a Book.
Having resolved to paint" a book, for,
as all the world knows, the japanese use
a brush and not a pen, the author betakes
him to his workroom. 1t is a little room.
a very little room six mats" is its
Japanese measurement, and a mat is
about six feet by four. IL is full of the
soft, dulllight which pulses from q square
white paper lantern; the low, bright
wooden ceiling gives back a pale brown
CLEAN here and there. There is a silvery
CLINT in the frail panelled walls, n in a
warm gray Swallowed recess u gold
Buddha crosses his feet and stretches
forth his palms, smiling gently upon the
lotus which he holds. In another recess
SIdUu GHG CUIiONN NCooGi6 VA " VII Oldl
| and bamboo for the tea ceremony.
The author sits on the floor in a flowing
| m of brown silk lined with blue,
his legs disposed comfortably under him.
In front of him stands a lacquered table,
a foot high, and upon it lie his writing ma
| terials, which are as idyllic as his sur
roundings-his paper is delieately tinted
yellow, with blue lines running up and
down. His inkstand is a carved ebony,
| slab, with one end followed out for water
to rub his cube Of India ink in, and holds
the four or five daintily-decorated bam-
boo brushes which are his pens. Na6ur-
ally he does not write his novel, he eslints
it. Beginning at the end of the whole, at
the left of every page and at the top of
| every line, straight down between the
two blue parallels his small brown hand
goes, with quick, delicate, dark touches.
Although this novelist's copy" might
seem to a stranger to be daintiness itself,
yet he always has it duplicated by IN
s'artist" before sending it to the publish
ers, the success of the book depending SO
largely upon its artistic forthbringing.
| The s'artist'' to whom the copy is now
Entrusted proceeds to repaint the long
series of word pictures with professional
dexterity which is something astonish-
ing.
The National Gretna Green.
There have been so many runaway
marriages in Washington during the
past year that the city is becoming a
Variable Gretna Green. Children fail
ing to secure a marriage license or a
minister to perform he matrimonial