Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-30
HISTORICAL SERMON
REV. DIR. WALLACE RADCLIFFE
GIVES ANNUAL REVIEW.

Rev. DR.. Radcliffe. pastor of the New
YORK Avenue Presbyterian Church. yester-
day morning delivered his annual histori-
| cal sermon. His text was: These crowned
the year with thy goodness" Psalms
| xvii.
Napoleon crowned himself DIR. Rad
chHe said. To-day the good hand of our
God puts the brilliant crown upon the
GROW OF the year. His love encircles it
each month a gem, each day pearl The
crown is a tiara, iron and gold and sill
yer, brilliant with His precious gifts of
liousht ana enterprise and victory. The
clowh upon the nation-industrial gain,
national advance and financial distress
ne crown upon the world-brotherhood
rehsious growth and material waste The
CROWN upon the church-unity, spirituality
ana modernism. He then revealed the Diff
Ierent Jewels as shown in the life work
OF tne distinguished dead of the year:
IN science. Haswell, oldest and most dis
55lnsulshed of civil engineers: McClintock.
uiscoverer or fate of the Franklin ex-
piorers; Heilprin. geographer and ex-
Plorer' Ralph great authority on birds;
saunders, English ornithologist: Kiilman
swedish botanist: Herschel, British as
tlonomer: James. microscopic; Rogers,
| inventor of the electric push button of
everyday use. But the three brilliant
stars OF first magnitude were, Mende1ey
russian chemist. geologist, educator phi
iosopher. who discovered for the world of
science the period law as important as
NeWton.s discovery of the law of gravi-
tation; Perkin the romance OF modern
chemistry, who at eighteen discovered the
method of producing from the coal tar
wastes the aniline dyes, artificial per-
Tunes ana numberless drugs of today;
CARROLL. of our own city, a real hero, who
surrendered himself to medical science
and by his voluntary sacrifice secured in.
teiilsent and enduring victory over the
scouTse OF yellow fever, and bestowed
health and life to generations, worthy of
place among the heroes whose statues
grace our avenues: Lord Kelvin whose
life Is spanned between a college and
westminster Abbey. wonderfully combin-
ing the abstract and practical, mathema-
| tican. philosopher versatile inventor and
adventurous business man. whom the fu-
ture Will rank with Calico, Newton and
fascai-a Christian scientist who believed
word"
In art" continued Dr. Radcliffe, "Hoyt,
scenic artist; Clark, artist and illustrator;
Cesarin, painter. sculptor, writer, soldier,
and, above all. Saint GaudeHs, Americas
greatest sculptor, who ranks with the
genuises Of the Renaissance, who inter-
preted IN permanence the heroic age of
the nation In the grandeur of its sef-sac-
rince: In music, Cruvelli, once the most
celebrated of Europe's opera singers;
Grieg, whose music was the embodiment
|of the spirit of romanticism; Joachim,
vio!inist; Hayes. the author of Dixie
ana Granahan, the singing evangelist,
In the drama. Mansfield, dramatic genius,
a generous and ennobling influence upon
the stage.
As to Literature.
In literature, Mrs. Holmes, whose forty
books gave pleasant reading to millions of
past generation. good. true. pure. but by
modern standards provincial and some
times crude; Crosby, author and social
reformer; Conway. preacher of almost
every shade of belief. reformer, author;
Josiah Flint Willard. student of real
istic sociology. whose writings gave us
one word, graft Aldrch. editor, novel
ISL. poet, the eternal boy. fine opal set
NTH diamonds sdao living the ideal literary
and most affectionately known as Ian
Maclaren.' preacher essayist. novelist, of
virile thought. gentle humor and great
humanness, whose genius was of the
negie.' Mrs. McFadyen,' and, above
all, 'Dr. Mcclure" will live in literature.
In editorship Allen of Washington Post
Garrison of New York Nation. Bright of
Christian Work. Stickney and Russell were
correspondents. and Henry NJ. Field,
preacher. editor. author. friend of genial
grace and warm humanity. In education,
Mason, dean and father in English liter
allure: Cannon. Amherst professor of
power; Saunders of Riddle University,
saint, scholar and gentleman
TN poetry, Carducci. leading poet and
Jealous patriot of Italy; Llona. Ecuador's
habitant; Cousin, the Scottish Rosetti,
whose hymn on Immanuels Land is in ali
our hymn books: Finch, the man of one
poem: Tilton, whose dramatic life be-
grew dark in disappointment and exile;
Francis Thompson. another added to
those poets in their misery dead. whose
tragic end almost equals that of Chatter
ton" Here DR.. Radcliffe read from AL
drich's. "Untimely Thought" Finchs 1.-The
Blue and the Gray" and RMS. Cousins
GLORY In Immanuers Land"
I'm philanthropy Baroness Burdett-
Coutts, with seventy years of systematic
giving: Mrs. Jeans. giving a million for
gro children: Parsons, the fresh-air
philanthropist: Pepper; Shorey of Nc
Auley's and Barnardos missions: Eoor-
bees. the blind philanthropist, and D.
Willis James. who loved everything
from God to little children.
I'm business affairs, Cassatt. courage
Gus, initiative. ready, successful; Eckels
and Soaln, who as president of the
Delaware and Lackawanna railroad
never permitted a Sunday train.
I'm law. CORTLAND Parker. Bancroft
Dams and Maitland.
"In politics, Dennis Kearney. the
forceful demagogue. who originated
the phrase THE Chinese must co." be-
came the uncrowned king of the rabbIe.
but in his latter days "a Samson with
a wig"
TN government" concluded Isr. Rad
cliffe, oscar II of Sweden, soldier au-
thor. diplomat, poet, orator, musician,
philologist, scientist, patron of arts.
mediator. statesman. king; best loved
ruler in Europe, aiming to seem not
king, but higher type of man; Hauge.
Norwegian minister to this nation:
Morgan. Pettus. Alger, United States
senator's; conger, United States min
lister to China during the Boxer trou-
bles and Grow, father of the home
stead law and Speaker of the House
during the civil war.
I'm theology, perhaps we might first
mention the paste diamond, Dowle, re-
ligious enthusiast, vain, lusting for
gold and power. and half conscious all
the while Of his imposture. and perish
ing amid the wreck of his imposture;
Rainey, master of Scotch Presbyteri-
ans; Prochet, versatile and eloquent
leader of the Waldensian Church;
Bishop WHEREFORE of the English
Church; Bishop Coleman of the Epis-
copal Church; Bishops McCabe, Fitz-
gerald. Smith and King of the Metho-
dist Church.; Ingersoll of the American
Bible Society; Bacon. Terhune, Nelson.
Woodrow and Hamlin honOred in our