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,transcriber's note3        ,text       
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 bold face       in the original 7bold74
      ,,conversion ,,of ,a ,,high       
,,priest ,,into ,a ,,christian ,,worker 
,edited and ,presented by  ,,rev4 ,m4   
,,golden  ,second ,edition              
,illustration3 ,,farmhouse1 ,,where     
,,rev4 ,m4 ,,golden ,,wrote ,,his       
,,conversion   ,illustration3           
,,greek-,,amerikan-,,christian-,,associa
tion  ,new ,york #aiab  ,copyright      
,office of the ,united ,states of       
,america ,library of                    
,congress--,washington1 ,d4 ,c4  ,in    
conformity with section #ee of the ,act 
to ,amend and ,consolidate the ,acts    

respecting ,copyright1 approved ,march  
#d1 #aiji1 said book has been duly      
registered to the name of ,rev4 ,m4     
,golden1 of ,rutland1 ,mass4  ,entry3   
,class ,a1 ,x,xc41 ,no4 #beaaba1 ,oct4  
#bi1 #aiji4 ,copyright1 #aiaj1 by ,,rev4
 ,,meletios ,,golden4 ,entry3 ,class ,a1
 ,x,xc1 ,no4 #bgecbc1 ,nov4 #aj1 #aiaj4 
,the ,trow ,press ,new ,york     ,,to   
,my own loving father1 who did sow the  
seed of a brave ,christianity in my     
young heart1 while only eight years of  
age1 calling me by his death-bed1 on my 
knees1 with his right hand resting upon 
my head1 in his last words to me1       
saying3  ,my boy1 ,i leave you2 ,god    
will be your ,father1 and ,jesus ,his   
,son your ,saviour2 keep away from      
unholy associates1 and heed not unlawful
 advice1 but work for righteousness and 
help those that are in need2 and we     
shall meet again4 ,and his spirit went  
into eternity2 to which destination ,i  
direct all my efforts in life4          
,this ,book is dedicated by a grateful  

son1                                    
,,rev4 ,,meletios ,,golden4             
,,contents       ,,chapter              
,,page         ,i4 ,,farewell           
#ag        ,,ii4 ,,arrival              
#cf       ,,iii4 ,,first ,,day ,,in     
,,new ,,york                            
#di        ,,iv4 ,,high ,,priest        
#eg         ,v4 ,,philosophy ,,vs4      
,,christianity                          
#ff        ,,vi4 ,,god',s ,,providence  
#gf       ,,vii4 ,,new ,,york ,,to      
,,california                            
#ib      ,,viii4 ,,honorable            
,,submission                            
#ajd        ,,ix4 ,,practical ,,effects 
,,of ,,practical ,,truth                
#aad         ,x4                        
,,greek-,,amerikan-,,christian-,,associa
tion               #acc        ,,xi4    
,,conclusion                            
#aea     ,,illustrations                
,farmhouse                              
,frontispiece      ,rev4 ,m4 ,golden in 
,street ,attire as ,high ,priest        

#cf      ,the ,world's ,wonder1         
,acropolis of ,athens1 ,greece          
#eb      ,h4 ,r4 ,h4 ,prince ,arthur1   
,duke of ,connaught and ,strathearn1    
,k4 ,g41 etc4                           
#fh      ,rev4 ,m4 ,golden1 the ,high   
,priest in ,church ,ceremonial          
,attire                                 
#hd      ,rev4 ,m4 ,golden1 ,captain of 
the ,salvation ,army               #ajj 
,rev4 ,m4 ,golden1 the founder of the   
,greek-,amerikan-,christian-,association
                        #abf      ,greek
 ,peasant ,woman                        
#acb     ,conversion of a ,high ,priest 
into a ,practical ,christian ,worker    
,,second ,,edition      ,edited and     
,presented by      ,rev4 ,,meletios     
,,golden      ,founder of the           
,greek-,amerikan-,christian-,association
4      ,,high ,,priest ,,of ,,the       
,,greek ,,orthodox ,,church4      ,grand
 ,representative of the ,st4 ,stephen's 
,monastery1      ,mt4 ,athos1 ,turkey4  
,archimandrides of the ,virgin ,mary's  

,monastery1 ,salamis and      ,athens1  
,greece4      ,lieutenant1 ,officer1 in 
the ,royal ,gendarmery of ,greece4      
,grand ,chaplain and ,orator of the     
,supreme ,council of the ,a4 ,a4        
,scottish ,rite1 ,greece4      ,captain 
of the ,salvation ,army1 ,u4 ,s4 ,a4    
,member of the ,massachusetts           
,consistory ,s4 ,p4 ,r4 ,s41            
,thirty-second      ,degree1 ,boston1   
,mass4      ,evangelist to the ,greeks  
in the ,united ,states1 etc41 etc4      
,new ,york4      #aiab4     ,,preface   
,in placing this second edition in the  
hands of my readers ,i most gratefully  
acknowledge the splendid assistance of  
my subscribers1 and the kindness with   
which this book has been received by the
 ,general ,public1 who made it possible 
for me to accomplish my intended        
purpose1 ever since ,i left home1 that  
,i should give1 to the general public1  
an account of my conversion into a      
practical ,christian worker1 knowing    
that there are a great number of        

intelligent minds1 among the priests1 in
 the ,greek-,russian and ,roman         
,catholic churches1 who would make good 
soldiers of ,jesus ,christ1 and some of 
them might develop into heroes of ,truth
 and ,righteousness1 if they could only 
deny themselves of the luxuries and     
lofty life attached to their priesthood4
 ,and this problem of selfishness is an 
absolute barrier not only to their own  
,salvation1 but to many a soul1 who     
might have been saved from sin1 and be  
converted to ,god1 and usefulness1 but  
for the ,priest4  ,the solution of the  
problem was the clue which aided me to  
escape from the labyrinth of doubt2 and 
now1 standing upon the rock of unshaken 
faith1 ,i offer the clue that guided me 
to others4  ,a work of this kind is     
called for by the spirit of the age4    
,although the signs of the times are    
said to be propitious1 yet there are    
constant developments of undisciplined  
and unsanctified minds both in ,europe  
and ,america1 which furnish matter of   

regret to the philanthropist and the    
,christian2 and though there are great  
controversies--going on at present2 in  
relation to the man's spiritual         
interests1 central point of all this    
heated contest has been the ,cross of   
,christ3 yet the most obnoxious obstacle
 in the way of progress as to the       
realization of ,god's ,kingdom on earth 
it is1 and from all quarters the same   
exclamation uttered1 the priest4  ,men  
and women entrusted with                
responsibilities of raising children in 
the ,christ-like way1 for the future    
development of this great country1 will 
find valuable facts in this volume1     
which ,i have endeavored to write1 in   
order to meet the exigencies among1 not 
only certain people1 but among many     
well-bred and well-cultured priests4    
,in criticising this work1 the          
intelligent reader is respectfully      
requested to take into account the      
peculiar circumstances under which this 
book is written4  ,i was only six years 

old--in the ,english language--many     
miles away from any literary assistance1
 and fifty miles from the ,boston       
,public ,library1 where ,i could derive 
many testimonies and opinions of        
undisputable authorities to strengthen  
my religious opinions and actions1 which
 are tested in the most practical way by
 all conditions and under all           
circumstances1 from the ostentatious    
pomp of a high priest to a loving1 lowly
 worker in the slums of ,chicago4  ,the 
place1 where this book is written1 is a 
farm situated in the picturesque county 
of ,worcester1 and it might rightfully  
have attributed to the effect of the    
inspiring natural surroundings in this  
farm that ,i was enabled to master my   
views in framing them according to the  
linguistic requirements of the ,american
 reader1 using the every day language   
for the historical part of my subject2  
and maintaining the more classical      
expression for the men with the         
tendencies to argue1 just to make a show

 of their higher knowledge1 thus trying 
to excuse themselves for not submitting 
all their powers to the ,will of ,god4  
,it has been said1 all misery comes to  
the human race mainly from two causes2  
firstly1 through misconduct3 and        
secondly1 through misfortune3 therefore2
 since there is the self-evident truth1 
in the axiom1 that1 when the cause is   
diagnosed1 the remedy is near at hand1  
let us work unitedly to remove the cause
 of all misery1 be it in the ,greek     
people1 or ,jewish1 or ,gentiles1 and by
 the light of the ,gospel's truth1 let  
us put forth all our efforts1 while here
 on earth1 in establishing happiness and
 good will to all men4                  
,,rev4 ,,meletios ,,golden4             
,,north ,,rutland1 ,mass41 #aiaj4       
,,chapter ,i  ,farewell   ,it was the   
year #aijc1 on a very beautiful day1 one
 of those ,april days1 that are well    
known and appreciated by those who have 
been fortunate enough to travel around  
the purple bathed ,mediterranean coast1 

that his royal highness1 the prince of  
,greece1 ,andreas1 went abroad to meet  
his sweetheart1 who afterwards became   
his wife and princess of ,greece4 ,it   
was a confidential royal talk1 the      
betrothal of ,prince ,andreas1 but for  
the newspaper man1 who learns           
everything1 and he can keep a           
confidential talk as much as ,mrs4      
,green did when she promised to her     
husband to keep all to herself that     
confidential talk they had one night1   
and the first thing in the morning      
speaking to ,mrs4 ,jones over the fence 
she confidentially delivered that       
confidential talk and in the same manner
 all over fences and telephones1        
wherever they were procurable1 to save  
the time1 the talk went round the town  
and came back to ,mr4 ,green's ears1 and
 he only blamed himself for being the   
fool to trust his wife4 ,so1 when       
,prince ,andreas1 came down to ,piraeus1
 the seaport of ,athens1 to board on the
 fashionable ,french ,s4 ,s4            

,messengerie-,maritime1 he was surprised
 by the throngs of people that gathered 
at the pier to greet him good luck in   
his royal love affairs1 because the     
,greeks pay more attention to the royal 
love affairs1 than they do in paying    
their royalties to fatten more highness 
and highnesses than any other ,kingdom  
on the face of the earth4  ,the ,kingdom
 of ,greece1 little more than two       
millions of people1 pay to ,king        
,george1 for his annual allowances six  
times as much as the ninety millions of 
people to the ,president of the ,united 
,states4 ,and every creature of royal   
blood1 in ,greece1 draws as high an     
allowance1 as nearer to the throne his  
or her rights happen to be4 ,besides1   
many thousands of acres of the best land
 in ,greece1 is granted to the members  
of the royal family2 thus causing the   
immense emigration of all these ,greeks1
 whom you meet in every corner1 in the  
,united ,states1 trying to make an      
honest living1 by shining your shoes1 or

 working in the construction of         
railroads in ,america and ,mexico4  ,the
 ,greek1 though born and raised among   
the most beautiful vineyards that made  
the historical and famous ,nectar for   
the ,gods1 yet when he leaves his home  
to go abroad1 he takes his last glass of
 intoxicant1 till he settles himself1 in
 a new adopted motherland1 and makes a  
comfortable home for the queen of his   
heart1 because home life is the ideal of
 every ,greek and he is a model as head 
of the family1 in his moderate means    
trying to raise children to his         
generation and give them the best he can
 afford4 ,hopeful1 that some ,socrates  
or ,demosthenes might develop out of his
 offspring4 ,the ,greek has never been  
identified with any unlawful or criminal
 movement of the so-called ,anarchistic 
or ,socialistic4 ,the ,greek at all     
times and under all circumstances is an 
example as a law-abiding citizen4       
,greek history is the pride of all the  
civilized world1 and in the opinion of a

 most distinguished sociologist1 the    
,united ,states is the ,greece of this  
age1 and he thinks that it is the       
irresistible law of gravitation and     
sympathy that the tide of emigration    
draws the ,greeks from the ancient      
,greece into this new and glorious      
,greece4 ,and the writer was very little
 surprised when told that ,boston is the
 ,hub of ,america1 or in the language of
 the ,archaeologist1 the ,athens of the 
,united ,states1 and there and then he  
made his resolution to make his home in 
,boston1 should he ever find the way    
clear to come to ,america4 ,the joyful  
dream of his life has become reality1   
and for the last six years from his     
personal observations traveling a little
 more1 perhaps1 than the average        
,american traveler1 from ,atlantic      
,ocean to ,pacific ,coast1 he is        
privileged to know that the spirit of   
the ,ancient ,greece is not only        
confined in the ,hub1 but1 hospitality  
and the love of art and beauty prevails 

in the very heart of every true         
,american man and woman1 even in the    
remotest village and hamlet1 and he has 
yet to know the time or the place where 
he did not feel perfectly at home4      
,therefore1 there is no regret on his   
part for bidding farewell to the land of
 the ,gods and the city which had been  
the birthplace of taste1 of art and     
beauty and eloquence4 ,the chosen       
sanctuary of the ,muses4 ,the prototype 
of all that is graceful and dignified   
and grand in sentiment and action4      
,history and philosophy1 oratory and the
 elements of mathematical science claim 
as their birthplace the city of ,athens1
 where ,paul1 the greatest apostle of   
,jesus ,christ1 uttered his immortal    
oration to the ,athenians1 on the       
,areopagus 7,mars ,hill74 ,and he1      
dignified1 temperate1 high-minded and   
learned in all wisdom1 of his age1      
,paul1 confessed that he was standing in
 the midst of the highest civilization1 
both of his own age and of the ages that

 had elapsed4  ,paul1 with his face     
towards the north having immediately    
behind him the long walls which ran down
 to the sea1 affording protection       
against a foreign enemy4 ,near the sea  
on the one side the harbor of ,piraeus1 
on the other that designated ,phalerum1 
with crowded arsenals1 their busy       
workmen and their gallant ships4 ,not   
far off in the ocean the ,island of     
,salamis1 ennobled forever in history as
 the spot near which ,athenian valour   
chastised ,asiatic pride1 and achieved  
the liberty of ,greece4 ,the ,apostle   
turning towards his right hand to catch 
a view of a small but celebrated hill   
rising within the city near that on     
which he stood1 called the ,pnyx1 where 
standing on a block of bare stone1      
,demosthenes and other distinguished    
orators had addressed the assembled     
people of ,athens1 swaying that arrogant
 and fickle democracy1 and thereby      
making ,philip of ,macedon tremble1 or  
working good or ill for the entire      

civilized world4 ,immediately before him
 looking upon the crowded city1 studded 
in every part with memorials sacred to  
religion or patriotism1 and exhibiting  
the highest achievements of art4 ,on his
 left1 somewhat beyond the walls1 the   
,academy1 with its groves of plane and  
olive-trees1 its retired walks and      
cooling fountains1 its altar to the     
,muses1 its statues of the ,graces1 its 
,temple of ,minerva1 and its altars to  
,prometheus1 to ,love1 and ,hercules1   
near which ,plato had his country seat1 
and in the midst of which he had taught 
as well his followers after him4 ,but   
the most impressive spectacle laying on 
his right hand1 that small and          
precipitous hill ,the ,acropolis where  
clustered together monuments of the     
highest art1 and memorials of the       
national religion1 such as no other     
equal spot of ground has ever borne4    
,the ,apostle's eyes1 in turning to the 
right1 would fall on the north-west side
 of the eminence1 which was here and all

 round1 covered and protected by a wall1
 parts of which were so ancient as to be
 of ,cyclopean origin4 ,the western     
side1 which alone gave access to what1  
from its original destination1 may be   
termed the fort1 was1 during the        
administration of ,pericles1 adorned    
with a splendid flight of steps1 and the
 beautiful ,propylaea1 with its five    
entrances and two flanking temples1     
constructed by ,mnesicles of ,pentelican
 marble at a cost of #bjab talents1     
which is the equivalent of about four   
millions of ,american dollars4 ,in the  
time of the ,roman emperors there stood 
before the ,propylaea1 equestrian       
statues of ,augustus and ,agrippa4 ,on  
the southern wing of the ,propylaea was 
a temple to the ,wingless ,victory2 on  
the northern1 a ,pinacotheca1 or picture
 gallery4 ,on the highest part of the   
platform of the ,acropolis1 not more    
than #cjj feet from the                 
entrance-buildings just described1 stood
 and yet stands1 though shattered and   

mutilated1 ,the ,parthenon1 justly      
celebrated throughout the world1 erected
 of white ,pentelican marble1 under the 
direction of ,callicrates1 ,ictinus and 
,carpion and adorned with the finest    
sculptures from the hand of ,phidias4   
,northward from the ,parthenon was the  
,erechtheum1 a compound building which  
contained the temple of ,minerva        
,polias2 the proper ,erechtheum1 called 
also the ,cecropium1 and the            
,pandroseum4 ,this sanctuary contained  
the holy olive tree sacred to ,minerva1 
the holy salt-spring1 the ancient wooden
 image of ,pallas1 etc41 and was the    
scene of the oldest and most venerated  
ceremonies and recollections of the     
,athenians4 ,perhaps1 for this reason1  
,king ,george of ,greece1 in celebrating
 his #beth anniversary on the ,throne1  
he gave upon this rock of ,acropolis1   
that remarkable banquet to all crowned  
visitors1 #age in number from every     
royal family of ,europe4 ,at this       
memorable event1 the writer held the    

office of man at arms on the ,acropolis1
 although he was the youngest officer in
 the ,royal ,gendarmery of ,greece1 at  
the time4  ,between the ,propylaea and  
the ,erechtheum was placed the colossal 
bronze statue of ,pallas-,promachos1 the
 work of ,phidias1 which towered so high
 above the other buildings1 that the    
plume of her helmet and the point of her
 spear were visible on the sea between  
,sunium and ,athens4 ,moreover1 the     
,acropolis was occupied by so great a   
crowd of statues and monuments1 that the
 account1 as found in ,pausanias1       
excites the reader's wonder1 and makes  
it difficult for him to understand how  
so much could have been crowded into a  
space which extended from the southeast 
only #aaej feet1 whilst its greatest    
breadth did not exceed #ejj feet4  ,on  
the hill itself where ,paul stood1 was  
the temple of ,furies1 and in the court 
house of ,areopagus1 there was the altar
 to ,athene ,areia4  ,in all historical 
probability1 ,paul1 stood exactly on    

this place when1 to the unknown ,god as 
his text1 he delivered the understanding
 of ,the ,true and ,living ,god1 who    
made the world and all things therein1  
and he made of one blood all nations of 
men for to dwell on all the face of the 
earth4  ,the writer1 consequently1 in   
bidding farewell to his beloved ,athens1
 he knew that he was going as a brother 
among members of the same family of     
humanity in a land where man is free to 
worship ,god1 not in hypocrisy and      
deceit1 but in ,spirit and in truth4    
,on the same beautiful ,april day that  
,prince ,andreas was going abroad1 the  
writer went aboard on the same ,s4 ,s4  
,messengerie-,maritime1 unaware of ,h4  
,r4 ,h4's presence there1 notified only 
at the last moment by the agent of the  
company1 ,mr4 ,christopher of ,piraeus1 
who was on board himself going to ,italy
 on a business trip4 ,mr4 ,christopher1 
by being a member of the same           
fellowcraft in which the writer was the 
,grand ,chaplain1 he took pains to      

secure a very comfortable stateroom for 
his brother ,chaplain4  ,now ,i was     
following ,mr4 ,christopher and an      
officer of the ,s4 ,s4 to locate myself 
in the suite provided for me1 and as we 
were obliged to pass through the        
reception hall there ,i found myself    
face to face with the ,king ,george1 and
 the following dialogue occurs4         
,king--,where are you going1 ,father8   
,i--,on a recreation trip1 ,your        
,majesty4 7,i should have said1 on a    
reformation trip47  ,king--,i hope you  
will have a bon voyage4  ,i--,your      
,majesty's wish1 ,god grant it to be so1
 and ,i pray that ,his ,favour shall    
crown with joy1 all the desires of ,h4  
,r4 ,h4's1 the ,prince1 in his journey4 
,king--,with your prayers1 ,father1 ,i  
believe ,h4 ,r4 ,h4 will be well        
successful4  ,and with one of his well  
known diplomatic smiles that contain    
manifold meanings1 ,king ,george bid us 
farewell1 and in a few moments the big  
whistle blew and a gentle vibration of  

the boat gave the notice that we were on
 the move4 ,i went into my cabin and    
looking through the hole that was doing 
duty of a round window1 ,i beheld the   
monument of ,themistocles passing       
slowly1 and when ,i could see that no   
more1 ,i felt something melting in my   
heart and over-flowingly coming up into 
my eyes in the shape of two drops of    
burning water4 ,i took them on the tips 
of my fingers and after kissing them    
with all the tenderness of a loving     
heart1 ,i sprinkled them into the       
apeiron1 farewell to my loved ones left 
behind me1 while the big ,s4 ,s4 in full
 steam was now carrying me faster and   
faster into the unknown and uncertain4  
,i did not leave my cabin and there took
 my meals for two reasons2 first1 ,h4   
,r4 ,h4 expressed the wish to take his  
meals at the regular first-class dining 
table1 with all the mortals therein1 and
 ,i had little desire to meet him       
anyway2 and second because ,i wanted to 
be alone to indulge undisturbed in my   

thoughts and study them and keep notes  
of them for my future use4  ,the history
 tells us that it took thirty years for 
the greatest philosopher that was ever  
born to give his definite opinion as to 
the immortality of the soul4 ,and if a  
philosopher like ,socrates1 after thirty
 years of constant study1 he knew one   
thing1 that he knew nothing1 it is      
absurd to dare say that we shall ever   
know more than ,socrates did1 and in    
regard to the most perplexed problem of 
the human soul we can only rejoice in   
the fact that we are placed in a more   
advanced position above ,socrates1 that 
we can look upon these problems with    
more light1 and that is the light that  
comes from ,galilee4  ,alone as ,i was  
in my cabin ,i thought of ,socrates1 ,i 
thought of ,confucius1 of ,buddha1 and  
in fact ,i thought of the many ancient  
and modern leaders of great movements1  
and of new thoughts1 my admiration is   
insistent to everything that is noble   
and pure in sentiment and praxis1 but   

there is only one leader1 whom my spirit
 admires the best and ,i worship him    
with love and devotion1 the man who gave
 his life for me4 ,i knew ,i was free   
through his death and ,i was happy4 ,the
 ,hierarchical church was opposing me   
unreasonably2 my own dearest and nearest
 relatives did not understand me1 their 
strongest argument being1 how could ,i  
sacrifice such a high office and deny a 
promising greater future and still be in
 my right mind8  ,not being satisfied in
 my own heart1 much less convinced in my
 mind1 ,i made a pilgrimage to          
,jerusalem1 in order to find out whether
 ,jesus was the only ,saviour of mankind
 without the necessity of a priest4 ,it 
was then and there1 while kneeling on my
 knees upon that rock of ,golgotha that 
came to me with startling force and     
clearness that ,i must be a follower of 
,jesus ,christ and not a representative4
 ,all men may live on the ,christ-like  
way and be happy1 but the man who dares 
personify himself with the authorities  

belonging only to ,jesus1 that man must 
be a faker2 ,greater love hath no man   
than this1 that a man lay down his life 
for his friends and ,i knew ,jesus was  
my friend1 the only friend left to me1  
while every other friend had forsaken   
me4 ,in that little cabin ,i felt his   
companionship1 and looking at the clock 
on the dresser ,i beheld in the mirror a
 pleasant face smiling at me4 ,the hour 
was nearly midnight and ,i retired1     
singing ,he promised never to leave me  
alone4  ,the voyage from ,piraeus to    
,naples is said to be the best and      
grandest in ,mediterranean1 and in      
company of a royal fellow traveller     
might have been interesting even to the 
most eccentric ,yankee1 but to me it was
 a monotonous event1 and the second     
evening while ,i was walking for some   
exercise on the deck1 ,h4 ,r4 ,h4 came  
up to me graciously expressing his      
regrets for not seeing me at the table1 
and inquiring if ,i was not feeling     
well1 but he soon noticed my laconical  

way in excusing my absence1 and he      
withdrew1 leaving me alone in my        
admiration of a grand view on a         
moonlighted nature in the               
,mediterranean4 ,and the only thought   
occupying my mind was2 how soon could ,i
 get to ,america8 ,for this reason      
perhaps1 ,i decided to take steamship   
for ,new ,york at ,naples1 ,italy1      
instead of going to ,marseilles1 chief  
seaport of ,france on the               
,mediterranean1 thus forfeiting my      
rights on ,s4 ,s4                       
,messengerie-,maritime1 that had been   
paid from ,piraeus to ,marseilles4      
,happily1 ,mr4 ,christopher was also    
representing the ,s4 ,s4 ,co41 of ,fabre
 ,line1 and the ,s4 ,s4 ,germania of the
 same company was scheduled to depart   
from the harbor of ,naples in a few     
days4 ,it certainly was a pleasure and  
an opportunity of which we took         
advantage to visit the most interesting 
places in and around ,naples1 the city  
of far famous and at the same time      

notorious1 for there the stranger       
notices1 in every step1 the beauty of   
,italian art and the ,neapolitan filth  
combined in the most peculiar texture4  
,making good use of the little time     
which we had at our disposal1 we took   
the train and went up to see the ,city  
in which the ,pope entombed himself a   
living mummy rather than to co-operate  
with the civilized world in building    
,god's ,kingdom on earth4  ,in looking  
over my memorandums ,i have just        
discovered a description that ,i kept   
about the ,eternal ,city4 ,the          
historical facts therein are supported  
by undisputable authority4 ,and ,i think
 it apropos beneficial to my readers1 if
 it will be placed at their hands before
 the closing of this chapter4  ,on the  
river ,tiber1 about fifteen miles from  
its mouth in the plain of what is now   
called the ,campagna1 stands the famous 
capital of the ,western ,world1 and the 
present residence of the ,pope1 the     
,city of ,rome4 ,the surrounding country

 is not a plain1 but a sort of          
undulating table-land1 crossed by hills1
 while it sinks towards the southwest to
 the marshes of ,maremma1 which coast   
the ,mediterranean4 ,in ancient         
geography the country1 in the midst of  
which ,rome lay1 was termed ,latium1    
which1 in the earliest times1 comprised 
within a space of about four            
geographical square miles the country   
lying between the ,tiber and the        
,numisius1 extending from the ,alban    
,hills to the sea1 having for its chief 
city ,laurentum4 ,here1 on the ,palatine
 ,hill1 was the city of ,rome founded by
 ,romulus and ,remus1 grandsons of      
,numitor1 and sons of ,rhea ,sylvia1 to 
whom1 as the originators of the city1   
mythology ascribed a divine parentage4  
,the origin of the term ,rome is in     
dispute4 ,some derive it from the ,greek
 ,romee1 strength1 considering that this
 name was given to the place as been a  
fortress4 ,cicero says the name was     
taken from that of its founder ,romulus4

