The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-04-10
NOTES OF FOREIGN LANDS.

from tramping to his usual place of
worship, dropped in at little Wesleyan
chapel near his home There were fifteen
people present, and the service was under
the direction Of a local preacher. who took
for his text, Look unto Me, all ye
| ends OF the earth, and be We saved"
The lad listened with avidity to the SER
mon, and was stirred by the mans earn
estness. At a point in the discourse the
preacher, as IL he were aiming his ap-
peal at the youth, cried. Look. look.
young man! Look to Christi! The lad
acted upon the injunction, and in after
years dated the definite turning point in
his religious experience to that accidental
visit to a Methodist chapel.
The lads name was Charles Haddon
Spurgeon, who, a few years afterwards,
shocked one or two doughty Baptist
elders belonging to the New Park Street
Chapel in South London by the way he
replied to their Interruptions during a
sermon. He became the evangelist of the
Surrey Gardens Music Hall, the founder
OF the Metropolitan Tabernacle, and for
years was leader N tie religious world.
At the jubilee service recently the tab
ernacle presented an interesting appear
ance. The huge building contained many
who could look back to the time when
Spurgeon opened the tabernacle in 1861
free of debt. and could remember John
Brights thrilling Grafton upon the prin-
ciples OF religious and political liberty.
Old hymns were sung, and old texts were
preached from, and not few recalled
the stone-laying ceremony in 1859 when
Spurgeon said: In the bottle which is
placed under this stone we have put no
money. for one good reason, that we
have none to spare. We have not put
newspapers, because, albeit We admire
and love the liberty of the press. yet that
is not so Immediately concerned in this
edifce."
The church itself was founded some
years before the death of Cromwell. and
1.-THE tabernacle's standard of liberty Is
hallowed by the fact that more than
one of its early pastors had to suffer for
conscience sake. One of them, the Rev.
Benjamin Reach, was the DR.. Clifford of
his times O70O). For writing printing,
and publishing a schismatic book en-
titled The Childs Instructor, a New
and Easy Primer. he was sentenced to
a fortnight in Jail, placed in the pillory,
and his book burned before his face by
the common hangman in disgrace of
you and your doctrine
The most surprising thing about the
Chesterfield armOr case is that his lord
ship should. at a time like this. have
dreamed Of selling the arTnor of his noble
house at all Surely with a grave con-
flict lying ahead. he should have rubbed
off the rust and girded the family
breastplate on his noble shoulders
Next. it is curious that while this old
armor should b" worth $1,000 or there
abouts the London county council should
be able to secure a brand new coat of
arms, with motto. for $500. II only IL
Illustrates the business acumen for which
the Earl of Chesterfield has won a
world wide reputation.
In his evidence this peer told the jury
that he has been chairman or director
OF from fifteen to twenty companies at
the same time" but on turning up the
Directory of Directors / was disap-
pointed to notice that his great abilities
at present arc confined to "Earle's Ship
building and Engineering Co, Ida
title which has the supreme merit of
sounding aristocratic. However, in my
determination TO discover his achieve
ments | pursued my researches so far
as the Stock Exchange Intelligencer.
where I discovered that Lord Chester
fields name was familiar
1t requires a considerable knowledge of
geography to follow Lord Chesterfeld's
varied career, for he was director OF the
Mexican Mining and Industrial Corpora
ton. Ltd: of the New Egyptian Com |
rany. Ltd. and OF the Oceana Consol!- |
the London committee Of two companies. |
n ff,,er bod H,- -
Simmer and Jack Then there is the |
Southern Shan States Syndicate. Ltd: |
the Spassky Copper Mine. Ltd, and the !
Village Deep. Ltd.
There is. by the way. quite another |
topic upon which Lord Chesterfields |
engaging personality throws new light. |
dealer who bought the amor:
He asked whether he could call him a |
thief He would like 20 call him a d
thief His solicitor told him he could |
not. He then asked him if ne could |
call him a moral thief. ard his solicitor
replied that he could. provided there was
no third person present"
Now. ! admit that when a peer enters
the witness box he is bound. like the
the solicitor that TO call man a moral
thief is as bad as to call him a d
thief. since morality in a thief suggests
pr OCCASIONAL incompetence. But the
language habitually used to-day
hy public men of all parties and all
shades of opinion and character is really
ronstrous
You have Lord Miner crying, D
the consequences" You have Sir Ed
ward Grey talking about Death. dis
lster and d. You have Mr.. Snow
den describing d and resurrection"
though surely d. should come last.
You have Mr.. Hugh Edwards. a former
reverend so completely forgetting his
obligation as Mr.. Lloyd Georges biog-
rapher as to tell the House of Commons
in maiden speech, of all reprehensble
utterances. that Lord Miners d is
burst"
You have Mr.. BaIfour calling out
fraud" and 'lie.' while Mr.. Asquith
Misses out "sloppiness." As for Sir Ed
ward Carson, his favorite term of en-
iearment for political opponents is
sneak" "BrigandS," "blackmail" pill
age are among other historic "termino-
ogical inexactitudes. while Sir Thomas
Whitaker has politely referred to the
chancellor of the exchequer as the devil
with horns"
II this kind OF thing goes on, Parlia-
nent and the platform in the end will
become almost as polite as Billingsgate.
You will find some curious reminis-
,ences of Lord Beaconsfield in the brain
" the proprietor of a West End club,
who, some forty years ago. was head
waiter at the hotel in Hanover square
where Disraeli stayed. HE always