Blue-grass blade., 1891-01-03
BRO. BARN ES


NOCCs5uthCS VI 1Ih0-O0u
We Build Him q .sPink
Cottage" in Lexington?
Rev. George o. Barnes, who il
known to thousands of people al
over the country, is now said t.
be suffering for the necessities oil
life at Inverness, Scotland, and
of course this means that hi,
family are sharing the priva tior
with him.
Istill want that "Pink Cottage
built for him in Lexington, and
wish all the newspapers in the
State would publish my plan, and
let us see if it can not be done.
Bro. Barnes is a lovely charac-
ter, and the older I get and the
more l know Of the man, the
more l am drawn to him. This
is of course a great concession
for me to make, who have written
so much against him, though it
is true that I have written more
for him than any man in the
State, unless it be Col. Cradtock
or Editor Walton of the Interior
journal.
He is certainly peculiar and far
out of the usual run of men, but
probably I ought not to object to
him on that account.
I have perhaps a more than or
binary sympathy for him, because
l think his life has been nodded
largely after that of Barton w.
Stone.
Bro. Barnes is now getting
along in years, and in the natural
order must soon be gathered to
his fathers, and his family, that
have joined their fortunes with
his in a remarkable way, and 90
as to forfeit all domestic felicity,
will soon be left without means
of support. 1t seems to me that
if Kentucky ever owed a support,
in old age, to one OF her sons,
George 0. Barnes is the man.
l do not want to help to pay
for any more brass monuments
to men who distinguished them.
selves in war.
l want to see men honored who
are great in peace, and who have
said things that softened our
hearts and implanted in them the
desire to do better.
Mr.. Barnes is a man of q high
order of scholarship in lines con-
genital with his special depart
ment, and in large cities he has
held audiences that crowded
opera houses or large churches,
for weeks at q time. as Beecher
and Talmage have never done,
and probably could not have
done. For magnetism in oratory
he has stood peerless in the pull
pits of Kentucky, in modern days
at least. In personal purity aud
in the humility of his religion he
stands in striking contrast with
some of the clergy that are most
conspicuous in American cotem.
pory history.
1t is great reflection upon the
intelligence aud refinement OF the
State of Kentucky that such a
man as Sam Jones, for instance,
should have been able to raid
upon this people from time to
time, and carry off thousands of
dollars with him each time, leav-
ing the State no better religious.
ly, and more than ever vltiated in
it's tastes by the uncouth methods
of the man, while George O.
Barnes, from all whose thousands
of sermons no man will recall to
have heard anything impure or
unkind, has probably not to-day
enough money to buy him com
Portable clothing.
Can it be possible that among
all the thousands Of people whose
hearts have melted and poured out
at their eyes, under the influence
OF this wonderful man, there are
not enough to buy q sweet little
home for him and his family here
in Lexington, and to send for him
away off to those foreign shores,
and bring him here, by force ii
necessary, and put him in it?
In his religion he has known
no partisanism, and the sympa-
thisers with this idea should be
from any church or no church,
miscellaneously.
| would love to hear from all