The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-22
CHARLES WARREN FAIRBANKS
Interesting Sketch of the Famous
Indiana Senator.


The following sketch of Senator
Fairbanks was written by Savoyard.
the well known political authority and
a writer on the Washington Post:
Charles Warren Fairbanks a sena-
tor in congress from the state of Indi-
ana, is the son of Loriston Monroe
Fairbanks, and eighth in descent
from jonathan Fayerbanke, who first
brought the name to America He
was born at UnionVilIe Center Union
county, Ohio, May II, 1852, and early
in life his father taught him the use
of tools required in wagon making
and employed him on the farm as a
help to till the soil. He was made to
practice the virtues of industry and
frugality; but this stern, old Puritan
father, who feared God, and nothing
else; who believed in Ben Wade and
Joshua Giddings. who daily renounced
the devil and al his works-this old
Puritan father taught the boy two
other lessons, without a mastery of
which the wisest and the most learned
man is poorly educated-the boy was
taught to practice self-denial and to
be self-reIiant. Without these how
miserable is the genius of intellect!
Without these how tyrannical is the
genius of liberty
The parents of Charles Warren
Fairbanks were Meth odists. Have you
reflected what a mighty force the
Methodist church is2 In what is per-
haps T. B. Macaulay's greatest essay
or Is It III the history he SpeculateS
how the Church of England might
have made of Wesley an instrument
as potent for its advantage as the RO-
man Catholic church made of Igna-
thus Loyola, had the Dolity of the
English establishment been as wise as
was the Catholic. Joanna Southcote
at Rome would have been another St
Theresa In piety, in zeal, in devotion
in seif-immolation. in enthusiasm
MethOdisTn is to Professionalism what
the Society of Jesus was to Catholic
ism. Your Circuit rider was a pio-
neer. He was colDOrteur, shepherd
neighbor. and friend. doing the work
( of God as it was given him to know
the will of God His flock were found
/ in the cabin. rather than in the man.
/ sion. and usually it was the clapbOard
| roof through which his prayers as
/ cended to heaven Who of US now
/ approaching three-score does not re-
/ mem Der that faithful old horse he be-
| strobe. those enormous saddlebags
filed with the simple literature of the
4 church. and designed to, and caIcu-
1 lated to- make men and women. boys
I and girls better and happier The
/ crack of the hunters rife is the frs
] saIutation civilization gives in the
4 forest prime neval- Then follows the
4 close behind is the fervent devotiOns
+ and pious exhortations of the MethO-
1 dist preacher, proclaiming the saliva
1 ton purchased by the precious blooC
Il of Calvary.
They believed in getting religion.
and they did not have very great faitl
in the religion that was easy to get
4 They believed in the mourn ers
/ bench" in the agony of repentance, II
1 the efficacy of prayer, In the ecstas.
/ of Cod. They hid not their light un
I der a bushel.. and saint or sinner, h
isa mighty ignorant or a might.
! prejudiced man who win deny tn
Methodist church great credit 70
much of the virtues of American citi
4 zenship-
1t was in this religious household