The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-01-21


knowledges in his preface. The collection
was made through sheer admiration for
Beecher. today Dr. Hl3lis probably has
the best Beccher library in the world
Prof Swing was another OF the boy
Hills ideals. He studied the professor
essays and books over and over and sue
ceeded him on his death.
Or. Hillis's ministerial career has been
In four noted churches. He went straight
from the Mccormick Theological semi
nary TO Peoria, where he became the
head of one Of the largest churches In
, central Illinois During one OF the three
years that he spent there he Preached I'm
theater. HIS next pastorate was I'm the
leading Presbyterian church I'm Evanston,
and while building new church there he
again preached In thcater. He also
preached In theater Tor four years.
while head OF the late Prof. Swings
church
Former Secretary of the Treasury Iy-
man j, Gage was instrumental In getting
DR.. Hills called to succeed Prof Swing.
MT Gage, however. had never heard Dr'
Hills preach; he simply judged from re-
ports Of the Evanston preacher that he
was peculiarly fitted to take the place left
vacant by the death OF so liberal and hu-
manly sympathetic a man as David
Swing. DIT Hills has been at Plymouth
since 1899, succeeded DR.. Lyman Abbott
on his retirement from the m.aStry, TO
give his attention to editorial work.
II you journey 10 Brooklyn some time
this year for the express purpose of
hearing Dr. Hills preach, you will hear
n man VINO VIII impress you with n NlTlle
originality OF his own founded upon
groundwork OF Beccher and Swing his
boyhood ideals Likely as not, you win
hear sermon of good, hard, common
sense directed especially to young men.
Not a small part OF Dr. Hilliss fame
rests on his sermons and books to young
men, one OF these books has gone
through thirty editions In this country
and several abroad. 1t Is hardly too much
TO say that OF all the great preachers of
today he has been the most uniformly
HFR.a Tt,I Ifr,.r
His friends and admirers cay this Is
largely due to the circums tlnce that nei-
thcr added years nor increasing duties
have caused him TO lose the young mans
viewpoint Dr. Hills is In his forty
eighth year.
Most Eloquent of American Preachers.
There is no man in the American pull
pit today who can move a congregation
so profoundly as could Henry Ward
Beechcr When he went South after the
civil war. the very men who threatened
TO do him bodily harm by reason OF his
steady anti-slayery utteTances. were won
as friends by his eloquence-
Though the form OF service In the Cath
ole church is not peculiarly adapted TO
the development OF pulpit eloquence,
many ecclesiastical authorities OF various
churches hold that Archbishop Patrick
John Ryan OF Philadelphia is our most
eloquent present day preacher Certain
II Is that when he breaches In the cathe-
dral he seems strangely TO move his hear
seek 10 be directed to the cathedral about
as often as they ask the way 10 the tenn
pie and TO that church peculiarly known
az John Wanamakcr's church"
Tho archbishop is what has been
termed more than once before now,
born orator While a school boy I'm Car
low college Ireland he rcCltcd before
Daniel O'Connel, aud that famous Irish
man was so moved that he prophcsicd n
great future for the boy II only he would
cultivate his natural gift OF speech.
His zeal fired by the emguClpntOr'S
words, the boy Ryan get to work 10 do
this, and as a result. he has become noted
not only In his church here, but abroad
as well, as one OF lts most gifted orators.
Ills reputation abroad began I'm 1865 when,
on the Invitation OF Pope Plus TX, he
delivered lenten lectures In English at
Rome. At home both in St Louis. where
he first preached. and later In Phiadel-
phia. his cloqucnCc waS largely instru-
mental in breaking down strong prejudice
against his church This was tho case
especially in PhiladoIphia. where until
the advent OF Archbishop Ryan, Protest
ant aud Catholic may be said to have
been almost at swords polnts-a situation
surviving the riotous days OF Know
Nothlngism
When YOU behold Archbishop Ryan as
ceudinS to the pulpit. you VIII hear an
words and, perhaps once I'm the sermon
telling a lauFhablo anecdotc or a witty
one. TO acccntuatc pet point.
A New Style Evangelist.
a man OF the name of j. Wilbur Chap
man has lately become mighty well
known throughout the country. lie *
being hailed In Protestant circles as the
nt successor Of Dwight l. Moody. lie
has stirred up TO religious enthusiasm
scores of cities and towns from ocean TO |
ocean. His converts are said TO number !
thousands: even I'm Paterson. y j.. hlth- /.
erto the despair or the revlyHlist, he has |
had wonderful results, the whole city |
practically turning out and sitting up till