Arizona republican., 1922-04-24


a friend firm and true, though stern.
They came degraded and ignorant, as
were most OF his parishioners, to
listen to these wonderful sermons
which have become an inspiring,
helpful and ennobling influence in the
lives of thousands who have read
them in England. in Australia and in
America. The common people loved
and understood him in his teaching
as he knew and loved them. In after
wears the cultivated and the learned
and the great were to listen with the
same admiration and grateful affec-
tion to the noble eloquence that fell
upon their ears from the pulpit of
Westminster Abbey. But he was more
than a preacher of great sermons
which delighted the souls of his
queen, of the brave soldiers who
| thronged the parish church at Evers-
| ley to hear him, of the students who
| received his wise teachings in his
own University Of Cambridge. or OF
| the multitudes that thronged the
cathedrals of Chester and Westmin-
ster when the great canon was to
| preach.
| As a poet, he has given us two or
three matchless songs and lyrics, like
! the Three Fishes and the Sands of
| Dee" which will live for centuries.
| AS a novelist, he has given the world
such books as Alton Locke" and
Yeast" which reflect the great and
stirring events of English working
life in his early manhood, into which
he poured his great soul.
His heart burned within him as he
learned Of the wrongs that were be-
! ing inflicted upon the laboring
classes Of Great Britain. and with
Frederick, Maurice and Thomas
Hughes, he may be regarded as the
| founder of the Christian social move
ment of the present day. There
was no good cause, however weak
or despised there was no endeavor
| for the betterment of human society
into which he did not throw all of
himself, body. heart and mind. In
| the pages of 'Hypatia," one of the
greatest historical romances that
was ever written, and in Westward
! Ho" Kingsley preached two of the
noblest sermons that his century
has heard. not excepting the great
| works of Harriet Beecher stowe and
| Thackeray and Dickens.
/ What lessons of purity, of moral
courage of Christian patriotism. of
| high ideals. of heroic. self sacrifice.
were here taught by him.
/ Young men who are here tonight,
| If you want to feel your whole ma
1 ture aroused to higher impulses and
your heart thrilled by noble teach
| ing: if YOU want to know something
of what is meant by muscular
| Christianity" read the fascinating
story of Westward Ho."
! During the exciting years in which
! Charles Kingsley lived, while he was
administering the affairs Of his
| parish. he was at the same time
| writing his great books, his poems,
| his children's stories, where was
brought out not only his love for
| children, but the useful lessons IN
natural history that his scientllc
| knowledge gave him power to teacnc.
and he was engaging in great pnhan-
| thropic schemes in London Tor the
! riphting of mighty social evils. AT
| the age of Al he became professor
| of modern history in his own uni-
versity of Cambridge. and the same
| interest he had shown in the gypsies
| and peasants of Eversley. among
whom he still continued to live our
| ing the greater part OF the year, ne
now manifested toward the students
| who came under his INSTRUCTION, not
! confining himself to the classroom
| alone. but feeling the sacred opii-
cation to reach and touch upon
| their lives outside. In 1859. at the
age of so. he was appointed a canon
| of Chester cathedral, still retaining
| the rectorship of Eversley. but re-
signing his professorshlp at cam,
| bridge. In 1873 he was transferred
to a similar position at Westminster
Abbey. and in the latter part or the
| game wear he visited America,
mainly for his health. he received
here a cordial welcome from tnou-
| sands who thronged to hear his lee
lures, and from favored rev whose
privilege it was to come into more
/ intimate contact with his great per-
/ sonality. He returned home in the
first part of the year 1875 to die at
Fverslev at the early age of 90, worn
out by his increasing labors ana ny
the warm sympathies which had
/ gone out so lavishly to all the sur
| ferinc and oppressed of Gods cTea-
! tures. And the simple faith or the
man the passionate love and pity,
| the deep humility and straighuor
ward. modest characteristics, the
cbiyalric courage, marked the clos
| ing days as they had marked his ire
! throughout. Il am come to an END.
1t is alright; all as it should be,
/ he exclaimed on his deathbed. ne
had lived his life bravely and Well
and the end was peace and contl-
dent hope.
THE first wire suspension bridge
in the world was built in Phiiadeipnla
! in 1916.