The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-08

their bump of reverence, point out that,
since we now know distinctly what DR..
Parker thinks of the sultan, it is our
clear duty to ascertain as soon as possible
what the sultan thinks of DR.. Parker
MAN OF THE PEOPLE.
For the edifcation of the sultan and of
others who may be interested in the per-
sonality of this daring divine it may be
said that there is not in all England a
man of more pronounced individuality or
who is more apt to do startling things
'Dr. Parker's mind" says phrenologist,
compared to that of an ordinary man is
like a cannon compared to an ordinary
pocket pistol or like man-of-war COM
pared to q pilot boat" Now, the career
of such a man is bound to be somewhat
tempestuous, and a glance at the career
Of DR.. Parker shows that it has not been
entirely smooth.
A son of a rugged Northumberland
Etonemason, he is par excellence a man
of the people, a fact which should be re-
membered by those who would judge him
rightly. He first became pastor of the
Congregational church at Banbury, and
attracted so much attention there that a
new building had to be erected in order
to accommodate the ever-growing congre-
vacant pulpit of the Cavendish Street
chapel, in Manchester, but declined, as
he had promised to remain with the Ban
bury people while any indebtedness re-
manned on their church. The Manchester
folks, however would not be thwarted
and so they paid off the debt, and the
popular young Nonconformist was
promptly installed in the Cavendish street
parsonage.
Here his reputation quickly increased
and the result was that in 1867 he was
called to London to become the minister
of the Old Poultry chapel, in Cheapside
This old building soon proved inadequate
to the needs of his enthusiastic admirers
and parishioners, and so 1t was torn down
and the stately edifice known as the City
Temple was erected on Holburn viaduct.
AN ELOQUENT PREACHER.
In this spacious church Dr. Parker has
preached ever since, not only Sundays,
but also on Thursdays, when special
morning services are held. His sermons
are delivered extemporaneously from a
few notes and are reported far and wide
His elocution is admitted to be almost
perfect, except on those occasions when
passion gets the mastery of him.
Brusque. too, and overbearing as he
seems at times to be, he can, when he
desires, be very tender, and his most i'm
pressive sermons are those in which
pathos and passion are happily inter-
mingled
His views about preaching are decidedly
original, which is not strange, since his
own first sermon was preached in a saw
pit on village green. Next century. he
thinks, there will be little or no pulpit
oratory, since people will come to under
stand that preaching is a supreme imper-
Thence, unless the preacher is divinely
inspired. us it possible" he asks that
England can require all this preaching of
10000 able bodied men every Sunday and
twice every Sunday, in the year or. If
all this preaching is required, is 1t re-
quired in the same place? The Master
said, Go into all the world Do not MANY
of us say, Come into our nice little
Westinghouse and take a seat in the
front of the gallery?'"
THE BEECHER EULOGY.
The incident In the doctors life which
probably annoyed him most was the con-
troversy which arose over his euiogy of
Beeeher, which he delivered in this coun-
try in 1851. The committee In charge of
the affairs expected thatrthe proceeds of
the eulogy which was delivered at the
Brooklyn Academy OF Music, would go
toward the monument fund, and was sur