The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-25
Founder Of MethOdism Saved Three
Empires and Liberated Spiritual.
ity to the People.
SKETCH OF THE ANGL0-SAX0N
BISHOP FOWLER DRAWS 1T WITH
AN HONEST PENCIL.
Drawing Together Of the English
Speaking Peoples Makes for the
Peace Of the World.


triumphant motif which rang like bugle
call through the stirring address Of Bishop
Charles H. Fowler before a great mass
meeting of Methodists at Tomlinson Hall
last night The Buffalo prelate, whose silver
tongue has made him famous over seas. out
| did himself, "outfowlered Fowler" in a re-
| markable address on "Wesleyanizing the
| World
To celebrate the bicentennial OF the birth
| of John Wesley two thousand Methodists
| came to Tomlinson Hall to hear the bishop.
| They heard more than an oral biography Of
| the founder of the church. With the bish-
| ops eyes they saw the great wheels OF
| human history revolving forward toward
| universal peace, universal truth, universal
| culture. universal religion; hurting out or
| the way the things that interfered. With
the bishops eyes they saw little man
| come out of Epworth to change the map
| of the world as we'll as revolutionize dogma
| They caught something of the uplift OF
the bishops words he drew. with honest
pencil, sketch of Anglo-Saxon races draw
ing together for the reviving of the weak
| the crushing of the unjust strong and for
the peace of the world.
| IMPRESS OF THE GREAT.
Bishop Fowler was introduced by the
| Rev. c. E. Bacon, of Roberts Park Church.
| mo words are needed to introduce this
man." he said. "The occasion is great:
! the speaker is great. No one before the
public is better qualified to bring vividly
before us the lessons of this hour"
''It takes a large man to impress the
world" said Bishop Fowler. Most men do
well to leave an impress upon their own
families. A few only leave an impress
| upon nations. Only once or twice in GEN.
| turies do men appear that leave their i'm
press indelibly upon the world. There are
! only few that have caused to bend the
great stream Of human history. When we
| look back two centuries and see man
| towering above the bulge of the world and
/ hear men to-day discussing how much he
| has impressed mankind we can well afford
to inquire into the principles that led him
| on. Such a character has called togeth-
| er tonight.
ITO measure the doorways Of fixed stars
| one must take the orbit of the sun. To
measure Wesley one must take some great
| characters that have long since passed into
| dust but dust fructifed by time. There
| are such units of measure. The men who
| opposed Wesley were the mere scaffoldings
| of the structure of history, scaffoldings
| long since torn away, cast aside. useless
| after their part of antagonism was played.
| Scaffolding counts for nothing. Gone is the
| scaffolding of the Parthenon, and yet on
| the Acropolis still stands the Parthenon
| after twenty three hundred years. Gone is
the scaffolding of the pyramids. and yet
| still stand the pyramids much the same
| as when the first royal mummy was carried
| in with pomp and pageantry. Gone are
| the guards that gambled at the cross for
| the garments of Christ But the Galilean
| they crucified rises into universal love and
| alteration. So the men at Epworth-the lit
| tie thngs-that antagoniZed Wesley and
| even in their sacred robes melted the crowd
| to mob him in the streets and fields. They
are gone, remembered only as pests.
THE WORLDS TITANS.
There are great characters to which
Wesley may fairly be compared. In the
| structure of mind. grip of logic. persist
ence Of effort, genius for organization.
First of all is Napoleon Bonaparte, a gi-
| gantic figure, who walked the earth as If
he owned 1t. For his personal amusement
he reconstructed the map Of Europe In
| his breath hostile armies vanished. At his
touch Romes toppled. In his train con-
| quered kings trailed trophies. But it
was all for his personal ambition. His
star of empire set in a of blood. He
lived long enough to see all his great pur-
poses come to naught. Had Wesley used
the sword he would have built an enduring
empire.
The. second is Ignatius Loyola. soldier of
Pampeluna. ever TO be remembered as the
great head of the Society Of Jesus He
started late in life. He was thirty-two
years of age when he took up the labor of
organizing the educational forces Of the
Roman Church. To his followers have
| fhn dalin fo
tant works of that church. Jesuits have
prowled about the courts of king have
thronged the vestibules of republics. To
them the church gave mighty undertak-
ings. In scholarship organizing faculty,
resources, power. Wesley stands face to
face with Loyola before the world and the
coming centuries. Living centuries later
Wesley followed and antagonized the work
of the society.
had no Waterloo. He excelled Loyola be-
cause he had no state or army at his back
He was greater than Loyola in projecting
resources and in organizing power.
GREATER THAN SAUL.
1.-The third is SAUL the tentmaker OF
Tarsus. no mean city, Educated on a
grand scale for the work he was to do
Saul came into contact with the forceful
of all lands With his father he talked
in the language of Abraham and Moses
ON the streets he came in contact with
the panopoly OF the Roman power. From
the scholars he heard Greek All these
In Saul were united to make him the de-
fender OF that Nazarene in whom the He
brew. the Roman and the Greek were &c
| be united. Cities were his tutors. Languages
were his textbooks Nations were his com
panions. Continents were his opportuni-
ties The cross OF Christ was his inspira-
ton He was called to expand Judaism from
the cult OF a subjugated race to be the
| religion OF all ages. Wesley surpassed st
Paul in breadth OF itinerancy. In scholar.