St. Paul daily globe., 1892-05-29

in the Fatherland was constant and
rapid.
York.
The winter of 1S73-74 DR.. Parkhurst
spent in Massachusetts, devoting his
time 10 the study of SanScrit, and early
IN 1874 published work on 1.-The L1tip
Verb Illustrated by the Sanscrlt."
About the same time, as before stated,
he received call to the paStorate of
the First Congregational church OF
Lenox, Mass. He accepted the call and
was ordained in the same year. As a
pastor he repeated the success which he
had achieved as teacher, and rapidly
gained repute as pulpit orator OF sim
gular force and eloquencc. Many New
York people spend their summers in
l.enOX, and large number became
deeply interested in Dr.. ParkhurSt and
his work. AS result, when DR.. W. j.
Tucker resigned the paStorate of the
Madison Square Presbyterian church,
DR.. ParkhurSt was called to succeed
him. He was installed en- March 9,
1850. and in the same year Amherst
gave him the degree of ID. ID. The Mad
iSon Square church has membership
of nearly 1000 persons, and is active
and prominent in all good works. 1t
has rescue mission on Third avenue,
known as the Madison Square church
house; its contributions to home and
foreign missions are generous and con-
stant; its fresh air fund yearly performs
noble work. and its several societies
are most efficient and valuable lnStru-
mentS for the accomplishment of good.
Mrs. ParkhurSt has been from the hrSt
valuable help-meet to her husband.
She is president of the ladies' asSocla-
ton OF the church, and she is also presl-
dent of the American McAll mission.
Gentle and unOSIentatious. her kindness
of heart equals her gentility, and her
good deeds and charitable acts are made
beautiful by the modesty with which
they are done. In thousand humble
households her name is pronounced as
a benedictiOn.
DR.. ParkhurSt early took high rank
among the pulpit orators of this city,
and recent events have made him one
OF the best known preachers OF his
time. The crusade, however, which he
is now Waging against social vice and
official turpitnde, is not to be regarded
as an accidental feature Of his career,
which has sprung from unforeseen con-
tingencieS. 1t is consistent with his
course in the past, and i'll entire harmony
with his career dS a minister. For
many years back, as preacher and man,
he has taken a lively interest in city and
national politics. a sermon on munich
pal politics which he preached about
year and half ago, attracted the at
s 11f elNxr
president of the Society for the Proven
tiOn of Crime, and lie was invited by
the latter to become a director OF the
society. This invitation was accepted.
and DR.. Parkhurst at once entered act
lively into its work and plans. Upon
the death of DR.. Crosby few months
later he was by general consent chosen
president OF the society.
DIR. Parkhurst's Crusade Against
Crime.
For a moment he heSitated to accept
the increased responsibilities which the
position carried with it, but in the end
responded to the demands of duty.
Having put his hand to the plough he is
not the kind of man to turn back dis
mayed, and he promptly began to make
himself master of his new field of work.
LIZ NOAilE9 liilS liC LOull0 lI4tlI lllO OOJONbo
of the society were in many cases
brought to naught by the very men
elected to enforce the principles for
which it stands. and that those charged
with the laws enforcement were too
often laWbreakerS themselves. Armed
with this knowledge, he turned from
the petty lawbreakers to the latter's
protectors and masters. In February
last. he delivered sermon On munich
pal corruption, bitter, terrific arraign-
ment, which struck fearlesSly at men
high in power and spared not, the
echoes of which are still ringing in the
ears of the citizens and officials of this
imperial city.
The February grand jury, before
which he appeared, declared DR.. Park
hursts charges against the police and
other officials without sufficient fOunda-
ton, but his opponents, if they believed
that a single rebuff would drive him
from the field. showed their Grass ig-
norance of the man with whom they
had to contend. The gauntlet had been
thrown down to him and he promptly
took il up. For weeks, personally and
with the aid of detectives, he patiently
and carefully gathered material for an
other sermon in which he could say, 81
know, for L have seem" In the
prosecution of this work he visited
rum shops, underground dives, policy
shops, gambling hells and houses of
ill-fame, and the details of what he
sawin those places have for weeks filled
the columns of the daily press. His
course, so extraordinary for wearer of
the cloth, has been upheld and assailed
with equal vehemence, but that good
has been accomplished by it no longer
admits of doubt. The March grand
jury, before which he laid the evidence
he had collected, did not ignore his
charges, but confirmed and indorsed
them. Since then there have been sew
eral convictions of notorious offenders,
and as DR.. Parkhurst may be depended
upon to continue actively in his efforts
to arouse public opinion, the end is not
yet.
A Chat With DIR. Parkhurst In His
Study.
What with his large parish work, his
duties as president of the Society for the
Prevention of Crime, and the frequent
calls which he receives from Outcjde