The Washington herald., 1910-05-29

$500 a year, was Of that fine and wonder
full denomination. When 1 married my
pay was increased to so a month How
ever. l stumbled at sanctincation. My
presiding elder. a dogmatic man. was
stcrnly argumentative. But Il will do no
good 20 reopeu the closed episodes OF
my early pastorates. AS a matter OF
fact. l ceased to be a Methodist because
wanted the larger liberty OF action that
was offered in another denomination.
After becoming a Congregationallst,
preached in Columbus. the capital OF
Ohio; in Baltimore, and Massachusetts.
Twenty-Five years ago 1 was called to
Chicago"
Sermons from Daily Tasks.
viii you tell me-" asked. how the
Armour Institute Of Technology came
into exlstence2"
Let me first go back to another Incl
dent" DR.. Gunsaulus said: "also let me
say. 10 give you an understanding Of
my methods, that I preach my sermons
out OF my daily experiences. I don't de-
claim about what has been. or might
have been. or Is likely to happen. 1 am
neither a historian nor a prophet in my
pulpit To-day is my text, and the things
1 see and the knowledge I acquire in my
touch with the world are as sacred TO
me as documents from heaven"
This is Saturday" I said. Tell me
II you have a text ready for Tomorrow"
Yes, and it is about Jacob-and a man
who called me to him, and In the Sc
crecy OF his dismal library. beautiful. but
mockery, mourned that he was being
assailed on every side. and. look as he
would. he could see no friends, and. lis
ten as he would. he could hear no word
Of sympathy. He was a good man some
years ago with a talent FOR making
money and a wife of his own social
quality. But he grew and got rich and
a stenographer entered his Office And
the stenographer went to his home and
the wife vanished.
"As he complained TO me, groaned TO me,
I might say, 1 thought OF Charles Tyson
Yerkes. multimllionaire. He. too. cast
away his wife. He. too. summoned me
to his side. And four days after I saw
him last his dead body. wrapped in a
blanket. was taken down stairs in an
elevator and only servants were present.
Sequel to Treachery.
"Oh, yes; Jacob became pious end saw
pillars Of fire and golden stairs leading
to heaven But he had to go back to the
crime against Esau. If Jacob lived now.
his treachery to his brother would be
printed in the daily newspapers. and alert
city editors would cut it out. and, putting
It in envelopes. would say: There will
be sequel 10 Jacobs disreputable con-
duct. and then we shall have all the facts
for ready reference. Thus. at Jacobs
death, the editors would get his biography
from their yellow envelopes and publish
1t with his obituary. And then they would
throw the envelopes into waste baskets,
for the tomb Of Jacob would close his
earthly story. But the Great Editor
above also has envelopes in pigeonholes.
and they are kept forever and not put
into waste baskets. Napoleon. on St
Helena-we see him now In picture, arms
folded. gloom on his face, looking across
the impossible waters toward France
could trace, link by link, the whole chain
OF his disasters back to his treatment Of
Josephine. his wife and empress.
But you asked me about the Institute
of Technology" DR.. Gunsaulus went ron
to say. "and l told you should like TO
speak Of another day. OF a Sunday morn
ing when I preached about boys, home
less boys kicked this way and that,
some OF them worse than orphans in the
dreadful curse Of their living parents.