St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-12-04
His Great Send-Off for the Bright
Future of the Twin
Cities.
All We Want Is the Confidence
Felt by Those Now
Wealthy.

| lie IGCGpLlOH given DIT tilC IL 81 IiCtH-
odist church last Monday evening to
| Charles w. Fowler. ID. d., bishop of
California, was we'll attended. Many of
the leading people of the city were in
the audience. The bishop was intro
duced by the presiding elder, Rev. Will
lam ID. Mckinley, who in his remarks
referred to previous visit here of the
California divine twenty-eight years
ago. The bishop replied with an in
formal address, and his remarks on st.
Paul. furnished through the kindness
of George N. Hillmann, court stem
ographer, have attracted such general
comment that they are here repro
duced:
We are swinging on into another cent
ury. We ride eighty miles an hour; we
talk, and send our voices thousand
miles IN quarter of a second; We think
all the world round. We are living in
a new age; we pile our business houses
twenty stories toward the stars; we are
combining; we have milIionaires almost
by the million. We have come upon a
time when the church of the living God
must put Oh her strength and plan and
work as one of the great forces in this
century and in this time. Applause.
| am sure of this, that it shall be unto
US according to our faith, il we open
our hearts to God, he will lead us into
greater victories.
| wanted to say some things, but
absolutely every single thing | thought
OF to say before got UP these brethren
have knocked out OF my head. l have
blessed memories few that were not
worth preserving of this beautiful city
of st. Paul. Ii L was just exactly. abso-
lutely sure, that you would not, one of
you, tell it to the people up yonder, at
Minneapolis [laughterl, L would tell
you something laughter and ap-
plauseb but will say this
much-that | cannot imagine what
ever could possibly have made
one of mycolleagues, who once lived in
this city, to ever want to live anywhere
else. Imay be simply crticlsing you,
butnot finding fault with you, and l
want to congratulate you. and myself,
and all these Methodist people, Oh this
fact, that, great as are these two mar
velous cities, the Twin Cities, they are,
after all, but little bits Of infants; we
our knees. We are in at the beginning.
1t is for us to Law the foundations. 1t
would have been a great thing to
have been signer Of the Dec
laration of Independen they will
keep the names of those men
beloved as long as the English language
is remembered. But they were not all
of them fine penmen; they are remem-
bered because they were in at the be-
ginning. And you and are in at the
beginning. Possibly you have thought
if we have lived a hundred years ago
and had chance to do some of the
foundation laying of this Methodist
church, OF if we had been in thirty
years ago or forty years ago, and had a
chance to do something in foundatio II
laying in the Methodism OF this great
state Of Minnesota, we might, in
some way, have produced some
impressions; my brother, we are
in at the beginning. Some of you
have seen how certain men in this
,toWn-and in that other-have gathered
to themselves large fortunes by financial
movements with real estate in wisely
counting OH the growth of the city. and.
if we were not all as blind as bats, we
would see ten times as much chance to
do as they did. [Applause.l No. we
are III at the beginning. Do you know
that in hundred years from today
there will be 125, 100000 OF colored peO-
pie under the flag of the United States?
How many whites are there? and where
will you put the thousand millions of
the republic? Do you know that, just
as we multiply the means of COM
munication, by just so much
we bring all the great
cities to our door? when you can go
from your house to your Office in twenty
minutes, it doesn't matter whether you
travel on foot through five blocks of
mud or go flying over the plains through
five hundred miles Of air! So, as we
multiply the means of communication
we bring all the great cities to our door,
and when they come to our door, why
the people will be contented more and
more to stay here. So that ever inven-
tion-why. nobody invents so little and
slippery thing as lubricant to keep
car wheel from getting red-hot who does
not add to the value of every brick and
every speck of dust in these Twin
Cities.