The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-16
SERMON ON EXPLORER.
DIR. M'LANE SPEAKS OF LATE
 HENRY H. STANLEY.

Congregation of Plymouth Church
 Hear Account of stanIey's I.ife-Les-
 son Drawn from Early Struggle and
 Final Success.
 Plymouth church congregation listen ed to an able address delivered yester- day morning by Rev. Dr. McLane upon
 The Moment and the Man-Henry M. Stanley" The music was well render ed by the choir and congregation, the hymns sung being Father, Whate'er of Earthly Bliss.'' and "Yes, for Me, for Me, He Careth.'
 Dr. McLane spoke, in part, as fol- lows:
 So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God''-Genesis 45:S.
 This was not a conviction of faith forecasting the future, but the conclu- sion of reason interpreting events which had already transpired Noth- ing is more common than for men who have accomplished some good or great thing in the world to feel profoundly convinced that God has ordered their life. Near the close of his life General Grant said that he had sought but one place for his own advancement, and in that he was a comparative failure. He said that, apart from any plan of his own, he had been used as an instru- ment in Gods hand to accomplish Gods purposes. As if to make His purpose more apparent, the pioneers of the world in discovery and in civilization have often been not only sons of poor parents, but even waifs thrown upon the world as if to drift in any fortui- tous current, e. g., Joseph, Moses, the lawgiver; Romulus, the founder of inn perial Rome, suckled by a wolf and reared by the shepherd Faustulus; Co., lumbus, engaged in commercial enter prises or military adventures in the Mediterranean, and, lastly, Henry M. Stanley, the African explorer.
 Almost sixty years since a large boy or young man named Price bore on his , back to the St. Asaph Union work house a small boy named Rowlands, whose home had been with his mater nal grandfather, by whose sudden death he was rendered homeless. The grand father had fondly called him My man of the future, though no future of any value now seemed open to him. In this poorhouse young Rowlands passed many years, showing great industry and intelligence and teaching in the latter part of his time there some of the younger children, At the age of fifteen or sixteen he left this place and, prompted by a spirit of adventure, en- gagged as cabin boy on board a schoon- CT for New Orleans. There he entered the employ of merchant, who is said to have adopted him and whose name he took, Henry Morton Stanley. Mir. Stanley died intestate and at the age of twenty-one young Stanley found himself thrown on his own resources He enlisted in the Confederate army was captured and became a soldier In i the Federal navy, where he won honor 1 for bravery. At the close of the war he went to Asia Minor as correspondent i for newspapers. There, it is said, he remarked to somel Russian officers: T shall see the heart of Africa yet before die, and do something there that win be remembered
 Tn 1868 he was sent by Mir. Bennett, of the New York Herald, to Abyssinia, where a war was being waged and where Stanley first became acquainted with Africa. The year following he was in Spain, where rebellion was rife. i Meanwhile a report had reached Great l Britain in 1867 that Livingston had been killed. This report was suhse- quently denied, but no definite tidings could be obtained and 1t seemed that 1 Livingston had been swallowed up in the Dark Continent. If I remember correctly, MT. Bennett telegraphed l Stanley to meet him in Paris, and met him with the question, twill you go to Africa and find LAvingston?n Stanley said, T will This was in October, | 1869
 Making trip through Palestine, Arr
 menia and Persia, Stanley finally sailed
 from Bombay and arrived at Zanzibar
 in the early part of January, 1871 With an expedition of two hundred men he
 traversed great regions, through unex-
 plored forests, and in something over two hundred days reached Lake Tam lganyika, where in certain village he l found Livingston. With him he explor-
 ed a considerable portion of the coun- 1 try bordering the lake and then march, ed to the coast and bore Livingston's l diary and papers to England. Later he returned as an explorer sent out by the IHerald and the London Telegraph to
 supplement the explorations of Living ston.
 This time he descended the Congo, of
 which adventure I remember hearing