The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1916-04-14

without charge to the government,
the horses, thorobreds, to mount it,
and the company became part of
the Kentucky regiment commanded
| by Humphrey Marshall. Young
Barnes was the tallest man in the
regiment and the most popular SOL
der. Overlooking with animal spir-
its, he led in every pardonable mis-
chief, tho nothing vicious ever came
| from him.
After the war Barnes needed a
call to the ministry and attended the
Theological Seminary of Princeton
College, where he was graduated.
Then he became regularly ordain-
ed minister of the Presbyterian
church. Upon his graduation he
took for wife, Miss Jane Cowan, of
Kentucky, and suffice it to say she
was fit mate for this wonderful man.
They went to India where they were
missionaries for some years, until the
health of the husband failed, when
they returned to Kentucky and Bro
Their Barnes became the pastor of
flock at Stanford.
An amusing story is told of Dean
Gaisford, of Oxford University, who
began passage of one of his SER
mons thus. est. Paul says, and.
partly agree with him." Brother
Barnes was even more candid, and
after he became an evangelist is was
his frequent custom to say, when ex-
pounding a passage of scriptures:
"Paul was theologizing there" His
Imagination, an inheritance from that
wonderful woman, his mother, would
have been riotous had it not been
held in subsection by his masterful
understanding. His sermons were as
absorbing and entertaining as Die
kens or Thackeray, and he never
tired. His knowledge of the Bible
was there. His sermons on Rahab
and Zaccheus were exquisite, won
derful. Utterly unconscious of the
gift, George o. Barnes was one of
the greatest actors the world ever
saw On the histrionic stage he
would have rivaled Garrick himself.
AS was inevitable, orthodoxy could
not stand for George Barnes. He
was tried for heresy, and either cut
loose, or was cut loose, from the
church. A Kentuckian, Mr.. Ows-
ley, an opulent citizen of Chicago,
built fine church in that city and
Barnes undertook the ministry. He
joined with the famous Moody in a
series of meetings and was a great
er Moody. He felt the call to go
forth and preach the Gospel without
scrip or purse" urged to do so by
Moody.
Soon thereafter we find him again
in Kentucky, proclaiming the Gospel
in the mountains. For years he was
so employed, and abundant was the
harvest. The Governor of the Com
monwealth confessed Christ at one
of his meetings and thousands of
others, great and obscure, did like
wise. He went to Ohio, to Indiana,
to New York City, and wherever he
appeared blessings followed in his
orOccaI he and
preached in London and the rest of
his life he devoted to the work of his
Master, proclaiming the one transcen-
dent, overwhelming truth, the root
of all good-that God is love, and
nothing else.
Here is what he said of Bob Inger-
soil:
"But, gentleman as he is, schol-
ar as he is, intellectual giant as
he is, and, above all, attacking
theological God who is wholly
indefensible by DR.. Talmage or
Judge Black, or anybody else, he
stands upon such vantage ground
that / do not wonder he is
sweeping the decks by his ora
tory and making infidels of thou
sands of the best thinkers of our
nation, old and young. And l
frankly confess here, as l have
often said from the platform,
that if l had no other God than
the God whom Col. IngersolI so
fiercely, justly, and successfully
assails, l would gladly take re-
fuge as he does, in the only
comfortable thought left, that
there is no God.
"Oh, if he only knew my God,
the God and Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ. / believe he would
love and trust and preach Him,
as do, while abating not whit
his opposition to the devil en-
throned, whom so many thous-
ands in and out of the church