The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1892-12-28
DR.. CHARLES DEEMS
Stricken with Sympathetic Paraly sis
Caused by OverVOrk.

caused by OverWOrk.
n Y. Cor Bait. sun, Dec 26
The Rev DR. Charles F Deems. pas
tor of the Church of the Strangers, 10
Mercer street, is to he taken to the Dams
vile Sinatarium. New York, either t.
morrow or next day, for treatment. The
venerable divine IS victim to nervous
prostration, brought on by excessive la
nor. He also suffers from partial pa
ralysis of the righ' hand. DIR. Deems is
just few weeks over 73 years old
notwithstanding his advanced age he
rarely failed to preach his usual Sunday
sermon until Yesterday. On Wednesday
night. the 14th inst, the Doctor opened
the fair at Hope Chapel in East Fourth
street. During the same W. elk he deliv
cred spec ch on prohibition, attended
two or three fairs and made addresses,
and by Friday was thoroughly worn out
Ms. Deems begged him to take rest,
out he insisted upon preparing his ser.
mon for the next Sunday. He had
hardly taken up his pen when he discov
cred that his fingers refused to perform
their functions. DR. lie Fevre, the
family physician, was summoned. He
pronounced it a case of sympathic paraly
is, induced by bodily exhaustion, and
urged DR.. Deems to give up his pastoral
work for time at least. Still the doctor
begged to be permitted to deliver another
sermon to his congregation, and the fol
lowing Sunday evening he addressed it
for the last time in perhaps mai months.
He was so weak that, as he spoke. he
was compelled to sit In chair. Those
who heard the sermon declare it to have
been one of the most eloquent and power
ful ever delivered by him
During the Doctors absence his pulpit
will be filed by clergymen selected by
The church committee. DR.. Deems was
the originator of the American Institute
of Christian Philosophy and has edited
the Watchman and Christian Thought.
He was once president of the Greensboro
Female College, N G. The Doctor came
to this city in 1855 and for a while
preached in the chapel of the University
building SO large did the congregation
finally become that Commodore Wander
nilt opened his heart and purse and pre-
sented Dr. Deems with the beautiful
church ediice in Mercer street The
present congregation is one of the larges
in the city.
| HIS CAREER.
Rev. DR. Deems was born in B,ltimor,
December 4, 1920 He was graduated n
Dickinson College, Carlisle Pa. in 1889
and entered the Methodist ministry ii
New Jersey. Soon afterward he becam
general agent for the American BILE So
ciety IN North Carolina. In 1S4l he &C
cept. the professorehip Of logic ar
rh, toric in the U diversity of North Caro-
lima at Chapel Hill, holding this nfiic
for five yeors, after which he was for on
year professor of natural sciences in Ran
dolph- Macon College at Ashland, Va
Returning to North Carolina he was sts
toned as Methodist preacher at New
be,n, and iu 1850 WAS delegate to th
General Conference of the Metho lis
Episcopal Church South, which met i
St Louis While there he was elected I
the presidency of Greensboro IN G } F.
male College a d also to the presidepc
of Centenary College at Jackson, La II
chose the former and served till 1856
,, from which time he was engage
in the regular pastorate till 1885,
Afterward he was the presiding elder {
the Wilmington and New Bern distric
9 of the North Carolina conference.
the close of 1865 be went TO New Yuri
vas occupied for me in literary pu
suits and subsequently, established II
Church If ,he Strangers He ~as at OF
time president of RdtgtIs Female CO
lege, New York city. He has been Il
= president of the American Insti ute
Christi Philosophy since 1881, and W
. at one time editor Of Christian Though
,, monthly magazine. He also edit'
i Frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine and fl
voium of the Southern Methodist Pu
pit, and compiled three volumes of "A
nails of Southern Metho iism He T
ceived the degree of d d, from Ra
dolph Macon College ana that o LII
k from the University of North Carolir
# Rev DR. Dcems is the author of vari
is works He has written with consiit
Ii able force in opposition to the doctri
le of evolution.