Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-02-23

uunureu ana u1ty miners and C0wb boys
and their women and children, the saloon
keeper made young Hills stand UP while
the crowd filled his pockets with silver
$125 In all,
He was due to leave on the waiting
stage, but he shortly returned to the camp
with q hundred volume library and two
hundred hymn books. The saloonkeeper's
wife volunteered to take charge Of the
hymn books. and when he babe q final
farewell to the camp. a Sunday school. a
circulating library and a singing school
were In full swing.
How Hills Got His Famous Hssehsr
Library.
Another unusual thing tina Hills the
college student did was to ransack Brook
Ign for material for a Henry Ward Beecher
library. He gathered anything he could
lay hands on-books, manuscripts, pamph-
let's, interviews. As a result. when Bar
rows came to write his biography Of
Beecher he was compelled to consult the
Hills collection. with what frequency the
author gratefully acknowledges In his pre-
sheer admiration for Beechcr; today DIR.
Hills probably has the best Beecher
library In the world.
Professor Swing was another of the boy
Hills ideals. He studied the professors
essays and books over and over and sue
ceeded him on HIS death.
DIR. Hills ministerial career has been I'm
four noted churches. He went straight
from the Mccormick Theological Seminary
to Peoria, where he became the head OF
one Of the largest church In Central I'LL
nois. During n OF the three years that
he spent there he preached I'm a theater.
His next pastorate was In the leading
Presbyterian church In Evanston, and
while building a new church there he again
preached in a theater for four years, while
head OF the late Professor Swings church.
Former Secretary OF the Treasury Ly-
man J. Gage, was Instrumental In getting
DR.. Hills called to succeed Professor
Swing. Mr.. Gage. however, had never
heard DR.. Hills preach: he simply judged
from reports Of the Evanston preacher
that he vas peculiarly fitted to take the
place left vacant by the death OF so liberal
and humanity sympathetic q man as David
Swing. DR.. Hills mas been at Plymouth
since 1899. succeeding DR.. Lyman Abbott
on his retirement from the ministry, TO
give his attention to editorial work.
DR.. Hills impresses with the virile orig
inality of his own founded upon q ground
work of Beecher and Swing, his boyhood
ideals. Likely al not. you will hear q
sermon of good. hard, common sense
directed especially to young men.
Not a small part OF DIR. Hills fame rests
on his mt 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 successful In
appealing to the young men. His friends
and admirers say this Is largely due to the
circumstance that neither added years nor
increasing duties have caused him to lose
the young mans view point. DIR. Hills In
In his forty-eighth year.
Most Eloquent Of American Preachers
There Is no man In the American pulpit
today who can move a congregation 80
profoundly as could Henry Ward Beecher.
When he went south after the civil war,
the very men who threatened to do him
bodily harm by reason OF his steady anti
slavery utterances, were won as friends by
his eloquence.
Though the form OF service In the Cath
Ollie church Is not peculiarly adapted to the
development Of pulpit eloquence, many
ecclesiastical authorities OF various
hold that Archbishop Patrick
job Ryan, OF Philadelphia, Is our most
eloquent present day preacher. Certain
1t Is that when he breaches I'm the Cathe-
dral, he seems strangely TO move his hear
ers, and strangers In the Quaker City seek
to be directed TO the Cathedral about as
SAASAt so hAh@ - IN 49, ~ kf1 tok
and TO that church popularity known as
John Wanamaker's church"
The archbishop Is what has been termed
more than onc before now, a born orator.
While a school boy In Carlow college,
Ireland, he recited before Daniel O'Connel,
and that famous Irishman was SO 10
he prophesied a great future for
the boy II only he would cultivate his ma
tural gift or speech.
Hts yaaI Arad hu fha npaarninat1~s
words. the boy Ryan set to work to do
this, and as a result, he has become noted
not only In his church here, but abroad as
we'll, as one OF Its most gifted orators.
His reputation abroad began In, 1858 when,
the invitation Of Pope Plus TX, he de-
Lenten lectures In English at
Rome. At home, both In st. Louis, where he
first preached. and later In Philadelphia,
his eloquence was largely instrumental
in breaking down strong prejudice against
his church. This was the case especially
in Philadelphia. where, until the advent
Of Archbishop Ryan, Protestant and Cath
Ollie may be said to have been almost at
points-a situation surviving the
riotous days Of know nottingham.
A New Style Evangelist.
J. Wilbur Chapman has lately become
well known throughout the coun-
try. He is being hailed In Protestant cir
Giles as the fit successor Of Dwight l..
Moody. He has stirred up to religious en-
scores OF cites and towns from
ocean to ocean. His converts are said to
number thousands: even In Paterson. ".
hitherto the despair OF the revivalist,
he has had wonderful results. the whole
city practically turning out and sitting up
till long after midnight to listen to him.
DIR. Chapman has been an evangelist
from the start OF his ministerial career.
Shortly after going TO his first church, he
began a revival that gathered In some OF
the principal men of the town. In i've
years he added 500 person to the member
ship OF the First Reformed church in AL
bany, N, Y, his second pastorate. Then
went TO Bethany church, Philadel-
ph.a, John Wanamaker's church." where
he increased the membership by LOO in
three years. The ensuing years he spent
in evangelical work throughout the coun-
try. Until December. 1902, he was pastor
first, at Bethany again. and the Fourth
church. New York. Then he
became the executive secretary of the gem
eral assembly's committee on evangelistic
work for the Presbyterian church, and
as such he has won international fame.
DIR. Chapman's up to date method OF
reaching the people Is undoubtedly re-
sponsible for much OF h!s latter day sue
cess.
When he goes into a city, he divides IL
districts. and a preacher and a singer
Is sent into each district. There Is no
meeting as under the old system of
The work OF evangelization Is
right TO the doors or the people.
DR.. Chapman Is a year younger than
DIR. Hills. Each has for a leading charac-
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