 ,at first the city had three gates1    
according to a secret usage4 ,founded on
 the ,palatine ,hill1 it extended1 by   
degrees1 so as to take in six other     
hills at the foot of which ran deep     
valleys that in early times were in part
 overflowed with water1 while the       
hill-sides were covered with trees4 ,in 
the course of the many years during     
which ,rome was acquiring to herself the
 empire of the world1 the city underwent
 great1 numerous1 and important changes4
 ,under its first kings it must have    
presented a very different aspect from  
what it did after it had been beautified
 by ,tarquin4 ,the destruction of the   
city by the ,gauls caused a thorough    
alteration in it3 nor could the troubled
 times which ensued have been favourable
 to its being well restored4 ,it was not
 till riches and artistic skill came    
into the city on the conquest of ,philip
 of ,macedon1 and ,antiochus of ,syria1 
that there arose in ,rome large handsome
 stone houses4 ,the capture of ,corinth 

conduced much to the adorning of the    
city3 many fine specimens of art being  
transferred from thence to the abode of 
the conquerors4 ,and so1 as the power of
 ,rome extended over the world1 and her 
chief citizens went into the colonies to
 enrich themselves1 did the masterpieces
 of ,grecian art flow towards the       
capital1 together with some of the taste
 and skill to which they owed their     
birth4 ,augustus1 however1 it was1 who  
did most for embellishing the capital of
 the world1 though there may be some    
sacrifice of truth in the pointed       
saying1 that he found ,rome built of    
brick1 and left it marble4 ,subsequent  
emperors followed his example1 till the 
place became the greatest repository of 
architectural1 pictorial1 and sculptural
 skill1 that the world has ever seen3 a 
result to which even ,nero's            
incendiarism indirectly conduced1 as    
affording an occasion for the city's    
being rebuilt under the higher          
scientific influences of the times4 ,the

 site occupied by modern ,rome is not   
precisely the same as that which was at 
any period covered by the ancient city3 
the change of locality being towards the
 north-west1 the city has partially     
retired from the celebrated hills4      
,about two-thirds of the area within the
 walls1 traced by ,aurelian1 are now    
desolate1 consisting of ruins1 gardens1 
and fields1 with some churches1         
convents1 and other scattered           
habitations4 ,originally the city was a 
square mile in area4 ,in the time of    
,pliny the walls were nearly twenty     
miles in circuit3 now they are from     
fourteen to fifteen miles round4 ,its   
original gates1 three in number1 had    
increased in the time of the elder      
,pliny to thirty-seven4 ,modern ,rome   
has sixteen gates1 some of which are1   
however1 built up4 ,thirty-one great    
roads centered in ,rome1 which1 issuing 
from the ,forum1 traversed ,italy1 ran  
through the provinces1 and were         
terminated only by the boundary of the  

empire4 ,as a starting point a gilt     
pillar 7,milliarium ,aureum7 was set up 
by ,augustus in the middle of the       
,forum4 ,this curious monument1 from    
which distances were reckoned1 was      
discovered in #ahbc4 ,eight principal   
bridges led over the ,tiber3 of these   
three are still relics4 ,the four       
districts into which ,rome was divided  
in early times1 ,augustus increased to  
fourteen4 ,large open spaces were set   
apart in the city1 called ,campi1 for   
assemblies of the people and martial    
exercises1 as well as for games4 ,of    
nineteen which are mentioned1 the       
,campus ,martius was the principal4 ,it 
was near the ,tiber1 whence it was      
called ,tiberinus4 ,the epithet ,martius
 was derived from the plain being       
consecrated to ,mars1 the god of war4   
,in the later ages it was surrounded by 
several magnificent structures1 and     
porticoes were erected1 under which1 in 
bad weather1 the citizens could go      
through their usual exercises4 ,it was  

also adorned with statues and arches4   
,the name of ,fora was given to places  
where the people assembled for the      
transaction of business4 ,the ,fora were
 of two kinds--fora venalia1 markets1   
and fora civilia1 law courts1 etc4      
,until the time of ,julius ,csar there  
was but one of the latter kind1 termed  
by way of distinction ,forum ,romanum1  
or simply ,forum4 ,it lay between the   
,capitoline and ,palatine ,hills3 it was
 eight hundred feet wide1 and adorned on
 all sides with porticoes1 shops1 and   
other edifices1 on the erection of which
 large sums had been expended1 and the  
appearance of which was very imposing1  
especially as it was much enhanced by   
numerous statues4 ,in the centre of the 
,forum was the plain called the ,curtian
 ,lake1 where ,curtius is said to have  
cast himself into a chasm or gulf1 which
 closed on him1 and so he saved his     
country4 ,on one side were the elevated 
seats or suggestus1 a sort of pulpits   
from which magistrates and orators      

addressed the people1 usually called    
,rostra1 because adorned with the beaks 
of ships which had been taken in a      
sea-fight from the inhabitants of       
,antium4  ,near by was the part of the  
,forum called the ,comitium1 where were 
held the assemblies of the people called
 ,comitia ,curiata4 ,the celebrated     
temple1 bearing the name of ,capitol1 of
 which there remain only a few vestiges1
 stood on the ,capitoline ,hill1 the    
highest of the seven3 it was square in  
form1 each side extending about two     
hundred feet1 and the ascent to it was  
by a flight of one hundred steps4 ,it   
was one of the oldest1 largest1 and     
grandest edifices in the city4 ,founded 
by ,tarquinius ,priscus1 it was at      
several times enlarged and embellished4 
,its gates were of brass1 and it was    
adorned with costly gildings3 whence it 
is termed golden and glittering1 aurea1 
fulgens4 ,it enclosed three structures1 
the temple of ,jupiter ,capitolinus in  
the centre1 the temple of ,minerva on   

the right1 and the temple of ,juno on   
the left4 ,the ,capitol also included   
some minor temples or chapels1 and the  
,casa ,romuly1 or ,romulus1 covered with
 straw4 ,near the ascent to the ,capitol
 was the asylum 7,cities of refuge74 ,we
 also mention the ,basilic1 since some  
of them were afterwards turned to the   
purposes of ,christian worship4 ,they   
were originally buildings of great      
splendour1 being appropriated to        
meetings of the senate1 and to judicial 
purposes4 ,here counsellors received    
their clients1 and bankers transacted   
their business4 ,the earliest churches1 
bearing the name of ,basilic1 were      
erected under ,constantine the ,great4  
,he gave his own palace on the ,caelian 
,hill as a site for a ,christian temple4
 ,next in antiquity was the church of   
,st4 ,peter1 on the ,vatican ,hill1     
built ,a4,d4 #cbd1 on the site and with 
the ruins of temples consecrated to     
,apollo and ,mars4 ,it stood about      
twelve centuries1 at the end of which it

 was superseded by the modern church    
bearing the same name4  ,the ,cirei were
 buildings oblong in shape1 used for    
public games1 races1 and beast-fights4  
,the ,theatra were edifices designed for
 dramatic exhibitions3 the ,amphitheatra
 7double theatres1 buildings in an oval 
form7 served for gladiatorial shows and 
the fighting of wild animals4 ,that     
which was erected by the ,emperor       
,titus1 and of which there still exists 
a splendid ruin1 was called the         
,coliseum1 from a colossal statue of    
,nero that stood near it4 ,with an      
excess of luxury1 perfumed liquids were 
conveyed in secret tubes round these    
immense structures1 and diffused over   
the spectators1 sometimes from the      
statues which adorned the interior4 ,in 
the arena which formed the centre of the
 amphitheatres1 the early ,christians   
often endured martyrdom by being exposed
 to ravenous beasts4  ,in modern ,rome  
there are various things to excite the  
curiosity of the stranger1 but in my    

observations ,i could only see four     
elements predominating above everything1
 monks1 nuns1 priests and beggars4 ,they
 form a continued procession all day    
long of the most spectacular carnival   
that could be seen in any of the        
,babylons of the world4  ,and now while 
in ,rome1 we might ask the question3    
,who founded the church at ,rome8 ,the  
question is equally interesting1 if not 
important to the ,protestant and to     
,catholic4 ,the ,romish church assigns  
the honour to ,peter1 and on this       
grounds an argument in favour of the    
claims of the ,papacy4 ,but strict      
search in and about all the obtainable  
sources of knowledge1 it does give no   
sufficient reason for believing that    
,peter was ever even so much as within  
the walls of ,rome4 ,thus1 by all       
inspired documents there is one title   
clear left to ,pope and his scheme1     
unaccountable falsifier4 ,as an ordained
 ,high ,priest in the ,greek ,orthodox  
,church1 ,i have been for many years    

studied in this particular subject4 ,the
 ,libraries in ,mount ,athos gave me all
 the opportunities that the high and    
exalted position1 which ,i held1 could  
afford1 to find the truth concerning the
 claims of the ,pope4 ,the ,fathers of  
the ,church1 ,basil the ,great1 ,gregory
 the ,theologian1 ,john ,chrysostomus1  
and all the host of ,ecclesiastical     
authorities agree unanimously that the  
,lord ,jesus never intended to concede  
any right of supremacy1 to ,peter1 over 
the other apostles4 ,otherwise ,he      
7,jesus7 would never have said those    
wonderful words 7,matt4 #bj1 #be1 etc471
 and ,peter himself disclaiming the     
assertions of the ,papacy 7,pet4 #a1 #e1
 #c1 etc474 ,and it is certain that     
there is no instance on record of the   
apostle's 7,peter7 having ever claimed  
or exercised this supposed power1 but on
 the contrary1 he is oftener than once  
represented as submitting to an exercise
 of power upon the part of others1 as   
when1 for instance1 he went forth as a  

messenger from the apostles assembled in
 ,jerusalem to the ,christians in       
,samaria1 and when he received a rebuke 
from ,paul4 ,now as a matter of fact1 if
 ,peter was ever ,great1 that was1 when 
he repented for denying his ,master4    
,repentance1 therefore1 is the only hope
 left for the ,pope1 if he ever expects 
to hear the blessed voice ,feed my      
sheep4  ,in these days of enlightenment 
and progress1 while humane feelings are 
taking the place of spite and hatred    
among the civilized nations1 and        
religious prejudice is giving way to    
good will and tolerance1 ,rome is1 from 
the ,vatican point of view1 the         
stumbling-block of every honest effort  
in the purification of the individual   
heart and the uplifting of the millions 
of souls that are downtrodden under the 
sandals of hyenical monks4 ,when the    
,pope1 a few months ago1 rejected ,mr4  
,roosevelt and ,mr4 ,fairbanks1 two     
models of manhood and virtue1 he made it
 clear to the world that he is suffering

 incurably1 from barbaritis1 and that   
his case is hopeless4 ,but1 it is to be 
hoped that as ,rome is already          
regenerated politically and socially1   
so1 we pray that in not far distant day1
 ,rome1 shall also be regenerated       
spiritually4  ,in the meantime we shall 
continue our journey1 and now we hurry  
back to take the ,s4 ,s4 ,germania from 
,naples to ,new ,york4 ,and when ,i was 
well located on board1 ,i kissed        
good-bye to my friend and brother       
,christopher1 thanking him for his      
assistance and bidding to the old world 
,,farewell6 ,,farewell6     ,,chapter   
,,ii  ,arrival   ,sunday morning the    
#afth of ,may1 #aijc1 the very handsome 
,s4 ,s4 ,germania1 cast anchor in the   
docks of ,brooklyn4 ,indeed1 there is no
 particular significance in a steamship 
arriving in the harbor of ,brooklyn and 
,new ,york1 for they come by hundreds   
from all parts of the world1 every day  
in the week and many of them every      
,sunday of the year4 ,it is for the     

diligent observer that there are more   
lessons to be drawn from a day passed   
along the ,brooklyn bridge than there   
are in the most exclusive circles of the
 #djj4 ,and if ,i am allowed to make any
 comparison at all ,i should put it in  
the following short sentences4 ,the     
former lessons would be of a heart from 
which all arteries transport the        
necessary elements to keep up           
undiminished the vitality of this great 
cosmopolitan body1 while the latter     
uncontrovertibly is only a part of the  
body1 and unfortunately it is the       
stomach that consumes lavishly even to  
the core all that the whole body can    
produce4 ,yet to an every day passer-by 
neither when he travels across the      
,brooklyn bridge rubbing elbows with the
 scores of the masses of humanity that  
hasten their way unconsiderate by       
nobody1 nor when in his big red or      
yellow automobile hurrying up ,fifth    
,avenue he is planning in his mind a new
 scheme how to make more money1 or he is

 the heir of riches untold and many     
millions are waiting for him to be      
scattered in all winds1 his social      
standard to keep up and his neighbor's  
honor to bring down and as a rule to    
accomplish his own destruction1 the time
 is of no value unless there is some    
profit in it for the only scope in his  
life is self gratification4             
,illustration3 ,,rev4 ,m4 ,,golden ,in  
,his ,street ,attire as ,high ,priest   
,the ,s4 ,s4 ,germania in splendor and  
commodities could proudly be called the 
,mauretania or ,lucetania of the ,fabre 
,line1 a very commendable company       
judging from the good officials and     
desirable attendants we had on board the
 ,germania4 ,her arrival at the present 
voyage had exceptional significance1 and
 if every ,s4 ,s4 which arrives this    
side of the ocean had parallel instances
 it would be only a matter of time when 
all the legislators which are engaged in
 making the emigration laws would find  
themselves out of business1 because the 

,kingdom of ,god that knows no divisions
 and no distinctions of nations and     
races should soon be established to make
 a heaven on earth and there it would be
 one ,lord--one faith--one baptism for  
all human races1 and all men could then 
move in the different parts of the world
 without any credentials and they could 
be welcome everywhere as members of the 
same family do when they live within the
 boundaries of love4  ,since the        
invention of ,logos in the art of making
 history worth reading1 through the ages
 the historian derives his intelligence 
from all sources apt to contribute to   
his object and unsparingly he treats    
zoology1 botany and all kingdoms ending 
in some kind of y1 just to serve his    
purpose successfully4 ,and the writers  
of the ,scriptures are not exempted to  
this rule1 inspired as it were1 they    
mentioned almost every known and unknown
 animal which our forefather ,noah saved
 in his ,ark1 and if the ass plays so an
 important part in the ,book of books1  

,germania surely is entitled to some    
consideration in the history of my      
conversion4  ,it will be impossible for 
me to even attempt to skiagraph all that
 took place on board the ,germania from 
the time we left ,naples of sunny ,italy
 till we arrived in the docks of        
,brooklyn1 eleven and one-half days'    
voyage with only a short stop at        
,gibraltar1 that fortified rock for     
which ,great ,britain is ready to play  
all her power just to maintain that dry 
and ungraceful rock1 but1 the key of two
 seas1 and in ,azores ,islands to       
exchange mail1 our journey was a never  
to be forgotten continual holiday4  ,one
 odd incident that kept our merriment   
all these days1 was the symptomatical   
number thirteen4 ,the ,s4 ,s4 ,germania 
was carrying on board several hundred   
emigrants1 mostly from sunny ,italy1    
they were representing all conditions   
and descriptions coming to ,america to  
make their fortune1 which but a few     
exceptions is a sweet hope into every   

emigrant's heart and though often proves
 to them that it was only a dream1 and  
there are millions of emigrants all over
 this land who after many years of hard 
work they are still struggling for a    
mere existence1 yet they come and they  
shall continue to come for it is the    
rule of the universe2 they simply cannot
 resist the law that governs and moves  
the ,sympan4 ,and the ,s4 ,s4 ,germania 
was well occupied in its various        
compartments1 but there were only ten of
 us voyagers in the reserved first      
cabins1 and at meal time with the first 
,captain at the head of the table and   
one ,commissioner representing the      
,government and the first physician of  
the boat then we made up the number #ac2
 and though ,i am not a superstitious   
person ,i was the first one to call the 
attention to that fact1 and there the   
fun began4 ,the fellow voyagers         
insisting that should any danger of     
tempestuous and stormy gale threaten    
their safety they had to cast lots to   

know for whose cause the evil came1 and 
as ,i was the only representative of the
 religious sentiment1 in all probability
 ,i had to undergo the same experience  
as ,jonah had1 yet our fears did not    
even approach any realization but       
instead as it was desirable to all on   
board we enjoyed a very pleasant voyage 
all the way and the ,captain himself    
unreservedly with his boyish            
cheerfulness expressed his gratification
 for all that came out so perfectly     
satisfactory4 ,and the ,captain being   
desirous to commemorate the agreeable   
event he gave the night before our      
arrival at ,brooklyn a unique banquet in
 the big reception hall with various    
symbolical decorations in honor to his  
excellency the number #ac4 ,and to make 
the event more memorable the ,captain   
himself went around the boat visiting   
all the emigrants and selecting #ac of  
the most musical ,italian boys and girls
 with their harps1 mandolins and        
tambourines1 a perfect stringed band1   

and while our merriment was in its      
zenith he conducted them on the upper   
deck where the reception hall was       
located into the adjoining room and     
without warning we began to hear the    
waves vibrating through the walls into  
our hall and soon our ears were filled  
with divine melodies4 ,they were playing
 ,tosca1 ,puccini's most inspired       
composition and the translation of these
 people behind the walls it really      
contained that pathos which all artists 
agree1 yet unable to explain how so many
 children of sunny ,italy became        
world-wide famous for the embodiment of 
that musical and harmonious pathos of   
which ,tosca is the favorite piece of   
the greatest living tenor ,caruso4  ,in 
an unfortunate event that occurred to me
 some time ago ,i lost the names of my  
fellow voyagers on that memorable trip  
on the ,germania1 yet ,i can well       
recollect that there were two ,american 
newly-wedded couples from the western   
cities1 just returning home from their  

extensive honeymoon trip abroad1 and    
there was a gentleman1 very refined and 
well cultured in literature whom we     
called1 the ,athenian1 as he hailed from
 ,boston1 which in the language of all  
foreigners is the ,athens of the ,united
 ,states1 and there was the ,jew        
merchant from ,chicago1 and another     
gentleman1 an ,italian professor1 who   
was going to occupy an exalted position 
in one of the ,roman ,catholic          
,institutions in ,new ,orleans1 and to  
our delight there was ,miss ,maria1 the 
only beloved daughter of ,dr4 ,achilles 
,rose of ,new ,york4 ,dr4 ,rose is not  
only a very prominent practitioner as a 
physician in ,new ,york1 but he is      
acknowledged as an eminent authority by 
the most exclusive ,academies of ,europe
 concerning medical matters1 as well as 
a great linguist in the ancient and     
modern languages1 and a number of       
publications contributed to the         
scientific research are the monuments of
 his convincing penmanship4 ,his        

daughter had just finished a long course
 in the best college ,arsakeion         
exclusive institution for girls in      
,athens1 ,greece2 and she was well      
qualified to teach the ,ancient and     
,modern ,greek language as well as any  
professor in the ,american colleges and 
universities4 ,i had to go carefully    
myself in order to keep pace with her in
 the exactness of pronunciation of the  
,greek words1 and when listening to her 
telling some of the joyful experiences  
she experienced in learning this        
wonderful ,greek language ,i felt like a
 ,sunday school scholar impressed by her
 rhythmical and melodious harmony in    
pronouncing every word and sentence that
 sound like the old ,greek music which  
even ,apollo himself would be glad to   
listen to4  ,with ,miss ,maria ,rose    
there was ,miss ,margaret1 a tall       
slender figure with every characteristic
 of a genuine ,kentucky girl1 a very    
respectable maiden1 she was caressing   
for ,miss ,maria ,rose with motherly    

tenderness1 she was the playmate and    
constant companion of ,miss ,maria now  
passing the bridge of her teens2 yet    
,miss ,margaret could not tolerate      
seeing her leaning on the rails of the  
,germania1 she appeared presumably      
afraid that some terrible whale might   
swallow her little ,maria whom she loved
 as much as a mother could love her own 
child1 a pleasure which she never had1  
to know and to love a child of her own1 
and ,maria appeared to appreciate the   
kindness of her governess4  ,now to make
 up the list of the ten voyagers there  
was also your obedient servant1 coming  
over to ,america to study religious1    
social and industrial conditions4 ,an   
account of his reasons for taking this  
step shall be given later on4 ,at this  
time ,i must proceed to complete my     
acquaintances on board the ,germania4   
,from the first day on board ,i find    
myself in very friendly terms with every
 one of my fellow voyagers1 and before  
,i knew it ,i was the father of them    

all4 ,as a ,high ,priest dressed in my  
church garbs1 they just pasted in front 
of my name the monkish title1 ,father1  
which ,i never accustomed myself though 
my official church name consists of     
about a half a dozen titles4  ,the      
,captain of the ,germania1 a typical    
,french gentleman very agreeable in all 
his ways1 with my little ,french enabled
 me to make myself understood4 ,i had   
the pleasure of passing many a moment in
 pleasant conversation with him1 and    
when ,i wanted to speak to the          
,americans1 my heart was longing to     
learn all ,i could from them1 as they   
were so kind to me1 and with ,miss      
,maria's assistance ,i never went       
lonesome1 her acting as interpreter     
between me and the ,americans1 for by   
that time ,i was not able to even       
pronounce correctly a sentence in the   
,english language4  ,with all these     
acquaintances my time was well occupied 
and to my personal delight1 by chance1  
,i found my constant companion in the   

person of ,dr4 ,lucretius1 the first    
physician of the ,germania1 an ,italian 
gentleman4 ,by tokens and signs we found
 that both of us belong to that great   
body of men that knows each other as    
brothers in every corner of the         
inhabited world4 ,it was he1 ,dr4       
,lucretius1 who came to my cabin on the 
morning of the #afth of ,may1 at about  
#e a4 m41 and knocking at the door1     
said1 ,father ,golden1 we are now       
entering into the harbor of ,new ,york1 
and if you want to enjoy a grand view of
 the surrounding country you had better 
come out on the upper bridge4 ,i shall  
be there waiting for you to explain some
 of the most beautiful sceneries that   
you have ever looked upon in your life4 
,and he was correct1 without any        
exaggeration1 for when ,i leaped from my
 bed and dressed myself as fast as ,i   
could ,i went to meet my friend and     
brother1 ,dr4 ,lucretius4  ,rushing up  
to the bridge ,i greeted him ,bonjorno1 
mio fratello shaking his hand at the    

same time1 almost ,i cried out1 this    
certainly is an artificial imitation of 
the entrance to ,bosphorus1 and if it   
were not for that great statue and      
mausoleum of ,liberty1 which ,i could   
see ahead of me1 ,i would surely believe
 that ,i was dreaming1 it is like       
entering the harbor of ,constantinople1 
and just at this point1 looking into the
 face of my esteemed friend1 ,dr4       
,lucretius1 ,i said to him2 let us hope 
that the day is not far distant when we 
shall salute the ,god-giving ,liberty in
 the heart of the great city of         
,constantinople4 ,that was six years ago
 and every word ,i said it came out of  
my mouth as a prayer of my heart in all 
my sincerity4 ,today ,i do thank ,god   
for it is a reality4 ,turkey is free6   
,but she is like a child2 she needs the 
guidance of a strong hand to guide her  
in the path of righteousness and love to
 ,god and bring her to ,christ who is   
the only one to give ,liberty and       
,freedom ,for whom ,he made free1 is    

free indeed4 ,turkey has accomplished   
the greatest part of her own salvation1 
yea1 she has done more than many of the 
so-called ,christian empires expected   
her to do4 ,they are now rubbing their  
eyes1 and of course it is their purpose 
in order to save their commercial       
interests1 they are going to put in her 
way all the obstacles they can to       
overthrow the new ,constitution1 and if 
,turkey fails in her reformation this   
time1 it would not be only her own      
fault4 ,a great share of the            
responsibility rests upon the shoulders 
of every ,american man and woman who    
solemnly declares to stand by and be a  
protector of the principles laid down by
 ,washington1 the father not only of his
 own country1 but most of the civilized 
world4 ,unless ,america arises equal to 
the occasion there is every reason to   
entertain all kinds of fears from the   
,middle and ,western ,europe's          
diplomats4  ,how many ,american active  
missionaries are there in               

