Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-08-31
ENGLANDS GREAT SEAPORT.
DR.. NEVILLE SPENDS A WEEK VERY
PLEASANTLY IN LIVERPOOL.
THE PAN-PRESByTER|AN COUNCIL.
A Harbor Full Of Shipping Sessions Of the
Counei'--vist to Ancient Town OF
Chester-0ther Matters.
Correspondence Keowee Courier, I

in Liverpool. In fact, this was, in
one sense, my objective point, for l
came to this city as delegate to the
Pan Presbyterian Council, which met
here on June 20, and continued in
session till July 7th.
Liverpool is one of the important
cities of the world. 1t is said there
is larger volume of shipping busi-
ness done in Liverpool and New
York than in any other two cities in
the world. Liverpool is situated on
the Mersey river, which affords an
outlet for all kinds of YES els to the
sea, which is fifteen or twenty miles
away. They claim over 100000 in.
habitants in the city proper, and TAX
ing in the suburban towns there are
about million people. Birkenhead,
which is just across the river, has
about 100000 people. The city has
63 docks, including some on the
Birkenhead side, the river-fronts on
the Liverpool side being seven and
one-fourth miles long. The city has
floating quay on the river, $500
feet long, approached by seven
bridges, the longest in the world.
There are hundreds of ships here
all the time from all parts of the
world, coming and going all the
time. went down to the river one
afternoon to see the "Baltic," the
largest ship in the world. She was
just on the eve of making her maiden
voyage to New York. This ship is
726 feet long and has capacity of
$4,000 tons. She can carry 5000
passengers with crew of $50. 1t
takes about 225 tons of coal day to
!, carry her over the sea.
There seems to be a great deal of
business going on in Liverpool all
the time. Much of our cotton is
shipped to this place, though very
little seems to be manufactured here.
visited the cotton exchange with
friend who lived in the city, and
while there thought of what curse
such institutions have been to the
people.
But Liverpool has other things
besides business enterprises. She
has institutions of learning and
charitable institutions. She also has
splendid churches and beautiful parks
and flower gardens. | was in seve-
raj Of the churches and visited one
of the parks in the city, Seton park,
which has III it 720 acres of land.
This park was Cor rather the land)
was bought from the Earl of Seton
for about million and quarter of
dollars and was laid out at an addi-
tional cost of about 100000. 1t has
many attractive features, lakes,
groves of trees, flowers and birds,
etc. There are many fine halls and
public buildings in the city also
many large and well equipped hotels.
The city has substantial look and
seems to be rapidly growing.
But what about the Pan Presby-
terian Council? This is body
which is composed Of representatives
of all the Reformed churches in the
world holding the Presbyterian sys-
TEN, or at least all who will come
into it, for it is strictly a voluntary
organization and exercises no au-
thority over the church 5 as to doc
trine or life. But it - as been a
power for good along many lines.
1t has e>erted mighty influence in
bringing the Presbyterian families
of the world closer together. In
this way, we have been able to look
each other in the face and appreciate
the things which belong to us all,
and these are the important things.
This council embraces branches of
the Presbyterian church in the fol-
lowing countries: Austria, Hungary,
Belgium, France, Greece, Italy,
Russia, Switzerland, England, Scot
land, Ireland, Foremosa, Africa,