The copper era., 1910-05-13

kTdn, who perhaps was never out ot his own dear EnglandI knew little Latin and less Greek, and read only those few books that were printed in English in his day. full three centur- ies before this prodigy of erudition dropped into peaceful Oregon like a flaming meteor-and now thunders against all the sinful lusts of the flesh in Medford, the progressive metropolis of the beautiful Rogue river valley.
 Alas that Sir Francis Bacon may not return across the valley of the shadow, and sit open-mouthed at the feet of this masterpiece of modern
 manhood, this Shasta of brain, this
 Etna of eloquence, and having satis-
 fled himself that his "Advanceme nt of Learning" is mere titilating tom
 myrot beside one of the Oliver. ser
 mons, he could hastily purchase bot
 tie of LePage's glue and hurry back across the Styx, to make fast his and Will Shakespeare's laurels against the coming of the Key French E.
 Oliver, Hugo, and Dante, and De-
 mostheues, and Webster, and lot ot
 the other immortals would probably
 do some tall bidding for the balance
 of the bottle.
 Ashland had Oliver. Medford con-
 sidered the typhoid fever sufficient
 scourge for all her sins, and now
 Medford has Oliver, while Ashland
 sighs her relief and sinfully enjoys
 the spectacle of her rival in the
 throes of the revival malady. The
 Ashland Tidings says:
 The recent season of both spirit
 ual and physical unrest IS about over
 with, and the various churches have settled down into the accustomed
 routine, a consummation not only de-
 voutly to be wished, but for this re-
 lief much thanks.
 Oliver came to Ashland at the in-
 vitation of seven pastors of churches
 there. One of the most pitifukcom-
 mentaries on the goiugs up and down
 through the land of bilks and graft
 CTS of the evangelistic SD cies is the ! IdCI lldl lliC uiCNt eNS "HANO ~0J belch forth their bilhngsgate "mess-
 ages" are generally assiduously pro-
 noted in advance and as an after
 math enthusiastically endorsed by
 pastors of the local Protestant
 churches. A thousond dollars a week
 is a not unusual rake-off for finish
 ed artist like Oliver. This is about the average annual salary of the
 country preacher. Earnest Christian gentlemen who have more often than
 rot led lives of deprivation to gain
 their educational equipment for the
 ministry, who with their families i; must endure comparative poverty, who bear the brunt of the battle with ; the powers of darkness, who must content themselves with giving their : children common school educations, while the butchers, the bakers and the real estate man $ sons and daugh ters go to Yale or Harvard-thest
 men get less in twelve month thar t Oliver sometimes pulls down in sever s days. Small wonder that the doctor r can travel the wide world round, al 5 his advertisements boast he has done , The Savior told a certain rich mal |. who came to Him, and asked what ht ] should do to be saved, to give all h' d had to the poor and follow Him s Oliver also urges generous contribu ,, tions, but reverses the proposition Il lnasmuch as his tributes are O $ necessity mainly levied from tn : pockets of the poor. Here again n as in other places, Christ and Olive 1t do not seem to agree exactly. k Rev. G. H. Berry, one of the seve |, Ashland ministers, who engage 1T ''Dr." Oliver to come and save thei t wandering lambs, round up thei 1T truant sheep and handle few e- their old goats as their cases wal :- ranted, last Sunday preached a o able sermon in which he expose Il Oliver and his methods, and furnishe -S an exception to the general rule C l. praising Oliver after his departur ll for the damage he has done tn d moral equilibrium of the communitl d. He said. in closing his address, whic !; was temperate review of the Olive d. episode:
 y, "I would greatly rejoice to see D rC Oliver become humble Christian ie and show the Holy Spirit in his lii U and preaching. If he had been COT lu tent to preach the truth in love ar = hide himself behind the cross ( '. Christ, he might have been instr IO mental in converting thousand pc J. ole in Ashland. 1 say this in sorro' 2 but I would fail to be just to mysel u- to the cause of Christianity, and e' the good people of Ashland, if in would refuse to challenge his tyra ed ny, false statements and indicati' ITS spirit"
 We It was at Ashland that someor ds dispersed an Oliver meeting in exac d. ly seven minutes by releasing t an contents of a bottle of skunk oil " the tabernacle-an act reprehen ,e- ble and indefeusible in itself, but >" evitably having its suggestion in t = naDbi+i- Ia nCua0e that "Dr Oliv