,constantinople1 ,smyrna1 ,aidin1       
,saloniki1 ,adana1 ,ephesos and every   
city in ,turkey today working for the   
regeneration of the people who dared and
 successfully broke down from his throne
 a ,sultan8 ,wake up1 my dear reader and
 gird yourself with the noble armor of  
your manhood and your womanhood and do  
the best1 the very best of your ability 
to help the millions of mothers and     
children over in ,turkey1 they are      
starving for spiritual food1 they are   
crying to you as your own brothers and  
sisters of the same family of humanity2 
will you close your ears and not listen 
to their cry8 or will you open your     
heart1 your sympathy and your           
pocket-book and send off all the        
missionaries you can to do the work8 ,i 
pray that you will1 and ,god will reward
 you in ,heaven and down here ,he will  
keep the days of your life sweet in     
splendid memory that you have done your 
part in the salvation of all mankind4   
,the opportunity may occur again to     

discourse this very heart aching        
subject4 ,now1 as we approach the       
colossus of ,liberty1 ,miss ,maria ,rose
 made her morning appearance and before 
we all could exchange the ,bon ,jour    
salutations to her1 she gracefully      
grasped the gentleman from ,boston by   
the arm and walking up and down the     
bridge with soldierly step1 began in an 
apparently joyful voice to sing1 audibly
 ,my ,country 'tis of thee1 sweet land  
of ,liberty and just as she was getting 
more enthusiastic in her song1 the      
gentleman from ,boston uttered a loud   
cry ,strawberries--fresh strawberries1  
and as by explosion a heartiest laughter
 went out of every mouth on the bridge1 
and the waves received on their wings   
that expression of our gratitude to     
carry it to the end of their            
destination1 while the ,germania drew us
 nearer and nearer to the land of the   
free and the home of the brave4  ,a call
 came to us all at this moment that the 
custom officers from ,new ,york were    

already in the reception room waiting   
for us to make our declarations in      
accordance with the customary law1 and  
by the time ,i had complied with my     
duties1 to that respect1 ,i heard a     
stentorian voice ,cast ,anchor and      
turning around in a semi-circle1 with   
center on my right toe ,i endeavored to 
unfold the meaning of the exciting      
motion4 ,sailors and officers of the    
boat rushing in all directions1 it      
seemed as though they were preparing for
 a great battle1 and determined to win4 
,the big ,s4 ,s4 ,germania was tied in  
the docks of ,brooklyn and every voyager
 was ready to bid her farewell4 ,the    
steward of my cabin1 uncalled1 he was on
 my side1 and the thought came to me    
that it was his last chance for his     
gratuities from me anyway4 ,he looked   
upon my face like a child expecting his 
,christmas presents1 and said1 with a   
fainting smile1 ,father1 your trunk is  
on its way to your destination and here 
is your valise and ,i am awaiting your  

pleasure to direct you to the ,sixth    
,avenue ,elevated ,station1 which will  
take you to the #abcrd ,street and      
,seventh ,avenue1 ,harlem1 according to 
your wishes to reach your dwelling      
place4 ,the bell of the ,germania was   
ringing eight o'clock a4 m41 when ,i was
 bidding farewell to my steward with the
 instructions how to reach the ,elevated
 ,station1 and turning to the first     
corner from the docks of ,brooklyn1 a   
familiar voice ,i heard behind me       
calling ,father1 and instantly a hand   
took hold of the sleeve of my garment1  
and looking backward ,i saw ,miss ,maria
 ,rose with her governess1 ,margaret1   
and the gentleman from ,boston1 who was 
still holding my garment1 and in good   
humor said1 he1 in his broken ,french1  
,now ,father1 we could not tolerate to  
see you go all alone in the streets of  
,new ,york dressed in these robes1      
because if you only attract the         
curiosity of some mischievous children  
there is no telling what may happen to  

you1 if they mistake you as a carnival  
dressed this way just for sport2 but1   
,miss ,maria ,rose1 hastened to aid1    
interrupting the gentleman1 ,father1 you
 have good luck1 today is ,sunday and   
early in the morning you will be saved  
from great things which might happen to 
you otherwise4 ,besides we are going as 
far as #eith ,street and the gentleman  
from ,boston1 he is going to take the   
train at #abeth ,street1 ,harlem1 and   
there you will be within a few blocks   
from the house you desire to go to4     
,they bought the ticket for me and soon 
the ,elevated was crossing the ,brooklyn
 bridge4 ,the grand panorama on both    
sides of the bridge brought the thought 
into my mind that if the architects of  
,america were able to accomplish such a 
wonder as this1 they would certainly    
have easier times to build the ,babel   
,tower without any confusion of tongues2
 but my breath went out of my breast and
 for a moment ,i thought that the       
beating of my heart stopped1 when we    

reached that curving at #aajth ,street  
and #hth ,avenue1 ,new ,york4 ,the      
magnificent sight from that tremendous  
height1 looking to my left at the       
mammoth advertising boards1 the velvety 
green fields and at the top of the hill 
that ,episcopal church1 which will be   
when finished another architectural     
wonder1 and looking to my right at the  
,central ,park which we just swiftly    
passed1 now ,i see the flat roofs of the
 buildings and on many of them the      
washing of the family hanging1 forgotten
 perhaps1 from last ,saturday1 it is    
indeed a grand sight which the          
inhabitants of ,new ,york in that       
section1 by being accustomed to it1 very
 little appreciate4  #i4cj1 my friend   
from ,boston1 said1 as we were          
descending the stairways on the #abeth  
,street and #hth ,avenue1 as he looked  
at his time-piece4 ,if it were not for  
my train which ,i must take at #i4eh ,i 
would gladly accompany you to your      
place1 yet1 said he1 you only have two  

blocks to walk southward and one        
eastward and you will see the number on 
the left hand side1 and with a cordial  
hand shake he jumped on the electric car
 passing at the moment on #abeth ,street
 towards ,new ,york-,boston ,r4 ,r4     
station1 to board his train1 and ,i     
started on my way to the place where ,i 
was going to make my temporary home4    
,,chapter ,,iii  ,first ,day in ,new    
,york   ,it is not my purpose in this   
little volume to make any boast of      
myself as an historian4 ,bookmaking is  
not my profession2 neither do ,i propose
 to go into extensive details more than 
it is necessary to harmonize the        
coincidents of events as they occurred  
and the effect they produced in the     
development of an unusual ,christian    
career1 and ,god knows that my only     
desire is to reconcile the opposing     
privileges of a meek and lowly          
,christian worker1 to be equal if not   
greater to those of a ,high ,priest who 
in his fulness of life though one of the

 most active ecclesiastical officials in
 the highest circles of church and      
society1 his firm belief in success1    
knowing of no fear1 and daringly        
climbing up in higher ranks among       
philosophical societies1 holding such an
 exalted position in the most ancient   
,christian church4 ,the church that     
holds the undisputable proof as the     
first authentical apostolic             
establishment with founder the apostle  
of the ,gentiles himself4 ,and who is   
the student of the ,scriptures1 be he a 
,christian or philosopher of the        
,epicurean or the ,stoic system that    
could reasonably argue that the oration 
on the ,areopagus made by ,paul to the  
,athenians being the masterpiece and    
model of the most convincing speeches   
ever made in the ,christian era8 ,that  
this ,high ,priest1 while enjoying all  
the comforts and privileges belonging to
 his high office1 together with its     
honors and gorgeous trappings1 does not 
attach any over-weening importance to   

ecclesiastical dignity1 neither does he 
consider a comedown the step he has     
taken1 but he gives the simple1 yet     
convincing reason that he just follows  
the process of evolution in             
,christianity1 doing the will of his    
,master who promised to all mankind one 
,lord--one ,faith--one ,baptism4 ,and   
for the last six years he has proven    
that it is possible for a man to begin  
from the very bottom of life1 his       
nearest and dearest relatives opposing  
him1 with no friends to understand his  
desires and his ambitions1 to be a      
wanderer in a great country like the    
,united ,states1 and travel from the    
,atlantic ,coast to the ,pacific ,ocean1
 proud to always be able to support     
himself and also help someone on his    
way4 ,exercising the principle of the   
,apostle ,paul1 working hard for his    
living1 stranger not only to the ethics 
and customs of the people whose         
sympathetic hearts he was coming to win1
 but unable to even put two sentences   

together in their own language1 and     
today here he is to tell you the story1 
as true as your beautiful breath that   
keeps your soul and body alive1 and the 
only favor he asks from you is that when
 you severely criticise the grammatical 
and syntactical site in the execution of
 this work1 you may in your kindness1   
remember that his only resource to      
derive any philological assistance1 was 
a twenty-five cent ,webster's           
dictionary1 bought from a second-hand   
book store4  ,this is my first day in   
,new ,york4 ,and looking around to find 
the number of the house where ,i was    
going to stay1 my thoughts were so      
animated as to feel that all the        
arteries and veins of my body through my
 feet were kissing the ground upon which
 my heart would soon appease with its   
,maker4  ,a few people1 going to the    
,low ,mass1 ,i should judge by the      
solemnity of their walk1 men and women1 
sent curious glances at the stranger    
dressed in the robes on the street4 ,by 

this time approaching the #gth ,avenue  
and not finding the desired number ,i   
was just directing my steps towards a   
gentleman dressed in some kind of       
uniform to inquire about the place1 when
 a young man tipped his hat in front of 
me and raised the finger of his right   
hand and pointed to the sign of the     
florist's store just a few steps        
backwards4 ,i could then plainly read   
the name on the board above the door4   
,it was the name very dear to me1 which1
 with longing heart ,i was looking for4 
,almost immediately a man came out from 
that same store with a broad smile on   
his face and with a gentle bow1 as      
though asking my permission1 he took my 
valise thus relieving me just in time1  
and leading the way into the store ,i   
saw another gentleman behind a counter  
preparing a large floral design from the
 rarest flowers of the season1 for the  
funeral of a most distinguished         
politician of ,harlem4  ,although ,i    
yield to no man in the appreciation of a

 good smiling face and here ,i had two  
of them and the most typical faces which
 are prominent in the making of this    
heterogeneous republic1 ,john1          
representing the ,huguenot and ,dutch1  
and ,jack whose father and mother were  
,irish1 and ,jack was ,irish too4 ,both 
these gentlemen with pantomimic actions 
in a few words which now ,i know were   
,english words but at that time ,i could
 not tell if they were ,chinese or      
,hindoo4 ,they tried to make me         
understand that ,mr4 ,george ,n41 whom  
they knew ,i was looking for1 as they   
had heard him speaking of me and they   
saw my photograph1 and they were waiting
 notification of my coming1 and that    
they were struck by ecstasy at my sudden
 appearance1 he was at breakfast and    
that he would soon be back so ,i had    
better step into his office and rest    
myself while waiting for him4 ,the      
expectancy to meet my friend ,george    
,n41 it lengthened every moment for me  
waiting in that little office4          

,twenty-four years since ,i saw him last
 when ,i was only ten years old1 and    
even if ,i had not seen his photograph  
in all these years ,i could distinguish 
him among ten thousand4 ,he was my first
 teacher in the grammar school2 neighbor
 in my home and a very great distant    
relative4 ,he always took especial      
interest in my scholarship4 ,my         
childhood and school days were not all  
that ,i could desire for me1 to be1 for 
,i was an orphan1 yet it was that orphan
 who always carried the first or the    
second honors in the annual             
examinations4 ,it was for this reason1  
perhaps1 that my teachers were all well 
pleased with my progress4 ,the past is  
only a memory1 yet when we look back in 
the light of our sincerity we can trace 
every point and every reason that       
contributed to our success or failure in
 our lives4 ,it is not a vision neither 
is there a mere kinetoscope procession4 
,the ,high ,priest is here waiting to   
meet his teacher with the same solemnity

 as in the old school days when he had  
to meet his teacher after some of his   
occasional mischiefs4 ,with these and   
other agreeable memories relishing my   
time in that office1 ,i heard a loud    
applause in the store and the words     
,father is here1 aroused my             
inquisitiveness and before ,i could     
leave my chair1 there was at the door of
 the office standing the man whom ,i    
wanted to see4 ,sturdy and resolute with
 two slow steps he now extends a welcome
 hand to me and as he called me by my   
childish nickname in response said1 ,i1 
my teacher6 ,yes1 said he1 ,how do you  
do my ,father8 ,why didn't you let me   
know when you were coming so ,i could   
meet you at the pier2 ,how long have you
 been wandering to find this place8 ,and
 many other complimentaries1 but1 you   
must1 he went on saying1 change your    
appearance at once1 for ,i am not going 
to disgrace myself and you too1 if we   
dare to walk on the streets with you    
dressed in robes like this4 ,let us go  

up stairs in my room1 and ,i believe you
 can be fitted with a new suit of       
clothes made to order for me which ,i   
was ready to try on today1 as the tailor
 just sent them here a little while ago4
 ,then you must have a very clean shave1
 my goodness1 there is a whole mask to  
come off your face and the long black   
hair you have1 you can make some money  
by selling it to any fashionable lady4  
,now1 ,father1 you have to hurry1       
because the barber shop closes at #ab   
o'clock and you only have the necessary 
time to change your dress4              
,illustration3 ,,the ,,world',s         
,,wonder1 ,,acropolis ,,of ,,athens1    
,,greece  ,the clothes which ,george ,n4
 offered for my transfiguration with the
 exception of being made for a man one  
inch taller than my own stature they    
didn't look very awkward upon me and to 
escape curiosity he took me through the 
alleys of a narrow passage into the     
#abdth ,street1 where an elderly ,german
 kept a barber shop and when he was     

through cleaning that over burdened head
 of mine1 he was almost exhausted1 and  
liable to a fine1 if any policeman      
happened to see him working on ,sunday  
after #ab o'clock4 ,the barber closed   
the door of his shop allowing time for  
us to just step out and we hastened our 
way back to the store1 now walking on   
#gth ,avenue4 ,jack1 whose name already 
is mentioned here1 is one of the leading
 flower decorators in ,new ,york ,city4 
,he could make a cross of flowers look  
like a picture1 and he could make a     
bouquet for the most particular bride1  
he could decorate a little chapel around
 the corner and make it look as artistic
 as he could decorate a rich mansion in 
the most exclusive ,riverside ,drive4   
,jack made as much money as any of his  
high grade fellow traders in ,harlem1   
and he had no home responsibilities1 his
 widow mother being what we might call  
well-to-do1 for she owned considerable  
real estate in that vicinity1 yet1      
,jack1 every ,monday morning had to     

obtain a loan for his carfare1 and more 
than half a dozen young ladies all      
around ,manhattan were particularly     
interested in ,jack's welfare4 ,this is 
,sunday and one o'clock in the          
afternoon1 and ,jack should be enjoying 
his holiday1 and there were already two 
of his female chums waiting for him on  
the sidewalk4 ,yet ,jack had always some
 more time to spare to accommodate his  
employer ,george ,n41 who as now entered
 the store he gave the synthematical    
pass-word that's all1 which in the      
language of the employer and employees  
it means ,the boys may now go home4     
,but ,jack1 as he took a glimpse on me1 
in all his ,irish calibre he almost     
screamed3 ,help6 ,st4 ,patrick1 what a  
metamorphosis is this8 ,is that you1    
,father8 ,you look now to me more like a
 butterfly out of a caterpillar than    
anything in ,ireland4 ,say1 girls1      
calling his friends from the outside1   
come in you girls1 ,i take the honor to 
introduce you to the ,father 4441 but1  

my soul1 ,i am ashamed to call you      
,father1 so fashionable a gentleman as  
you look now4 ,you shall not call me    
,father1 said ,i1 as long as you see me 
dressed like a gentleman4 ,i shall not1 
,jack said1 and with his girls took his 
departure1 while ,george ,n41 who       
interpreted all this merriment1 took a  
fresh white rose and put it in my       
buttonhole4 ,let us go for lunch1 said  
he and ,i followed gladly for ,i felt it
 was a timely call4  ,as ,george ,n4 is 
a bachelor he takes his meals in no     
particular place1 anywhere from ,harlem 
,casino or ,palm ,garden or ,manhattan  
,club to a ten cent lunch counter4      
,today he took me into a dollar a plate 
restaurant on #abeth ,street4 ,before ,i
 was through with my dinner1 ,george ,n4
 made the remark to me saying if you    
always enjoy the ,american cooking the  
way ,i observe you doing1 you will never
 starve in ,america1 ,i assure you4 ,it 
was the wisest prophecy that ,george ,n4
 ever made about my future in ,america4 

,after dinner we visited ,grant's ,tomb 
on ,riverside ,drive and on our return  
he gave me instructions how to find the 
,waldorf ,astoria hotel where ,aleck1   
one of his nephews had a position1 and  
that ,aleck would make arrangements for 
the night for me and that the following 
morning ,george ,n4 would wait for me to
 discuss my plans for the future4 ,i    
left him and when ,i was in my room     
which ,aleck provided for me1 the time  
was well nigh midnight4  ,after the     
day's excitement ,i hoped that a good   
night's rest would refresh me anew and  
the next morning would find me prepared 
for the work ,i chose to devote my      
future life in this ,new ,world4 ,with a
 lightning quickness my mind examined   
all my past life and with the same speed
 ,i made my conclusions that there was  
no more any pleasure for me to look     
back1 neither was there any attraction  
in that garb which so often is the      
representation of hypocrisy itself4 ,i  
felt so happy for my decision and with a

 grateful heart ,i bent on my knees in  
prayer to ,him who lay down ,his life   
for my freedom and my salvation1 and as 
an evidence of my good health1 the night
 passed undisturbed in sound sleep and  
in the morning when ,aleck called me for
 breakfast ,i felt that every fibre of  
my body was springing for action1 and   
with the last touch leaping from my bed 
the first day of new life went into     
history4     ,,chapter ,,iv  ,high      
,priest   ,for the benefit of those who 
ignorantly1 if not deliberately by      
deceit1 misled to believe that the      
priest has any authority1 which the     
truly converted ,christian could not    
exercise1 the present chapter is offered
 in the spirit of love without any fear 
of contradiction or dispute1 because the
 facts given here are well established  
upon the ,scriptural ,truths and the    
reader may at all times maintain the    
proofs to disprove refutable arguments  
of persons whose only purpose is to     
serve their own individual interests4   

,the priest1 one who officiates in      
secret offices1 it is the definition    
given in ,webster's dictionary4 ,and    
from the most authentic ,biblical       
concordances we derive the following    
information3 ,the priest under the law  
was a person consecrated and ordained of
 ,god1 not only to teach the people and 
pray for them1 but also to offer up     
sacrifices for his own sins and those of
 the people4 ,the priesthood was not    
annexed to a certain family1 till after 
the promulgation of the law of ,moses4  
,before that time the first born of     
every family1 the fathers1 the kings1   
the princes1 were priests1 born in their
 city and in their own homes4 ,cain and 
,abel1 ,noah1 ,abraham and ,job1        
,abimelech and ,laban1 ,isaac and       
,jacob1 offered themselves their own    
sacrifices4 ,in the solemnity of the    
covenant that the ,lord made with his   
people at the foot of ,mount ,sinai1    
,moses performed the office of          
meditator1 and young men were chosen    

from among the children of ,israel to   
perform the office of priests4 ,but     
after that the ,lord had chosen the     
tribe of ,levi to serve him in his      
tabernacle1 and that the priesthood was 
annexed to the family of ,aaron1 then   
the right of offering sacrifices to ,god
 was reserved to the priests alone of   
this family4  ,duties of the priests3   
,the priests were required to prove     
their descent from ,aaron1 to be free   
from all bodily defect or blemish2 must 
not be observed mourning except for near
 relatives2 must not marry a woman that 
had been a harlot2 or divorced1 or      
profane4 ,the priest's daughter who     
committed whoredom was to be burned1 as 
profaning her father4 ,the priests were 
to have the charge of the sanctuary and 
the altar1 which being once kindled the 
priest was always to keep it burning4   
,in later times1 and upon extraordinary 
occasions1 at least1 they flayed the    
burnt-offerings and killed the          
,passover4 ,they were to receive the    

blood of the burnt-offerings in basins  
and sprinkle it around about the altar1 
arrange the wood and the fire1 and to   
burn the parts of the sacrifices4 ,if   
the burnt sacrifices were of doves1 the 
priest was to nip off the head with the 
finger nail1 squeeze out the blood on   
the edge of the altar1 pluck off the    
feathers1 and throw them with the crop  
into the ash-pit1 divide down the wings1
 and then completely burn it4 ,he was to
 offer a lamb every morning and evening1
 and a double number on the ,sabbath1   
the burnt-offerings ordered at the      
beginning of months1 and the same on the
 feast of ,unleavened ,bread1 and on the
 day of the ,first ,fruits2 to receive  
the meat-offering of the offerer1 bring 
it to the altar1 take of it a memorial1 
and burn it upon the altar2 to sprinkle 
the blood of the peace-offerings upon   
the altar around about1 and then to     
offer of it a burnt-offering2 to offer  
the sin-offering for the sins of a ruler
 or any of the common people2 to eat the

 sin-offering at the holy place2 and the
 same way to offer offerings for all the
 kinds of sin and the priest should eat 
these offerings at the holy place2 to   
offer for the purification of women     
after child-birth2 to judge of the      
leprosy in the human body or garments   
7it is remarkable that the ,jewish race 
from the beginning1 has been all through
 the ages a heavy victim of leprosy74   
,the priest was to make the ointment of 
spices2 to prepare the water of         
separation2 to act as assessor in       
judicial proceedings2 to encourage the  
army when going to battle1 and probably 
to have charge of the law4  ,the        
emoluments of the priests3 ,the         
perquisites of the priests were many and
 various1 and as ,philo calls them very 
rich1 and this statement holds good all 
the way down to the ,christian priest   
who inherited most of the virtues of his
 ,jewish predecessors4 ,thus no wonder  
for the priests to keep their people in 
dense ignorance of the historical       

originality of the priesthood4 ,and the 
high priest1 besides all duties and     
privileges already mentioned as common  
to him and the ordinary priest1 he must 
not marry a widow1 nor a divorced woman1
 or a profane1 or that had been a       
harlot1 but a virgin ,israelitess4 ,he  
must not eat anything that died of      
itself1 or was torn by beasts2 must wash
 his hands and feet when he went into   
the tabernacle to offer the mass4 ,the  
high priest was the divinely inspired   
judge and truly he was the supreme ruler
 till the time of ,david1 and again     
after the captivity4 ,he would ask      
counsel of the ,lord if a new ruler was 
worthy or not and accordingly grant or  
regret the appointment of the ruler4 ,it
 is the privilege which the ,pope       
derives from ,eleazar and trying to     
exercise this privilege against the     
rulers of ,europe for fifteen centuries 
became the menace in the progress of    
humanity4 ,the high priest had also     
unlimited power upon the funds of the   

sanctuary4 ,and it may be out of        
proportion in this book to give a       
complete description of all the         
privileges and regalia of the high      
priest1 yet the reader could easily     
imagine the frivolities unfortunately   
existing even today in the ceremonial   
dress of the high priest1 and to confirm
 this fact he only has to enter in the  
first ,russian or ,greek or ,roman      
,catholic church at any day of some     
special celebration and there he cannot 
help but observe an imitation of the    
lamentable vanity of a high priest of   
the old ,jewish faith4 ,and the truth is
 visible to the naked eye4 ,would ever  
sincerity and priesthood meet in one and
 the same person it would make the most 
paradox phenomenon1 and such exceptional
 occurrences are very rare in the       
ecclesiastical horizon1 for virtue and  
priesthood are the very logical         
antithesis1 and chemically speaking they
 are protogon matters not yielding to   
adulteration4 ,between priesthood and   

