The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-06
HAVEN MORNING JOURNAL

gregation Some of these young men
 couldn't afford to rent pews. Most eve ry pew in the church at this time was
 rented, If these young men came to church they sat in a pew by suffrance.
 The thing seemed wrong to MT. Low. The more he thought about it the more 1 wrong it seemed. His conviction, deep-
 ening, he finally became an outspoken 1 advocate of the free church system,
 went to St. Ann's, the great free church 1 of Brooklyn, there became the efficient
 superintendent of it's large Sunday
 school acted also as Vestryman of the 1 parish, and to this day, though he has | lived in the present Manhattan borough 1 for twelve years, is an officer of the 1 parish and a generous contributor to it's l support.
 l Removing to New York city at the time of his assumption of the presiden-
 cy of Columbia, his friends wondered
 where he would go 10 church; for
 though he frequently visited his old 1 Brooklyn parish, it was not reasonable
 to expect that he could regularly attend | divine service at such a distance from
 his home. When finally it became ! known that MT. Low had selected St. l Georges church for his parish home, none who knew him was surprised.
 MT. Low is a man of convictions. These eh cannot readily change. He believes that a church to be church for the people must be wholly free. Passing by attractive churches nearer his home, he regularly worships in St. Georges,
 of which he is vestryman, and not an honorary one either but real active vestryman. Not satisfied to attend di- vine service and exercise this office of vestryman, requiring not little time and much thought properly to assume
 the responsibility of an officer of so im- portant a parish as this, MT. Low read
 fly acquiesced in the suggestion of his
 rector Dr. Rainsford, and became the
 teacher of a Bible class for men that
 meets every Sunday morning. With
 these men, many of them plain working
 men, all men who know what it means
 to secure bread in the sweat of face,
 this Christian gentleman sits among
 them as one that serveth. His teach
 ing is of the highest academic sort, but
 made Sd practical and plain that one of
 ordinary understanding can compre- bend it. The preparation for this teaching is never sighted. No one ever heard MT Low talk against time. When he speaks he says something, and never does one see more evidence of care in what he says than when he lis tens to him talking to his Bible class in St. Georges parish house on Sunday mornings. Visiting his home library receitly we were not surprised, but much pleased, to see among his books an entire stack of works exclusively re- ligious and mostly exegetical A glance at them howed that they were the best books of their kind, and that they had been diligently read
 Most men as busy as MT, Low has been for the last seven years would find ready excuse for absence from daily college chapel exercises especially when attendance at such exercises is by statute wholly voluntary.
 Early in his presidency, MT Low had the old statute making chapel attend ance compulsory for college students, and ignoring wholly all other students , of the university. changed. This he did | because, as he often said, he thought | that it would be better to have five | men pray because they desired to pray | than five hundred pray because com | pelled to do so
 But, having made attendance volun | tary, no considerations availed to make | President Low a frequent absentee from | chapel service. Often he would apolo ] gize for absence when it seemed to the : chaplain that his explanation was more than ample excuse. He was often in his | place, devout, and by his demeanor in- dicating his firm reliance upon Alinigh- | ty God his belief in the efficacy of | prayer and his determination to be and | to do good Several times each year the president would make an ad- dress at the chapel service, always at l such times speaking to large and ap- preciative audience.
 Of all men in public life whom the writer has known, Seth Low has sue ceeded the best in illustrating the pos sibility of doing two things at once and doing both we'll He has never let his left hand know what his right one was doing, and he has never failed to let his light shine that others may glorify the 1 he is lighthouse of goodness to the He Is a man in whom there s no guile. He is built foursquare. He will make a good mayor because he is l good man, and adds to his goodness a very marked degree of greatness. Christian people may well rejoice that 1t least for two years, if God in His goodness will spare him, the great city If New York will have a mayor who in imes ordinary, and in emergencies, will 10 only those things that are lawful md right.
 He will be the ruler of all the people, without any discrimination among hem save that which recognizes righ- eousness and labors to secure it in most abundant measure, and, seeing sin, will pare no pains properly to condemn and 'ubdue it. Such a man of God is our ayor, Seth Low.
 ATTGTP ALLAN IRON | ,