St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-01-09
HIS GRAND EFFORT.
Eloquent Bishop Fowler at
the Metropolitan Opera
House.
An Immense Audience Listens
to the Eminent EX-
FOUNDER.
His Sermon Devoted to Prov
ing the Right Of Chris
tianity.
One Of the Most Powerful
Discourses Ever Heard In
st. Paul.

| MetbodiSm was given marked I'm
petus in the Northwest yesterday. 1t
was the occasion of the initial sermon of
Bishop c. II. Fowler, who has recently
| been assigned to this state. The serv-
ices were held in the Metropolitan
theater in this city, yesterday after
noon, and the capacity of the audito-
rum was taxed to its utmost. The pro-
gramme Introduced Miss Jessie Turner
! in a soprano solo. congregational sing
| ing, a Scripture lesson by Rev. h. y.
Funk, while Rev. Thomas McCleary and
| Rev. William Mckinley took part in the
services.
Bishop Fowler is esteemed one of the
| most eloquent, cultured, unctlous, pop
ular and successful orators of the Meth
odiSt pulpit of today. 1t is for this rea-
son that the GLOBE reproduces yester--
| days sermon entire. 1t Will be read
with unusual interest by laymen as we'll
as leaders in the church work. 1t was
listened to with rapt attention and
| punctuated by the deep, hearty amenS
so peculiar to Methodist gatherings.
Bishop Charles II. Fowler then spoke
as follows: hope have message for
some of you, and ask that you will
give me prayerful attention. l ammore
than ordinarily anxious that the spirit
| of the living God should accompany the
word this afternoon; and l want you to
accompany it with your believing pray
erS.
Some part Of the subject which have
chosen will probably require your at
tention; but, at all events, want you
nj oil nd of
me. Pray.
will read, as basis Of what wish
! to say. part Of the eighth verse of the
seventh chapter OF ST. Luke. ''For |,
also, am man set under authority"
| On the surface of that much reading it
| hardly appears what | wish to talk
about. In the verse preceding the cen
turan says: "But say in word, and
my servant shall be healed; for l, also,
am man set under authority, having
under me soldiers; and L say unto one
90. and he goeth; to another come, and
he cometh: and to my servant do this,
and he doeth it," You will not have to
study the text very long, L think, till
you will be satisfied that the great
thought in it and under it is the super
natural presence in this world, a super
natural power operating upon men and
upon the affairs of men in the interest
of the kingdom of God.
This is a marvellous picture presented
in this test, worthy to hang on the same
wall with that other picture yonder on
the Mount of TRANSPORTATION, where
the Master met Moses and Elijah, the
ronracuntatiUac of tho old diCppp SatiOD
| not altogether out of place in the same
room with that sublimest of pictures,
| the scene on Mount Calvary, where the
Master wrought out for a dying
race a way of escape. So l ask
you to look little at this
| picture. In the foreground the
| Son of God, disguised, concealed in the
| form of a servant, but discovered and
| revealed by the penetrating faith OF the
centurion. Above, the friends of the
| Master, members of the oppressed
| Jewish nation, the servants OF the CELL
| turion, other appointments to make up
this picture, in which the principal
| characters are the Son of God and the
| centurion, the representative of the
| Gentle Christian church, made out of
| worldly material, but exalted by love OF
| the truth, by loyalty to conviction, by
| princely munifcence to a depressed
| people and to deSpiSed cause, by faith
| in the son of God, and by a her0iSm
| that asked only what God would re-
| quire OF him. Fine specimen OF Gen
| tile; magnificent specimen of Chris
| tian. And the meeting III this picture
| somehow towers above any other meet
ing that you can find among men. The
Great Historic Meetings
! dwindle into insignifcance coutraSted
with this.
Look yonder at that little company
! and see those two chiefs in the center Of
| that South American continent meeting
| for the first time, studying each other
and the conditions. Some OF you are
| familiar with it. 1t was the elimination
| of the great struggle of South America
for the freedom of half score OF repub-
| lies. Marvellous interests gathered III 1T.
| Spain had robbed and tramped South
! America for three centuries. BOnaparte,
by an apparently aimless campaign,
| held Spain by the throat with deSper-
ate grasp, and while she struggled,
helpless in his hand. for ten years, the
republics of South America sprang into
! being and threw off the yoke, and
gained what they pleased to call free
dom.
Gen. San Martin, by courage, hero
ism, patriotism, organized, compacted.
created. liberated the republics of Uru-
quay, Argentine, Paraguay, went push
ING over the Andes by movement not
less heroic or magnificent than the pas
sage of NAPOLEON or Hannibal over the
Alps, dropped into Chilli and into Peru,
creating republics as he went, and then
pushed northward on the great table
land: and there in the middle of the
continent he met that other magnificent
chief VINO had created the republics Of
the northern end of the continent, and
they met TO look each other in the face,
any settle somewhat the independence
of South America.
Two victorious armies. devoted to two
| great chiefs, restrained, indeed, by
some little idea of common interest,
but with the cruder thought OF the
power of the sword of that other time.
Tit re uuired no prophet to see that these
armies must struggle. A tent was
pitched between them; personal body
guard of the chiefs was camped round
it. The penalty of death was the order
for interruption. For twenty-four hours
they were together. What passed? No
body knows. When the interview
ended, San Martin took the lead of his
troops, faced them away to the south,
went back to Argentine, and from
BuenoS Ayres scattered them through
the states, settled UP his private affairs,
went over to Paris to live and die an
exile add stranger in private life.
Bolivar took command of his legion,
completed the work of
Consolidating the Republics,
left his name on Bolivia. and left South
America full of vigor. AS / stood by
the tomb of San Martin in the great
cathedral at Buenos Ayres, and, with
uncovered head, thought OF his heroism
and his patriotism and his self-sacrifice,
l said, "rhey have not made many peers
of this man. He may take his seat by
the side of Washington and Lincoln
and Cincinnatus." Magnificent record.
And yet the meeting of these two chiefs
upon whose decision hung the liberty
and the fate of continent. and of more
than half score of republics, is but
the merest child's play compared with
the meeting that is here before us in
this picture of the believing Gentle
and the Savior of the Jews, the Son of