,christ there is an abyss of argument1  
but there is no bridge to join both     
sides4 ,priesthood on one side in the   
most pharisaic manner imposing its      
superfluous authority upon all mortals4 
,and ,jesus the ,christ of ,god with his
 wounded side1 in the most emphatic     
manner1 condemning the pharisaic scheme1
 which is a continuation in the         
,greek--,russian--,roman ,catholic      
church3 ,for they bind heavy burdens and
 grievous to be borne1 and lay them on  
man's shoulders2 but they themselves    
will not move them with one of their    
fingers4 ,and if the words of the       
blessed ,christ himself speaking in the 
#bc;d chapter of ,matthew1 have no      
effect upon the consciousness of the    
priest1 there is all vain to any other  
way trying to bring him into the light  
of wisdom4 ,in the history of all       
mankind there are three distinct stages 
of priesthood1 and in its two former    
stages it had been a complete failure1  
in its present stage is falling so fast1

 and it is condemned1 already1 by all   
reasoning minds1 that it is only a      
matter of time before the human race    
shall be free from these parasites4 ,the
 priest1 of the ,jewish faith1 failed   
because he was inhuman1 the priest of   
the ,greek idolatry failed1 because he  
was a philosophical fraud2 and the      
priest of the present time1 shall fail1 
because he is the very opposing visible 
enemy of ,god's kingdom4 ,the sacerdotal
 office of the priest1 is               
anti-christian4  ,here we shall attempt 
to only describe one piece of the dress 
of the high priest1 the breast-plate    
7rationale72 a gorget1 ten inches       
square1 made of the same sort of cloth  
as the ephod1 and doubled so as to form 
a kind of pouch or bag1 in which was to 
be put the urim and thummim1 which are  
also mentioned as is already known4 ,the
 external part of this gorget was set   
with four rows of precious stones2 the  
first row1 a serdious1 a topaz1 and a   
carbuncle2 the second1 an emerald1 a    

sapphire1 and a diamond2 the third1 a   
ligure1 an agate1 and an amethyst1 and  
the fourth1 a beryl1 an onyx and a      
jasper1 set in a golden socket4 ,upon   
each of these stones was to be engraven 
the name of one of the sons of ,jacob4  
,in the ephod in which there was a space
 left open sufficiently large for the   
admission of this pectoral1 were four   
rings of gold1 to which four others at  
the four corners of the breast-plate    
corresponded2 the two lower rings of    
gold being fixed inside4 ,it was        
confined to the ephod by means of dark  
blue ribbons1 which passed through these
 rings2 and it was also suspended from  
the onyx stones on the shoulder by      
chains of gold1 or rather cords of      
twisted gold thread1 which were fastened
 at one end to two other larger rings   
fixed in the upper corners of the       
pectoral1 and by the other end going    
around the onyx stones on the shoulders1
 and returning and being fixed in the   
larger ring4 ,and a splendid ornament   

upon the breast was a winged scarabaeus1
 the emblem of the ,sun1 and the        
unavoidable portion of the ceremonial   
dress peculiar to the high priest was   
the miter1 mitre or ,cidaris1 a head    
gear of gold and silver and precious    
stones whose magnificence we would not  
dare to describe in this work1 but the  
reader may in his life be fortunate     
enough to see one of these wonderful    
paraphernalia on the head of some of the
 now-a-days self-styled representatives 
of ,jesus ,christ1 who came to seek and 
save the lost and he did not make of    
himself a show in these follies of the  
old ,jewish faith that proved a failure4
  ,that the priests in ,israel more than
 once by their indulgence went down to  
idolatry1 the old testament abounds in  
evidences1 but ,i shall only mention the
 incidents of ,eli the high priest and  
his two sons1 ,hophni and ,phinehas4    
,josephus says1 the high priest had also
 the very idolatrous symbolical meanings
 of every part of his dress1 which being

 made of linen signified the earth2 the 
blue color denoted the sky1 being like  
lightning in its pomegranate1 and in the
 noise of its bells resembling thunder4 
,the ephod showed that ,god had made the
 universe of four elements1 the gold    
relating to the splendor by which all   
things are enlightened1 the breast-plate
 in the middle of the ephod resembled   
the earth1 which has the middle place in
 the world4 ,the girdle signified the   
sea1 which goes around the world4 ,the  
sardonyxes declared the sun and moon4   
,the twelve stones are the twelve months
 of signs of the zodiac4 ,the mitre is  
the heaven1 because above all4 ,the     
seven lamps upon the golden candlesticks
 represent the seven planets1 and so on 
every article had a reference to some   
particle of the ,egyptian ,deities4 ,but
 the time came when man understood      
better ,god's plan of salvation4 ,and   
divinely inspired they fearlessly       
stopped all these idolatrous practises4 
,who could dare say1 at the beginning of

 the sixteenth century that ,god could  
only through ,jesus ,christ save a soul 
without the necessity of a priest8 ,yet 
today even the priest himself would not 
dare say1 not in a civilized community1 
that his presence is necessary for the  
forgiveness of sin4 ,but what of the    
millions of people that are drifting    
away from ,god with the idea1 that the  
priest is taking care of their souls8   
,am ,i criticising the priest8 ,god     
forbid1 for ,i am not4 ,there are good  
and bad priests1 as far as their        
personal character is concerned1 as     
there are good and bad professional     
,christians1 ,i have met in my          
,christian experience4 ,but ,i will say1
 in the authority of the word of ,god1  
that the man who diligently searcheth   
the ,scriptures and sincerely read his  
,bible and still he insists in holding  
his sacerdotal office and call himself a
 priest1 he is deceived or he is        
deceiving4  ,thou art a priest for ever 
after the order of ,melchizedec4 ,christ

 is the only priest1 holy1 harmless1    
undefiled1 separate from sinners1 and   
made higher than the heavens1 who       
needeth not daily1 as those high        
priests1 to offer up sacrifice1 first   
for his own sins1 and then for the      
people's2 for this he did once1 when he 
offered up himself4  ,the ,church makes 
men high priests which have infirmity   
but the power of ,god makes every man a 
high priest1 who offers up himself to   
live and work for the salvation of all4 
,whosoever believeth in ,him should not 
perish1 but have everlasting life4      
,god's promises are true and the reader 
has only to study the ,epistle of ,paul 
to the ,hebrews1 to be convinced that   
the sacerdotal office of the priest     
sooner or later has to go out of        
existence as the spirit of ,christ      
spreads upon the hearts of men and women
 and the knowledge of ,his salvation    
makes them ,priests unto ,god and ,his  
,father and thus establish ,god's       
kingdom upon the solid foundations of   

love4 ,then shall they all be made unto 
kings and priests1 and they shall reign 
upon the earth4 7,rev4 #a-f1 etc47      
,,chapter ,v  ,philosophy vs4           
,christianity   ,in ,plato's dialogue   
upon the duties of religious worship1 a 
passage occurs the design of which      
appears to be to show that man could    
not1 of himself1 learn either the nature
 of the ,gods1 or the proper manner of  
worshiping them1 unless an instructor   
should come from ,heaven4 ,the following
 remarkable passage occurs between      
,socrates and ,alcibiades3              
,socrates--,to me it appears best to be 
patient4 ,it is necessary to wait till  
you learn how you ought to act towards  
the ,gods1 and towards men4             
,alcibiades--,when1 ,o ,socrates1 shall 
that time be8 ,and who shall instruct   
me8 ,for most willingly would ,i see    
this person1 who he is4  ,socrates--,he 
is one who cares for you2 but1 as ,homer
 represents ,minerva as taking away     
darkness from the eyes of ,diomedes2    

that he might distinguish a ,god from a 
man1 so it is necessary that he should  
first take away the darkness from your  
mind1 and then bring near those things  
by which you shall know good and evil4  
,alcibiades--,let him take away the     
darkness1 or any other thing1 if he     
will2 for whoever this man is1 ,i am    
prepared to refuse none of the things   
which he commands1 if ,i shall be made  
better4  ,philosophy1 led the ,greeks to
 ,christ1 as the ,law did the ,jewish4  
,the wisdom of the world in their       
efforts to give truth and happiness to  
the human soul1 was foolishness with    
,god1 and the wisdom of ,god--,christ   
crucified--was foolishness with the     
philosophers1 in relation to the same   
subject2 yet it was divine ,philosophy4 
,an adopted means1 and the only adequate
 means1 to accomplish the necessary end4
 ,said an apostle in speaking upon this 
subject1 the ,jews require a sign1 and  
the ,greeks seek after wisdom2 but we   
preach ,christ ,crucified1 unto the     

,jews a stumbling-block and unto the    
,greeks foolishness4 ,but unto them     
which are called1 both ,jews and        
,greeks1 ,christ the ,power of ,god1 and
 the wisdom of ,god4 ,the ,jews1 while  
they require a sign1 did not perceive   
that miracles1 in themselves1 were not  
adopted to produce affection4 ,and the  
,greeks1 while they sought after wisdom1
 did not perceive that all the wisdom of
 the ,gentiles1 would never work love in
 the heart4 ,but the apostle            
preached--,christ crucified--an         
exhibition of self-denial1 of suffering1
 and of self-sacrificing2 love and      
mercy1 endured in behalf of men1 which1 
when received by faith1 became ,the     
power of ,god1 and the wisdom of ,god1  
to produce love and obedience in the    
human soul4 ,paul understood the        
efficacy of the ,cross4 ,he looked to   
,calvary and beheld ,christ crucified as
 the ,sun of the ,gospel system4 ,not1  
as the ,moon1 reflecting cold and       
borrowed rays2 but as the ,sun of       

righteousness1 glowing with radiant     
mercy1 and pouring warm beams of life   
and love into the open bosom of the     
believer4  ,it is stranger that among   
philosophers of succeeding ages there   
has not been wisdom sufficient to       
discover1 from the constitutional       
necessities of the human spirit1 that   
demand for the instruction and aid of   
the ,messiah which ,socrates and ,plato 
discovered1 even in a comparatively dark
 age4 ,and in the whole history of human
 mind there is not a more instructive   
chapter at once stranger and sad1       
interesting to our curiosity and        
mortifying to our pride1 than the       
history of ,platonic philosophy sinking 
into gnosticism1 or in other words1 of  
,greek philosophy merging in ,oriental  
,mysticism2 showing1 on the one hand the
 decline and fall of philosophy1 and1 on
 the other1 the rise and progress of    
,syncretism4 ,perhaps1 also1 it is the  
most remarkable instance on record1 that
 out of the religious1 moral1 and       

political1 in one word1 the intellectual
 corruption which brings on the fall of 
great and mighty nations1 as it         
doubtless was with ,babylon and ,thebes1
 and so we know it to have been with    
,athens and ,rome1 ,god's providence    
educes pure principles and higher hopes 
for the nations and people that rise out
 of their ashes1 and who1 if they will  
be taught wisdom and principle1         
righteousness and peace1 by the errors  
and sufferings of those who have        
preceded them1 may rise to higher       
destinies in the history of men's       
conduct and ,god's providence4  ,the    
reader most sincerely is asked to devote
 the required time in any public library
 and study this very interesting subject
 of ,gnosticism from which the most     
detrimental system in the ,christian era
 was originated1 ,the ,monasticism4 ,in 
this ecclesiastical order the writer had
 been distinguished with the rank of    
,archimandrites4  ,illustration3 ,h4 ,r4
 ,h4 ,,prince ,,arthur1 ,,duke ,,of     

,,connaught ,,and ,,strathearn1 ,k4 ,g41
 ,,etc4  ,to what extent the celibacy of
 monks and nuns debased the fundamental 
principles of ,christianity there are a 
number of publications whose authors are
 eye-witnesses of the orgies practised  
in their own monasteries1 and the writer
 in his superior office in two of the   
leading monasteries had had the         
opportunity to acquire all the necessary
 evidence to demolish every one of these
 hell-pits1 to many a young man and     
young woman innocent1 otherwise1 before 
entering there1 and drive away all these
 parasites that have no consideration to
 any civil or moral law and live upon   
the sweat of the brow of the            
long-suffering ,church slaves4  ,within 
the bounds of philosophy1 at this stage 
of our progress it will be useful to    
recapitulate the conclusions at which we
 have arrived1 and thus make a point of 
rest from which to extend our           
observations further into the plan of   
,god for redeeming the world1 for ,i am 

not sent but unto the lost sheep of the 
,house of ,israel4 ,this view is the    
more appropriate as we have known in the
 history of ,god's providence with      
,israel1 which presents them as a people
 prepared 7so far as imperfect material 
could be prepared7 to receive the model 
which ,god might desire to impress upon 
the nation4 ,they were bound to each    
other by all the ties of which human    
nature is susceptible1 and thus rendered
 compact and united1 so that every thing
 national1 whether in sentiment or      
practise would be received and cherished
 with unanimous1 and fervent1 and       
lasting attachment2 and1 furthermore1 by
 a long and rigorous bondage1 they had  
been rendered1 for the time being at    
least1 humble and dependant4 ,thus they 
were disciplined by a curse of          
providence1 adopted to fit them to      
receive instruction from their          
,benefactor with a teachable and        
grateful spirit4  ,their minds were     
shaken off from idols2 and ,jehovah1 by 

a revelation made to them1 setting forth
 his name and nature1 had revealed      
himself as ,divine ,being1 and by his   
works had manifested his ,almighty      
power3 so that when their minds were    
disabused of wrong views of the         
,godhead1 an idea of the first1 true1   
and essential nature of ,god was        
revealed to them1 and they were thus    
prepared to receive a knowledge of the  
attributes of that ,divine essence4     
,they had been brought to contemplate   
,god as their protector and ,saviour4   
,appeals the most affecting and         
thrilling had been addressed to their   
affections2 and they were thus attached 
to ,god as their ,almighty temporal     
,saviour1 by the ties of gratitude and  
love for the favor which he had         
manifested to them4  ,when they had     
arrived on the further shore of the ,red
 ,sea1 thus prepared to obey ,god and   
worship him with the heart1 they were   
without laws either civil or moral4 ,as 
yet1 they had never possessed any       

national or social organization4 ,they  
were therefore prepared to receive1     
without predilection or prejudice1 that 
system of moral instruction and civil   
polity which ,god might reveal1 as best 
adapted to promote the moral interests  
of the nation4  ,from these conclusions 
we may extend our vision forward into   
the system of revelation4 ,this series  
of preparations would certainly lead the
 mind to the expectation that what was  
still wanting1 and what they had been   
thus miraculously prepared to receive1  
would be granted3 which was a knowledge 
of the moral character of ,god1 and a   
moral law prescribing their duty to ,god
 and to men4 ,without this1 the plan    
that had been maturing for generations1 
and had been carried forward thus far by
 wonderful exhibitions of ,divine wisdom
 and power1 would be left unfinished1   
just at the point where the finishing   
process was necessary4  ,but besides the
 strong probability which the previous  
preparation would produce1 that there   

would be a revelation of moral law1     
there are distinct and conclusive       
reasons1 evincing its necessities4  ,the
 whole experience of the world has      
confirmed the fact1 beyond the          
possibility of scepticism1 that men     
cannot discover and establish a perfect 
rule of human duty4 ,whatever may be    
said of the many excellent maxims       
expressed by different individuals in   
different ages and nations1 yet it is   
true that no system of duty to ,god and 
man1 in any wise consistent with        
enlightened reason1 has ever been       
established by human wisdom1 and        
sustained by human sanctions2 and for   
many reasons1 such a fact never can     
occur4  ,but1 it may be supposed that   
each man has1 within himself1 sufficient
 light from reason1 and sufficient      
admonition from conscience1 to guide    
himself1 as an individual1 in the path  
of truth and happiness4 ,a single fact  
will correct such a supposition4        
,conscience1 the great arbiter of the   

merit and demerit of human conduct1 has 
little intuitive sense of right1 and is 
not guided entirely by reason1 but is   
governed in a great measure by what men 
believe4 ,indeed1 faith is the          
legitimate regulator of the conscience4 
,if a man has correct views of duty to  
,god and men1 he will have a correct    
conscience2 but if he can1 by a wrong   
view of morals and of the character of  
,god1 be induced to believe that theft1 
or murder1 or any vice1 is right1 his   
conscience will be corrupted by his     
faith4 ,when men are brought to         
believe--as they frequently do in       
heathen countries--that it is right to  
commit suicide1 or infanticide1 as a    
religious duty1 their conscience        
condemns them if they do not perform the
 act4 ,thus that power in the soul which
 pronounces upon the moral character of 
human conduct1 is itself dependent upon 
and regulated by the faith of the       
individual4 ,it is apparent1 therefore1 
that the reception and belief of a true 

rule of duty1 accompanied with proper   
sanctions1 will alone form in men a     
proper conscience4 ,god has so          
constituted the soul that it is         
necessary1 in order to the regulation of
 its moral powers1 that it should have a
 rule of duty1 revealed under the       
sanction of its ,maker's authority2     
otherwise its high moral powers would   
lie in dark and perpetual disorder4     
,further1 unless the human soul be an   
exception1 ,god governs all things by   
laws adopted to their proper nature4    
,the laws which govern the material     
world are sketched in the books on      
natural science2 such are gravitation1  
affinity1 mathematical motion4 ,those   
laws by which the irrational animal     
creations are controlled are usually    
called instincts4 ,their operation and  
design are sketched1 to some extent1 in 
treatises upon the instincts of animals4
 ,such is the law which leads the beaver
 to build its dam1 and all other animals
 to pursue some particular habits       

instead of others4 ,all beavers1 from   
the first one created to the present    
time1 have been instinctively led to    
build a dam in the same manner1 and so  
their instinct will lead them to build  
till the end of time4 ,the law which    
drives them to the act is as            
necessitating as the law which causes   
the smoke to rise upwards4 ,nothing in  
the universe of ,god1 animate or        
inanimate1 is left without the          
government of appropriate law1 unless   
that thing being the noblest creature of
 ,god3 the human spirit4 ,to suppose1   
therefore1 that the human soul is thus  
left unguided by a revealed rule of     
conduct1 is to suppose that ,god cares  
for the less and not for the greater3 to
 suppose that ,he would constitute the  
moral powers of the soul so that a law  
was necessary for their guidance1 and   
then revealed none3 to suppose1         
especially in the case of the           
,israelites1 that he would prepare a    
people to receive1 and obey with a      

proper spirit1 this necessary rule of   
duty1 and yet give no rule4 ,but to     
suppose these things would be absurd2 it
 follows1 therefore1 that ,god would    
reveal to the ,israelites a law for the 
regulation of their conduct in morals   
and religion4  ,but physical law or     
necessitating instinct would not be     
adapted in its nature to the government 
of a rational and moral being4 ,the     
obligation of either to the soul would  
destroy its free agency4 ,god has made  
man intelligent1 and thereby adapted his
 nature to a rule which he understands4 
,man has a will and a conscience2 but he
 must understand the rule in order to   
will obedience1 and he must believe the 
sanction by which the law is maintained 
before he can feel the obligation upon  
his conscience4 ,a law1 therefore1      
adapted to man's nature1 must be        
addressed to the understanding1         
sanctioned by suitable authority1 and   
enforced by adequate penalties4  ,in    
accordance with these legitimate        

deductions1 ,god gave the ,israelites a 
rule of life--the moral law--succinctly 
comprehended in the ,ten ,commandments4 
,and as affectionate obedience is the   
only proper obedience he coupled the    
facts which were fitted to produce      
affection with the command to obey2     
saying1 ,i am the ,lord thy ,god1 which 
brought thee out of the land of ,egypt1 
and from the house of bondage4          
,therefore1 if ye love the ,lord ye     
shall surely keep ,his commandments4    
,further1 the only begotten ,son of     
,god1 who1 in order to fulfil the law   
gave himself a ransom for the salvation 
of all mankind1 made the plan clearer to
 ,whomsoever believeth on ,him8 saying2 
,this is ,my commandment1 that ye love  
one another1 as ,i have loved you4      
,therefore1 ,john1 whom history         
acknowledges as the ,socrates of the    
,christian philosophy in his personal   
knowledge of ,divine revelations1 was   
glad to testify to the fact that ,god is
 ,love4  ,and now with my whole soul    

lifted up to ,god ,i can sing3      ,my 
heart is fixed1 eternal ,god3 fixed on  
,thee1     ,and my unchanging choice is 
made1 ,christ for me6     ,he is my     
,prophet1 ,priest1 and ,king1 who did   
for me salvation bring     ,and while   
,i've breath ,i mean to sing1 ,christ   
for me4     ,,chapter ,,vi  ,god's      
,providence   ,in facts from ,christian 
and philosophical standpoints it has    
been demonstrated that the infallible   
,supreme ,ruler of all human spirits has
 made ,his final provision for the      
safety of each and every individual soul
 for its temporal and eternal welfare4  
,now ,i must prove to my readers'       
perfect satisfaction that to discard all
 the dignities and privileges of a high 
priest and become a lowly worker for    
,christ1 it is not a mere accident nor  
is it an act of necessity as far as     
temporal necessities are concerned2 but1
 it is a magnificent living monument of 
,god's ,providential manifestations4 ,in
 order to protect my reader in his      

judgment from any undue prejudice ,i    
have taken pains to present herewith all
 the obtainable facts in regard to      
,god's ,providence existing and         
exercising its office upon even to the  
most microscopical atom4 ,because1 it is
 required by the law of justice1 to     
comprehend this great attribute of      
,god's ,providence1 in order to         
understand1 how1 all things work        
together for good to them that love     
,god1 to them who are the called        
according to ,his purpose4  ,the ,latin 
etymology of the word ,providence is    
from 7,providentia1 ,pro-videre71 and   
originally meant foresight4 ,the        
corresponding ,greek word 7,pronoia7    
means forethought4 ,by a well-known     
figure of speech1 called metonymy1 we   
use a word denoting the means by which  
we accomplish anything to denote the end
 accomplished2 we exercise care over    
anything by means of foresight1 and     
indicate that care by the word          
foresight4 ,on the same principle the   

word ,providence is used to signify the 
care ,god takes of the universe4 ,as to 
its inherent nature1 it is the power    
which ,god exerts1 without intermission1
 in and upon all the works of his hands4
 ,in the language of the school-men it  
is a continual creation 7creation       
continua74 ,but defined as to its       
visible manifestations1 it is ,god's    
preservation and government of all      
things4 ,as a thing is known by its     
opposites1 the meaning of ,providence is
 elucidated by considering that it is   
opposed to fortune and fortuitous       
accidents4  ,providence1 considered in  
reference to all things existing1 is    
termed by ,knapp universal2 in reference
 to moral beings1 special2 and in       
reference to holy or converted beings1  
particular4 ,every thing is an object of
 ,providence in proportion to its       
capacity4 ,the ,disciples1 being of more
 value than many sparrows1 were assured 
of greater providential care4 ,by       
,providence being universal is intended1

 not merely that it embraces classes of 
objects or greater matters1 but that    
nothing is too minute or insignificant  
for its inspection4  ,providence is     
usually divided in three divine acts1   
,preservation1 ,co-operation and        
,government4 #a4 ,by preservation is    
signified the causing of existence to   
continue4 #b4 ,co-operation is the act  
of ,god which causes the powers of      
created things to remain in being4 ,it  
is not pretended that the existence of  
the powers of the things are ever       
separated1 but only that they are       
distinguishable in mental analysis4     
,co-operation varies with the nature of 
the objects towards which it is         
exercised4 #c4 ,government1 as a branch 
of ,providence1 is ,god's controlling   
all created things so as to promote the 
highest good of the whole4 ,to this end 
every species of being is acted upon in 
a way confirmable to its nature2 for    
instance1 inanimate things by the laws  
of physical influence2 brutes according 

to the laws of instinct2 and free agents
 according to the laws of free agency4  
,moreover1 as ,providence has respect to
 the nature which ,god has been pleased 
to design to each various object1 so1 in
 common with every other divine act1 it 
is characterized by divine perfections4 
,it displays omnipresence1 omniscience1 
omnipotence1 holiness1 justice1 and     
benevolence4 ,it has been sometimes     
contended that ,providence does not     
extend to all things1 or to unimportant 
events1 and chiefly for four reasons4   
,such an all-embracing providence1 it is
 said1 would 7#a7 be distracting to the 
mind of ,god2 or 7#b7 would be beneath  
,his dignity2 or 7#c7 would interfere   
with human freedom2 or 7#d7 would render
 ,god unjust in permitting evil to      
exist4 ,in reply to these objections    
against a providence controlling all    
things without exception1 it may be     
observed that the third and fourth      
suggest difficulties which press        
equally1 in fact1 upon all hypothesis1  

not only as to providence1 but as to    
creation1 and which shall be more fully 
explained in the sequel4  ,as to the    
first objection1 that the minutiae of   
the creation are so multifarious as to  
confuse the mind of ,god1 we are content
 to let it refute itself in every mind  
which has any just sense of divine      
knowledge and wisdom4 ,the second       
objection1 that some things are beneath 
,god's notice1 if it be not a captious  
cavil1 must result from pushing too far 
the analogy between earthly kings and   
the ,king of kings4 ,it is an           
imperfection in human potentates that   
they need vicegerents2 let us not then  
attribute such a weakness to ,god1      
fancying him altogether such a one as   
ourselves4 ,again1 it is to this day    
doubtful whether the microscope does not
 display the divine perfections as      
illustriously as the telescope2 there is
 therefore no reason to deny a          
providence over animalcula which we     
admit over the constellated heavens4    

