The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-24
SCRAP BOOK FOR TO-DAY

Henry Ward Reecher, most eloquent of American clergymen, was born in 1itchheld, Conn.,, one hundred years ago today.
 Love was the keynote of the life of the great pulpit orator whose cen | tenary is celebrated today. Born of the New England clerical caste, coldly ways by warm and generous feeling. His affection embraced all humanity. { of whatever color, race or creed. Firm in his religious beliefs, he could yet extend the right hand of fellowship to an Ingersoll and claim him as his 1ife- long friend.
 Brooklyn people are now engaged in erecting fitting memorial to the man who made Plymouth Church famous
 throughout the world It will take
 the form of building devoted to the needs of Brooklyn's young working
 people, and will be completed in time 1 to be opened next autumn.
 The Beecher Memorial Mas made possible by the late John Arbuckie, the coffee merchant, who started the fund
 with $1OO, ,oOo. MT. Arbuclla did not approve of keeping young men and | women apart, as in the Y. M. C. A. l buildings, and proposed an institution l that would have all the best features of those organisations, and be open tosboth sexes.
 Brook1yn's Beecher Memorial will in
 cIude club rooms, a library, gymna-
 sium, swimming pool, and classrooms
 for giving instruction in bookkeeping, sfenography dressrnaking millinery, and other trades and arts. In addi- l ton, it will be permanent Beecher
 museum, and in it will be gathered ] the relics of the great clergyman The
 Beecher library and collection of prints will be restored and there will also be found there his pulpit, chairs and other articles connected with his careens
 The bodies. of Beecher and his wife now rest in Greenwood Cemetery, but they win be removed to g crypt in
 occupies 3. site west of Plymouth church, wtEh a little park between,
 and 1n the open place there will be
 erected Bsecher statues the work
 of G1fzon Borglum-
 Beecheres career as editor, author, lecturer and abo1ftionfst es well as preacher, is known to all English speaking peoples. His oratorical style l was fluent and dffruse. rather than terse and epigrarnmatics but in his sermons may be found many compact | gems of swtt and wisdom, of which the
 following are examples:
 Generosity is the militia that en-
 lists for three montfs. while benevo- lencs is the regular force that en1ists l The Ang4o-saxon carries sa1f-guv- l er1ament and gelf-deveiopmert with
 him wherever he goes
 A library is but the sori's burdal- grot1idh. It IS the land of shadows He who Is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and wiA l find apdaw when he may have forgot ] ten the cause
 There arc a great n1ang poor men who are very rich, and great many rich men who1a very poUr
 l. T1rIi a were buIzt--the part nearest the l ground finished; but that part which ksoars toward heaven, the t1zrets ana kfhes spires forever 1nconoplete i What is q menia1 calling? It IS a xsaafEna ti1aSs makes a man mean The ksr4o&,aef1e amy calling makes a. man a kxnasa. heshas 'eagntaed and glor1hed IL
 TnH first to suggest the forrnati ticn I ne a society to care for soldiers NEoHnd- l sa F, battle was Henri Durant. a 1 French rhysfc1ans who thus became l gsvoEs11, ssas fEae originator of the He'd 1 ryy-,us Society. Durauf witnessed the 1 bas41e Of SoIfer1nos Sought hfty-1our 1 years ago to-day, June 24, 1859. and ! fnx horror and despair with which he e.,z,eernplaked the 1errip1e scenes of 1 strife and carnage led him 10 write | ssTTn Souvenir de Sofferfnos which | uopuIarAzed Eiae idea of such associety I as now exists under the name Of che Red Cross. The book. published In 1862. had profound and immediate l effect, for 3u August, 1863, just half a century ago. the Geneva convention Instituted the Red Cross Society. Aus l tria. France. Great Britain, Italy, Prussia, Russia Spain. Sweden. and .l several minor states were represent I ed in the first convention and the sO- I caety has since been extended to all irnportank countries In Turkey 1t is known as the Red Crescent Society. l The real work of the society was first
 brought into operation during the Franco-Pruseian war.