The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-05-15
TARHEELSIN NEW YORK,

1AKH HEELSIN NEW YORK.
THEY HAVE WON FAME AND FOR
TUNE IN GOTHAM.
But They Could Have Succeeded in North
Carolina Just as Hundreds of Others are
Doing.
From tie Wilmington Messeslger]
Rev. Thos Dixon, of New York, has
written pleasant communication for
the R,leigh Chronicle celebrating the
success of four North Carolinians and
one Marylander in New York, where
of we are glad. We are always graf
ified at the success IF the dispersed
abroad, and while we do not believe
that it is necessary to go to big city
to be useful and superior intellectual
ly, or happy and contented, it is per-
haps necessary if you seek mere eclat
or plast from the trumpet of fame.
Mr.. Dixon himself has secured
much distincution-is more widely
known-but we doubt if he is happier
or more usefu! than if he had remain
ed in North Carolia preaching to peo-
pie who are probably as intelligent, as
receptive, as pious, as willing to be
saved, as appreciative, as affectionate,
as any that shall crowd his church in
the great city. Mr.. Pearson has done
more good, we have no doubt, in the
last three years in North Carolina than
any dozen ministers combined have
done in the great city Of New York.
He is honored, praised and loved quite
am have ever been loved, we must be-
lieve.
But we merely wished to note the
success mentioned. Mr.. Dixon be-
gins with our old friend DR.. Deems,
who is not North Carolinian, but a
native of Maryland. He pays him a
handsome tribute and mentions that
he came to Goldsboro to lecture and
only twelve or thirteen attended. This
is to be explained probably upon the
principle that the Goldsborians are
like the Greeks of ST. Paul's time
"they love some new thing" DIR.
Deems had been preaching in Colds
boro for thirty or forty years from
time to time. His fame that he had
achieved in New York had not sharp
ened their appetites. They knew the
Doctor in his prime, and no doubt ad-
mired him. But it must be added
that the people of North Carolina are
not lecture-going people, with OF
without charge at the door. Talmage
come to Wilmington and yet we fsiled
to hear him. We had no curiosity to
CRAFTY. So with other lecturers. But
few attract. A new man can gener-
ally bring a crowd provided he is
widely advertised and is thought to be
really famous. Mr.. Dixon says of
DR.. Deems:
He is a
broad gauged man, built on broad
pattern, thinks big thoughts and lives
them in his life. What pity it is
that there is no career for such man,
or there has not been as yet, at least
in North Carolina"
We cannot see it as MIR. Dixon sees
it. DR.. Deems could have saved in
strumentally more souls, we have no
doubt, if he had been preaching in
North Carolina since 1865, than he
has ever saved in New York. That
should be the real and only aim of a
minister of the gospel. He has more
of what the world calls fame" but
what of it? Has he been happier or
more blessed in his labors, or more
useful, or more loved, or more Christ
like. That is the question. There are
as great preachers today in the South
as there are in the North, and yet they
do not live in the blare and rush OF
city life. High thinking nor high
living is dependent upon city environ
ments or going from home. The best
sermons we have heard in more than
fifty years of hearing we're by men
who lived in the South with one ex-
ception, and with two exceptions were
born in the South, and many of them
died without newspaper notoriety OF
the Endorsement Of the north. Heze
kiah G Leigh, Bishop Pierce and
others were among the greatest preach
ers of this land. Mr.. Dixon probably
never heard Of Mr.. Leigh. We have
heard many famous men in the North
The North Carolinians achieving
success in New York are Mr.. w. H
Page, DR.. y. H. Parker, Mr.. j. w
Osborne aud DR.. w. B. Pritchard
MIR. Page has charge of the Forum
monthly. DIR. Parker is successful
business man. Mr.. Osborne is max
ing success at the law. Our young
friend. DIR. Pritchard. son of the es
teemed pastor of the First Baptis
Church of Wilmington, is enjoying 4
permanent and lucrative practice. W,
like tu hear Of ali this, but they nigh
have done as well if they had remain
ed in the South. DIR. Pritchard coulc
have succeeded in Wilmington, we hav,
| no doubt.
DR.. Dixon pays handsome and
warm tribute to a gifted Charlotte
lawyer. He says:
| "His brother Frank, ofCharlotte
is to my mind one of the sharpest law
yers have ever known, North, South
East or West. I should like to Sc,
him pitled against Col. Ingersoll in |
| jury trial in New York. He is one O
the few men know who could, to mJ
Inind, successfully stem, the torrent o
buncombe, of sarca-m, of invective, o
pathos aud of humor that Ingersol
hurls at Il Jury. Frank Osborne could