,what is it that we dare call           
insignificant8 ,the least of all things 
may be as a seed cast in to the         
seed-field of time1 to grow there and   
bear fruit1 which shall be multiplying  
when time shall be no more4 ,we cannot  
always trace the connections of things4 
,we do not ponder those we can trace3 or
 we should tremble to call anything     
beneath the notice of ,god4 ,it has been
 eloquently said that where we see a    
trifle hovering unconnected in space1   
higher spirit can discern its fibres    
stretching through the whole expanse of 
the system of the world1 and hanging on 
the remotest limits of the future and   
the past4 ,in reference to the third and
 fourth objections before mentioned1    
namely1 that an all-embracing providence
 is incompatible with divine justice and
 human freedom1 it should be considered 
that1 in contemplating ,god's           
,providence1 the question will often    
arise1 why was mortal evil allowed to   
exist8 ,but as these questions meet us  

at every turn1 and1 under different     
forms1 may be termed the one and the    
only difficulty in theology1 it is      
already considered in the previous      
chapter of this work1 and may therefore 
require the less notice in the present  
article4 ,we should in all humility     
preface whatever we say on the          
permission of evil 7such as1 mysticism1 
in religious bodies7 with a confession  
that it is an inscrutable mystery1 which
 our faith receives1 but which our      
reason could not prove either to be or  
not to be demanded by the perfection of 
,god4 ,but1 in addition to the          
vindication of ,god's ways which may be 
found in the over-ruling of evil for    
good1 the following theories deserve    
notice3--  #a4 ,occasionalism1 or the   
doctrine that ,god is the immediate     
cause of all men's actions4 ,it is so   
called1 because it maintains that men   
only furnish ,god an occasion for what  
he does4 ,it degrades all second causes 
to mere occasions1 and turns men into   

passive instruments4  #b4 ,mechanism4   
,many1 alarmed at the consequences which
 occasionalism would seem to involve1   
have embraced an opposite scheme4 ,they 
criticise the definition of the laws of 
nature1 and contend that occasionalism  
derives all its plausibility from       
adroitly availing itself of the         
ambiguities of language4 ,they would    
have us view the creation as a species  
of clock1 or other machinery1 which1    
being once made and wound up1 will for a
 time perform its movements without the 
assistance or even presence of its      
maker4 ,but reasons press too far the   
analogy between the ,creator and an     
artisan4 ,so excellent a man as ,baxter 
was misled by this hypothesis1 which    
evidently is as derogatory to ,god as   
occasionalism is fatal to the moral     
agency of man4  #c4 ,the authors of the 
third scheme respecting the mode in     
which ,providence permits sin sought to 
be ,eclectics or to find a path         
intermediate between ,mechanism and     

,occasionalism4 ,in their judgment1 man 
is actuated by ,god1 and yet is at the  
same time active himself4 ,god gives man
 the power of action1 and preserves     
these powers every moment1 but he is not
 the efficient cause of free actions    
themselves4 ,this they say1 is involved 
in the very idea of a moral being1 which
 would cease to be moral if it were     
subjected to the control of necessity1  
and not suffered to choose and to do    
what it saw to be the best according to 
the laws of freedom4 ,but it is asked1  
why did ,god create men free1 and       
therefore fallible8 ,it were presumption
 to think of answering this question    
adequately4 ,it belongs to the deep     
things of ,god4 ,but1 among the possible
 reasons1 we may mention1 that if no    
fallible beings had been created1 there 
could have been no virtue in the        
universe2 for virtue implies probation1 
and probation a liability to temptation 
and sin4 ,again1 if some beings had not 
become sinful1 the most glorious        

attributes of ,god would never have been
 so fully exerted and displayed4 ,how   
could ,his wisdom and mercy and grace   
have been adequately manifested1 except 
by suffering a portion of ,his creatures
 to become such as to demand the        
exercise of those attributes8 ,how else 
could ,he have wrought the miracle of   
educing good from evil8 ,in this        
connection we may allude to the third   
chapter of ,romans1 where as in other   
passages1 it is declared1 that the good 
which evil may be over-ruled to produce1
 cannot palliate1 much less excuse1 the 
guilt of sinners1 or of those who say1  
,let us do evil that good may come4     
,among the proofs of ,divine ,providence
 may be reckoned the following3--#a4    
,one argument in proof of ,providence is
 analogous to one mode of proving a     
creation4 ,if we cannot account for the 
existence of the world without supposing
 its coming into existence1 or beginning
 to be2 no more can we account for the  
world continuing to exist1 without      

supposing it to be preserved2 for it is 
as evidently absurd to suppose any      
creature prolonging as producing its own
 being4 ,a second proof of ,providence  
results from the admitted fact of       
creation4 ,whoever has made any piece of
 mechanism1 therefore takes pains to    
preserve it4  ,parental affection moves 
those who have given birth to children  
to provide for their sustenation and    
education4 ,it is both reasonable and   
scriptural to contemplate ,god as       
sustaining the universe because ,he made
 it4 ,thus ,david1 having promised that 
the world was made by ,god1 immediately 
descends to the course of his           
,providence4 7,ps4 xxiii4 #f47 ,the     
creation also evinces a ,providence by  
proving ,god's right to rule1 on the    
admitted principle that every one may do
 what he will with his own4  ,a third   
proof of ,providence is found in the    
divine perfections4 ,since1 among the   
divine perfections1 are all power and   
all knowledge1 the non-existence of     

,providence1 if there be none1 must     
result from a want of will in ,god4 ,but
 no want of will to exercise a          
,providence can exist1 for ,god wills   
whatever is for the good of the         
universe1 and for ,his own glory2 to    
either of which a ,providence is clearly
 indispensable4 ,god therefore has      
resolved to exercise ,his power and     
knowledge so as to subserve the best    
ends with ,his creation4 ,he that denies
 ,providence1 says ,charnock1 denies    
most of ,god's attributes2 he denies at 
least the exercise of them2 he denies   
his omniscience1 which is the eye of    
,providence2 mercy and justice1 which   
are the arms of it2 power1 which is its 
life and motion2 wisdom1 which is the   
rudder whereby ,providence is steered2  
and holiness1 which is the compass and  
rule of each motion4 ,this argument for 
a ,providence might be made much more   
impressive1 did our limits allow us to  
expand it1 so as to show1 step by step  
how almost every attribute1 if not      

directly1 yet by implication1 demands   
that ,god put forth an unceasing        
sovereignty over all ,his works4  ,a    
fourth proof of ,god's ,providence      
appears in the order which prevails in  
the universe4 ,we say the order which   
prevails1 aware of the occasional       
apparent disorder that exists1 which we 
have already noticed1 and shall soon    
treat of again4 ,that summer and winter1
 seed time and harvest1 cold and heat1  
day and night1 are fixed by law1 was    
obvious even to man who never heard of  
,god's covenant with ,noah4 ,accordingly
 the ancient ,greeks designated the     
creation by a word which means order    
7cosmos74 ,but our sense of order is    
keenest where we discern it in apparent 
confusion4 ,the motions of the heavenly 
bodies are eccentric and intervolved1   
yet are most regular when they seem most
 lawless4 ,they were therefore compared 
by the earliest astronomers to the      
discords which blend in a harmony1 and  
to the wild starts which often heighten 

the graces of a dance4 ,modern astronomy
 has revealed to us so much miraculous  
symmetry in celestial phenomena1 that it
 shows us far more decisive proofs of a 
,ruler seated on the circles of the     
heavens1 than were vouchsafed to the    
ancients4 ,moreover1 many discover      
proofs of a ,providence in such facts as
 the proportion between the two sexes1  
the diversities of the continents1 as   
well as human nature and the nature of  
all things continuing always the same2  
since such facts show that all things   
are controlled by an unchanging power4  
,an objection to proofs of ,providence1 
derived from the order of the universe1 
is thought to spring from the seeming   
disorders to which we cannot shut our   
eyes4 ,much is said of plagues and      
earthquakes1 of drought1 flood1 frost   
and famine1 with a thousand more natural
 evils4 ,but it deserves consideration  
whether1 if there were no ,providence1  
these anomalies would not be the rule   
instead of the exception2 whether they  

do not feelingly persuade us that that  
curse of nature is upheld by a power    
above nature1 and without which it would
 fall to nothing2 whether they may not  
be otherwise necessary for more         
important ends than fall within the     
scope of our knowledge4  ,illustration3 
,,rev4 ,m4 ,,golden  ,the ,high ,priest 
in ,church ,ceremonial ,attire  ,a fifth
 proof of ,providence is furnished by   
the fact that so many men are here      
rewarded and punished according to a    
righteous law4 ,the wicked often feel   
compunctious visitings in the midst of  
their sins1 or smart under the rod of   
civil justice1 or are tortured with     
natural evils4 ,with righteous all      
things are in general reversed4 ,the    
miser and envious are punished as soon  
as they begin to commit their respective
 sins2 and some virtues are their own   
present reward4 ,but we would not       
dissemble that we are here met with     
important objections1 although          
infinitely less1 even though they were  

unanswerable1 than beset such as would  
reject the doctrine of ,providence4  ,it
 is said1 and we grant1 that the        
righteous are trodden under foot1 and   
the vilest men exalted2 that the race is
 not to the swift1 nor the battle to the
 strong2 that virtue starves1 while vice
 is fed1 and that schemes for doing good
 are frustrated1 while evil plots       
succeed4 ,but we may reply3  #a4 ,the   
prosperity of the wicked is often       
apparent1 and well styled a shining     
misery4 ,who believes that ,nero        
enthroned was happier than ,paul in     
chains8  #b4 ,we are often mistaken in  
calling such or such an afflicted man   
good1 and such or such a prosperous man 
bad4  #c4 ,the miseries of good men are 
generally occasioned by their own       
faults1 since they have been so         
fool-hardy as to run counter to the laws
 by which ,god acts1 or have aimed at   
certain ends while neglecting the       
appropriate means4  #d4 ,many virtues   
are proved and augmented by trials1 and 

not only proved1 but produced1 so that  
they would have had no existence without
 them4 ,many a ,david's noblest         
qualities would never have been         
developed but for the impious attempts  
of ,saul4 ,job's integrity was not only 
tested but strengthened by ,satan being 
permitted to sift him as wheat4         
,passions1 experience and hope were     
brought as ministering angels to man1 of
 whom the world was not worthy1 through 
trials of cruel mockings and scourgings4
  #e4 ,the unequal distribution of good 
and evil1 so far as it exists1 carries  
our thoughts forward to the last        
judgment1 and a retribution according to
 the deeds done in the body1 and can    
hardly fail of throwing round the idea  
of eternity a stronger air of reality   
than it might otherwise have done4 ,all 
perplexities vanish as we reflect that1 
,he cometh to judge the earth4  #f4     
,even if we limit our views to this     
world1 but extend them to all our       
acquaintances1 we cannot doubt that the 

tendencies1 though not always the       
effects1 of vice are to misery1 and     
those of virtue to happiness4 ,these    
tendencies are especially clear if our  
view embraces a whole life-time1 and the
 clearer the longer the period we       
embrace4 ,the ,psalmist was at first    
envious at the foolish1 when he saw the 
prosperity of the wicked2 but as his    
views became more comprehensive1 and he 
understood their end1 his language was1 
,how are they brought into desolation as
 in a moment2 they are utterly consumed 
with terrors4 ,the progressive tendency 
of vice and virtue to reap each its     
appropriate harvest is finally          
illustrated by ,bishop ,butler1 best of 
all perhaps in his picture of an        
imaginary kingdom of the good1 which    
would peacefully subvert all others1 and
 fill the earth4 ,indeed1 as soon as we 
leave what is immediately before our    
eyes1 and glance at the annals of the   
world1 we behold so many manifestations 
of ,god1 that we may adduce as a sixth  

proof of ,providence the facts of       
history4 ,the giving and transmission of
 a revelation1 as the ,mosaic and the   
,christian--the raising up of ,prophets1
 ,apostles and ,defenders of the        
,faith--the ordination of particular    
events1 such as the ,reformation--the   
more remarkable deliverance noticed in  
the lives of those devoted to the good  
of the world1 etc41 all indicate the    
wise and benevolent care of ,god over   
the human family4 ,but the historical   
proof of a ,providence is perhaps       
strongest where the wrath of man has    
been made to praise ,god1 or where      
efforts to dishonor ,god have been      
constrained to do him honor4 ,testimony 
in favor of piety has fallen from the   
impious1 and has had a double volume1 as
 coming from the unwilling4 ,they who   
have fought against the truth have been 
used by ,god as instruments of spreading
 the knowledge of it1 awakening an      
interest in it1 or stimulating          
,christians to purify it from human     

additions1 and to exhibit its power4    
,the scientific researches also with    
which infidels have wearied themselves  
to overthrow a revelation have proved at
 last fatal to their daring scepticisms4
 ,too many histories1 like ,gibbons'1   
have been written as if there were no   
,god in the heavens1 swaying the sceptre
 of the earth4 ,but a better day is     
approaching2 and it is exhilarating to  
observe that ,alison1 the first ,british
 historian of the age1 writes in the    
spirit which breathes in the historical 
books of the ,bible1 where the free     
actions of man are represented as       
inseparably connected with the agency of
 ,god4 ,if we may judge of the future by
 the past1 as the scroll of time        
unrolls1 we1 or our posterity1 and some 
think glorified spirits in a yet higher 
degree1 shall see more and more plainly 
the hand of ,god operating1 till every  
knee shall bow4 ,judgments1 now a great 
deep1 shall become as the light that    
goeth forth4 ,the tides of ambition and 

avarice will all be seen to roll in     
subserviency to the designs of ,god4 ,to
 borrow the illustration of another1 we 
shall behold the bow of ,god encircling 
the darkest storms of wickedness1 and   
forcing them to manifest ,his glory to  
the universe4  ,as a seventh ground for 
believing in ,providence1 it may be said
 that ,providence is the necessary basis
 of all religion4 ,for what is religion8
 ,one of the best definitions calls it  
the belief in a super-human power1 which
 has great influence in the human       
affairs1 and ought therefore to be      
worshiped4 ,but take away this influence
 in the human affairs1 and you cut off  
all motive to worship4 ,to the same     
purpose is the text in ,hebrews3 ,he    
that cometh to ,god must believe that   
,he is1 and ,he is a rewarder of such as
 diligently seek ,him4 ,if then the     
religious sentiments thrill us not in   
vain--if all attempts of all men to     
commune with ,god have not always and   
everywhere been idle--there must be a   

,providence4  ,in the eighth place1 we  
may advert for a moment to the proof of 
,providence from the common consent of  
mankind1 with the single exception of   
atheists4 ,the ,epicureans may be       
classed with atheists1 as they are      
generally thought to have been atheists 
in discourse1 and a ,god after their    
imaginations would be1 to all intents   
and purposes1 no ,god4 ,the ,stoics were
 also atheists1 believing only in a     
blind fate arising from a perpetual     
concatenation of causes contained in    
nature4 ,the passages acknowledging a   
,providence in ,cicero1 ,seneca1        
,plutarch1 and all the ancient          
moralists1 are numerous and decisive1   
but too accessible or well-known to need
 being quoted4  ,in the last place1 the 
doctrine of ,providence is abundantly   
proved by the ,scriptures4 ,some times  
it is declared that the ,most ,high     
ruleth in the kingdom of men1 and giveth
 it to whomsoever ,he will2 as much as  
to say that nothing can withstand ,his  

power4 ,again1 lest we may think some   
things beneath ,his notice1 we read that
 ,he numbereth the hairs of our heads1  
careth for lilies1 and disposeth all the
 lots which are cast4 ,the care of ,god 
for man is generally argued1 a fortiori1
 from ,his care for inferior creatures4 
,one ,psalm 7xci7 is devoted to show the
 providential security of the ,godly3   
another 7xciii7 shows the frailty of    
man2 and a third 7civ7 the dependence of
 all orders in creation on ,god's       
,providence for food and breath4 ,in    
,him1 it is elsewhere added1 we live1   
and move1 and have our being4 ,he1 in   
the person of ,christ1 sustaineth all   
things by the ,word of ,his power1 and  
from ,him cometh down every good and    
perfect gift4 ,but nowhere perhaps is a 
,providence so pointedly asserted and so
 sublimely set forth as in some of the  
last chapters of ,job2 and nowhere so   
variously1 winningly1 and admirably     
exhibited as in the history of ,joseph4 
,and nowhere could be found more        

brilliantly illuminating its substance  
than in our own hearts and lives4 ,the  
fool hath said in his heart1 there is no
 ,god4 ,to undervalue ,god's ,providence
 it is the most dreadful insult that a  
fool could dare conceive in his mind    
against ,god's existence4 ,but the wise 
hearken to ,his voice4      ,my son1 if 
thou wilt receive my words1     ,and    
hide my commandments with thee2     ,so 
that thou incline thine ear to wisdom1  
,and apply thy heart to understanding2  
,yea1 if thou criest after knowledge1   
,and liftest up thy voice for           
understanding2     ,if thou seekest her 
as silver1     ,and searchest for her as
 for hid treasures2     ,then shalt thou
 understand the fear of the ,lord1      
,and find the knowledge of ,god4        
,,chapter ,,vii  ,new ,york to          
,california   ,when ,i was but a little 
boy1 ,i can well recollect1 a nice      
little pond in the hollow of two hills  
beautifully situated1 near the school   
house where the pupils would enjoy the  

intervals of their school time4 ,how ,i 
would wonder at the experiment of       
throwing a stone in the pond and        
watching anxiously the circles of water 
growing larger and larger till reaching 
the banks of the pond and there they    
would break1 as though in despair for   
the limitations of their enlarging      
tendencies4 ,it seems to me1 now1 a     
parallel despair threatens my heart1 for
 being obliged to compact this story of 
my conversion4 ,yet1 in view of the fact
 that the ,american reader is a greater 
admirer of quality rather than quantity1
 ,i must content myself by giving a     
brief account on the practical side of  
my personal experience as a ,christian  
worker1 among the rich and the poor1 the
 high and the low classes and masses1 in
 cities and towns1 sunshine or clouds1  
rain or snow1 by day or by night2 ,i    
made myself servant unto all men1 that  
,i might by all means save some1 and    
this ,i do for the ,gospel's sake4 ,and1
 it is only proper1 to confess1         

publicly1 that ,i am prepared to suffer 
all things1 for the love which ,i feel  
in my heart to be of some service to my 
own people1 an historical race of people
 they are1 drifting away from ,god1     
blindly allowing blind priests to lead  
them into the ditch4 ,there is a        
cheering prospect about this people1 for
 whose salvation ,i have devoted my     
life1 that when ,christ enters into the 
heart of a ,greek1 there is very little 
hope left for the devil to induce him to
 be a backslider4 ,a truly converted    
,greek soul is worthy of all the joy    
that the angels in heaven rejoice over  
one sinner that repenteth4 ,how much    
more rejoicing shall be there1 if we get
 converted all the ,greeks that are     
living in the ,united ,states and use   
them as a kindling matter to start the  
fire of salvation in the hearts of the  
millions of people under the ,greek and 
,russian church slavery1 all round the  
,mediterranean countries8  ,with this   
and many other social and industrial    

problems laying upon my heart1 ,i find  
the atmosphere1 in ,new ,york1 too close
 for any opening and very little        
encouragement for a beginning4 ,and the 
atmosphere grew more asphyxiating every 
day with the arguments of my friend     
,george ,n4 ,he never had any sympathy  
with the subject so dear to my own      
heart1 his highest ambition being       
money-making1 for which end he          
relinquished the ,presbyterian pulpit1  
after being duly graduated from a       
,presbyterian ,seminary for ministerial 
ordination4 ,it was only natural that   
our thoughts and our ambitions should   
face each other suspiciously from the   
diametrical opposite ends4 ,and with all
 due respect to my old teacher and      
gratefully acknowledging his hospitality
 for entertaining me many a day1 ,i find
 out that at the best ,i had to be in   
his mercy1 as long as ,i was not able to
 explain myself1 to the ,american       
people1 speaking in their own language4 
,and1 as difficulties have always had a 

peculiar effect upon my personal        
character2 to face them1 and fight them 
out with one object in view to die or to
 win1 ,i left ,new ,york right after    
,christmas of #aijc1 in the midst of an 
unusually severe winter1 rather a       
wanderer2 but determined to ramble among
 the ,american people and learn the     
language by ear1 which proved in my     
case1 and ,i believe1 it is in every    
case1 to be the best school for learning
 the correct pronunciation of any       
language you might desire to speak1 and 
be not laughable when you address the   
natives of that language4  ,where should
 ,i direct my wandering steps1 it was   
the all important question1 under my    
consideration in the first place4       
,boston3 ,i had been scouring the ground
 before1 and from a thorough-going ,i   
was convinced that to begin in a place  
where the most superstitious1 if not    
fanatic1 ,greeks are situated1 at all   
appearances it should be a wonderful    
failure without any dose of wisdom in   

