Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1913-12-24
London and an Adventure.

London. London county is not 80
large, having a population, ofa-be;
ween and ;54million.} The citysof
London has an area of only: 672
acres; sleeping population of less
than 10000; day population Of
,ver one million. ).
The interesting things wetsaw in
| London would make long list.
Among them I might name: House
where Dickens once lived and wrote
part of Pickwiek papers, the old
'uriosity shop; Disraeli's birthplace;
post Office occupying five. acres; St
lanes palace; national art gallery;
st. Paul's cathedral; Westminster
Abbey; tower bridge, cost $40, ,OOo.;
3O0; tower of London; Victoria
monument; natural history museum:
Wesley's chapel; Geological gar
lens, parliament building; London
bridge. :. 80; :.
went to three services during
our Sunday in London-fourth Sun
day in June. The morning hour,
Wesley's chapel. This church was
built by John Wesley. He preached
from it's pulpit, The next to the last
sermon he preached was from this
pulpit eight days before he died
He spent the latter years of his life
in the dwelling next to the church.
In this house he died in l79l at the
age of ss. Not long before he died
he declared, The best of all is.
God is with u.s." 1 stood at his
grave behind the church Sunday af-
ternoon, Westminster Abbey. We
had visited this on Saturday. Here
England honors her greatest dead.
Wellington and Nelson have the
largest memorials. | was most in
tereseed in the Wesleys and Living
stone.
l stood before the tablet to John
and Charles Wesley. believe it has
on it John Wesley's famous words:
The world is my parish" I stood
over the grave of Livingstone, who
as boy worked year after year in
cotton factory, studying at spare
moments and at night, and read on
the marble slab: Brought By faith.
full hands over land and sea. Here
rests David Livingstone missionary
traveller, philanthropist.
Late Sunday evening Mrs. Wal
ker and I were inquiring the way to
Broughton's church. Mr.. and Mrs.
John T. Dunn, good Presbyterians
of Florida, and we were going to-
getber. We four we're standing
in front of our hotel. when some
body said to young man: If you
want to go, to Broughton's church,
there are some people going" in
+dicating us four. The young man
came to US and introduced himself
as Witherspoon of South Carolina.
With JOY / slapped him on the
back. South Carolina! The first
South Carolinian we had seen since
leaving Washingto ~. Witherspoon
is from Sumter and is a good Bap-
|tist. He WIS on another Sunday
School tour. So there we we're,
Metholists, Presbyterians, and Bap-
tist, looking for a London congre-
gational church with North Caro-
lima Georgia Baptist preacher as
pastor.
We heard an inspiring sermon
from Broughton and then all of us
communed with these Christ church
London people. We then met DR..
Broughton. He was glad to see peo.
pie from the neighborhood of his
old home. That was a great Sunday
to me. The Wesley associations
that morning; Westminster Abbey
(Episcopal) in the afternoon; and
our pleasant Baptist Congregational
Presbyterian associations in the
evening.
Saturday evening. Americans
some of us country people-in the
great city.a1 spent the late after
noon visiting Wesley's chapel
with Methodist preacher Brown
of Chicago and his wife and little
boy, and an old lady of the state of
! Washington, herself a Methodist
preachers widow. After this visit
we decided to explore east. London
on top of a motor bus. We rode
miles and miles. (See last weeks
Chronicle and saw sights and
sights. We had some difficulty in
making our way back to our hotel.
1t was - o'clock Saturday night
when we got back. I was expecting
mild lecture from Mrs. Walker
for coming in so late on Saturday