New-York tribune., 1902-06-04

he delivered hundreds of lectures in various cities
before he entered on the presidency of Oberln. on
January 4. 1889
Dr. Barrows was born in Medina. Mich on July
L. 1S47. His father, the Rev John Manning Bar
rows was afterward professor of natural science
in Olvet College, Mich. Both he and his wife were
Oberlin graduates. Their son John was graduated
at Olivet College in 1861 in the same class as MS
brother. Walter NJ. who also entered the ministry
After studying theology at Yale. Union and An
dover TheoIogicaI senlinaries he undertook home
missionary work in Kansas. While studying at
Union Seminary he became a member OF plymouth
Church. Brooklyn and listened to the eloquence OF
Henry Ward Beecher. After nearly three years or
educational and church work in Kansas he was
pastor OF the First Congregational Church IN
Springfield, Ill, for year. The succeeding year
he spent in Europe and the Holy Land, preaching
for a time in the American Chapel IN Paris he
was married in 1875 TO Miss Sarah Eleanor Mole. Of
williamstown. Mass, and became pastor OF the
Eliot Congregational Church at Lawrence. Mass.
where he remained five years. In lSN ne accepted
a call to the Maverick Congregational Church, In
Fast BOSTON but a year later he went to Chicago.
where success at once attended his ministry For
four years he conducted popular Sunday evening
services In Central Music Hall In 1883 occurred the
semi-centennaI celebration OF the founding or the
First Church which led to the preparation by Dr.
Barrows of an historical volume giving the Ecciesl
astical Antiquities OF the city Dr. Barro"s tooA
a prominent part in all missionary and reforInatorY
enterprises in Chicago. Twelve hundred members
were added to the church in his pastorate he De-
came a favorte speaker at college commence
ments on the lecture platform. at temperance
missionary and Christian Endeavor conventions
and before the gatherings at Chautauqua' \. l.
The most significant event OF his life IN ChicdSo
WAS the Congress OF Religions. in 1898. when men
of every faith in the world met on common pat
form and which Professor Max Muller called one
Of the most memorable events the history OF the
world" As the outcome of this Dr. Barrows pup
1isbed "The Worlds Parliament Of Religions" "A
World Pilgrimage" christianity. the World ke-
ligion" and The Christian Conquest OF ASA tHe
degree of D. D. conferred On him by Lake r or
In 1894 he accepted the Haskell lectureship OF
comDaratiVe religion in the University OF Chicago
and in February 1896 gave up his pastorate In or
der give IN India lectures on % a1necton
with the University of Chicago. After eight months
of % ra4eI n nda ana rs lectures and adresses
and in Japan and Honolulu twenty.thTee more nlOIe- do.
I,vered 95 many lectures including Morse course
at at 1he eoD6nest 0nI0n OF Asa "'
Dr. Barrows was one of the trustees OF the
the advisory council Of the Chautauqua SYSTEM M
He also president of the Goudc GI sgTTS In
November 1895, he accepted the presidency. %, OF
With M more than twelve hundred students in its
preparatory, collegiate muslcal ana theoUsCd its
doors TO both sexes and conferred the first degree
Of a 81 9gT nnT gVn nd IL FSpchid in the presidency
Oberlin DIR. Barrows labored with enthcsldi i rO b,
thet the intufion He added nearly soo6oo to its
endowment and secured SltlS Oh d cielliIS'i i'''O
tory and gymnasium. r. u,-ro,s
Resides the works already named Ut bdILomS CS
was the author of Il Believe in God Inc SIos55
pels as True Histories and life OF Hehry WaLe b
fsecber said to the best brief biography OF tIe
brooklyn preacher Among his notable dSe3TrIn is Pin
was a sermon on Municipal Patriotism III flyIn
outh Church on Thanksgiving Day. 1881; an ,I oLd
ton on America" the Washington oen.eI5,is ts
In 1850. lectures on Samuel Adams. James rus
sell Lowell. Hugh .IIt Miller v ken gqr@saem
and wendell Phillips; oration IN Freneh @ on on
"Relgion as the Unifer of Mankind fS gwen m III
paris in 1896 and his lectures on india Whlch were
delivered at Harvard and at the Gniverslty + OF |
Nichieon He was talked of at one time as pastor |
ol Dr tue Re rUoWs left wife. and three daugh-