Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-11-07

| the parents of Mr.. VIM. King. II was before
the Chesapeake and Ohio canal had been con-
| structed. and the Kings lived on 3lst street
| near Water. then excellent neighborhood.
The worthy man was very fond Of coffee. and
Mrs. King. who presided at the table. was care
full to offer him the first and what she supposed
the best cup in the pot As she handed him.
with hospitable word. the steaming beverage
he noticed several grounds floating on top.
and, thinking the mex. cup would be free from
such things, he quietly passed il to his neigh
Dor WHY, Mr.. Dow" said Mrs. King, as
she noticed the passing. Il intended that cup
for you" Madam" he replied, II never
drink grounds" Then" she quickly re-
drink what you would not drink yourself 10
mat practising what you preachr'
WHAT HE TAUGHT.
He believed and taught that neither heaven
nor hell was the eternal home Of beings
or the place of final destination. He'll or
hades. he said. would cease TO be after this
World Is destroyed, and the lake of fire,
distinct place of torment, would receive the
condemned souls. Wherever he went there
were men who preached against him and en-
deavored to dissuade people from listening to
him. Several times his life WAS threatened,
and once in Cumberland, Nd. a rough
cooked pistol and pointed il at his breast,
saying that he intended TO shoot. But friends
were near the inoffensiye preacher and the
Once, it is related, he entered Baltimore dur
ing a ministerial conference and the representa-
tives from New York particularly resolved 20
block his way. meeting was held to decide
what would be the best way II doing 1t. There
were some southernars present and they argued
that he could do them no harm, while they
would get the frui. of his labor. But the more
far-seeing New Workers sa'd they liked not his
presence there, for perhaps fifty Down would
spring up after he had gone. The meeting
" 10 hav- 4
accomplished and all repaired TO the place
where the Objectionable preacher was talking
to thousands. So impressed were they at what
they saw and heard that all thoughts Of opposi-
ton were quickly banished and those who
came TO scott remained to pray"
Day by day, in sunshine and storm this I'M
selfish man preached what he believed to be
true. Seorning money and earthly things, and
subsistiug on only that which was necessary to
keep body and brain in order he travelled from
Maine to Georgia and eudeavored, in his pecu-
liar way, to Danish scriptural ignorance and
eniighten his fellow-men.
HIS DEATH.
In 1884, while on a visit to Georgetown, this
good man was stricken with his last illness. At
the home OF Mr.. Geo. ". Halter, on the site
now occupied by house 1887 32d street. ut the
age OF hfty-siX, he breathed his last, and his
dying requestwas that the great coat which had
been MS companion on many weary trips be
used as his winding sheet. His wish was ac-
coded to, and with Masonic ceremonies, On the
4th OF February. 1884, the remains were de-
posted with their Kindred earth in Holmead's
burying ground at the head of 10th street.
Above them was laid plair slab on which
was inscribed the following epitaph written by
himself some time before his death:
"A Christian Is the highest style of man. He
Is slave 20 no sect, takes no private road, but
looks through nature 1p TO natures God"
A few years ago, on the abolition of Hol-
mead s, Mr.. Corcoran purchased a lot in Oak
Hill and had the remains reinterred there The
same slab, with the now partly obliterated in
scrlption. markes the location of all that re-
mains of Lorenzo Dow. 1t is said the great
coat which had lain in the ground for fifty
yea rs was found to be in such good condition
that the bones we're lifted out without disturb
ing their bodily form.