New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-03-14
WHAT PASTOR SEESANU HEAho
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO CHURCH PEOPLE.

ITEMS OF INTEREST TO CHURCH PEOPLE.
Attention was called last week to the rcnndrkaoe
record Of Dr. c. S. Robinson, who, after preaching a
rrar+ar of a century compiling several popular hynh-
hoot and writing constantly for the religious press,
sill had found time prepare nifty serHohs 'h"' h"i
not been preached. 1.-THE Examiner says VIC
donbt whether such sermonlc frultiulhcss "'S ''0'
becn paralleedo Lest some aspiring young man
sbond set out 10 surpass the pastorelect OF the MIC
teenth street Church. the whole uuth "o"'" 49,
la t,Id nov Dr. Robinson has been pastor LOT
thirty. five wears and he left the Madison ANeh"c
Church three years ago. not because OF nervous pon
tration but to engage in literary WORK. anu i"N
sermons written which had never oeeh ueH'''. -
week the Pastor quoting from memory o", ,'
time he speaks with the figures Deioie H'"' &c.,
our cIorrvmen could show equal "scrInohlC lIn'i"''
mo- rho old fable about the minister's bairei oeniS
,,rned over every wear would soon fade away
John d. Rockefeller has just gwen ano'nc' siV0Ooo
to the American Baptist Education society No' ions
c, n. gave 100000 10 the same admirable WORK.
within two wears this society has secure" ior Gu
ucational objects $3,4s3,ooo
:, r. sa,d that there are between thirty and forty
candidates for the Knox Presbyterian pulpit ~r
vacant bv the resignation of DR.. Wyhe Inc .o'''
itio on nu,nit simply are not to be cnvied IL thcy
,,.o o. choose between so many, nor VIII inc SUI
ces sfuI candidate be envied If the oohsreso
him after hearing the other twenty nhe ihihiS'c'S
csor,e n Nackay and the Rev. John kershaw haVo
loo, 6uinc the seventh Street Methodist 'hurch Io
,,vo weebs with their illustrated BlDie reau'nse. %
,trs are said by those verScd in these matters 10
r -, ,bo host ever exhibited in Gospel meetings.
A monument clergyman, VINO mas 'is"VN "' ~
,oae, ~ NOTE in Europe said the other Gay 'naU VI
nc,,,re Of the saviour was the only one that
" rS .r.r sccn that pleased him. The meetlhg'
drng the last fortnight have been largely a''onaou
come nights il has Been necessary 10 Close 'o ~
hefore tie services began. ABOUT wv p-or y
,,gned a card indicating in THIS why .'e'' 80 T,,
hegn n Christian life. On Apnl inc e'"e 80,
will begin two-weekS' SericS VI ~
Chapel in East Fourhst.
>,ox+ Monday the Rev william Humpstonc WIN us us
cuss some Hard Passages IN inc serum va W.
before the Baptist Ministers Conference
DIR Henry NJ Fields many friends VIII DC re!o'u 49,
lnow that he has Just been released iron '"e 90 -
- No mention of his Incarceration has appeared III
the secular press as far as the raNV" ~ .a. u,,,or
,orest,ng story of his varied experiences III .I'
ho on the Hudson fills half page OF INC Eva,
o,ists This week Here is what he says OF inc udih
coll. " Would you like TO try lti sa'u "o A.,
u did not look very bad. 1t Is twice a. l" ~ " Wv
ordinary cell. but poorly furnished AZ IL Ia" 49,
cot nor even chair, but only the hdiu SUM ~,
stem in said the warden in his blandest manner, "o
81 ,o .u,,nr 70 the inner door, which was
ohe
ro,cIv Of crossed bars that let in abuhohhoc VI "s
won can't frghtcn Us with that linen 'a'"0 Wv
outor door which shut out every ray oil hsnV rum W.
,r,,ripg ewes: and instantly there fell upon hs
ho,ror 81 darkness as If had been buried awe ''
,charlton IT, Lewis tells me that no once ''ooo io
half an honr telling the warden 10 shn' tno uo'' az
loc, Il. and to 20 away and leave nm. ne hep' w
h,s courare by repeating poetry. But nc mas S"os'
,orvce than l. could not have stod IL lor h'o INN
utes 7 should have tainted if ! had NOT boI d"'"
disentombed such discipline shoua ''IlA' "o"''
subdue the spirit of a riincroceFo''
Writing Of the voluntary imprisonment oi an "0'
o,od friend recalls a recent experience IN 'nHi'a
co,rt in mi. city, \ young boy hardly entering Hs
ens had been arrested for larceny. Ills A'soc'cs'
older than himself were sent 10 the pcHi'cht'al n'
ace prevented a similar sentence. MAethel 'Ic 49,. 49,.
70 Innocent or guilty, / know not, bu' HeIV 80
r.cnrd ~ hts conviction. lie wa, alct t'u d1u 20
." ~ noiice station held for the Court d '"heIA =
sion. indicted and onNiced, ana nOt one "a naS "a
So va. informed though he had given is htIIe any
dd-es. corrccty. After his conviction tc jug.
an or,csr 10 tell the father 10 be present te heA,
as his son was 20 be sentenced. IN ptss'nk tt
-. S ,ornc man Of a wealthy family, the Juusc 'Au
I've canit have one law for the rch ana ah1'Ic! ~
enc noor That f. "A beautiful sentiment an ~ ~
tbought vouh come: suppose the fathcr % lie i III
I,, am interested had caused the arrest oi tho S"h
", the t,fth ave resident who wa pr".ccuuHs utH
Iav yo,ld thc rich lad b. convicted hVe daVs atcr H
a,rIe..t without friend 20 appear In Ms behan