The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-08-02

made without outlining the three
minutes speeches Of these delegates,
but if I undertake it here, to what ex-
trenaities will this letter go? 1t must
suffice to say that the Baptist faith
and the English language seem both to
be cosmopolitan, for every man who
spoke used the English language. This
was true in the case of Russian
uoblenlan who came from his castle
in the far north of Russia, true Of a
coal-black brother from Congo, true
of the brother from Norway, who de-
clared that even there it was never
too cold to baptize people in water,
and true Of the Australian as we'll as
of the young man who came from the
province of Assam in northern India.
Of couse their speech was rude and
broken, but still it was the English
tongue they used. In singing their
home songs however, not more than
one stanza being given, they used
their native speech and native air. To
me it seemed that the Russian and the
French labored most in using our
language. The Frenchman, accord
| ing to his nature, was nervous and
gushy. He said his happiness knew
no bounds, that on reaching Eng
land, he had a desire to kiss every one
he met. Thereupon the venerable
presiding officer, Judge Willis, arose,
and he and the French delegate
smacked each other on the cheek with
a resounding kiss.
The next morning, Wednesday the
18th, serious question arose-the
Congress is to meet daily at $50 at
and at Z o'clock, thus taking up the
whole day, while yet here is the Lon
don of my boyhood dreams, full Of
history and story and fable, to be seen
and visited. I decided to do some
judicious skipping with reference to
both the city and the Congress, and
by this rule T am still being guarded.
To tell all have seen and heard here
on this paper would be impossible.
But DR.. Alexander McLaren, the
greatest living sermonizer-not the
greatest preacher-whose produc-
tions pass current in the religious pa
oers of all denominatiou5- 20 years
pastor of the church at Manchester-
was to be-. elected permanent chair
man; so I attended the congress dur
ing part Of the morning, and then
4 went to the Tower Of London. DR..
McLaren is venerable gentleman, so
years old, rather small Of frame, with
! a sharp, small voice, and a face all
aglow with light. Near to him sat
Drs. I. b. Meyer and John Clifford,
whose names are now fixed in history.
Near to these dignitaries sat DR.. Pres
bridge from the United States, Of
whom DR.. McLaren spoke in his
opening address as the "putative
father of the congress- This is all
too true, for no matter who first
proposed the meeting, Presbridge did
most in making it up and in bringing
it to pass.
By II M, party Of had set
out to visit the London Tower, on the
banks of the Thames, once castle.
then a palace and finally prison
now store-house Of all manner Of
curiosities. This tower is composed
Of a series of many buildings around
an open square, and reaches back a
thousand years or more into English
history. I have no time now to hunt
up days and dates. must try to
| tell about it in some other way. I
prisoners languished until summoned
to die at the block. I read dozens
of sorrowful Inscriptions they had
traced upon the walls. I saw the
spot where Annie Boleyn, Katharine
Howard and Lady Jane Grey were
beheaded. They pointed out to me
the room from whose window Lady
Jane saw her husband carried to the
scaffold to be beheaded, not more
than 100 feet away, to which same
scaffold she herself afterwards went.
I saw-but it would take a book to
| tell it ali, and must bide my time,
| which may come at some later day.
C. C. Brown.
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