The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-08-24
THE WORLD
THE WORLDS GREATEST METROPOLIS.
BY DR.. w. 3. PaImore.

We sighted the shores of the old
world on the Fourth of July, an ideal
day. which was celebrated on board our
great ship by the people of many ma
tons. On the same day we dropped
anchor in the bay Of Plymouth, Eng
land, and also in the bay of Cherburg,
France, reminding us Of the Plymouth
fathers, and of General L~afayette's
help, in making the Fourth OF July
possible. AS the Olympic, the latest
and largest ship of all history, dropped
It's anchor in the historic Plymouth
harbor, we could but contrast 1T with
the May Flower and other frail YES
sells in which our forefathers launched
out on such g. telnpestuous sea Of Ian
gers, daring and destiny. From the
largest ship in, the world and entered
the largest city, with it's 1850, 900
peple, which would make 10 cities as
large as st. Louis, and equal the popu-
lation of a large number Of our new
western states.
The more we see and know of the
place. the more wonderfully interesting
it grows. On Sunday morning we
heard Dinsdale T. Young in the Mecca
of Methodism, Wesley's old church at
City Roads. In that throng the Wes-
ley2n clans from nearly all the parallels
Of the colonies of the British empire
SlS 1SFIS hSilltu. AL SS tuc aisle
from us We're three devout and intel
ligent hearers from Sierra Leone in
Africa. as black as ebony. Then we
were greeted by a white merchant and
his niece from Durham in South Africa.
Then came friends from Australia,
New Zealand. n many from the var.
ious states Of the great republic of
North America. 1t was something like
our worlds fair in st. Louis, where we
met SO many friends from SO many
parts Of the wsrld. In the afternoon
we walked out Into Hyde park where
tens Of thousands of people, in great
groups, extending over hundreds of
acres. were listening to some of the
wisest and widest discussions of many
varieties Of subjects. 1t is the most
u~ntrarnmeled arena in the civilized
world, where people are permitted to
speak on almost any subject as long as
their lungs and the patience of the
pesple viii endure. The green sod on
which the multitude move or stand is
noiseless. and one voice can be heard
by a great many. While it enables
cranks, whose name is legion, to SOW
many tares, it also enables many good
and faithful workers to scatter many
good seed beyond the range OF the
regular pulpit and church services.
Since we first knew London the in
PRODUCTION Of electricity, boil under
and above ground, has very much
changed the movement of the people.
The many thousands of two-story
horse buses, used to mov in two OPP
posite streams along the streets with
the steady regularity of two marching
armies. Then to climb to a seat by an
old driver on the front end of a buss
and start his tongue to going, it vas
like turning through the pages of
Charles Dickens, DR.. Johnson, or the
records of ancient history. 1t is all
changed now. When we first arrived
at night, the flying hither and thither
of the many thousands of motor cycles,
motor buses and taXicabs, like shut
ties Of fire, suggested the confusion of
the falling stars that the negroes of