The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-01
WIT WEIGHED WITH WISDOM.
Some Bright Stories of the Late Bish4
op Stubs, of Oxford Uni
versity.

Among the clergy generally, says
writer in the London Spectator
the late Bishop Stubbs, of Oxford,
was perhaps best known for his wit,
which was brilliant without being ILL
natured, and of heartening quality.
When some gloomy soul came
burdened with parochial troubles the
bishop invariably sent him home with
smile on his face and a lighter
heart. Bishop Stubs even grumbled
wittily. He was not willing to be
moved from Chester to Oxford, and
he said, as he left the chapter house:
81 am like Homer; L suffer from
translations."
In his new diocese well-meaning
but rather tactless archdeacon con-
tinually informed him of what, UNI
der similar circumstances, his prede-
cessor, Bishop Samuel Wilberforce,
would have done. At last he said:
"Archdeacon, you remind me OF
the Witch of Endor, for you are not
contented unless you raise the ghost
of Samuel"
At prize giving which he attend
ed at a school in OXforl, after his
fame as historian was assured, the
head master expressed his great
sense of Indebtedness. He only
hoped that the fulfilment of such en-
gagements did not so intrude on the
bishops leisure as to diminish the
prospect of his publishing another
great book.
The bishop, in acknowledging the
kindly tribute, said that, far from
writing books, he scarcely had time
to open book. "When 1 say that"
he added, "there is one book which
as a bishop I must study. ] need
hardly say that the book to which 1
refer" (here a stiffness fell on the
audience) "is-Bradshaw."
There was ripple of laughter at
his mentioning the Railway Guide;
everybody had expected him to say
the Bible.
Bishop Stubs was a firm friend,
and knew very well how to defend
his friends stanchly and wittiay.
Some one said to him:
"There's that bishop of Manchcs-
ter. If there is stone wall he runs
his head against it,"
$50 much the worse for the stone
WALL" retorted Bishop Stubbs, and
that closed the conversation.
| All MussuImans Secure Converts.
Europeans habitually forget that
every Mussulman is more or less a
missionary-that is, he intensely de-
| sires to secure converts from non
Mussulman people. Such converts not
only increase his own chance of
heaven, but they will swell his own
faction, his own army, his own means
of conquering, governing and taxing
the remainder of mankind. All the
emotions which impel Christian to
proselyte are in Mussulman
strengthened by all the motives which
impel political leader and all the
motives which sway a recruiting SER
geant, until proselytism has become 9
passion, which, wherever success
seems practicable, and especially sue
cess on a large scale, develops in the
quietest Mussulman fury of ardol
which induces him to break dow1
every obstacle, his own stronges1
prejudices included, rather than stant
for an instant in neophyte's way
He welcomes him as son, and what
ever his own lineage, whether the con
vert be negro or Chinaman, or In
dian, or even European, he will with
out hesitation or scruple give him hi
own child in marriage, and admit hin
fully, frankly and finally into tn
most exclusive society in the world
From "The Brown Man." NJ. Townsend
Soaring the Shepherds.
There is an irrepressible satisfac
ton in finding that great philosc
pher is, in the innocent ways of life
very much like other men. March,
Aurelius Antonius, whose "Medita
tionS'' have been the guide of thinl