The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-01
L. 8. AYRES &c CO.
BISHOP FOWLER TALKS
HIS LECTURE ON "GREAT MEN AND
GREAT DEEDS, LAST EVENING.
Roberts Park Church Crowded-Esn-
tertaining Stories and Brief
Character Sketches.

Bishop Charles H. Fowler, of Buffalo, N.
Y, delivered his celebrated lecture, Great
Deeds of Great Men," at Roberts Park
Church last night. A large audience was
present. This lecture of the bishops is in
even a more popular vein than his mastery
essay on Abraham Lincoln, which created
such a favorable impression several weeks
ago. He told striking anecdotes of the
great leaders of all ages and all countries,
coming to the Americans last. He recalled
the sayings of the Greeks of antiquity-that
it is better to have an army of stays led by
a lion than an army of lions led by a stag.
One reason of so much trouble in the last
few years in this country in political cir
cles, he said, was because we have had
too many stays trying to lead. Now" he
added, elf you can tell which party l be-
long to by that you can do more than /"
One of his stories was loudly applauded. 1t
was about colored man down in Missis-
sippi who was the color bearer of Union
troop. In the midst of the fight men all
around him were slain and he was far in
advance of the line. bravely upholding the
flag alone. The captain saw him. Come
back here he shouted, "or the flag will be
taken "Cap'n," shouted he in reply. dds
heah nag nevah goes back. Bring on your
army!"
Whether man is great or not. he said.
can never be known until he is tested.
You can ne,-er know what man is worth
until you need him." Greatness, he MAIN
tanned, is of slow growth, although now and
then man like Richard the Lion Hearted
is born ready for the strife Nothing that
is worth having comes on quickly. Coming
events cast their shadows before. Mush-
rooms grow in nght-So do muShheadS,
but great men grow in decades. Greatness
is OF slow growth. Great men are self
poised, not self-centered. The self-centered
man is selfish He digs the sand from I'M
der his own feet, prepares his own grave,
and God always pushes him in and covers
him up. The seif-poised man believes in
himself. Men who reach results believe in
themselves, in their destiny, in their stars,
like Bonaparte, in their voice, like Joan
of Are"
Bishop Fowler holds that the Anglo-Sax-
ons are the bravest and greatest among the
people of the earth, and told many bright
incidents of history illustrating the force
and truth of this contention. Nevertheless,
he said that Saxons are bad neighbors.
They never keep house without making
somebody else do the work, and then please
themselves about paying" lie traced the
Saxon from the first glimpse the world
las-down through the ages when he was
given Testament, became baptized and
after that was baptized fighter. I'VE
have never robbed a people without leaving
never enslaved them without giving them
greater freedom than before, because in
time the SaXon's love of fair play leads him
to right the wrongs he may have COM
England as being much alike in all particu-
lars, and spoke of the prowess of the stars
ard stripes and the union jack as standing
side by side in history.