it2 while ,i was not able to take my    
stand before the people1 whose          
sympathies ,i needed in judging my      
purposes and my efforts4 ,in the great  
wild ,west1 way out there1 where some of
 the best easterners by leaving their   
homes and their comforts therein1 and   
enduring all the hardships of pioneering
 life they succeeded at last to put a   
solid foundation of a new and permanent 
civilization astonishingly wonderful not
 only in the development of this great  
land of liberty but revolutionizing the 
whole commercial and social system of   
the world4  ,who hath known the mind of 
the ,lord8 ,we have been taught1 that   
,his purpose is to glorify ,himself     
through human agency1 and we know that  
all the great movements in history were 
originated in an insignificant way by   
insignificant persons at the beginning4 
,who could say1 at the time1 when the   
daughter of ,pharaoh came down to wash  
herself at the river1 and there she drew
 out of the water an ark with a child in

 it1 that that child would be the chosen
 one of ,god to deliver his people from 
the ,egyptian bondage8 ,or1 when1 a poor
 carpenter with his wife went up from   
,galilee1 out of the city of ,nazareth1 
into ,judea in a small village of       
,bethlehem1 and ,mary brought forth her 
first-born son1 and wrapped him in      
swaddling clothes1 and laid him in a    
manger1 because there was no room for   
them in the inn2 that that baby was the 
,king of ,kings1 ,christ the ,lord and  
,saviour of all mankind8  ,that1 humble 
fishermen would be the heralds of glad  
tidings1 to those who accept ,christ as 
their ,saviour8 ,that an altruist monk  
should leave his monastery1 thus        
violating his vows to ,pope and the     
church1 to be the mouthpiece of the     
,truths of ,christ's ,gospel1 and become
 the father of a ,reformation that      
brought down the ,romish pride1 for all 
time and raised the banner of personal  
liberty in ,him who is the ,only ,one to
 save every soul that cometh unto ,him  

without the necessity of a priest8 ,that
 such men as ,john ,wesley1 ,moody1 and 
a number of others1 to accomplish great 
things for the advancement of ,god's    
kingdom8 ,and the greatest religious    
living man1 ,general ,william ,booth1   
who1 with his ingenious and prototype   
system1 is doing more for ,god and      
humanity1 than all religious bodies put 
together8 ,their beginning was          
insignificant4  ,these names1 a few of  
the many1 ,i thought to mention for the 
encouragement of those who always try to
 find some excuse1 for not doing all    
they can1 to realize that for which they
 every day pray1 ,thy ,kingdom come4 ,as
 for me1 ,i know1 that there is nothing 
impossible with ,jesus1 and it is only  
according to our faith1 and the work    
which we put in it1 that we reap the    
results of our efforts4  ,when ,i left  
,new ,york1 ,i made a short stop-over at
 ,new ,jersey1 and one snowy morning ,i 
went to the ,r4 ,r4 station and         
purchased my ticket for ,athens1 ,ohio1 

because1 in studying geography1 ,i      
noticed that there are quite a number of
 towns in the ,united ,states by the    
name of ,athens1 and ,i was very        
desirous to visit the ,athens1 ,ohio1   
and see if there was any ,acropolis or  
monuments to compare with the ,athens1  
,greece4 ,the train arrived at ,athens1 
,ohio1 ,r4 ,r4 station just on time1 not
 to miss my dinner at a nearby          
restaurant1 where ,i inquired if there  
were any ,greek people in the town4 ,a  
very gentle young lady1 waiting on the  
table gave me instructions to find a    
candy store kept by a ,greek1 where she 
took her ice cream4 ,i found the place  
and the ,greek who was a real good      
natured middle-aged man and his family  
living on the floor above the store4 ,he
 received me kindly and after a short   
conversation he said he thought ,i could
 make a suitable help for him and he    
offered me the job without asking any   
questions as to my identification4 ,i   
had no thought of staying at that place 

and declined the offer4 ,by the same    
,greek ,i was glad to learn that        
,athens1 ,ohio1 though there is no      
,acropolis and no ,socrates there2 yet1 
she is a nice little college town and   
the ,greek was doing a rushing business 
with the students4 ,the next train was  
for ,st4 ,louis1 ,missouri1 and ,i was  
very anxious to see the ,mississippi    
river1 so ,i went on that train4 ,the   
great bridge on the ,mississippi river  
and the ,union station at ,st4 ,louis   
are two buildings that could make honor 
to any city in the world4 ,i left my    
luggage at the parcel-room and started  
out to find a hotel1 where ,i could have
 the best accommodations for the        
smallest amount of money4 ,when ,i      
located myself the best that ,i could1  
the next thing ,i thought to look around
 for a job1 as ,i liked to stay in ,st4 
,louis till the opening of the ,world's 
,fair in the year #aijd4 ,i bought a    
newspaper3 ,i could then read some      
,english1 but speak very little yet4    

,the advertisement which attracted my   
attention was a short one ,wanted young 
man willing to work1 apply1 at given    
number and street4 ,it was ,saturday yet
 ,i was anxious and willing to work1 so1
 ,i went to answer the ad4 ,by asking in
 every corner some man in uniform1 not  
knowing at the time if they were        
policemen or conductors in the electric 
cars1 ,i find the street and presently  
,i saw the number above the door of a   
great big livery stable4 ,i looked over 
the newspaper1 and the number was       
correct4 ,i was not prepared for the    
surprise and for a moment ,i hesitated  
to enter4 ,the thoughts came to me by   
bunches3 for the first time in my life  
,i was looking for an honest work to    
make an honest living1 and the first    
place1 ,god's ,providence1 brought me1  
was a stable2 and what a big stable that
 was4 ,i never knew anything about      
stables and horses3 what could ,i do    
there8 ,instantly my feet began to move 
backwards when a thought came as a      

lightning3 what do you care if it is a  
stable1 or a dowager's palace8 ,it is   
work that you want1 and it is much more 
honorable to work in a stable and be    
right with ,god1 than to live in the    
luxuries as a ,high ,priest and be an   
hypocrite4 ,labor1 it has always been an
 object of my admiration1 though1 labor 
is set forth as a part of the primeval  
curse1 in the sweat of thy face thou    
shalt eat bread and doubtless there is a
 view of labor which exhibits in it     
reality as a heavy1 sometimes a crueling
 burden4 ,but labor is by no means      
exclusively an evil1 nor is its         
prosecution a dishonor4  ,these         
impressions1 false though they are1 have
 wrought a vast and complicated amount  
of harm to men1 especially to the       
industrious classes1 causing these      
classes1 that is1 the great majority of 
our fellow-creatures1 to be regarded1   
and consequently to be treated even in  
,christian lands1 as a parish caste1 as 
hereditary hewers of wood and drawers of

 water doomed by ,providence1 if not    
primarily by the ,creator himself1 to a 
low and degrading yoke1 and utterly     
incapable of entertaining lofty         
sentiments1 or rising to a higher       
position2 to be restrained therefore in 
every manifestation of impatience lest  
they should temporarily gain the upper  
hand1 and lay waste the fair fields of  
civilization2 and to be kept under for  
the safety of society1 if not for their 
own safety1 by social burdens and the   
depressing influences of disregard and  
contempt4  ,a better feeling1 however1  
regarding labor and laborers1 is        
beginning to prevail3 these motions1    
which breathe the very spirit of slavery
 whence they are borrowed1 are in a word
 dishonored1 while they are gradually   
losing their hold on the heart1 and     
their influence on the life4            
,individuals arising from time to time  
from the lowest levels of social life to
 take1 occupy1 and adorn its loftiest   
posts1 have irresistibly shown that     

there is no depression in society which 
the favors of ,god may not reach4       
,especially has a wider and more humane 
spirit begun to prevail since man has   
learned more accurately to know1 and    
more powerfully to feel1 the genius and 
the spirit of the ,gospel1 whose        
originator was a carpenter's son1 and   
whose heralds were ,galilean fishermen4 
,reason and experience too1 in this as  
in all cases1 have come to revealed     
truth1 tending forcibly to show that    
labor1 if under certain circumstances it
 has a curse to inflict1 has also many  
priceless blessings to bestow4 ,yet1    
when it fell to my lot1 to submit myself
 in that class and be a laborer and earn
 my bread by the sweat of my brow1 it   
was a critical moment to decide upon4   
,and just at this moment a man of small 
stature came out of the stable1 and as  
,i looked suspiciously1 he asked me if  
,i wanted anything4 ,i want this job    
said ,i1 showing to him the ad in the   
paper4 ,with a few sharp glances at me  

standing now like a marble2 all right1  
he said2 you just put on your working   
clothes and come here on ,monday morning
 at #e a4 m41 and we will have something
 for you to do4 ,i left him and on my   
way back home ,i entered the first      
clothing store and purchased an outfit  
of working-man's clothes4 ,the next day 
was ,sunday and ,i spent the day in my  
room1 praying that ,god would sustain me
 in my new career4 ,at night ,i had very
 little sleep1 making my plans for the  
future1 or building my castles in the   
air1 and early ,monday morning ,i was at
 the stable before #e a4 m4 ,soon the   
little man appeared and after the       
customary ceremony in taking my name and
 address1 he led the way into the inner 
part of the stable in front of a huge   
heap of horse manure4 ,there1 he says1  
you just shovel that out of the window1 
and handing to me a big fork1 for the   
operation1 he disappeared4  ,there are  
certain happenings in our lives         
indelibly written in our memory1 which  

cannot be effaced by the stream of time1
 and one week's experience in this      
stable was sufficient to engrave the    
deepest lines in my heart of sympathy   
and mercy for sinful1 suffering         
humanity4 ,it has been said in the old  
,greek mythology that the greatest      
achievement of ,hercules was when he    
undertook to clean the stable of the    
king ,augeus at ,argos4 ,but should     
,hercules lived in this stable for one  
week1 ,i doubt that his name would ever 
appear in the list of demigods4         
,illustration3 ,,rev4 ,m4 ,,golden      
,captain of the ,salvation ,army  ,it is
 beyond the limits of self respect to   
even attempt a brief account of all that
 took place in that stable1 but         
sufficient to say that ,i went in there 
one individual and by ,saturday ,i came 
out ten thousand strong4 ,and ,i had to 
put up in ,st4 ,louis one more week in a
 bath house1 with much work and expense 
to get back into my one individual1 and 
hasten my wandering steps towards       

,chicago1 with a stop-over at           
,springfield1 ,illinois1 where ,i had   
references to meet a gentleman1         
professor of the ,greek language in one 
of the colleges there4 ,when ,i arrived 
at the house of the dear professor1 he1 
began to speak to me from a book1 in an 
exameter homerean tone1 and ,i          
understood about as much as the faithful
 who goes to church and the priest reads
 the mass in ,latin4 ,at ,springfield ,i
 lost my satchel and with it my ,greek  
documents1 which might have been very   
interesting to the reader1 yet1 ,i hope 
in my next publication to have          
reproductions of those documents from   
the original1 which ,i can easily obtain
 from ,athens4  ,chicago is my next     
stop4 ,the ,babylon of the ,west4 ,last 
week of ,january1 #aijd1 the weather #ab
 degrees below zero4 ,all the idles of  
,chicago hired by the city hall could   
not keep control of the snow on the     
streets4 ,i located myself in a         
furnished room on ,wabash ,avenue1 and  

bought a paper to find a job1 but my    
experience in the stable at ,st4 ,louis1
 took away from me all the courage to   
select any kind of work from the paper1 
yet ,i was very anxious to settle for a 
while in ,chicago1 in that third        
cosmopolitan city of the world1 ,london 
and ,new ,york being respectively first 
and second4  ,chicago offers great      
opportunity to a student of religious1  
industrial and social conditions1 and   
when1 by chance1 ,i secured employment  
in a leading warehouse1 a very good     
paying position1 under the              
circumstances1 ,i devoted all my spare  
time visiting the ,greek quarters1      
incognito1 and studying everything that 
came within my observation1 and         
attending all kinds of public meetings  
of various denominations and societies1 
which proved a great help to me in      
learning the proper pronunciation of the
 ,english words1 in fact for five years 
,i did not speak five times in the      
,greek language4  ,one morning ,i read  

in the paper the following announcement3
 ,the ,knights ,templar of the ,united  
,states have made their plans to        
celebrate the #bith triennial conclave  
of ,knights ,templar to be held in ,san 
,francisco1 ,cal41 ,september #d to #i4 
,the occasion will be of universal      
character1 representatives from all the 
world2 and ,great ,britain will send to 
this imposing ceremony the highest      
officials that control the affairs of   
the chivalric order of ,freemasonry in  
the ,british ,isles4 ,the ,earl of      
,euston1 most eminent and supreme grand 
master of great priory of ,england and  
,wales and the dependencies of the      
,british crown1 were coming with        
credentials to represent ,edward ,,vii1 
the king of ,england4 ,i was looking    
forward to my visit to ,california1     
since ,i left ,new ,york1 but ,i never  
expected the time for me to go there    
would come so soon as it did4 ,i was    
longing to see a great gathering of     
,freemasons1 of this class of men1 that1

 in every country represents the highest
 ideals of good citizenship4  ,with a   
few days preliminary preparations1 ,i   
bade good-bye to my employer1 and well  
supplied with recommendations from some 
influential friends and acquaintances   
which ,i had made in ,chicago1 ,i saw   
myself off to ,california1 on the       
forenoon train1 the #beth of ,june1     
#aijd4  ,the trip was uneventful1       
excepting the unbearable heat and dust1 
especially going through the ,states of 
,oklahoma1 ,arizona and ,new ,mexico1   
and the number of ,indians1 which1 for  
the first time in my life ,i beheld in  
their own skin living and moving        
contented as though they still were the 
dominating race on the continent1 with  
their square faces painted in various   
colors1 wrapped in their blankets1 and  
bare-footed1 their feet being very much 
like those of a mud turtle1 they were   
the real thing4     ,,chapter ,,viii    
,honorable ,submission   ,there was a   
time when the ,eastern part of the      

,united ,states looked upon ,san        
,francisco as the coming ,new ,york of  
the ,pacific ,coast1 but since the      
disastrous earthquake in the year #aijf1
 the stream of progress as a great      
commercial center has been turned rather
 towards the ,northern ,pacific ,coast1 
yet ,san ,francisco with its great      
harbor1 the ever increasing commercial  
developments and number of other        
advantages1 still is a magnificent      
attraction to the homeseeker1 who for   
the last few years has been very        
sceptical in his preference on account  
of existing unfavorable conditions      
regarding the city's government which is
 the prey of dishonest politicians4 ,for
 this and many other reasons ,i should  
never make my home within the limits of 
the city of ,san ,francisco4 ,there are 
beautiful localities within short       
distances1 desirable in every respect   
and beyond the claws of the city hall of
 ,san ,francisco4  ,mount ,tamalpais1 ,i
 believe1 is a most pleasant location   

for the lovers of nature4 ,words fail1  
and it is beyond the ability of my pen1 
to even attempt to describe1 the        
beauties which nature has bestowed upon 
the ,mount of ,tamalpais4 ,situated just
 across the bay of ,san ,francisco1 by  
the way of ,socialito1 on the train to  
,mill ,valley and whence on the         
crookedest railroad in the world1       
climbing #bjjj feet above the tide of   
water1 we reach the lower top of the    
mountain1 and there we find             
accommodations to entertain kings and   
princesses1 and the most eccentric      
,yankee4 ,yet1 ,i am assured1 that      
scarcely one-tenth of the visitors to   
,california1 have ever had the          
exceptional privilege to spend #bd      
hours1 on the top of ,mount ,tamalpais1 
and thereafter all through their lives  
enjoy the most wonderful recollection in
 all ,god's creation4  ,the ,alps in    
,europe are too stupendous to be        
compared with this majestically         
magnificent mount of ,tamalpais4 ,the   

,himalaya in ,asia are too brutish to be
 considered as a rival of this gentle   
and illustrious sky-scraper4 ,the       
,olympus and ,parnassus of ,greece are  
out of season to be paralleled with this
 up-to-date marvelous throne of their   
,majesties the ,kings of ,america4      
,there is the ,tamalpais ,hotel1 a real 
palace1 where the guests can rest and   
from the verandas or the windows of     
their own rooms observe the animating   
sights on the left hand side the        
snow-covered top-heads of the mountains 
and following to the right look down    
upon the valleys and behold the myriads 
of orange and lemon and all the         
fruit-bearing trees blooming all the    
year around and decorated like brides in
 their wedding procession1 not only for 
a few moments1 till the law ties the    
knot1 but forever as long as the        
life-giving climate of beautiful        
,california lasts and time shall be no  
more4  ,when ,i went up to the          
,mountain1 looking for employment1      

because ,i wanted to locate myself in   
such a place1 if ,i could1 till the     
celebration of the ,knights ,templar was
 over1 ,i was surprised to find that the
 ,general ,manager of the ,hotel and the
 ,r4 ,r4 ,station was a lady1 of a      
striking majestical appearance1 she was 
the controlling power of the whole      
business on ,mount ,tamalpais1 and she  
was not a suffragette either4 ,but she  
was a loving mother of two beautiful    
children1 a typical ,yankee girl1 well  
up in her teens1 supervising over the   
chambermaids1 and variously assisting   
her mother1 and an active boy of        
sixteen1 the good-fellow of everybody1  
and especially to the ,chinamen employed
 in the kitchen4 ,mr4 ,johnson was the  
husband and father of this happy family1
 and he occupied the position of butler 
of the house1 receiving orders from his 
beloved wife4  ,i presented my          
credentials to ,mrs4 ,johnson and she1  
being satisfied1 was very kind to give  
me the charge of two tables to wait upon

 in the dining room4 ,it seemed as      
though ,i made good as a waiter1 judging
 by the coins which the customers1 began
 to forget1 beneath their plates1 in    
leaving the table1 some call it tips1 ,i
 called it real money4  ,september was  
well at hand1 one day old1 and ,mrs4    
,johnson was very anxious to have the   
premises well decorated1 and a big arch 
should be erected at the entrance1 with 
the sign1 ,,welcome1 to ,knights        
,templar1 as news came from ,san        
,francisco1 that the ,knights were      
already in possession of the ,golden    
,gate4 ,mrs4 ,johnson was almost in     
despair1 unable to find someone among   
that great army of employees1 to have   
any artistic ideas of decorating or even
 to make a few flower designs and put up
 the arch out of some green foliage4 ,we
 were all green1 in that respect4 ,but  
as ,i always find myself at hand1       
wherever help is to be rendered1 ,i     
offered my services1 and by what ,i     
could remember from my friend ,jack1 in 

,new ,york1 how he could decorate       
everything to a good taste1 ,i have been
 able to put up a nice decoration and   
the third of ,september1 #aijd1 the     
flags of all nations were waving and    
everything was ready for the reception  
of the ,knights ,templar4 ,mrs4 ,johnson
 was pleased to the extent of presenting
 me with an extra three dollars and     
relieving me from the dining room1 she  
appointed me in charge of the pavilion1 
an out-doors building1 where the        
,knights ,templar would privately       
entertain their families and lady       
friends4 ,in this position ,i was       
enabled to see more of the high         
,american life than ,i ever dreamed of  
before4 ,the ,english ,lord1 and the    
,parisien ,dame de ,honor1 were eclipsed
 as they would look like pygmies by the 
side of the sunshining1 bright-hearted  
,american gentlemen1 and the sweet and  
graceful demigoddess ,american lady4    
,but my enthusiasm reached its zenith   
when a gentleman from ,pittsburg1 in    

company with his ladies1 after an       
enjoyable dinner1 at the pavilion1 he   
left under his plate a shining five     
dollar gold piece2 at the sight of the  
unexpected ,i made a sign to which the  
gentleman was obliged to respond1 and   
that settled it1 there was no mistake   
about it1 the man and ,i were brothers  
and the coin was intended as my tip4    
,and afterwards the incident occurred   
repeatedly during the celebration of    
,knights ,templar in ,san ,francisco4   
,now1 if everything in this world was   
just a procession like that of ,knights 
,templar in ,san ,francisco1 and        
everybody was happy as the people ,i    
have seen on ,mount ,tamalpais1 then    
there would be no sorrow1 and there     
would be no pain2 in fact this world    
would be the paradise on earth4 ,but1   
alas6 regretful as it may be1 yet it is 
only the simple truth1 that it is only  
the minority that are real happy1 while 
the vast majority of men and women and  
children in this world are just a mass  

of suffering humanity1 and if the       
investigations of religious societies1  
sociologists1 and psychologists1 are    
true1 the cause of all misery in this   
world is misconduct or misfortune1 which
 in one word is1 sin1 that brings       
misery4 ,and there is where my purpose  
in life begins4 ,i am out against sin4  
,but to fight sin1 it is absolutely     
necessary to be a soldier of the man who
 gave his life for the salvation of all 
mankind4  ,president ,emeritus ,eliot of
 ,harvard ,university1 a man of colossal
 thought-machine1 man1 who controls the 
unprejudiced intellectual minds of      
,america1 in his address on ,the        
,religion of the ,future1 is quoted as  
saying3 ,i venture to add that ,i am not
 at the hold of any proud               
world--whatever2 second1 that such      
little part of the world as ,i am best  
acquainted with loves the ,lowly        
,nazarene--and does not hate ,him2      
thirdly1 that ,i have met during my life
 most of the sorrows which are accounted

 heaviest2 fourth1 that ,jesus will be  
in the religion of the future1 not less1
 but more1 than in the ,christianity of 
the past4 ,all efforts without ,jesus1  
trying to better the world1 shall fail4 
,it is and will be the opinion of all   
sane minds for many generations yet to  
come4 ,this was my opinion and the only 
imposing motive that brought me down on 
my knees on the #adth of ,october1      
#aijd1 in a poorly furnished hall where 
the ,salvation ,army had the ,sunday    
night's meeting4 ,i gave my heart to    
,jesus1 for life and for eternity1 to be
 his and his alone4 ,and ,i knew1 there 
and then1 that ,i was honorably         
converted4  ,to make the surrender      
complete ,i offered my services to the  
,salvation ,army1 that ,i should use all
 ,i had1 my time and my talent1 to      
uplift the down-fallen humanity and help
 to make this world better4 ,major      
,harris ,connett and ,adjutant ,allison 
,coe1 were the officers in charge of the
 ,los ,angeles ,salvation ,army and they

 received me into their ranks and for   
ten months ,i was engaged in this       
wonderful organization1 visiting the    
sick1 praying in the saloons1 in the    
slums and everywhere doing all that ,i  
could to promote the cause of ,jesus in 
bringing souls into his fold4 ,but      
nothing gave me so great pleasure as the
 poor children of ,los ,angeles at      
,christmas time when ,i was dressed in  
the ,santa ,claus clothing distributing 
presents to them4 ,i never felt happier 
in all my life even in the best days as 
a ,high ,priest4  ,after passing        
successfully my preparatory studies in  
,los ,angeles1 word came from the       
,headquarters that they wanted me in the
 college ,training ,home1 in ,chicago1  
to take the course of officership2 and  
the #aeth of ,august1 #aije1 finds me   
sweeping the back yard at the ,training 
,home1 ,west ,adams ,st41 ,chicago1     
,illinois4  ,were it possible for every 
man and woman who pretends to be a      
minister of ,jesus1 to pass six months  

in any of the ,training ,colleges of the
 ,salvation ,army1 then there should be 
fewer ministers1 but far more useful1 in
 the betterment of the world1 than many 
of them that are under the present      
conditions4  ,it is the most            
psychological system1 in these ,training
 ,colleges that brings out all the      
virtues that every heart possesses and  
every bit of iniquity that may be hidden
 in the personal character of the man or
 woman who willingly denies himself or  
herself of all prospects and pleasures  
in this world just for the only purpose 
to live and love and serve the suffering
 humanity4 ,there are exceptions to the 
rule among the officers of the          
,salvation ,army1 once in a great while 
some one will prove unworthy to the     
cause1 but these exceptions are common  
in every human institution1 and they are
 so few in the ,salvation ,army that    
fully justifies the public confidence   
upon this marvelously developing great  
movement4  ,i went through the          

