The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-31


 : he already saw signs of Emerson myth
 making, and 1t will be surprising if dur. ing the coming celebration of the centen- nary of his birth the process is not con-
 tinued.'
 Phillip Brooks-Isn't 1t delightful to
 have creature 50 far outside of our or
 dinary toss and tumble describing life as
 1t were smooth. intelligible, weli-oiled
 machine. running along without noise on
 the planet Jupiter. and seen by him with
 a special telescope and then described to
 us, instead of being this jarring. jolting,
 rattling old coach, which almost drives
 us crazy with it's din, and won't be
 greased into silence.
 Mir. Scudder-HIis life was so simple as
 to defy analysis, and a philosophy so ec-
 lectic as to preclude synthesis.
 Emerson's son-It was as poet that he
 would have wished to be remembered.
 Lowell-He is good to love- II Fredrika Bremer-His nobility of mein
 and utterance separated him from most | other beings.
 Hawthorne-Impossibl to dwell in Elm
 erson's vicinity without inhaIing more or less the mountain atmosphere of his lofty thought George Perry Morris-And when you
 have said that Emerson was a mystic
 and an eclectic you have said it all.
 George Cook-A fixed individualist, and WdNtTlnS pdnInelSt.
 II Prof. F. G. Peabody-New England.s
 great mystic. and eminent teacher oO Gods immanence. Amiel-Like Schileiermacher. he was a
 selfish individualist
 Henry James-He had no conscience. ir
 fact. and lived by perception.
 John Morley-The courses of Nature
 and the prodigous injustices of man in so- ciety affect him with neither horror nor
 awe.
 Brother Azarias-The deeper realities of
 life he overlooked.
 l 'Chapman-Anaemic incompleteness l Santayana-Alternately ingenious and rhapsodical, and in both moods equally l helpless mystical dealing with the prob- lem of evil and its adjustment to the universal harmony.
 Fl Inge-Accuses him of running away from the solution of problems which, if t one had really travelled up the rounds of
 the mystical ladder rather than having !, written about tbem, would not have been so curiously or tTivially dealt with. Stedman-Seriously questions his knowl- edge or his power to interpret himself : Prof. E. A. Park. 1S50-A sclusmatic. a 5 disorganlzer, a crossed and uncomfortable l member of society, public phenomenon s George Perry Morris-Conscienoe and
 taste led him into the freedom of the n untraditional and informal modes of wor- y ship and he found his symbols in nature I and not in Judaism or historic Christi
 anity.
 l Evangelical Critics-A philosophic seer \ Dr. Gordon-The absolute and final and I august simplicity
 Il Richard Garnett-A voice. Jno. Burroughs-An evolutionist. not t upon actual proof like Darwin, but upon poetic insight.
 Judges of Hall of Fame-The first Amer , ican man of letters.
 l centenary which has just passed, April 21, 1903 the organization of The British and Foreign Bible Society" points , as finger mark through all these lapse 2 of years, where the greatest of all liter ] ature was started on its journey, to per i meate literary life, and hold 1t to an ? anchor of truth and beauty. We are T minded to call attention to this event, be- cause of the one man it brings to re-
 membrance. Joseph HardcastIe, Gent. " s and merchant of ye city of London" The r private office of this man of affairs, (who 3 sought first the kingdom of the Heavenly s Father) was the "germinaI spot' of three g of the great religious enterprises It was t here that promoters of the London Mis- r sionary Society met; four years after . ward here were held the earliest commit. e tee meetings of the Religious Tract So- T ciety, which has issued a wonderful Chris e tian literature. There was a meeting of . the committee of this great woIk in De- e cember, 1892. and before them came the t Rev. Thomas Charles of Bala, Wales, who f told the Tract Society of the dearth of f Bibles in Wales. If you publish book 5 ! why not publish the book on which they t are all founded. why not give us . Welch V Bible?" Here the voice of Hardcas!le was f heard to declare for a Bible Society and 0 the British and Foreign Bible Society had t birth.''
 . We append an interesting account of the s consummation of this project from The e Standard:
 | ''The last of the preliminary series ol
 meetings was held April 21, 1898. in Mari- = castles office. William Wilberforce : though then in the thick of his struggle t to abolish East Indian slavery, so fell e the importance of the proposed under h taking that in spite of London fog ht y was there. He describes the little con h clave: "A few of us met together on SC : dark a morning that we discussed by d candlelight, while we resolved on the es = tablishment of a Bible Society Are l. there not here in the worthness O. the . pel sons, the importance of the occasion = and the encompasslng of Chiaro-oscuro n elements of painting worthy of the f brush which gave us The Syndico of the e Cloth Hall. The Society entered upon r its work with promptness and generosity . Availing itself of the recently invented . stereotype, it soon had 10000 Bibles and l 1000 Testaments ready in the Kymreag s As the first wagon load of this precious 70 literature reached the town of !?ala, the n people removed the horses and dragged 1 it along with singing so lusty that in the { far mountain hooks the harvester arrest r ed his sickle to listen to faint music from c the skies. What was done for the keli s of Wales was soon also done for his = brother in the Scotch highlands and the - Irish boglands. Nor were the peasantry e of England neglected Charity having B thus begun at home, overflowed to the ' continent of Europe and other lands. The y Societys latest report declares an issue g for the year of 5O67.422 Bibles complete - in 100 languages and dialects and partial = in $50 more. Its total issue of volumes e and portions during its existence was s according to the presidential statement al f the late London Guild hall meeting, 1S0, t 900 0O0,''
 |, Are the words of a contemporary exag g gerated when. referring to Hardcastle's ,, business promises, he says: T hadly evel g pass over London Bridge without glanc d ing my eyes over those highly favored
 rooms and feeling a glow of pleasure 1T
 the recollection that there so many SO
 cieties formed their plans for benevclence y These rooms in my judgment arc second s to none but those in which the disciple: