The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1909-10-17

ON, D. c., SUNDAY, 0GTOBT
mont Temple, and Mr.. Chapman was
present when I was ordained into the
Baptist ministry.
Il was fifteen years old when ran
away the second and last time. I sailed
from New York for Liverpool In cattle
ship. When I returned my father greeted
me as If / had only been absent for an
hour or two. Nor did he speak OF the
matter afterward. Asa Niles persuaded
him to let Charley and me attend VIII
braham Academy. He could give us moth
ing but his consent. We earned our
board and our tuition by farm work. For
six weeks we lived on mush and milk
A little money was made with chestnuts
which we gathered in the woods. It was
at the academy that I learned TO debate;
but l almost starved 70 death.
Was an UnbeIievcr.
The second year ! taught school Their
IN 1850 Charley and ! entered Yale My
clothing was cheap and didn't fit had
no money We worked on farms in the
nelghborhood l took the classical course
and the law course at the same time
Fortunately. 1 could memorize n page
of printed matter by simply looking at IT.
Those were hard days. was too shabby
to take part in college life, was hungry
and I was worked TO death. It was Their
that faith departed temporarily and that
Wanted my unbelief
It wanted to so Off to the war in 1861
but my fatSer warned the recruiting OF
fcers that I was under age SO I trav-
eled from Town to town and made pa
triotic speeches. In 1862 I raised COM
pany OF mountain boys and became their
captain. While in the army I spent every
moment ! could IN keeping up with my
class IN law at Yale. John Ring. sixteen
years old. was my orderly. He read the
Bible in my tent morning and evening
I ordered him 10 stop. John Ring hurt
my conscience and got upon my nerves
I went 70 Newbern. y. c., 10 see about
the back pay OF my men. The Confed-
crates attacked our camp while I was
gone. John Ring was driven away with
the rest. Then he remembered a sword
that had been given me by friends in
Massachusetts. He returned and got Il
In his second escape he came 20 burn
ing bridge. Hanging 70 the girders he
crossed hand over hand. but he was SO
terribly injured that he died. But he
saved the sword.
wounded In Battle.
1T was arrested for being absent from
my command. although had a pass ir
my pocket. After months Of delay
was tried and convicted. The President
OF the United States heard the facts sci
aside the verdict made me a lieutenant
colonel. and ordered me West FOR stat
service with Gen. Mcpherson. At Kene
saw Mountain, while In command of two
batteries. a Confederate shell exploded
and / was hit by a fragment. When
regained consciousness at night on tho
field ! thought Of my mother and Johr
Ring. One Of my arms was broken ir
two places and there was a bad wound ir
my shoulder. ! was in the hospital fol
a long time. continued 70 think OF Johr
Ring and my mother. I had earnest talk:
also with the chaplain. a Baptist min
lister Since then 1 have tried to be {
Christian.
When I could travel 7 went 20 Nash
Vile for medical treatment. There Gen
George II. Thomas gave me a dispatcl
for Gen. John A. Logan IN Washing
ton. The rough roads caused my wounds
70 open and ] collapsed at Harpers Fer
~. When I was well the war was over
IT read law IN Massachusetts, wa.
graduated from Albany University, an,
moved TO Minneapolis. I Joined a Bap
/ fist church I'm st. Paul and conducted
noon prayer meeting for men IN my Law
| Office. also started a newspaper Mrs
| Conwell and I lived In two rooms. NJ,
| practice increased and 7 bought home
/ While at a meeting Of old soldiers m,
| house burned TO the ground. Reaching
/ the scene. I suffered from a hemorrhag
Of the lungs. My doctors ordered me TO
| milder climate But I was pennileSs
/ Friends persuaded the governor 20 sen,
me 20 Germany as immigrant agent 70
/ Minnesota. But my health was so ba,
/ that I couldn't perform my duties. Man,
| hemorrhages followed The physician
at a hospital in Paris found that
/ bullet with which I had been wOunde,
early in the war had worked down int,
/ one Of my lungs. I came to New Yorl
and had the bullet removed by the sur
/ geOns OF Bellevue Hospital.
Goes Around the World.
Then 7 Joined my wife in Boston. w
were very poor and lived in one room.
! became a newspaper reporter at s.
week, and Mrs. Conwen took in sewing
/ When my salary was increased we rente,
a house l practiced law, sold real es
! tate. and lectured. Next I went arounC
K the world and wrote travel letters for tn
I New York Tribune and a paper In Bos
I ton. / interviewed William I Of Germany
| Bismarck. and the Prince Of Wales. nov
/ Edward VII, King of England. 1 ais
/ lectured ut Cambridge on Italian history
i Il resumed the practice OF law when
| got back to Boston, giving my services
/ free to the poor at night. In some Of m!
patent cases I appeared before the Su
I preme Court OF the United States. I wa
( prosperous and happy. But my wife died
Two years later / lost s6000O, and wa
heavily In debt besides. 1 began preach
/ ing along the docks at night and teach
I ing in the Sunday school OF Tremon
/ Temple. Good fortune returned, and
was earning large fees in my profession
! But I closed my offices and went TO Lex
I ington, a nearby village, and preached
In the Baptist church for $50 a month
/ After two years 1 came TO Philadelphia
/ and 10 a poor little congregation tina
owed $4,000 All the time I was a law
yer and a lecturer never felt right
When began to preach my mind was a
rest"
Copyright, 1909, By James r Morrow
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PRINCE WHO WED HEIRESS.