Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-11-04
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SERMONS TILL YOU CAN'T REST.
unique FAD 81 New York man who
Has collected 10000 Sermons.
Mr.. william II Treadway, Of She firm
Of r. G. Dun & Co. has q most unique
collection Of sermons It would IN all
probability he safe 70 say that there is not
another like it on the continent. He be-
gan collecting Hermons ~ 1896, and has
now 1900 by actual count. They are by
ministers Of oh religious denominations
He Is every day aiding to his sermonic
Treasures lie has bound the sermons
himself SO akillfully as TO win the approval
of trained bookbinder. IBIS index Is
comprehensive, accurate and exquiitely
neat, and when one thinks that this fine
pen work, binding aud asserting was done
cit night after a day Of close confinement
at All Office desk, II Is easy to realize that
there must be fascinating pleasure in
the work that can only De thoroughly APP
preciated by those who ride hobby horses
themselves. The index has frontispiece
in Illuminated text telling the nature and
purport Of the work. On the next pages
Is the preface, written in cbirography SO
fine TINT il ID hard to distinguish II from
coppcrplase
In the preface MIR. Treadway says:
II wish Go say few words as a proper
introduction to this general index to my
collection Of sermons. It Is often asked
why have such a strange fancy, and am
told these sermons are or no use and will
never benefit the world am aware that
it Is peculiar fancy which has prompted
me to work, but there are many other
things quite as useless and even more so,
that men have put forth greater exertion
to accumulate. Take, for instance, auto
graphs; Of what value are they to the worldp
and yet fortunes have been spent in gath
ering them
when first commenced gathering ser.
mons it was not with the intention--indeed,
it was furthest from my thought-to con.
tinue it to any extent In the fall and win.
ter of 1856, having been for some time very
much exercised on the subject of religion
aud being in considerable doubt and per
plexity as to which Of all the many con
fiicting seets Of relinionists held the true
faith, purchased few books containing
for the most part sermons OF doetrinal
character Tread them carefully and think
/ was benefited, as my own faith became
more clearly defined and was strengthened,
yet wished to know more concerning the
different phases of the Christian faith as ii
came TO the world through the ereeds Of
the various scots which surround me, and
preferring sermon having text of Scrip
ture as its motto to any other religious
reading / continued to purchase and TO
read (for then accumulated no faster than
/ could read, until finding myself getting
weary of controversial sermons began u
read those Of a more practical character
During the war | devoted myself more
H., -, arIIa ri
mons which were called forth by the state
of affairs IN our country, The general col
lection is not confined to any particular
class Of sermons or sect of preachers, but
embraces everything that could be called
sermon with text of Scripture at its
head.
"Therc are sermons in the collection that
win suit almost every shade of theological
belief Here the Roman Catholic may
come and find food for his soul in produc-
tions OF his own cardinals, bishops and
priests; here high or low churchmen may
find that be has not been neglected; here
the rigid Calvinist may find his peculiar
doctrines set forth, and all the five points
sharpened or blunted to suit his taste
here Che Armenian, stands out in striking
contrast to the Calyinstic theology; here
the liberal Christian may find just tht
food he is hungering after, trom the mos
conservative to the most radical school Of
scots and the collection has gone so fal
outside Of Christianity as to embrace tn,
jew"
Mr. Treadway was an Episcopalian II
his early youth, but is and has been for {
number of years stanch Unitarian, al
though he literally receives the doctrina
opinions of all other seots.
He has numberless woodcuts of churches
and ministers, all neatly bound. The new
picturesque Unitarian church. of San
Francisco, contrasts with the old church
at rarrytown In whose grave yard is tn
tomb of Irving The old church ut larry
town. built in 1899 by Katrina Van Cort
landt, has a pleasing old legend that suit
the quaint church and its old time environ
ments
Mr. Treadway has many ancient churche
of the Old World in his collection and h
hastwo sermons over 200 years old, He ha
450 sermons, discourses and newspaper NJ
ticles on Garfield, great nupber on Lin
coin, the war, and on Bee~er and o.
Washington and the Centennial. He ha
forty pages on the Centennial from on
newspaper Most Of his sermonic treas
ures are In pamphlet form, but many ar
in the manuscript Of the authors.-NeN
York Herald