The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-01-11


vered- was sensitive TO ridfcuIe. !
had an impediment in my speech, but
I had taken hold of the hope OF knowI-
edge with good grip, and held on.
How He Entered College
7 started for Yale with $468 in my
pocket. and two small carpetbags in my
handsome with my few books, the other
with my few clothes. I can remember
the TWO carpetbags with vividness to
day. They looked as If they had just
recovered from the smallpox. and might
at any moment break out with it again.
At the university I was urged by family
and friends, more than once. to give it
UP.
One winter I lived for4four months
on diet that cost Just SIS cents a
week-Indian meal and water-not over
much meal and a good deal too much
water. I went through the entire
COURSE don't remember that I lost a
week And I was graduated crammed
full of the knowledge of books from
enormous reading. seasoned with fair
proficiency in the studies Of the curri-
culum. but not overseasoned!
Then without pause went TO East
windsor. where they take young men as
Christians and make them over into
Calvinists. and studied Old World
theology"
How He Cot the Adirondack"
Three Connecticut parishes had the
benefit of the Murray brand Of old
world theology before Park Street
tried the preparation and found it not
to its liking, At Meriden Mr.. Murray
was pastor of the fashionable First Con-
gregationsl Church. and from there one
summer be went into the Adirondacks.
The letters which we're afterward in
corporated into the book that made him
a literary celebrity ard gave him his
name Adirondack we're accounts Of
camp life written for the local Connect
cut paper. At the Meriden Church, Sen
ator o. H. Plat was one of Murray's
parishioners, and the two men began at
this time q friendship that has lasted
ever since. Mr.. Murray married be-
fore coming to Boston the daughter Of
Sheldon Hall, a prosperous farmer Of
Essex. Conn.
The matter with Murray and the Park
Street Church is not altogether easy to
diagnose. but his career there certainly
seemed a striking case of a square peg
trying to fit into a round hole. The con
ventionalities that hedge about the cloth
we're extremely distastefuI 10 this Con
necticut youth, who had found happy
home in the Adirondack Mountains, and
Park Street needed a eonventfonaIly
proper parson.
Then sport Of all kind fascinated the
man The newspapers of The period
abounded-not without reason-in aIlu-
sIons TO Lurray's horse-loving ProcIyi-
ties. Some of the sheets even went so far
as to say that he was a heavy bettor
and bore intimate relations TO the peo-
pie who backed the racers Of the priod.
Whether this was or was not true, is
difficult TO determine, but that he organ
lied blackboard company to float a
trottIng suIky. deemed by him Of super
Tor quality. and put a good deal Of time
into the business OF breeding Morgan
horses at his GuiIford farm. there seems
no question. At one time the Guilford
estate was worth $4,000. a fact quite
sufficient to reassure those whom Mr..
Murray had persuaded TO invest heavily
in his blackboard company.
Mixing Faith and Fun.
Racing and religion soon came to be
blended By Mr.. Murray in a manner
severely criticised He edited al this
time a paper in which matters apper-
tanning to the turf and the temple were
treated with so loose an attempt at I'm
partiality that there seemed at times
TO be a leaning toward fayoring the turf
most
Mr.. Murray indeed co. too much
pleasure out Of this vale of tears to be
EXCEPTIONALLY orthodox; his digestion
was too good to permit him TO believe
IN eternal punishment; he loved a fine
J horse TOO well TO take much stock in
total depravity and original sin.
Three hundred years ago he would
/ have been roasted for holding too gen
erous views OF life As it was. he was
forced 10 resign from the pulpit of the