The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-08
Rector Of the Church Of England
and Considered One of the Most
Useful Men i'm Great Britain.
HOW HE CONDUCTS A SERVICE
THE MINISTER ASSISTS THE RAND OF
MUSIC, PLAYING A TROMBONE.
Paintings, Lime-Light Screens, Lam
tern Slides and Free Coffee Among
the Attractions offered.
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Correspondence OF the indianapolis Journal
LONDON, Aug. 2S.-One Of my most
startling experiences as a searcher after
what is new and advanced in church work
was that upon which 1 stumbled one Sun
DAY evening when 1 took a ticket OH the
Underground Railway for station called
the Monument. To say, however, that
stumbled" upon this experience may mis-
lead. What had heard had fully prepared
me for something novel; the accidental
feature was in the fact that my expecta-
tons OF novelty and sensationalism were
So far exceeded. Never before had / seen
such carvings on" in any regular church
on either continent, and the strangest cir
cUmstance Of all was that such a service
should have occurred in one of the time
honored temples of the Church of England
But the reader shall judge for himself,
and that he may not too hastily condemn,
let him remember that our visit is to a
church which IN ordinary conditions would
be as lonesome as a deserted attic, and
that we are on the track of a minister who
either in spite of his sensatiOnalism or be-
cause Of it has done almost as much to
bless the masses by means of his Church
Army as General Booth has done through
his larger and older Salvation Aarmy.
Monument Station on the London Under
ground gets it's name from that towering
weather-beaten memorial which Fish
Hill. leading out Of Eastcheap, and not far
from London bridge, overlooks district
OF this great metropolis whose narrow
streets are devoted on week days TO whole
sale marketing. On Sundays this district
wears fOrsaken aspect. One misses in it
the tides of traffic which for six days have
gIutted it's lanes and alleys. One also
misses some of its distinctive odors. and, of
course, there has been a clearing out over
the Sabbath of the better elements in its
very mixed population. But the laborers
are still there. so are their families. So.
too. are there many loungers about, and
there still remain, in streets not very far
away. numbers of people belonging to what
Is known as the small tradesman class. To
be sure OF not going wrong L ask the sta
ton gate-keeper, in giving up my ticket
which is the most direct way to the church
known as st. Mary-at-Hin, whose rector is
Rev. Wilson Garlic. 1t is in Love lane, 1
am told. an uninviting alley which a few
blocks away turns out of the main thor
oughfare of Eastcheap. But you don't
need any directions. the bands around
tune il happened to be playing just then
Pull for the shore, sailor, pull for the
shore''-didnt seem inappropriate to one
who was in doubt as to the way he should
take
THE BAND AND THE RECTOR.
This band made far better than the ordi-
nary Salvation Army music, and wholly
different from those one usually sees was
the procession it led. The young women
who were parading were in the ordinary
attire of the street, but the men were ar
rayed in white surpIices, topped off with
mOrtar-boar hats. Ones first thought
was that it was a procession of the clergy.
with just enough girls in it to remind one
that woman is the clergyman's chief reli-
ance in the good work he does. But first
thoughts are often wrong. Even the mem
bers OF the band were arrayed in white
robes. Some clergymen, IL is true-so I've
heard--wOuld not scruple to blow their
own horn now and again In a quiet way,
but they would hardly band themselves
together to do it on the public streets.
Still. to speak seriously, IT would be quite
proper these days if ministers should more
frequently blow the trumpet of the gospel
on the streets. In London both ministers
and laymen Go this more than in any other
city in the world. So the writer's thoughts
ran as he first came in sight of that pro-
cession on Eastcheap. But fancy was soon
brought To book by fact The banners
told me that what 1 beheld was a squad
Of the Church Army. and that its white
rObed and mortar-boarded components
were not clergymen; of that I was assured
by the unrefned and cOckney tones in
which these earnest men, some in front
srG some at TIRE rear. shouted out their
Invitations TO Us to go at once TO the
service Mr. Garlic was about to conduct
IN the church Of 81. Mary-at-Hill.
In the vestibule OF the church L had my
first view OF the inspiring genius OF this
great movement. Here was the man who
twenty years ago, stimulated by the ex-
enple of VIM. Booth, and with the con-
Vlction that the Church of England ought
not 10 leave the submerged tenth TO be
cared for by organizations that were cut
side her own fold started a society within
that fold which has so developed since that
H. addition to the evangelistic work it does
II the army, in prisons, in infirmaries. and
l. its rescue homes for women, II has now
i constant service throughout the country
districts of England siXty-seven diocesan
mission vans, each van manned by two OF
more trained workers, and in London and
The large provincial cities is maintaining
seventy-two lodging and labor homes
through which there pass annually more
than seven thousand outcasts, of whom II
Is said that q per cent of them obtain STU
atoms and a fresh start in life
THE WRITER'S MISTAKE.
Knowing these things about him 1t eas
natural I should think 1 knew Mr.. CARRIE
himself but | was mistaken in this. My
preconceptions had made him venerable
with a face whose chief characteristic
would be kindness and with the manner
OF a man who had done so much that oS
this time he would be settling down TO take
things easy Instead, 1 found him loofdht
70 be not more than fifty. having WHY
moustache instead of a flowing beard-a
nervous jumpy man, with features ina
were, 10 be sure. kindly enough for pracu
cal purposes, but whose leading tone "a'
sharpness and quickness rather than peah
Ing good nature, and with manner .
Tar removed from repose that, after "atcn
Ing him for a few moments. you wouis
think that II ever any man accompnsnes
the impossible feat OF being in two places