The Washington herald., 1910-05-29
BY JAMES n. MORROW.

which no earthly dividend was ever prom
ised or suggested-than by any other pro-
mOter in America: the whole OF Europe
and Great Britain might be included in
the statement. Specifically. there was a
morning when Philip d. Armour was per-
suaded. within matter OF forty minutes,
TO surrender a sum mighty enough to pay
a kings ransom.
Since coming to Chicago to work and to
1--we. DR. Gunsaulus has sOen $4,000 writ
ten into Wills and proud testaments for
various visions of his own and oth5.
worthy purposes Meanwhile. he has in
spired hundreds OF bumper collections and
lured much ready treasure from private
contributors. And yet. dare say, he will
contrive and struggle and die in COM
parative poverty.
AS man OF business. he IS big enough
for trunk line across the continent. As
financier, he could open a shop in Wall
street and possibly operate with Morgan
and the two Rockefellers. Orator, poet,
and dreamer. he has been carried away
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called to the> heart Of the world-and
then answered the call in person. He drew
noble pictures and they took on life, and
IN each he was the one great central
figure. His story has all the thrill and
movement OF a romantic adventure IN
the beginning, now and to the end. how
ever. he was. he is. and he will remain
a preacher. walking. as near as he can,
in the steps OF the Nazarene Carpenter.
Looks Like Country Doctor.
a tall man-and a broad man in his long
black coat-with gray eyes that are al
most brown, and dark handsome and
friendly face. ne looks moro like a coun-
try doctor than the minister I'm charge
OF large and important city cOngrega-
tion. He has three cfIices-one at the
Armour Institute OF Technology, OF
which he is president; one for the clerks
and secretaries OF the Auditorium Inde-
pendent Church, OF which he is the pas
tor. and one at his own house, where
brood" he said TO me. and hatch my
eggs"
Besides. he has a home for incurables
md an asylum for friendless boys. He
meets several times a week with his
choir. composed of more than 100 trained
singers. He has no other recreation. On
Sundays he breaches 10 audiences num-
bering from 3,OOO to 5000 persons. Aside
from his work at the institute. he spends
S60o a month in clerk hire. he rides in
fast touring car from one place 10 an
other. It would take a livery stable II
he were 10 travel with horses He
breaches over the dead, unites the living.
prays with the sick. and comforts the
sorrowlnS. For incessant hustle. seven
days In the week. he can match any man
in Chicago. He has made stump speeches
and lectured at Yale on theology Among
HIS twelve books are collections Of poems |
and lives Of Gladstone and the Man OF |
Galilee. Moreover. he is the grand I,
father OF eighteen children. born TO boys |
who came 20 me. boys whose fathers
wouldn't own them, and SO I fathered
them all-Germans, Irish. and Americans
-red-headed. black-headed. and tow
headed-a miscellaneous collection OF fos-
ter sons. now with families Of their own.
that I have no reason to be ashamed
Of"
Reared in Ohio.
The charm, energy. and swing OF his
public discourse mark and SAVIOR his Ian
guage in personal conversation. For in
stance, "I was reared amidst a nest of
hnls IN Ohio. between Mount Vernon
and Mount Gilead. The inhabitants had
come in three currents from widely
separated forms OF civilization. German
women. austere, perhaps. and cavaliers
from Virginia mingled in a harmonious
neishborhood, and all were patrons OF
education. SO we had a seminary.
THE first Gunsaulus was a Spanish
refugee in Belgium. and suffered the
water death at Antwerp. Chained to the
wall. tho water engulfed him, an inch to
a day. I once took my daughter, black
haired and black-eyed, a Spaniard in
features and complexion, TO the old
prison. We mourned not, for we were
uuacqUainted with our historic and un-
fortunate ancestor. Ny mother was
Connecticut Hawley; my father, lawyer
and an anti-slavery Democrat.
The old home in Ohio was the stop
ping place Of public men. Joshua R. Cid
QlAhS-dllu Il " A4lh dL Nnal-Wdbs IN my
fathers view the greatest OF our guests
I recollect my fathers return. IN 1850.
from the Republican convention that
nominated Abraham Lincoln for Pres-
dent--I was four years Old-and OF his
walking back and forth across the room
as he told us how Giddings attempting
and falling 70 have the delegates in
corporate a part of the Declaration OF
independence into the platform. withdrew
from the .hall-a giant, physically and in
tellectually-with majesty and solemnity.'
Meant TO BE n Student.
Nevertheless" I said. you became a !
clergyman and not a politician?"
"I have done the things" DR.. Gunsaulus
replied. earnestly but not regretfully. !
that were never intended. I meant to be |
q student 70 work in philosophy, So
cioloEy. and metaphysics, and perhaps.
TO write u book OF antiquities Possibly, |
I might have wrought out a novel or be-
come a literary critic Ny whole thought
was toward the quiet and serene spec
ulations Of a library. But here I am, !
working away unseen within the scarfold- |
Ing cutting every minute. using some Of
the marble chips for poetry and some
for sermons, when they are large enough. |
1t is strange how ones life may turn
abruptly and sweep of past cities full
Of forges and the roar Of industry. in
stead OF going on through drowsy valleys
end woods, where the trees kiss the water
with their branches. Ny father followed
Ralph Waldo Emerson. my mother was a
Methodist, and her mother. who lly ed |
with us, an old-fashioned PRESBYTERIAN. |