The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-08-27

Rev. DR.. Buckley. EDITOR OF the New
York Methodist. is certainly n OF the
greatest men in the northern church
with its 1900. 900 communicates. The
Messenger referred to him nee a. their
greatest man" We notice that at the
recent great gathering of b Epworth
League, that he was introduced to the
convention las the most widely known
and influential man in Methodism: a
positive preacher. a comparative editor
and a superlative debater and master in
deliberative assemblies"
lie is a great depater and Of course
spoke. Among the reported sayings
was one concerning he press" He
said: THE press completes with the
courts in prosecuting crime, with the
seminaries in educating, with fashion
in modifying and with the
church as an agent for good or evil?"
He married a first cousin of Rev.
Joseph W. Shackford. one of the schol-
arly members of the Virginia NJ. E.
Conference, an University Of Virginia
man.
There is much talk in the north over
a mandatory of D.. DIS. In a recent
New Jersey ~presbytery e DR.. J. c.
Chapman, pastor of the First Presby-
terrain church at Hackettstown, in that
state, made a clear accusation that
such a mandatory of bogus D. DIS.
existed-that such degrees are sought
and formed and worn.
There are men right in our Pres
have put ID. D. after their names on
the church records. when I am as pos
tive as I am Of my existence that they
bought their so-called degrees just as
they would a piece Of merchandise.
Only a short time ago there were four
such doctors of divinity in this neigh
borhood." That is mighty bad if
true, that even among so scholarly a
clergy as h Presbyterian, there
should be false colors and misnaned
divines.
DR.. Chapman relates how he received
recently a letter from the chancellor"
of a fictitious institution in a western
city. i dDl SURF, "lOle lHS ClldllCSl-
lor,' that a gentleman of your ability
and recognized standing ought to re-
ceive the degree Of D.. D. from some
source. You need not make a formal
application.
By paying the fees of $175, he would
secure the degree of D.. D. He wrote
a sarcastic letter to the chancellor
nal .o41.-o - &1-& 800 - oil 49,
pressing surprise that the New Jersey
clergyman did not know a good thing
when he saw it and intimating that
many college presidents and eminent
scholars all over the country held de-
grees conferred by the institution in
question.
1t seems that the ordinary opinion
as to the English hexameter is incor-
rect-that it is not IAN artificial pro-
duct in English" Examples are given
to show that the translators, either
from design or unconsciously adopted
the hexameter in rendering the Hebrew
Bible. We give a few lines, but there
are many examples:
Small and great are there, and the
servant is free from his master.
Looseth the bond of kings, and bindeth
their loins with a girdle.
Breasts are full of milk. and his bones
are moistened with marrow.
But we shall die like men. n fall like
one of the princes.
At Thy rebuke, O Lord, at the blast
of the breath of Thy nostrils.
He shall come up as a cloud, and His
chariot shall be as a whlrlwind.
We did mot acfooDo him Sfrifknn- cmif
ten of God, and afflicted.
He whom Thou blessest is blessed, and
he whom Thou curseth is cursed.
Art Thou He that should come, or dc
we look for another?"
This is taken from the London Notes
and Queries an old and valuable pub
LEGATION.
A writer in the "Argosy" on "Old
English Rustic Pralmody," gives ar
anecdote of the great John Wesley's
father, Rev. Samuel. He is reported
as c%huckling over one of his practical
jokes. 1t is amusing and we copy:
1T was the days of wigs, and Yves
ley, when he was lone with his caput.
covering, always made a present of il
to his precentor. The latter was a little
man, and the wigs of his superior al
most buried his face out of sight. One
Sunday morning the man of music
looked more than usually ridiculous
and Wesley, irreverent as it may seem
could not resist giving out the PSALM:
Like to an owl in ivy bush,
That rueful thing am l."
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CLEANING AND COMMENT.