The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-06

fOrty-five years OF his life working his
farm ia the summer and teaching school
In the winter or conducting writing
schools. As soon as his boys were large
enough to trudge by his side he took them
20 school with him. There were yelling
ton seven years the senior OF Charles,
and Howard. the present organist Of DIT
Parkhursts church, who is four years his
Junior.
The elder Parkhurst was an austere
man. Of rigid mein. the kind Of q man
that Impressed you with a reserve power,
strength Of prime pie and direct utterauces.
man 20 be feared, obeyed and respected.
Yet this man who had rooted deep Ike
an oak tree on the old homestead for
forty-hve years broke away from it and
removed 70 Clinton where his boys could
have better education at the academy
Here he became head b0okkeeper for
large manufacturing corporation OF Gin
ton.
The summer before this removal when
Dr. Parkhurst's mother had taken dis
trict school to teach, Charles. then 10
years old, was her daily companion along
the country road 10 the little req school
house A common sight in the spring and
fail on the Sudbury farm was 10 see
Charles 'bestriding the horse along the
furrow and his brother Wellington hold
ing the plOw
When the family came to Clinton
Charles was Il years old He at once
went TO q private school taught by Miss
Lucretia Morgan. This was the first time
he went away from home to school. He
next attended the grammar school, the
2-story gable roof brick building still
standing on the corner near the center OF
the town. When he completed the course
there he went into the store as described.
While there he devlopad craving for
study and an ambition to be a teacher.
Stimulated with this object he began
to attend the Rev. NJ c. Stebbns acad-
envy at Lancaster. This was really a
boarding-school where the old minister
fitted the boys for college. Charles Park
hurst was a day pupil. He walked back
and forth over the hills from Clinton
four miles each day. He gained his love
of walking which has Led him TO Alpine
climbing as his favorite summer recreation
from these long walks over the Massachu-
sets hills.
Charles at once took a high place in
scholarship, particularly in languages.
He was looked up to by less diiigeut class
mates, who would gather before school
opened and watch for him to come down
the road from Clinton. Then they would
get him to translate the hard parts Of the
days Latin lesson. From this sort of tu-
| toring he took TO teaching certain
branches while taking a regular course at
the academy. He was there two Years and
then entered Amherst. where he was grad
uated in 1866.
He then engaged in the profession Of
teaching and was for two years principal
of the Amherst high school. His future
wife, northampton girl, was one of his
| pupils. From Amherst he went as in
1 structor to the Williston seminary in
Easthampton, where he married and re-
| mained several years. But the craving for
greater intellectual and moral problems
| to grapple with was as strong within him
as when clerk in the dry goods store.
/ He conceived a desire to study theology
and philosophy from the highest expon-
/ ents of those branches in Germany. He
| went there and remained two years re-
/ turning with the necessary certificates
! to qualify him for entering the Presby-
/ terrain ministry.
| While he was preaching at his home
/ church to a congregation of fellow-towns-
/ men who refused to take his grandilo-
/ quence seriously, he was casting about for
/ an opportunity to locate permanentlv.
| DR.. Seelye who was then president of Am
! herst college, and who had a great liking
! for Parkhurst when he was an undergrad
] ate, now befriended him in way that
/ determined the fortunes of his life DR.
! Seelye secured a call for Pdrlxhurst to a
/ church in Lenox. At the same time ~.
| received a call from Peppereu, Mass. That
/ was critical decision He accepted the
! LenoX offer. During his ministry of five
/ years there he had many influential and
wealthy New Workers among his audience
in the summer. Through this means he
! received a call to the Madison Square
! Presbyterian church of New York. That
was ten years ago.