The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-30
FAMOUS PREACHER ILL
DIR. FRANK w. GUNsAULUs TAKEN TO
A SANATORIUM.
His Trouble of a Nervous Character,
Brought on by Excitement and
Probable OvervOrk.

CHICAGO, June 29.-The Rev Frank w.
Gunsaulus, pastor OF Plymouth Congrega-
tional Church and president of the Armour
Institute, who has been seriously i'll ever
since his return two months ago from New
York, where it was supposed he made ar
rangements to become the pastor of the
Broadway Tabernacle, has been removed to
the sanatorium at Alma. Mich. The object
of taking him out of town is largely to Sc
cure greater physical and mental quiet.
The Times-Herald says: DR.. Gunsauluss
illness on his return from New York was
evidently the result of mental excitement
in view of breaking up his associations in
Chicago, and, being mental has constantly
baffled his physician. He was first sup
posed to be suffering from malaria, but
soon afterward was attacked with sciatc
rheumatism From that time uutil now his
symptoms have been capricious and in
Scrutable, and he is at present probably as
i'll he has ever been. The object in his
removal, while known perfectly only to his
physician and his family, is largely to Sc
cure greater physical and mental quiet. He
is said to be in some respects an ungovern-
able patient. He will swallow regularly
any potions that may be prescribed, but
cannot be prevailed on to forego the society
of friends and the excitement Of converse
ton. 1t is confidently expected that when
he has secured absolute quiet, a pure at
mosphere and change of scene his recoV-
cry will be assured.
The most material part of Dr. Gunsau-
lus's life has been passed in Chicago, and
his previous history is brief and compare
lively unimportant. He was born in CheS
terville, o., in 1856 His father was a law
yer, an active participant in the civil war,
member of the Ohio Legislature and a
true tod Of TyRyn If t0n of
the State. The entire family was Method
list, and DR.. Gunsaulus was educated in the
Wesleyan University. from which he was vas
age of nineteen, and preached for four
years among the Methodists, but after that
period all his pastorates were with Congre-
gational churches He went to the East
wood Church, in Columbus in 1879 and to
the North High-street Church in that city
in 1881. In consequence of failing health
he went to the Central Church, at Newton
vile, Mass, in 1888 and to the Brown Me-
mortal Church. in Baltimore, in 1885. From
this last charge he came to the Plymouth
Church in Chicago, in 1887.
In Chicago Dr. Gunsaulus has evidently
been q different man from what he was in
his previous paStorateS. After a rapid series
= of changes, which generally indicate want
of depth or a want of management he
took root in Chicago, remained with one
charge with ever-increasing power and pop
ularity for ten years and rapidly rose to be
a national and enviable figure in the Con-
gregational denomination, in which, as
every one knows, there has been a dearth
of pulpit talent.
DR.. Gunsaulus's success as a preacher
has been largely due to powerful mem
DRY and omniVorouS reading. He has not
been merely so distinguished as a logician
as he was for his wide and accurate infor-
nation, his poetical temperament and his
warm and vehement oratCry. Like Beech
er, he thinks in pictures, and this style of
thought and composition, being easy as
we'll as delightful for one hearers, was
sure to give him large and admring fol-
lowing. From the intricacies of orthodox
theology DR.. Gunsaulus has always stood
wisely aloof.
The way in which DR.. Gunsaulus captured
and held the affections of the Plymouth
Church people was not more wonderful
Armour Institute. For this position some
would say he was not well fitted as neither
his training nor his tastes were in the lipe
of physical science, and II was not to be
expected that he would display much iudg-
ment in such position be able to COM
scientists. This however, is exactly what
he has done, so that if he were taken away
at the present time it would be difficult
to say whether the loss would be more
severely felt in the church or in the insti-
tute which he has so wisely and efficiently
directed.
Dr. Gunsaulus, as every one will recog-
nize, has fallen a prey to his own ungov-
ernable energy. Believing himself capable
of any amount of work and worry, he has
added the institute to the church and the
lecture field to the institute and private
to all three, until at last the harp of a
thousand strings has become unstrung
That it may be restrung and again fur
nish the music of eloquenee, poetry and
affection will be the prayer of thousands
in Chicago and all over the country from