Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-11-24

occasionally and am always looking FOR
signs " decay,
WANTS TO REST in WOODLAND.
'stlll, my health s good. continued
the octogenarian preacher and J am
hoping TO 90 10 England. as want 70
see the old country once more. There
Is only one thing that holds me back!
I fear may die there. ! don't want go
do that. This Is my home. my coun-
try aud L is here | want TO be buried
My real working life has been IN the
United States and for IL. Here my
children were born and here my vito
died. When pass away ! want TO be
placed beside her IN The beautiful ccme-
terry at Woodlawn,'
FROM THE ANVIL 70 THE PULPIT
During our conversations DR. Collyer
told me how he became preacher, His
father was a Methodist and he was
brought up under the shadow OF John
Wesley. He was % years old when he
was converted, and II was shortly after
that that he began 10 speak in meet
ings. The Methodsts thought well OF
him and licensed him as Il local preach
er This was about two years before
he came 10 America. He continued hts
preaching while working at his trade
here. and in time began to act az sup
ply IN the Unitarian church. II was
about then he discovered that he did
not believe I'm many Methodist doc
trncs. He would MOI preach total de-
pravity nor eternal damnation, aud he
was also shaky I'm regard TO the trinity.
The Methodlsts learned this, and at one
of their quarterly conferences took him
TO task for his loose d0ctrinnl state
ments. They asked him II he did not
think he was out OF place In the Motho-
dist church, and when he said h.
thought he was they refused to renew
his license, and he ceased 60 be Meth
odist preacher.
II was shortly after this that Dr.. Coll.
yer became a Unitarian There was
need for preacher of that church in
Chicago who could act not only as
temporary supply. but also labor among
the poor and teach a night school. The
name Of this young blacksmith was
suggested and the result was that he
went to Chicago.
Dr. Collyer says that his blacksmith
employer was disguised at his leaving.
and that he told him he would keep
his anvil ready for him for one Year,
for he knew that he would come back.
Upon this young Collyer replied that
he never would. and he never did.
Dr. Collyer succeeded at once in
Chicago. He began preaching there
in 1859. and soon became one of the
famous pastors of the city. He re-
NAMED there 20 years. and then went
Ia New York where he now Hives.
While he was preaching in Chicago
one % his parishioners took a Euro
pean tour. during which he visited
the blacksmith shop whore his pastor
was apprentlccd IL was shown the
very anvil upon which he worked. and
was so delighted thereat that he
bought IL and shipped IL TO Chicago,
where e was placed in the lecture
room OF the church.
HOW ROBERT COLLYER WAS ED
UCATED
AZ We chattcd | asked DIR. Collyer
to tell me how he got his education.
He is one of the best-read men of the
time--his English is the purest of
Anglo Saxon, his talk is as clean and
clear cut as a copper plate engraving,
and his prayers ar poetry In prose.
He is, should say. one Of the we'll
educated public men Of the DAY, and
that notwith standing his life was be-
gun in linen factory and his boy
hood and young manhood spent al the
anvil. Said DR., CollyTe:
II went to school until | was
years old and had the advantage Of
two winters instruction at night
school when was II and Is. l was