The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-07


able, genuine piety impressed me SO much.
Let the memory OF this beloved disciple Oh
the Risen Lord be long cherished.
,The Baptists have sustained great loss
in the death of Rev. George Dana Bourd-
man, d. D., of Philadelphia. He was
minister of much solid merit, and wrote
charmingly elegantely. / own TWO
volumes by him l hold In high favor, ana
have read them twice, and hope to READ
them once more. They are Studies II
the Mountain Instruction" and "Epl-
phanies of the Risen Lord" They are
indeed delightful and full OF tenderness
and devotion and beauty and depth OF
insight. He wrote two other works
have not seen-"Studies in the Creative
Week." and studies in the Model Pray
err" He possessed fascination tor me- lie
was pastor OF the First Baptist Church
in Philadelphia for thirty years, and was
president OF the American Baptist Mis-
sionary Union for twenty-four years. lie
had the reputation, as l remember,
long time ago of being preacher OF eN-
ceptional attractiyeness and eloquence.
have seen no extended account of his Ire
and its close, and do not know either ms
birthplace, or when he died, and his age
The Northern Methodists lost two of
its greatest men recently-BishOps Ran
dolph L. Foster and John f. Hurst.
Bishop Foster died at Newton Centre,
Mass, on 1st May. He filled high places
and was a great man. have before re-
ferred to him in the News and Observer.
To me he was the greatest, most attrac-
tive figure in all Northern Methodism.
The Nashville Advocate, in brief refer
ence to him. gives this, after mentioning
that he was elected Bishop IN 1872: he
was a preacher of great themes, scholar
OF broad range OF thought, man OF
profound spiritual vision. Dr.. Buckley
says of him that he was never feeble,
never light or trifiing. 1t is blessed
thought that all who ever knew him may
retain the sense of pure, dlgnlfed, SYM
pathetic consecrated apostle OF the Lord
Jesus Christi
I may add, he was writer of some very
iu,portant books, two of which / have
read with profound Objections
To Calvinism," and Beyond the Grave.
He is a close reasoner with decidedly
philosophical mind 1 have seen quota
tions from his two books on Holy Living
or Sanctification, but these are not the
titles. Bishop Hurst died in Washington.
He was highly educated with no little
brilliancy of rhetoric and force of intel
lcet. He was in his 69th year. Bishop
Foster was about 80. Bishop Hurst was
roade Bishop in 1880. He was chosen
Chancellor of the American University
to be erected some day at the Federal
Capital, Washington City. The Nashville
Advocate. says that she translated and
wrote a large number of books ard was a
contributor to the religious periodicals.
His latest work was history of Method
ism in FIVE volumes, which will soon be
published 'Sevenss History OF Meth
odism" and McTiere's History OF
Methodism," are works of high merit, but
there is room for another ii 1T Is an I'M
provement on all including the once very
useful and important history by Rev Dr.
Bangs, of the Northern Methodist Pub
fishing House. There IS room also for
the great life of John Wesleyan I'M
movement on Tyerman and the others.
Where is the man of big brain, full grasp
OF the subject, of pictorial power, OF prime
lucidity, of commanding style worthy OF
the exalted theme-of the man of nine
languages and worldwide craftsmanship
and an ever growing fame?
In North Carolina in 1895, there were.
6 .046 children working in the factories,
but in 1899 the number had fallen to
3oS. or a decline of more than SO per
cent, and that too in the face OF the fact
| that there was an increase in those four
years of so per cent. of women and 100
Ger cent. of men to meet the increasing
demand caused by an increase of some 40
per cent OF spindles. This is hopeful and
healthful. In my opinion no child should
be allowed to work in the factories under
| fourteen years OF age.
| People read and talk of the Louisiana
purchase by Thomas Jefferson. Do you
know what that means? An hundred
years ago France coded Louisiana to the
| United States The document was signed
April Goth, 1903 IT cost $150O0,0 900. What
was the result? How much did the pur-
chase embrace? 1t is stated by Frederick
NJ. Cruden in the New York Review OF
Reviews that the purchase has added to
the United States the whole or the greater
part of fourteen States and Territories
| Arkansas, Missouri Iowa, Nebraska, North
Rand South Dakota, Minnesota, Kansas.
Colorado. Montana, Wyoming, Louisiana,
Indian Territory sand oklahoma Territory,
covering SIS, OPS square miles, or 56O,016,-
coo acres. That was by far "the greatest
Ireal estate speculation the world has ever
lseen.'