Bisbee daily review., 1919-10-26

essays on popular fallacieS, but we regret that while thus employed the brilliant essSyist did not dispose of that hoary fallacy about the unworth- mess of minister sons. So lon. and so often have we heard it. thas sons of ministers do not turn out weJI' that many of us have accepted the statement as an automatic truth. It may be that all of us can point 10 some particuar ministers son wno IS not credit to his father, but it Is neither fair nor logical on that ac- count to bring a general indictment against class. The truth. is that if the moral and intellectual ssana- ard of ministers sons is not nigh, then of principles of heredity, edu- cation and environment are over thrown.
 In this connection we beg leave to quote from little volume, fresh from the press, by Charles Edward : Mccarthy, and entitled, "The Min isters Son"
 In 1750 Justice Moses calculated that in the two centuries after the Reformation, more than 1O,O00.OOo of human beings in all lands owed their existence to the clerical family. In the century and a half since he made the estimate the number have very likely trebled. And what influence have<these millions of ministers chil- dren exerted upon civilization? To T,F hrin eff nf names in England and America is most Illuminating.
 In the Dictionary of National Bio graphy," England, there are 127O names of eminent men who were sons of clergymen. There are 51O names of famous men who were sons of . lawyers and $50 who were sons of physicians. Iu this single computa- tion of great names in English his tony, there are 40 more sons of min isters than sons of doctors and law yers together. In recent issue of Who's Who for America, out of all proportion to the whole numDer or ministers ill the country. According . to that standard there should have been not more than 50 of these ia nous men the sons of clergymen.
 Time would fail to tell of all the notable men in all departments of hu- man activity who were sons of min isters. We mention only few of these. In science, Agassiz, Fabri- cions, Jenner, Linnaeus, 0lbers, Fields, Morse, Berzelius' Euler; in history and philosophy GeorgeFJ. Ro- names, John G. Wilkinson, Hallam, Hobbes, Froude, Sloane, Parkman, Bancroft Schnelling Schliermacher, Muller; in philanthrophy Clarkson, Granville Sharp and Cecil Rhodes; in art, Reynolds and Christopher Wren; in poetry, Leasing, Tennyson, Ben Johnson, Cowper, Goldsmith, Thomp- son, Coleridge, Addison, Young, John Keble Matthew Arnold; among essay ists, Emerson, Richter, Hazlitt; among novslists, Charles Kingsley, Henry James But most remarkable is the long list of celebrated divines who were themselves the sons of min isters. Among such are these names: Swenenborg, Jonathan Edwards, Archibald Hodge, Henry Ward Beech CT, Lyman Abbott, Charles Sturgeon, Cotton Mather, Matthew Henry, the famous commentator, Frederick Mau- rice, Reginald Campbell, Lightloot, John and Charles Wesley. Mansell Dorner and Dean Stanley. And in making mention of the sons of min isters who have risen to high place let us not forget their sisters, most them. unknown to fame, but wno cheered, encouraged and inspired. A few of them, however, themselves among the immortals Charlotte Bronte, Jane Austen. Harriet Beeeher Stowe, Frances HaFergal Anne Steele and Mary Wooley Seven of the mistresses of the White House have been daughters of clergymen: Abigail Adams, wife of one presi- dent and mother of another; Abigail Fillmore, Jane Appleton Pierce, daughter of President Appleton of Bowdoin college, and the death of whose son in railway accident be- fore the mothers eyes, a snort time previous to the inauguration of her husband, clouded with sorrow his term of office; Mrs. McE.rOy, sister of President Arthur; Elizabeth Cleveland, sister of Grover Cleveland. Caroline Scott Harrison and Helen AXson Wilson.
 In our American history the Field family is a notable example of the influence of clerical households. The father. the Rev David Field, was q useful minister. One son, David Dudley, was the eminent jurist and law reformer; Another. stephen J 7, was an associate justice of the su- preme court; another son, Henry M was a clergyman and author, and the fourth son was Cyrus M., who iaId the Atlantic cable.
 One of the most remarkable of clerical families is that of the Wood bridges. The Rev John Woodbridge,