Daily Republican., 1889-10-21

Elisha Cole, who electrified tho great
congregation Of Asbury, nj the femAfka.
Bile centennial love feast yesterday, bJ
singing, "MarchIng to Zlon," says Rev.
James Atmore Richardson, watches every
particle OF material and labor that goes
Into the Wilmington Church. Rev.
Richardson, saturday. fave promise Of
becoming the equal OF Fred. A. Doug
lass, should some person who wants ia
do the most effective thing educate HIN
four years IN an American collsgeAnd
then feur years In sGermany university
% towering talent and education Ia one
man would lift the whole race up, and
whatever the talent Is the education must
DO extraordinary.
Rev. James Atmore Richardson was
born In Thornbury, Delaware County,
Pa, about 10 miles from Wilmington,
July l1tb, 1850. First went TO school at
years OF age until 10 years old; then
three months each winter he was ut Lin
soln University; nett winter attended
high school at Concord; then taught q
school at the age Of 10, and at the age OF
20, on the eth of November, 1850. he was
mount, Somerset County, Nd, where he
TO exhort In November, 1885, and TO
preach Feb. 2s, 1857, by Rev. WIN. II.
Co0ey, Presiding Elder OF salisbury
District; sent to Cape May Circuit May
7, 1857, and continued there until sent to
Wilmington in 1883.
Tho following Is a verbatim extract
from bic centennial easay that was both
warmly and joyfully received by the
great congregation:
Wilmington Is spiritually alive, and
financially is not dead. / have learned
In my experience here that the sweet
that man chooses turns bitter. but the
bitter that God chooses turns sweet A
more heroic band than the members and
congregation OF WEittiugton cannot BE-
found. God helping us, we are coming
up higher, and though poor we ask for u
recognition OF kiushlp among her
wealthy relatives Of aunts and cousins,
and rs relatives In distress we shall Ger :
tainly call on our relatives for help who
are In better condition.
The secret oil our success lies In the one
word-unlon. Pastor aud people have
worked In perfect harmony, and in look.
ing. over TIE past we may erclaim to-
gether: Hitherto the Lord bath helped
un. iuc dhl now uhWnb upon WD1t-
tington, the iruo character OF Christi.
anity is being better understood and the
evils OF the past are fading. Order and
peace now predominate. Our wants are
the prayers from every Methodist pulpit
and family altar for the success OF our
work, and as children of the same family.
born OF the same father, filled with the
same Methodist bload. We shall look for
sympathy and help from every Methodist
hand. l beseech you who boas: In your
wealth aud greatness to heed the cry
which comes to you from this once de-
graded place, and now u struggling peo-
pie for God
Come over TO Macedonia and help
u.s." il may cost you sacrifice. But !
hazard nothing when say that God has
placed the work OF redeeming from igno-
rance, vice and superstition the race
whom centuries of oppression have placed
Al so terrible disadvantage, not Ia the
hands OF political adventures, but very
largely upon the hands and hearts OF the
Christian people of the great Methodist
Church. We need Just now prayers whose
amens shall DO cash.