theoretical and practical work for which
 ,i could make a whole volume of the    
experiences in the slums of ,chicago1   
where ,i had to reprove a policeman1    
whom ,i found in a saloon drinking in   
full uniform1 while in the back room    
there was a girl not over fifteen years 
old1 in the company of a most reckless  
middle-aged man1 both exceedingly       
intoxicated and still drinking4 ,i      
dismissed the man1 and sent the girl to 
the rescue home1 where she would be     
taken care of4  ,the #agth of ,january1 
#aijf1 ,i received my diploma as an     
active member of the ,national ,first   
,aid ,association of ,america1 and my   
commission as a ,captain in the         
,salvation ,army1 and ,i was appointed  
in charge of ,no4 #d in ,chicago4 ,i    
went to my quarters and there was not   
kindling wood enough to start a fire1   
and no coal2 and the weather #ad degrees
 below zero1 half the glass panes of the
 windows broken1 and everything in the  
house frozen1 and the ,corps indebted to

 the extent of #age dollars1 that ,i was
 expected to pay4 ,you have to put      
yourself in a position of this kind in  
order to appreciate the circumstances   
under which ,i was placed4 ,yet1 when   
everything seems dark1 and there is no  
visible way out of the difficulty1 it is
 then that with ,jesus on our side1 we  
shall always find some way4 ,the first  
consideration in a missionary work      
should be to get souls converted to     
,god4 ,with much prayer and great faith 
upon the ,almighty1 ,i began my work1   
and when the ,spirit spread all round   
that community and the sinners began to 
flock into the fold of ,jesus1 there was
 a change in a very short time4 ,the old
 debt was paid1 and we had comfortable  
quarters to lay our heads2 and the      
roll-call of the ,corps increased1 and  
,god was glorified1 and there is a      
,corps1 till this day1 in ,chicago1     
which they call the big #d of the       
,salvation ,army4  ,the ,san ,francisco 
disaster came and the ,salvation ,army  

called me into its relieving department 
to help the sufferers4 ,after which they
 appointed me assistant to the ,illinois
 ,division1 where for two years ,i made 
a deeper and more thorough study of the 
various departments in operation4  ,in  
,april1 #aijh1 ,i visited ,england with 
the desire to study closer and more     
extensively the methods1 and see for    
myself the great works which the        
,salvation ,army has accomplished in the
 ,british ,isles4  ,on my return to the 
,united ,states ,i was appointed        
divisional solicitor for the ,northern  
,new ,england1 where1 splendid success  
was the result of my efforts1 and there 
was a great field to work in and every  
opportunity to do good4  ,but in        
searching my heart's ambition ,i find   
that it was high time for me to turn all
 my energies toward the people for whose
 ,salvation ,i was ordained a ,high     
,priest in the ,church1 and although the
 ,church failed in its mission1 yet1 to 
uplift my people is still the aim of my 

life4  ,after much thought and due      
consideration of my obligations to the  
,salvation ,army1 ,i came to the        
conclusion that in view of the fact that
 following an unsuccessful              
correspondence with the ,salvation      
,army1 the ,national ,headquarters      
refused to grant me a leave of absence1 
and insisted that ,i should go back     
,west1 while ,i knew that the field     
where ,i was called to fight the battle 
of my life was right here in ,new       
,england1 the best thing for me to do   
remained to send in my resignation1 and 
,i did so1 thus thrusting myself        
entirely upon the hands of ,god4  ,and  
though as yet ,i have received no reply 
from the ,national ,headquarters1 my    
resignation is final1 and now ,i am     
free1 and my work unmolested of all     
denominational differences1 dogmas and  
doctrines1 which in the light of the    
,ecclesiastical history has always been 
the fatal cause of failure1 in the      
,churches1 to accomplish their mission  

in the ,salvation of the world4         
,,chapter ,,ix  ,practical ,effects of  
,practical ,truth   ,the necessity of   
faith1 as a primary element in all      
acceptable religious exercises1 has     
already been noticed4 ,a feeling of     
entire dependence upon ,god for         
spiritual mercy is the only right       
feeling1 because it is the only true    
feeling4 ,it is necessary1 according to 
the foregoing view of the subject1 in   
order to offer acceptable prayer1 that  
man should possess a spirit of faith and
 dependence upon ,christ4 ,the principle
 upon which ,christ acted in relation to
 this subject1 as well as ,his          
instruction concerning the duty of      
prayer1 fully confirm the preceding     
thoughts4 ,he seldom performed an act of
 mercy1 by miracle or otherwise1 unless 
those who received the mercy could see  
the hand of ,god in the blessing3--,if  
thou canst believe1 thou mayest be      
cleansed1 was ,his habitual sentiment4  
,as if ,he had said--,your desire for   

the blessing is manifest by your urgent 
request2 now1 if you can have faith to  
see ,god in the blessing1 so that ,he   
will be honored and praised for         
conferring it1 ,i will grant it2 but if 
you have no faith1 you can receive no   
favor4  ,this little book could easily  
occupy thrice as large a size as its    
present volume1 had ,i taken into       
account all the blessings which ,god has
 bestowed upon my faithful prayers and  
upon ,his children1 using me as an      
instrument of ,his hand4 ,but ,i must   
content myself by referring to only two 
cases1 which had had exceptional        
significance and gratifying joy not only
 to my own heart1 but to every          
,christian worker4  ,with the           
individuals spoken of ,i am well        
acquainted1 having frequently conversed 
with them all on the subjects of which  
,i shall speak4 ,their words in these   
cases may not have been exactly         
remembered1 but the sense is truly      
given4  ,the first case1 is a story1    

told all by itself1 and the second case1
 is a letter of a dear girl1 whose      
mother was a down to the bone ,roman    
,catholic4 ,the daughter accidentally   
came to our meeting and gave her heart  
to ,jesus4 ,the mother thinking that the
 worldly pleasures might drive her newly
 converted daughter away from ,jesus1   
and being very anxious to get her       
daughter back into the ,catholic parish1
 she gave a party to all the young      
people from the same parish4 ,and there 
was plenty of song and dance1 but the   
daughter did not show up4 ,the mother   
with a number of the guests went into   
the daughter's room where the girl in   
seclusion was reading her ,bible2 the   
young people almost carrying her into   
the reception hall1 sat her upon the    
stool in front of the piano1 earnestly  
asking her to play for them while they  
were dancing4 ,but1 the girl1 lifting up
 to ,god her angelic heart and voice1   
she began to play and sing1 softly      
,nearer ,my ,god ,to ,thee1 the tears   

streaming down her cheeks2 they were    
tears of joy for the saved girl1 but the
 young people could not stand it and    
they ran away1 while the converted girl 
bended on her knees in prayer for them1 
and her own mother's salvation4  ,case  
#a4--;,for love of the ,christ3--,john  
,davis was the only child of a ,chicago 
banker4 ,the wealth and social          
prominence of his father had surrounded 
him with every comfort and luxury1 and  
his growth from boyhood to incipient    
manhood had been tenderly watched over  
by his fond parents4  ,all the hopes of 
his parents were centered in their only 
child4 ,mr4 ,davis looked forward to the
 time when ,john would become his       
partner1 and that his son might be      
fitted in every way1 engaged the best   
tutors procurable to attend to his      
education4 ,john had graduated with     
honors after four years of college work1
 which was marked by the thorough and   
earnest application on his part4 ,his   
father watched his progress with growing

 pride and with fullest confidence in   
his son's ability1 arranged to take him 
into partnership at the proper time4    
,seemingly the future for ,john was one 
of brilliant promise4 ,but ,john did not
 show an eager anticipation for the     
future as planned for him4 ,a life      
devoted to business was to him a selfish
 one4 ,something within him was         
insistently calling him to a higher     
vocation2 although apparently           
acquiescing to his father's plans1 the  
prospect daily became more and more     
distasteful to him4  ,from his mother1 a
 woman of singular devoutness and piety1
 ,john had received a careful religious 
training1 and he could not reconcile the
 idea of a life devoted to self with the
 truths he had reverently accepted as   
his faith4 ,daily he met with examples  
of shamefully degraded manhood1 of      
pitiful want1 and of unhelped suffering4
 ,his soul went out in pity towards     
these unfortunate ones1 and at such     
times the voice within imperiously      

summoned him to follow in the footsteps 
of ,him whom he worshiped as ,lord and  
,saviour4  ,on the other hand ,reason   
urged filial obedience to the wishes of 
his father4 ,that his mother would      
understand and encourage him should he  
heed the call of his soul1 ,john did not
 for an instant doubt4 ,not less        
clearly1 however1 did he recognize the  
attitude his father would take to such a
 course2 for his father1 while          
refraining from scoffing at beliefs     
cherished by his wife and friends1 made 
no secret of his own disbelief in them4 
,the life which would appear to his     
mother and himself as noblest of all    
would seem quixotic and senseless to his
 father4 ,besides1 his father had set   
his heart on ,john's becoming his       
partner in business4 ,john dreaded to   
disappoint him1 yet stronger and        
stronger grew the call of that inner    
voice which now all but dominated him4  
,one evening as he sat with his parents 
he surprised them by saying3 ,now that  

,i have finished my college course it is
 time for me to choose my vocation1 to  
strive to be of benefit to my fellow    
men4  ,all arrangements have been made1 
,john1 responded ,mr4 ,davis1 you may   
begin at once if you so desire4 ,your   
mother and ,i thought1 however1 that you
 were entitled to a vacation after your 
college work4 ,however we can use you at
 the bank the moment you are ready1     
laughed ,mr4 ,davis4  ,that is just what
 ,i desire to talk over with you1       
father1 returned ,john4 ,for weeks ,i   
have felt that the future you have      
designed for me is too narrow--too      
selfish4 ,with my ,master's ,call       
sounding in my ears1 the thought of     
devoting my life to any business1       
however high its position in the eyes of
 the world1 is intolerably repugnant4   
,i know how firmly your heart has been  
set upon my joining you in business1 and
 ,i cannot tell you how hard it is for  
me to disappoint you at this late hour1 
but ,christ has called me to preach to  

,his people4 ,i feel and know that only 
in so doing shall ,i find true happiness
 and contentment4  ,you surely1 father1 
will not oppose my doing that which     
every fibre of my body tells me is my   
duty4  ,the eyes of ,mrs4 ,davis filled 
with glad tears1 and a prayer for       
,divine guidance for her son went up    
from her heart2 but annoyance and       
displeasure plainly showed on ,mr4      
,davis' face4 ,at length he said3  ,i   
had thought it definitely settled that  
you were to assist me1 and on the       
strength of that belief ,i have made    
several important changes in my business
 with the view of affording a proper    
position for you4 ,your decision        
declining to accept it will             
inconvenience me not a little4  ,with   
all due consideration for your religious
 beliefs1 ,i feel it my duty as your    
father1 ,john1 to express my            
disappointment of the profession you at 
present seem inclined to adopt4 ,however
 you are entering man's estate1 and it  

is for you to decide as to your career4 
,i shall1 however1 insist upon one      
thing3 that you take a good vacation    
before making your final decision4  ,if1
 upon your return you are of the same   
mind1 ,i shall not oppose you1 although 
to speak frankly1 ,john1 ,i am not a    
little disappointed4  ,anyway a good    
western trip will greatly benefit you1  
and ,i shall not be at all surprised if 
on your return your conception of your  
duty has undergone important            
modifications4 ,as if signifying that he
 desired to discuss the subject no      
farther1 ,mr4 ,davis rose and left the  
room4  ,keenly feeling his father's     
disappointment and displeasure1 ,john   
instinctively turned to his mother for  
sympathy4 ,mrs4 ,davis stepped to his   
side and with a fond caress said3       
,thank ,god you have made this choice2  
,i shall do all in my power to help you4
  ,thank you1 mother dear4 ,i believe   
you understand me1 and know how sincere 
is my desire to do what ,i can for my   

fellow men4  ,i do so long to lead some 
of them to ,christ2 for many are        
wandering in darkness1 just waiting for 
some one to reach them a helping hand4  
,in deference to father's wishes ,i     
shall take a vacation2 though it can by 
no possibility alter my determination4  
,on my return ,i shall begin active work
 without delay4  ,i have education      
enough to preach the simple truths of   
,god's love4 ,i wish to preach to       
sinners1 not to saints4 ,i shall ask no 
salary and have no denomination4 ,my    
,church will be ,christ4  ,after        
tenderly embracing his mother1 during   
which the souls of mother and son united
 in a prayer to the ,most ,high1 ,john  
bade her ,good night and retired4  ,the 
following week found ,john on his way to
 ,south ,dakota1 his plan being to make 
his first stop of any length at         
,aberdeen4  ,he arrived there at night  
and the following morning mounted his   
bicycle for a trip through the          
surrounding country4  ,it was a new     

world to him4 ,his first thought was3   
how splendid the roads were for         
wheeling1 they seemed even better than  
the paved streets of the city4  ,he cast
 his eyes over his surroundings4 ,on all
 sides was the vast expanse of prairie1 
ending only in the horizon--the fields  
of grass and grain1 moving in the wind  
like the waves of the sea2 overhead the 
blue sky1 stretching out in a dome      
unbroken by hill or forest4 ,the sun    
above him seemed to shine with a        
brighter splendor than he had before    
known4  ,the beauties of nature filled  
the soul of this city-bred youth with   
wonder and admiration4  ,he rode on and 
on4  ,at one moment the joyous song of a
 lark captivated him2 at another1 the   
capering of some colts1 or a sleek herd 
of cattle quietly grazing in a nearby   
pasture attracted his attention2 or a   
colony of prairie gophers which dived   
excitedly into their burrows at his     
approach1 amused him with their antics4 
,at last he began to wonder how far he  

had gone4  ,seeing nearby a large1 well 
kept farm-house1 he rode up to it1 to   
procure such rest and refreshment as it 
might afford him1 before undertaking his
 long ride back to town4  ,his knock at 
the door was answered by a beautiful    
girl1 apparently about fifteen years of 
age4 ,john explained his errand to her1 
and requested such courtesies as could  
be granted without putting the people of
 the house to undue inconvenience4  ,the
 girl expressed her regrets that her    
parents were away in town1 but saying   
that she expected them home very soon1  
she invited him in1 and ushered him into
 a cool1 spacious sitting-room4  ,mutual
 introductions followed and ,john       
learned that the name of his fair young 
hostess was ,lily ,long1 but1 said she1 
with a slight blush1 father calls me the
 ,queen of the ,prairie4  ,they visited 
together for some little time1 until    
,lily1 exclaiming that her father and   
mother were coming1 went out to greet   
them4  ,left to himself1 ,john glanced  

around him4  ,an old-fashioned piano    
stood in one corner of the room4 ,he    
noted also an ample1 well filled        
book-case at one end of the room4       
,music1 books1 and ,prairie ,queen4 ,if 
this is a typical example of country    
life1 ,i must say that ,i rather like   
it4  ,mr4 and ,mrs4 ,long greeted him   
heartily and gave him a cordial         
invitation to stay to dinner--an        
invitation which he gratefully accepted4
  ,and what a dinner it was2 vegetables 
fresh gathered from the garden in       
abundance2 fried chicken prepared as    
only a farmer's wife can prepare it2 and
 the countless other good things which  
go to make dinner on the farm4 ,to this 
dinner ,john brought an appetite        
sharpened by his brisk morning ride2 he 
did full justice to the tempting viands1
 nor could he remember so thoroughly    
enjoying a dinner before4  ,everything  
on the farm was so clean and well       
arranged that ,john began to wish he    
could board there instead of in town    

during the remainder of his visit2 so   
when they had adjourned to the          
sitting-room1 he informed ,mr4 ,long of 
his wish1 and asked if it were possible4
  ,but before you answer me1 he added1  
,i should like to make myself better    
known to you4  ,then he told them of his
 father and mother1 of his own youth1   
and of his college life4 ,a natural     
question on the part of ,mr4 ,long as to
 what brought him so far ,west led to an
 explanation from ,john1 who presently  
found himself telling his new-found     
friends his future plans and ambitions4 
,my boy1 said ,mr4 ,long1 reaching out  
his hand1 ,i honor you for your choice4 
,you are welcome to share our home as   
long as you care to stay4  ,mrs4 ,long  
wiped her eyes as she pressed ,john to  
stay with them1 for she thought of her  
own son whom ,god had called home4      
,lily must have been thinking of him    
too1 for she said3 ,i am glad you are   
going to stay1 for then ,i can play you 
are my brother4  ,i certainly shall be  

proud to be your brother1 ,john answered
 gallantly4  ,that evening when the     
family gathered for prayers1 ,lily took 
her seat at the old piano4 ,then ,john  
realized why they called her ,queen1 for
 never had he heard such a magnificent  
voice1 so sweet1 so soft1 and so full of
 feeling4 ,it seemed as though she      
carried them nearer ,heaven with her    
song4  ,before ,john retired he wrote to
 his mother1 telling her of the home he 
had found1 and of ,the ,queen of the    
,prairie4 ,this rather amused ,mrs4     
,davis1 for hitherto1 ,john had had     
little to say in praise of young ladies1
 although he was a favorite among them4 
,the summer passed merrily on1 and      
,john's vacation was drawing near its   
close1 when one morning he received a   
telegram telling him that his mother was
 dangerously sick4 ,the message filled  
him with anxious foreboding1 and he     
quickly prepared to return home at once4
  ,tears were on ,mrs4 ,long's cheeks as
 she helped him pack1 for she had not   

realized before to what an extent ,john 
had taken her own boy's place in her    
heart4 ,his own eyes were moist as he   
bade her farewell1 promising to return  
as soon as possible4  ,mr4 ,long was    
ready with a team to drive him to town1 
and ,lily was standing beside her       
father4 ,she raised a tear-stained face 
to him1 and said3 ,goodbye1 dear        
brother1 we shall miss you4  ,john was  
not ashamed of his own tears1 for this  
little girl who called him ,brother1 had
 grown dearer to him than all the world4
 ,he stooped and reverently kissed her  
snow white brow1 then sprang in the     
buggy and was gone4  ,when ,john reached
 home1 his father met him at the door4  
,mr4 ,davis' face was ghastly pale2 he  
had grown old with grief4  ,john's eyes 
asked the question his lips could not   
frame4  ,she still lives1 but the doctor
 says she cannot last long1 said his    
father in answer to his son's mute      
appeal4  ,she is paralyzed4 ,she will   
probably recognize you1 but she can     

neither speak nor move4  ,without       
speaking ,john went to his mother's     
bedside1 and saw that this was indeed   
true4 ,his mother lay as one dead4 ,a   
faint spark of recognition showed in her
 fast dimming eyes as he approached but 
other signs of life there were none4    
,overcome with grief1 ,john stood       
motionless at the bedside4  ,then in    
agony he turned to ,him who faileth not1
 he fell on his knees and prayed        
reverently for his mother's recovery4   
,his father tried to lead him away1 but 
,john continued to pray4  ,then suddenly
 in that hour of anguish the            
grief-stricken man found his ,god4      
,kneeling at his son's side1 he implored
 mercy from ,him whom hitherto he had   
denied4  ,all at once ,mrs4 ,davis      
spoke1 ,my son4  ,the doctor hastened to
 her side4  ,in a moment he turned to   
,mr4 ,davis and said1 ,she is better1   
she will live4  ,dr4 ,gordon was an     
unbeliever1 but at that moment he       
realized that something had control of  

life1 which could act after science had 
failed4  ,he looked at ,john who had not
 yet risen from his knees1 at ,mr4      
,davis who was pouring out thanks to the
 ,god he had just found1 then at the    
woman who had been saved at the point of
 death4  ,like a flash came to him the  
knowledge of a merciful ,christ1 and he 
joined the father and son in their      
prayer of thanksgiving4  ,mrs4 ,davis   
rapidly recovered her health1 and ,john 
soon entered upon his life work4 ,he    
received hearty encouragement from his  
father this time1 for ,mr4 ,davis had   
learned the ,truth and found his ,god at
 the bedside of his dying wife in such a
 way as to leave no place in his heart  
for opposition to work in ,his service4 
,john's work was among the poor4 ,he    
visited from house to house1 preaching  
and praying1 and extending material help
 when such help was most needed4  ,his  
sincerity and earnestness were the means
 of bringing light into many darkened   
lives1 and the message of ,christ       

crucified was eagerly received in       
response to his pleadings4  ,at one     
broken-down house he was met by a frail 
woman who carried a half-starved child  
in her arms4 ,it was plainly apparent   
that in better days she had been a      
handsome and refined woman4  ,john      
introduced himself and asked if he could
 be of any help to her4  ,no1 she       
answered1 ,i am afraid you cannot aid   
me4 ,i am ,rose ,williams4 ,my father is
 a man of wealth4 ,he is living today in
 luxury in a neighboring city1 and if ,i
 would leave my husband ,i could be     
clothed in silk and satin instead of    
these rags1 but as long as ,i stay with 
him1 my father will not help me1 not    
even to keep me from starving4 ,but ,i  
would rather starve with my husband than
 leave him to kill himself with drink1  
for ,i love him4  ,drink is the cause of
 all my poverty and misery4 ,oh1 if     
,ralph would only let it alone4  ,she   
ended her story in a frenzied cry which 
plainly showed the tension to which she 

had been wrought1 but ,john's voice was 
low and soothing as he said1 ,suppose   
you and ,i pray for your husband4 ,i    
have great faith in the power of prayer4
 ,shall we not pray together8  ,together
 they knelt down1 and offered up an     
earnest prayer4 ,mrs4 ,williams spoke in
 low tones at first1 then with great    
excitement4 ,at last she tried to rise1 
but fell in a swoon on the floor4 ,john 
placed her on a couch in the room and   
sent at once for ,dr4 ,gordon4  ,after  
his examination1 ,dr4 ,gordon looked    
serious4  ,this is going to be a bad    
case of brain fever1 ,john4 ,from all   
appearances it has been hastened by lack
 of proper food1 but she may pull       
through if she has proper care4         
,illustration3 ,,rev4 ,m4 ,,golden  ,the
 ,founder of the                        
,greek-,amerikan-,christian-,association
  ,john saw that the service of the     
physician was only part of what was     
needed for the woman's safety4  ,he went
 out and procured bedding and food1 and 

his mother sent over one of her maids1  
also a trained nurse4  ,soon things were
 made comfortable for ,mrs4 ,williams1  
but she could not rest4  ,in her        
delirium she called continually for     
,ralph to come home and bring her       
something to eat4  ,and where was       
,ralph8 ,for three days he had been     
laying in a drunken stupor in the cellar
 of a saloon1 but this evening he had   
sobered somewhat1 and remorse for his   
cruel neglect of his wife and children  
was finding a place in his heart4 ,he   
recalled the starving condition in which
 he had left them4  ,perhaps for the    
first time he began to realize how      
dearly his wife must love him to give up
 the pleasure and luxury of her girlhood
 home for him1 and there in that room   
not fit for cattle1 this man cried out  
in his anguish1 ,oh1 ,god1 protect my   
wife and forgive me4  ,he started at    
once for home but as he neared the house
 his heart was filled with fear1 his    
head began to whirl4 ,where was ,rose8  

