Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-31
THE YEARS RECORD.
DR.. Radcliffe Discusses Progress and
oss During 1906

Rev. DIR. Wallace Radcliffe yesterday
morning at the New York Avenue Presby
terrain Church gave historic review of the
year In his theme he told of the events of
1906 that have brought forth benefit TO man
kind. the great disasters which have oc
CURED and the great men and women who
have died during the past twelve months
He referred to the struggle in Russia, the
awakening of China, educational freedom in
England, church and state separation in
France. the universal protest against the
Congo atrocities, the revolution against dis
honesty and corporate oppression, the in
slant brotherhood in the relief of stricken
San Francisco and the intimate relations of
the United States with Cuba and South
America. He spoke of the unexampled pros
perity manifested in this years crops
of wheat. DR.. Radcliffe enumerated the
great books which had been published dur
ing the year, putting among the foremost,
Harris American Nation Hurburts
Passing of Korea" Churchill's "Aniston,"
Sinclairs THE Jungle and Orr's Prob
lens of the Old Testament"
OF the great men and women who died
during the year included in his list were:
In commerce, MarsGall Field, Russell Sage
and the railroad / residents, Spencer and
Cassatt in statecraft. King Christian TX
of Denmark, Carl Schurz. Senator German
and Lady Curzon: among the reformers,
Mcneil author Of the eigI.t-hour move
ment; Susan B. Anthony, Mrs. Booth,
mother of the Salvation Army, and Had
ley, apostle of the unfittest. who, from the
standing of gentleman of refinement and
culture, became a drunl. Ird gambler
criminal and outcast, but who lifted himself
up again and became the friend of the
friendless, the brother of the bum and the
dean of all American rescue workers. 1t
is said declared DR.. Radcliffe, that lOO-
COO persons crossed the threshold Of his mis-
sion to a better life
In education Dr. Radcliffe enumerated
McIver, educational statesman of North
Carolina, and Harper, whose monument Is
the University of Chicago; in art, East
man johnson, American portrait painter,
and Stanford White architect; in music,
Muir. author of The Maple Leaf" Cana
da's national hymn, and Garcia, the most
Industrious singing teacher of the century.
The men of science mentioned were
Swan NJ. Burnett of Washington and Pierre
Currie, discoverer Of radium. In literature,
he speaks of Mrs Craigie John Oliver
Hobbes) as brilliant but cynical; Of Isben
as a militant individualst, a pessimist and
agitator in literature; Of Garrett as the
greatest librarian of his time; of Curtin as
scholar In seventy languages, and of the
two old educators SwitZler and Montford
Among the missionaries he said, were
Lebaree, the patriarch OF HISTORIANS; Ed
dy, beloved man of Syria; Miss Nassau
theological teacher for forty years in At
RIGA. In the church, he recalled Canon
Tristan Chaplain McCabe and Sam Jones'
unique and unconventional" Among
those from theological seminaries he named
Darling, Mcintosh, Alexander and Beatty.
But the greatest loss to the church"
he asserted, is the blind preacher of Edin-
burgh, Matheson, artist of spiritual life
great In Oratory, scholarship and thought