Part 18 (1/2)

”As the Church and society view Culhane, so they view all life outside their own iure aument and platform and pulpit and in the press as a type ofNow a minister enters the sanitarium, broken down by his habits of life, and this samatic and dictatorial mental habits are the cause of his ail him by apparently brutal processes out of his rut He reads the man accurately, he knows him better than he knows hi condition is certainly a new light for those seeking to labor ailists, pickpockets, saloon-keepers, book-makers, jockeys and the like are so by reason of their intelligence, their innate mental acu world and a the unconventional es of huh and ready and all-too-revealing world teaches them much The world's customary pretensions and delusions are in the h facts Often the athered in some such cafe and whom preachers and moralists are most ready to condeanizations and reformers and their relative importance in the multitudinous life of the world than the preachers, church congregations and reformers have of those in the cafe or the world outside to which they belong

”This is why, in ment, the Church and those associated with its airess than they do While they are consciously eager to better the world, they are so wrapped up in themselves and their theories, so haood and evil, that the great majority of men move about them unseen, except in a far-away and superficial th It would be interesting to know if soe, who, offended by Mr Culhane's profanity and brutality, will be able to reach the gladiator and convert hiladiator is able to rid him of his ailment”

In justice to the preachers, moralists, et cetera, I should now like to add that it is probably not any of the virtues or perfections represented by a , but the vices of many who are in no wise like his he stands for At the saht well reply that it is not with any of the really aduid” that they quarrel, but their too narrow interpretations of virtue and duty and their groundless generalization as to types and classes

Be it so

Here is meat for a thousand controversies

_A True Patriarch_

In the streets of a certain ht have been seen a true patriarch Tall, white-haired, stout in body andsyh the leisure of his day One ht have taken hi counterpart; or, in the clear eye, high forehead and thick, appealing white hair, have seen a marked similarity to Bryant as he appeared in his later years Already at this time he had seenin the councils of his people and rich in the accumulated interests of a lifetime

At the particular ti for the eccentricities which years of stalwart independence had developed, but these were lovable peculiarities and only severed fro power of tih pleasant, voice, and strong, often fiery, declamatory manner, were remnants of the days when his fellow-citizens holly swayed by the ly simple in manner, he still represented with it that old courtesy which nation, there cropped out the daring and do insistence of one who had always follohat he considered to be the right, and who knew its power

Even then, old as he was, if there were any topic worthy of discussion, and his fellow-citizens were in danger of going wrong, he beca prophet, as it were, a local Isaiah or Jereate heard hi out the inhabitant poured forth such a voluument as tended to reht All of this he invariably accoreat orator

At such tirossed with these hters, who, besides being his daughter, was a sincere ad down his private lawn, and even the public streets when there was no one near to hear hi upith his are

”He used to push his big hat well back upon his forehead,” she said on one occasion, ”and often in winter, forgetful of the bitter cold, would take off his overcoat and carry it on his arm Occasionally he would stop quite still, as if he were addressing a coestures illustrate soh, of course, there was no one present Then, planting his big cane forcibly with each step, as though still e his recently stated ideas, he would coestion ofthat he did, and I personally have seen hinity of bearing and forcefulness of manner that characterized hi addressing them on some important topic He never appeared to have a sense of difference from or superiority over his fellows hu honest A cow or a horse was as much to be treated with sympathy and charity as a man or a woman If a purse was lost, forty-nine out of every fifty ht of reward, if you were to believe him

In the little tohere he had lived socreature from cattle upwards, and could call each by name The sick, the poor, the s, the orphans, the insane, and dependents of all kinds, were his especial care Every Sunday afternoon for years, it was his custo a basket of his good wife's dinner This he distributed, along with consolation and advice Occasionally he would return horossed with the discovery of some condition of distress hitherto unseen

”Mother,” he would say to his wife in that same oratorical manner previously noted, as he entered the house, ”I've found such a poor family They have moved into the old saloon below Solmson's You kno open that is” This was delivered in thei his cane in the corner ”There's a man and several children there The ot so cold they've had to stop here until the winter is broken They're without food; al for thehter to me once, ”he would, as he nearly always did, talk to hi politics But you could never tell what he was co for”

Then with his own labor he would help his wife seek out the odds and ends that could be spared, and so ar by the way as if an errand ofhe contemplated Nearly always the subject of these orations was soh in all likelihood it did not, ih not exactly religious, turn of ious h he steadily and persistently refused, in his later years, to go to church He had St James's forion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, To visit the fatherless and s in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world” Often, when pressed too close, he would deliver this with kindly violence One of theanecdotes representative of this was related to hter, who said:

”Mr Kent, a poor man of our toas sick for o often, sometimes daily, to visit him He would spend perhaps a few , andto his spiritual wants The pastor of the church living so far away and co only once a month, this duty devolved upon some one, and my father did his share, and always felt ratitude shown by the many poor people he aided in this way

”Mr Kent's favorite song, for instance, was 'On Jordan's Stor, and his clear voice could often be heard in the latter's sth to the sick man

”Upon one occasion, I re My father was not very farant his request, cao and sing the song for hi us by the hand, for ere children at the tihtened, and father said to hi that I couldn't sing the song you asked for, but these girls know it, and have coently toward us, he said:

”'Sing, children'

”We did so, and e had finished he knelt and offered a prayer, not for the poor ht put his trust in the Lord and meet death without fear I have never been more deeply impressed nor felt more confident in the presence of death, for the man died soon after, soothed into perfect peace”