The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-04

1t would be gratifying to an old
hapdler of the good gray goose quilP'
or Faber number two, to know that he
helped others while inditing commu-
nications whether eSsaying original
composition or cleaning facts from
others or gathering sheaves from the
wild field of reading. Did you ever
hear or read of Rev. Daniel McG1lVary,
n Presbyterian missionary in foreign
lands? He is a man to know about
and to hold in high esteem. He was
born in North Carolina, was educated
at w J. Bingham's school, at David
son College and at Princeton Theolo-
gical Seminary. He is of Scotch an
cestry, is genuine lover of his native
Carolina, and is richly endowed with
ability conservation, true plety ana
thorough devotion to the great work
of evangeliZation in other lands white
for the cleaner. Miss Lillian j. Curtis
i'm an interesting biographical sketch
of him in the Charlotte Presbyterian
Standard, writes of him as one whose
name should be q household WORD
by reason of the fact that among her
living sons of renown, in all the va
rious callings and professions OF lie,
not one can surpass that of this great
pioneer missionary. We give him THIS
first place of honor not alone because
of his colossal strength of character:
intellectual power and integrity on
Christian life, but because or the
praise which the work of his own
hands gives unto him" she theis
continues and he Is surely worthy Oh
all praise and honor from MS reno"
countrvmen. as well as from the
church he so nobly and Chrlstlaniy
represents:
LAS one of the greatest of pioneer
missionaries, the place OF DR.. McGll-
vary is assured. Neither Carey nor
Judson surpassed him in strength OF
faith and zeal of purpose Neltner
Patton nor Chalmers has outranKed
him in the wonders of their acheVe-
ments, and not one of the other heroes
of missionary effort has had more evil
dence of Gods blessing upon their
work.
His first field of labor in foreign
lands was i'm the great city of Bangkok.
i'm Siam, for which he sailed in 1857.
L quote again for it is interesting:
''It was there that, in 1860, he was
married to Miss Sophia r. Bradley,
the daughter of Rev. D. B. Bradley,
M. D., of the American Missionary As
sociation. But it was not, until 1868,
at the time when our country was so
sadly torn by civil strife, that he
initiated the work that was to make
him famous.
1.-THE spirit of ST. Paul to push for
ward into the wide virgin soil be-
yond, ever burned within him, and he
determined to plant mission among
the Laos people of Northern Siam.
The country was unexplOred and the
people unknown, but he, accompanied
by DR.. Wilson. pushed through its
mountain walls upon a tour of lnvestl-
CATION"
There was hero indeed in the great
81 III fol
The brief story of his adventures, his
bravery. his success and romantic ex-
periences, is indeed full of human in
terest and intrepidity. He and his
wife, in January, 1867, set out for their
remote home in Laos, in little boat.
500 miles distant. and up stream. He
was accompanied by his brave wife,
who has ever been and still is to him,
i'm the full sense of the word, help
meet. The current was so strong. that
rowing was Impossible, and the boat
had to be poled all the way, not reach
ing its PARKWAY destination until the
first of April.
From this time on, 1.-The history OF
the mission is full of romantic interest
and reads in things spiritual like a
chapter from the book of Acts. Henry
Martyr calmly asserts that the con-
version of Krishna Pal. of India, was
as stupendous a miracle as the raising
of the dead, and in every whit was
that of Nan Inta, of the Laos Mission,
as marvellous"
The heroic missionary still survives,
old, worn with service. full of zeal and
piety, and looks forward with bright
hopes to the Heavenly Land beyond.
The editor of Kings Weekly" pub
lished at Greenville, N. c., sent me
recent issue f.his paper. There were
a half dozen or more paragraphs re-
lating to North Carolina in the great
war. | learn that on the first day of
the Seven Days fights near Richmond,
Va. that every commissioned officer
hut one was killed in the First North
Carolina Regiment. At Reams's Sta
ton. Company Fl. went in with 81 men
and came out with but 2. 1t belonged
to the 9th North Carolina Regiment
At Cold Harbor Company G., Sth N. c.,
did not have an officer when the battle
ended. After the fight at Fort Harri-
son il had but 9 men. The reference
10 South Anna Bridge will require
more attention at another time. An
old soldier of Raleigh. and man of
intelligence and prominence, writes to
me with reference to my first cousin,
Captain Bernard b. Guion. who now
resides at or near Battleboro. He
says: There was no better or Drawer
soldier i'm the Confederate Army than
Capt b. b. Guion, and his friends