The Washington herald., 1914-05-24

United States twenty-five times A Lon
don Newspaper not long ago humorously
referred to him as one of three Ameri-
can ministers occupying prominent Eng
lish pulpits.
Dressed in a cowled robe, belt and q
himself for q monk, even in Spain or
Italy. In fact, he strilkingly resembles
the portrait Of Savonrola. the Dominican
friar, which was painted by Bartolomeo
and still hangs IN the gallery of st.
Marks in Venice. Tall, six feet exactly,
with his shoes OF, he Ii as thin ana
angular as was Henry Irving. the actor
From g distance, because OF his wnite
hair, worn in a shock over his forehead.
he looks older than fifty, which Il his
age as recorded in the birth register OF
Tetbury, Gloucestershire. His brown eyes
shade of into gray. A high, aquiine
nose, a large mouth and big chin. give
his long, narrow face, strength and un-
commonness There is much grace IN
his many gestures and In his movements
across the platform
Does His Preaching without Notes.
Whether he breaches thirty minutes or
an hour, DIR. Morgan often STANDS up TO
his work with neither notes nor docu-
ments. 'I may go into the pulpit, he
told me, without phrasing the sentence
with which I mean to begin. There are
times when even the substance OF the
sentence only comes to me when arise
to speak At most, I never have more
than a bare outline on one or more
sheets of paper"
And yet the literary quality OF his
sermons, all other things aside. stamps
him as a man Of genius. There Is per
feet workmanship in every paragraph,
long or short, and there are flashes of
epigrammatic truth which almost COM
Del the pews to stamp their feet and
cheer when they hear them. I spoke en-
Enthusiastically of his amazing readiness.
his superb craftsmanship and his great
eloquence.
replied, ignoring my praise, for thirty
three years"
Doubtless, he meant to say that an ex-
perienced man. ought to be a master OF
his business. Still his answer was no
answer at all. He did not explain that
he has toiled day and night for many
wears: that he learned outside Of q uni
versity and a theological school to read
his New Testament in Greek; that he
has given his whole life to the study
of the Scriptures to the exclusion, prac-
tically, Of everything else and that he
never attempts to preach without a most
exacting preparation for the effort
Furthermore, he would declare. were one
to take up the matter. that he is not
a preacher at all. but q teacher.
1t was among the Cotswold Hills Of
Western England that this extraordinary
man was born. But he was taken away
from Tetbury, the village where his par
ents had lived, when an infant and new
er returned until twelve years ago. when
he went there to deliver a sermon. His
father was a minister, he told me.
But the statement" he added, RE-
quires some explanation. George Nor
gan, my father. was a Calvinistic Bap-
tist-a Hard-shell Baptist. he would have
been called in America-and a great and
stern character, but with the heart of a
woman. He might rebuke me savagely
for a minor error, but II the mistake
was grave he would treat me with the
utmost tenderness.
A Money Scheme that Failed.
well, he came to a point in his labQs
and his understanding Of the New Tesla
ment when he thought it wrong to ac-