The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-08-09

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southern States has the kindest feel
; ing and offers the best home.
The newspaper scribe who sits here
in London, and undertakes to give
the people at home any just and ade-
quate conception Of the Baptist con-
gress will find that he has large
contract on hand. One addres fol-
lows another through the three daily
sessions. One might name the topics
discussed, and give his ideas of lii
individual speakers, but even TINS
would be sort of composite patch
work, and not the thing needed.
That the congress has been a great
and influential meeting and has made
itself felt in London and in all Eng
land is manifestly true. It's influence
will surely be felt in aiding the pass
i've resisters'' here, who are being i'm
prisoned and having their goods sold
rather than submit quietly to the
paving of taxes for the maintenance
| of schools in which their children are
being taught the doctrines Of the
Church Of England. The congress will
meet again. The time and place and
programme are in the hands of a
committee, who will duly report. The
idea of world-congres, without leg
islative functions, is peculiar to the
Baptists, and the success of this one
will assure US Of others that are to
follow.
| I find that I cannot write as fast
as travel. Yesterday I divided the
/ day into two parts. In the morning,
a. party Of us went up to visit Wind
sor Castle, the home of the king, parts
Of which are more than a thousand
years old. 1t was in the beginning
of this journey that I made my first
"bad break Five of US We're to-
getner, and we were late, having only
two minutes to buy tickets and reach
the train. We went down under
ground to reach the depot, and heard
great commotion, as if the train was
at hand. Standing at the ticket Office
window, the rest of the party clamor-
| ing and running about, screaming out
that the train was at hand, could not
! for the life of me recall the name Of
the place to which I wanted to go;
so I finally became desperate, and
asked the agent to give me tickets to
the place where they bury dead kings.
The agent compassionated my con-
fusion and handed out tickets for
Windsor.
But now to tell about my visit
about the chapel Of George HI
about the tower where James I was
mprisoned-about the room from
which Anne Boleyn went to the Lon
don Tower to be beheaded-about the
royal china-the dining table 20o
feet long and 10 feet wide-about- the
presence chamber, the sleeping apart
| ments for royal visitors-all these
| things would come nigh to making a
| book, and I am not now in that busi-
ness. In the distance, could see the
former home of William Penn, where
he resided before he set out to estab-
lish a republic in Pennsylvania, and
I got a glimpse, too, of Stoke Pogies'
church, where Gray wrote his i'm
mortal Elegy. Irecorded many items
of interest in my note book for future
| use.
On returning to London at p. nl.,
we set out to find Bunhill Fields
formerly Bonehill, or boneyard.
10000 persons have been buried
there, most of them in the time of the
great Black Plague, so wildly por-
1
trayed by Eugene Sue. Bunhill is
about half mile from the Bank Of
England, and lies in the section made
famous by the preaching Of Whitfield
and Wesley. After a diligent search.
We came upon the consecrated spot,
and stood uncovered beside the graves
of John Bunyan, Daniel De Foe and
Isaac Watts, the great hymn-writer.
All these tombs and their inscriptions
can tell about later, but not now.
Just across the street is John Wes-
ley's chapel, the house in which he
died, and the grave in which he IS
| buried. Close to his side is the
grave of Adam Clarke, the great
Methodist commentator, and not far
away the grave Of Richard Watson,
author Of the theological Institutes.
I stood in Herley's pulpit, and felt
that hOJ1, cyro,,pd P,,t ir