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

methods of defence against foes. At
tie northwest corner is tn. Phoenix
Tower where Charles I stool and saw
his army defeated on the Rowton
Moor. We visited the house where the
Earl Of Dudley lived, saw the secret
closet in which he was concealed for
six weeks, the underground passage
+! to the water tower to which ne was
carried and beheaded. The whole
story is told in Walter Scott's Peveril
Of the Peak, which must most surely
read again. I visited the church in
which Matthew Henry, the great
PRESBYTERIAN commentator was first
buried, and then went to the monu-
ment which marks his present resting
place. The Chester Cathedral, is on
the bank Of the river Dee, a part Of it
is modern and part more than
thousand years old. A whole letter
would be necessary to describe this.
ancient pile, and so must pass on.
At 11.45, our train pulled out OF
Chester. At Crewe, a truck full of
baskets was pushed along the plat
form. We found that they contained
lunch, and bought one for two shill-
ings and six pence. The basket con-
tanned chicken, ham, bread, lettuce
salad, cheese, butter, mustard, salt
and pepper, with knife, fork, ano
paper napkin, and these last, with the
basket, We're left in the coach on
reaching London, where we arrived at
4 o. M, coming in at the great Enston
Station of the London and North
Western Road. Here the din and
tumult began. The baggage check
ing system is unknown in this country.
Each man goes to the baggage van
and claims his own. His hackman
then loads it on the cab, and away he
goes through hurrying, crowded,
clamoring world, at the cost Of one
shilling for any distance less than two
miles, and an additional half shilling
for each mile beyond two. We. drove
into the hollow court Of the great
Hotel Cecil, and after a hasty toilet,
I reported at the Baptist Headquart-
ers, 4 Southampton Row, where I
found the executive forces of the
Baptist Congress.
The Congress did not begin until
Tuesday-the next day-at 5 ?. M,
so we utilized the morning hours to
see something of the city by taking a
ride Of seven or eight miles up and
down the River Thames, beginning
near London bridge.so fabled in child
hoods stories, along the Victoria
Embankment, the Houses of Parllia-
ment, and on to Hammersmith, seven
miles up the river. The Thames in
London rises and falls about Is feet
with each tide It's ebb tide is tremen-
dous, and would sweep one away
without mercy. Along the great
Embankment, walled in and paved
with stone, and running from the
Houses of Parliament to the Black
Friar's Bridge, one sees many life
preservers hanging in convenient
hooks, to be thrown to persons who
have the misfortune to fall into the
mad river.
At 5 p. M, Exeter Hall, with room
for $500 persons was as full Of men
and women as it well could be. had
read of Exeter. It was the hall in
which Mr.. Spurgeon preached some
times, it was the hall where Mr..
Beecher spoke in '63, and when the
sympathy of the English people for
the North and away from the South.
During his wonderful grafton he told
of all the issues, and then declared
that for six months the Northern
army had been within 80 miles Of the
capital city of the South. A wag in the
audience cried out, '0Why do they not
enter and capture it?'' Like flash
of lighting, the answer came. 'Be-
cause we are fighting Americans and
not British
While the hall is large, it is not
large enough. 1t is merely a great
room possibly 120 by 800 feet in size,
having large raised platform and
organ at one end, an inclined floor,
and small gallery for 800 at the other
end. The acoustics are bad, and made
worse by the flags Of all the nations
hung on wires across the room. One
who sits 100 feet from the speakers
ooy J,oor b,,t little and on tho whole