,why was everything so still8  ,he      
opened the door and was met by a little 
girl dressed in white and with golden   
curls4  ,how beautiful she was2 she ran 
to him and cried1 ,papa has come1 ,papa 
has come6  ,then he knew she was his own
 little daughter4  ,she led him to the  
bed on which lay his wife1 but the only 
words which greeted him were1 ,ralph    
come home and bring us something to eat4
  ,he called her name but she heard him 
not4  ,again he spoke3 ,dear ,rose1     
forgive me1 forgive me4  ,dr4 ,gordon   
laid his hand on the shoulder of the    
stricken man and said3 ,ask your ,god to
 forgive you1 your wife knows not what  
you say4  ,he looked at the doctor a    
moment1 then said in a low voice1 ,i did
 that before ,i started home4 ,god has  
forgiven me and saved me4 ,but tell me  
what ,i can do for my poor wife4  ,it   
was indeed true1 ,ralph ,williams was a 
changed man4 ,the ,god who had heard the
 prayers of the father and son at the   
dying woman's bedside1 and restored her 

to them1 vouchsafed his mercy to the    
starving wife who prayed for her        
drink-sodden husband1 and in answer to  
it the dulled conscience of the husband 
was aroused4  ,slowly ,mrs4 ,williams   
improved1 until one morning she said3   
,is this ,heaven1 and are ,ralph and my 
children here8  ,yes1 ,rose1 her husband
 replied1 ,ralph and the children are   
here1 and henceforth ,i will do all ,i  
can to make this home ,heaven on earth4 
99       99       99       99       99  
,the years rolling by saw ,john still   
fighting the fight for his ,maker4 ,out 
of the gratitude ,ralph ,williams had   
felt for the ,divine mercy shown him1   
had sprung a determination to do all in 
his power towards uplifting others4     
,john eagerly accepted his services1 and
 thus the nucleus of a rapidly growing  
power for good was formed4  ,as more and
 more came to know the meaning of       
,christ ,crucified1 they entered heart  
and soul into the work of spreading the 
truth to others and soon a mightly      

cohort of ,christian workers spread over
 the city4 ,individually and with them  
,john labored night and day sustained by
 his faith and enthusiasm4  ,the work of
 directing the efforts of so many1 the  
nightly vigil at the bedside of sick and
 dying1 the continual breathing of the  
vitiated air of the lower quarters of   
the city1 gradually sapped the strength 
of ,john1 who did not know the meaning  
of fatigue when a call on the service of
 his ,christ sounded4  ,at last an      
attack of nervous prostration made him  
realize his position1 and yielding to   
the importunities of his parents and    
fellow-workers1 he consented to take a  
vacation4  ,where should he go but to   
the broad1 sunny prairies of ,dakota1 to
 his dearly remembered friends1 the     
,longs and ,lily4  ,she met him with    
outstretched arms and a glad smile of   
welcome4 ,with the glory of dawning     
womanhood about her she was more than   
ever the ,queen of the ,prairie1 but by 
the soft light in her eyes ,john saw    

that she was still his ,lily4  ,during  
the long pleasant vacation which        
followed1 ,john gained strength and     
vigor once more1 and its close found him
 ably equipped to take up ,christ's work
 once more4  ,mr4 and ,mrs4 ,long were  
doubly sorrowful at their second parting
 from him1 for his heart had found its  
mate and ,lily was accompanying him4    
,he had gained a lovely bride1 and more 
than that1 an enthusiastic helpmate4    
,together they took up the work where   
,john had left it4 ,ere long the        
erstwhile ,queen of the ,prairie was    
known as ,angel of the ,poor1 for her   
womanly sympathy could often find its   
way into darkness which even ,john's    
earnestness failed to penetrate4  ,one  
,friday night they both came to take    
part in our holiness meeting1 and the   
,spirit revealed to them that should    
they submit all their powers            
unreservedly to the will of ,god1 ,he   
could use them to still higher and more 
effective purposes of the cause of      

,jesus4 ,so1 ,john and ,lily1 side by   
side1 came out at the altar and offered 
their lives and their services to ,jesus
 for time and for eternity1 they1       
becoming active members in my corps1 and
 a great blessing to the suffering      
humanity in that community4  ,case      
#b4--,the following letter was received 
from the girl already mentioned1 as the 
daughter of a ,roman ,catholic woman1   
who tried to drive her converted        
daughter1 by the worldly pleasures1 away
 from ,jesus3                           
,chicago1 ,ill41 ,oct4 #e1 #aijf4       
,captain ,golden1       ,salvation      
,army4      ,dear ,friend3      ,i feel 
that ,i must let you know what the ,lord
 has done for me1     'through you4'    
,why ,i ever went to the ,salvation     
,army meeting is more than ,i     know1 
because ,i have always been told that   
the ,salvation ,army     was nothing    
more than street beggars and a great    
deal more4      ,so ,i never went to    
their meetings until ,i went to ,no4 #d1

 and ,i     do sincerely thank ,god that
 ,i went1 because now ,i can see how    
far from the ,lord ,i was wandering and 
so unintentionally     because ,i never 
meant to be a sinner1 but ,i just wanted
 to have     a good time4 ,but now1 ,i  
can see where some of those good times  
lead us4      ,captain1 ,i often think  
how brave you must have been to go on   
with the work at ,no4 #d1 with so little
 help1 'that is1 earthly     help4' ,i  
am sorry that ,i could not help you1 but
 you see ,i was     not brave like you4 
,i could not talk about ,jesus to those 
who     scoffed1 but ,i do want ,jesus  
to help me and strengthen me to do      
,his will4 ,captain1 do you know there  
is a song that always come     to me    
when ,i am in any difficulty1 ',lead ,me
 ,saviour4'      ,yours sincerely1      
,,floy ,,mayhen1         #bbjg1 #fc;d   
,st41 ,chicago4  ,it is simply          
wonderful1 that there is no one to lead 
us like the ,saviour1 dear ,jesus4 ,who 
died on ,calvary's ,cross for our       

redemption4 ,and now1 dear reader1 just 
a word to you4 ,this volume is written  
for you2 if you are a converted         
,christian enjoying the blessings of a  
clean heart1 indeed1 blessed you are1   
for ,blessed are the pure in heart1 for 
they shall see ,god4 ,but1 if for some  
reason1 if there can be a reason for not
 being saved1 you kept back until this  
hour1 ,i pray that you may go down upon 
your knees1 at this very moment1 just as
 you are1 and open your heart to ,god1  
and let ,jesus come in3 and ,i know and 
you will know that the remaining days of
 your life will be sweet and happy2 and 
when the roll is called up yonder you'll
 be there1 in a robe of white with the  
angels in the air to meet the ,lamb of  
,god1 ,who will say unto all that loved 
,him and worked for ,him1 ,well done1   
thou good and faithful servant3 enter   
thou into the joy of ,thy ,lord4        
,illustration3 ,,greek ,,peasant ,,woman
     ,,chapter ,x                       
,greek-,amerikan-,christian-,association

   ,it is said1 by ,him who never told a
 lie1 that every tree is known by its   
own fruit1 and the confirmation of the  
statement is conclusive to the student  
of natural and human history4  ,it was  
an idea of ,king ,maximilian of         
,bavaria1 to transmit to history a      
reminder of his reign4 ,he instructed   
the architects of ,germany to design a  
new style to be named after him4 ,such a
 style of ,maximilianesque was created4 
,an architect--it was ,semper1 if ,i am 
not mistaken--when asked to take a part 
in this creation of the so-called       
,maximilian style1 answered that such a 
thing could not be made to order1 that a
 style of building is the consequence of
 the history1 the culture1 life1 and    
doings of a great period of people4 ,if 
such be the case with a style of        
architecture1 how much more must it be  
the case in regard to religion8  ,the   
history of this style of ,maximilian's  
is1 that it has no history1 and         
consequently all efforts of pursuing    

eminent architects to adopt the         
,maximilian style failed4 ,this short   
history is that of the attempts to      
create a very much needed world         
religion4 ,it is not the dogma nor the  
doctrines or the profession that will   
make it possible for all right thinking 
minds to unite efforts in building a    
universal religion1 sufficient to       
satisfy the intellectual want of every  
people and of every time4 ,attempts1    
all-powerful1 such as ,papism and       
,mohammedanism1 failed in their         
egotistic purposes to enforce upon the  
world an exotic structure4 ,neither the 
fires of ,torquemadas1 nor the sword of 
,islam could deter the bravery of       
civilization4 ,the blood that was       
spilled by the millions of martyrs of   
the lowly ,nazarene served to make the  
history of the man who died upon the    
,cross1 more effective and heartfelt    
world-need for the only aristurgimatical
 shrine in which all human families may 
live in peace and prosperity4  ,at a    

time when the world was imperilled by   
the treatment accorded to ,galileo for  
believing in the motion of the earth2   
and though #fi years of age he was cast1
 by the tools of ,vatican1 into a       
dungeon1 where he lost his sight and    
ultimately his life2 and ,copernicus was
 facing the same fate1 for accomplishing
 a noble astronomical discovery2 and    
,martin ,luther was persecuted by the   
,roman ,catholic church1 for trying to  
bring the people nearer to ,god4 ,the   
,greeks1 a brave people1 who1 in the    
face of starvation1 for lack of food1   
and horrified by the sword of the       
conqueror1 dishonored in their holiest  
sacreds1 pure maidens slain after being 
used in the most beastly way1 mothers   
put to death after their children were  
torn off into shreds of flesh under the 
sword of the barbarous ,turk1 young     
people and old aged having no rescuing  
place to escape from horror and death2  
when all crowned heads of ,europe should
 bow on their knees and kiss the slipper

 of the holy father before they could   
attain their rights to the throne of    
their own kingdoms2 when all the known  
world was trembling equally in the name 
of ,mohammed and ,pope1 these people    
7the ,greeks7 stood up1 and with all the
 strength that was left in their lungs1 
they cried out1 we prefer political     
slavery rather than to be the slaves of 
the ,pope1 and for more than three      
centuries the ,greeks suffered such a   
martyrdom which if only printed it would
 be more than a human heart could bear4 
,the history of ,greece shall remain    
until the end of time1 and as the       
peoples of the world grow intelligently 
and intellectually more enlightened they
 will come to the appreciation of the   
fact that the ,greek people has         
contributed more material in paving the 
way to the spiritual freedom and the    
individual liberty of the world than any
 other nation on the face of the earth1 
and that the ,greek spirit is still     
living and ruling in principle in the   

very heart of the civilized world4  ,it 
is essential that every nation in making
 up the list of its benefactors should  
give the first place to the most        
distinguished one4 ,in accordance to the
 general law the ,greek nation of today 
not only owes its literary language1 in 
part at least1 to the exertions of the  
great patriot ,korais1 but to him is    
accredited the prophecy1 that1 the      
,greek nation shall never be great      
again1 unless regenerated in ,christ4   
,adamantios ,korais was born ,april #bg1
 #agdg1 in ,smyrna4 ,from early youth he
 devoted himself to the study of old and
 new languages4 ,in obedience to his    
father's wishes1 he followed a          
mercantile career during the year       
#aggb-gh1 without1 however1 neglecting  
the sciences4 ,from #aghb-hh he studied 
medicine in ,montpellier and established
 himself as a practising physician in   
,paris4 ,from there he worked           
incessantly for the education of his    
compatriots1 and endeavored to awaken a 

favorable opinion of his nation in the  
,occidental countries4 ,in #ahjj he     
received the prize of the ,academy for  
an edition of the writings of           
,hippocrates1 but before this time he   
had attracted the attention of the world
 of learning by his ability1 and        
,napoleon the ,great conferred upon him 
many honors and titles and appointed him
 the medical adviser of the ,court4     
,later on he gained fame by his ,greek  
translation of ,beccaria's work on      
crimes and their punishments4 ,this was 
followed by a work entitled ,de l'etat  
actuel de la civilization en ,greece    
7,paris1 #ahjc74 ,this was the first    
publication in ,europe which gave true  
information on the intellectual and     
moral conditions of the new ,greeks4    
,during the period from #ahje-bg he     
published a collection--twenty          
volumes--of old ,greek classics1 with   
critical explanations and prolegomena4  
,in the latter he gave his patriotic    
teachings and advices4 ,his greatest    

merit consisted in his promoting the    
,greek morals and the ,greek language2  
he eliminated as much as possible all   
foreign elements1 but retained all that 
was good and useful from all centuries1 
rejecting the one-sided retention of the
 old words and forms as not compatible  
with the understanding of the people4   
,he above all1 helped to establish a    
noble literary language4 ,on account of 
his old age he could take no part in the
 rising of his fatherland in #ahba1 but 
aided it greatly by his patriotic pen4  
,when ,greece had gained her            
independence he took an active interest 
in the new formation of his country4 ,in
 #ahcj-ca he attacked the government of 
,kapodistria in two publications4 ,he   
died in #ahcc4 ,his autobiography       
appeared in ,paris in the same year4    
,the name of ,adamantios ,korais will   
never die from the memory of every      
patriot ,greek1 and yet his sincere     
opinion that the ,greek nation shall    
never be great again1 unless regenerated

 in ,christ1 had little effect upon the 
hearts of the people1 or rather upon the
 hearts of the leaders of the people4   
,great nations have failed1 and in every
 case it was the government's corruption
 and neglect of duty that caused the    
sufferings and failures1 of which the   
political history is too abounding and  
too accessible to be quoted4 ,we only   
mention the ,greek nation1 perhaps the  
greatest and most illustrious of all    
nations that ever failed in their       
political career1 because we are well   
informed and personally acquainted with 
the details that brought this formerly  
world-wide respected and valued gem of  
civilization into insignificance in the 
eye of the scornful1 and a plaything in 
the hands of the so-called great powers 
of ,europe4  ,in the year of #aijb1     
while ,i was a ,high ,priest1           
,archimandrites1 grand representative of
 the ,saint ,mary's ,monastery1         
,salamis2 ,orator and ,grand ,chaplain  
of the ,supreme ,council of ,greece2 and

 confessor in the most exclusive        
societies of ,athens1 hearing           
confessions and granting absolutions2   
the following incident1 which is        
published for the first time1 and only  
in parts that are printable1 brought me 
to a final decision1 that ,i should     
leave my home1 my loved ones1 and all   
the flourishing prospects to be a       
,bishop1 with all the comforts and      
luxuries attached to a ,bishopric1 just 
because ,i had witnessed a few scenes of
 the manifold political plots that      
caused the downfall of my own nation1   
and my own people scattered to the four 
corners of the world1 wandering1        
struggling for their existence1 while   
,greece1 the land of the ,gods1 and the 
home of art and beauty1 was left in the 
hands of a few parasites1 strangers and 
unsympathetic feudals who have shown no 
mercy in straining every material and   
spiritual bit from the people that still
 honors them as their kings and         
sovereigns4  ,at the time spoken of1    

there was an open secret to every well  
informed ,greek that the ,queen of      
,greece1 ,olga1 had been the tool of the
 ,russian bureaucracy1 trying by means  
of religious influences to keep the     
,greeks under the ,russian political    
control2 that the ,queen ,olga paid the 
expenses for the education of a monk1   
who1 on his return from ,russia1 where  
he was graduated from the theological   
academies of ,kiev and ,moskow1 became  
the ,queen's personal confessor1 and    
afterwards by the ,queen's very earnest 
and almost scandalous activities that   
monk was raised to the ,metropolitan    
,throne of ,athens1 which position      
placed him at the head of the ,greek    
,church1 and made him the ,president of 
the ,holy ,synod of ,greece4  ,the      
,metropolitan ,throne of ,athens is the 
highest and most exalted position that a
 mortal ,greek could approach1 and it   
is1 in fact1 the next to the ,king's    
,throne1 most influential occupation1   
and more powerful1 even than the ,royal 

,throne1 because1 the ,metropolite of   
,athens is the spiritual leader of all  
,greeks4  ,there was plenty of rejoicing
 in the ,queen's camarilla1 at the      
installation of ,procopios 7that was the
 name of the monk7 as the ,metropolite  
of ,athens1 and every effort1 ,queen    
,olga leading the fight1 had gone forth 
to assure a complete victory for the    
,russian bureaucracy1 over the few      
remaining unspoiled patriotic ,greeks4  
,all the characteristics of a civil war 
were enacted in the streets of ,athens  
when ,queen ,olga attempted to enforce  
upon the ,greek people a new inferior   
language in their ,bibles1 and in their 
holy mass--a language1 which the ,greek 
people considered as a means to confound
 their historical and religious customs 
and habits and subdue them into a       
,russian spiritual dependency4 ,against 
the attempt there was the very best     
element of the ,greek scholars4         
,adamantios ,korais fought the fight1   
#ajj years before this attempt was made1

 and he distinctly and clearly made it  
understood that the ,attic ,greek       
language has been1 it is and must be the
 safeguard of all that is beautiful in  
the ,greek history4  ,faithful to their 
traditions the ,greeks of the present   
generation fought and won a triumphant  
victory4 ,the innocent blood of the     
people that was slain on the streets of 
,athens by orders from the ,royal       
,palace1 have wrote with indelible      
letters1 the anathema1 which1 frenzied  
mothers in the sight of their           
assassinated sons1 and overwhelmed in   
grief1 cried against ,queen ,olga1 and  
her crown all but torn to pieces by the 
wronged multitudes4  ,within #bd hours  
from that terrible bloody day1 that will
 remain an indelible stigma in the      
history of ,queen ,olga's life1 the most
 exalted ,metropolite ,procopios was a  
fallen ragmuffin and the most hated     
person in all ,greece4 ,and when every  
one of his colleagues deserted him and  
the ,king and ,queen shut their door in 

his face1 leaving him a pitiful victim  
of the political plots to save the royal
 skin1 and while there was no visible   
friend to give him a helping hand when  
fallen from the ,metropolitan ,throne1  
and while this monk-metropolite         
,procopios1 in all his glorious days had
 been a profound enemy against every    
honest effort1 especially against young 
priests who refused to serve his        
unlawful appetites1 and my own          
experience with this monk-metropolite   
,procopios is not of the kind to be     
printed1 yet1 it was ,i who put my own  
life in a probable danger to save him   
from the mob1 that was ready to attack  
him1 and probably kill him1 the day     
after ,i made his escape possible into  
the ,saint ,mary's ,monastery1 ,salamis1
 where at the time ,i was               
,archimandrites4  ,procopios1 in the    
opinion of his own friends1 was the last
 man in the ,greek priesthood1 qualified
 to occupy the ,metropolitan ,throne of 
,athens1 and totally lost his will power

 when he became ,metropolite by ,royal  
favor4 ,there was an organized clique   
around the ,metropolitan mansion1 but   
the controlling power should be located 
within the walls of the ,royal ,palace4 
,procopios was only an instrument       
transmitting orders4 ,and if ,i was     
allowed to publish all that ,procopios  
himself told me1 in ,salamis1 it would  
make the ,greek people sit up and take  
notice1 but in my vows as confessor ,i  
have to carry the confession of the     
fallen ,metropolite ,procopios with me  
to my grave1 unless the need arises to  
serve the best interests of my beloved  
country4 ,it was his last confession    
upon the earth4 ,he died and went there1
 where1 at the great ,judgment ,day1 he1
 surely will give account for all his   
deeds done in the body4  ,for the first 
time in the ecclesiastical history of   
the ,greek ,kingdom1 a ,metropolite     
abdicated from his throne1 rejected by  
his closest friends1 helpless under the 
anathema of the people1 above whom he   

was called to be the spiritual leader1  
his life imperilled by the injured      
public sentiment1 ,procopios1 left a    
real wreck cast by the shore1 as a      
warning sign of those dangers to which  
every public man is exposed1 when       
corrupted by higher favours and neglects
 his duties to the people who entrusted 
him with responsibilities of national   
importance4  ,this incident1 which ,i   
hope will never occur again1 and many   
other minor opportunities1 in which ,i  
had a part to play1 during that fateful 
,queen ,olga's attempt to adulterate the
 beautiful and pure ,attic ,greek       
language1 gave me the exceptional       
privilege to study all the works of the 
political machinery in ,greece4 ,i have 
seen the drama enacted behind the       
scenes4 ,it is a dreadful drama that    
could break the neck of the strongest   
long-suffering4 ,the awful drama that is
 enacted in ,greece at the expenses of  
the people is a long1 very long story2  
perhaps it has its beginning with the   

reign of ,king ,george and ,queen ,olga1
 ,i will not say1 but the people of     
,greece1 the poorest people of ,europe1 
are contented and well pleased that they
 have a ,king who is a great diplomat1  
and he is one of the richest ,kings in  
,europe1 and their ,queen1 ,olga1 they  
believe 7the ignorant do7 that she is a 
saintly woman 7as all the ,russian      
saints are71 and this ignorant ,greek   
people1 they simply feel glad to leave  
their homes and their children and go   
into war1 like sheep into the butcher's 
shop1 sacrifice their lives1 thus       
destroying their homes and the hopes of 
their loved ones1 every time ,king      
,george calls them to arms to fight     
against the ,turks4 ,and ,king ,george  
has always a great patriotic cause to   
fight the ,turks4 ,and the ,greeks could
 not appreciate more highly a privilege 
than to fight and die for the           
deliverance of their brethren in ,crete 
and for the salvation of the unfortunate
 ,christians in ,macedonia4  ,yet1 for  

half a century1 in fact1 since ,king    
,george came to ,greece1 there are      
hundreds of thousands of the best ,greek
 patriots that have been killed1 slain1 
or assassinated1 and nearly a billion   
drachmas national debt1 hanging upon the
 neck of every ,greek1 like the         
,damoclean sword1 but there is no       
deliverance for the ,cretans1 and there 
is no salvation for the ,macedonians1   
instead there are the traps             
strategically placed across the ,greek  
borders1 so1 every time the ,greek      
patriots1 in answer to the call of their
 ,king1 are sent to render a helping    
hand to the sufferers1 they cross the   
border1 only to find1 but too late1 that
 they have been trapped1 under the sword
 of the enemy1 the ,turk2 or they are   
left at the mercy of their assassins1   
the ,bulgars4 ,this drama is going on   
repeatedly with great success1 and to   
the amusement of the observing great    
powers of ,europe4  ,occasionally there 
is some crippling of the territory      

already belonging to the possessions of 
,greece1 because the places are of some 
strategical importance1 and this reason 
is enough1 that they should be taken    
away from the ,greeks4 ,and there is a  
financial commission appointed by the   
great powers1 because ,king ,george is a
 great diplomat and he wants to be sure 
that his allowance is coming to him     
increasingly1 every year1 from the      
coffers of the ,greek treasury1 while   
the international commission should     
count every penny that the ,greek       
expends in bread for his children4  ,in 
the evolution of events1 ,i believe1    
that there is a time coming1 when the   
,greek people shall rise1 from the      
lethargy1 in which they unnaturally are 
slumbering1 for a long time1 and they   
shall awake and break every fetter1 and 
shake off their feet every chain1 and   
their eyes shall be opened and they     
shall see things that will horrify them 
as a nation2 then shall they know the   
persons responsible for their sufferings

 and for the sufferings of the ,cretans 
and ,macedonians and why ,carditses was 
beheaded in a dungeon1 without giving   
him the privilege of free citizenship1  
to prove his reason or his sanity1      
without any chance to protect his life2 
and where and by whom that plot was     
framed up1 just to turn the tide of     
public anger against a royal gang1 thus 
causing the destruction of two beautiful
 ,greek girls1 that left alone in the   
world to suffer from consumption1 in    
agony1 to die with the stigma as sisters
 of a would-be royal assassin4 ,it was  
my privilege to take care of these two  
unfortunate sisters1 both suffering1 and
 the story of these two girls and the   
uprising of the ,greek people against   
the adulteration of their language by   
,queen ,olga1 settled my determination  
to fight for the rights of my own people
 and my beloved country4 ,but1 the time 
for the ,greek people to stand up and   
walk on their own feet1 shall come when 
the prophecy of the great patriot       

,adamantios ,korais1 is no more         
prophecy1 but in reality the ,greek     
people will be regenerated in ,christ1  
and there and then shall be a great     
,greek nation1 not only within the      
boundaries of the feudatory of ,king    
,george1 but within the bounds of love  
that unites all the millions of people  
that speak the historical ,attic ,greek 
language1 and a great ,greek nation     
shall attract the attention of all the  
civilized world1 once more as in the    
days of old4  ,i know the dangers in    
which ,i am exposed for the step ,i have
 taken1 because1 ,i know the character  
and the principles of the ,greek people1
 perhaps1 as well as any living ,greek1 
the demagogues1 the priests1 the church1
 and the drones and parasites of the    
royal gang1 they each and every one and 
all together are going to use all their 
power and money that is at their        
disposal1 and with no regards as to the 
honesty of means they shall move earth  
and hell to quench this movement for the

 regeneration of the ,greek people1 but 
having all my trust upon the ,almighty  
and ,omnipotent ,god1 in the name of    
,his ,son ,jesus ,christ1 ,who died that
 all men may be happy1 and in the right 
,spirit of love to ,god and to my fellow
 men1 ,i dare launch the                
,greek-,amerikan-,christian-,association
4  ,every ,greek of reputable character1
 and all the lovers of the ,greek       
ancient and modern history1 are eligible
 to membership4 ,it is my purpose to    
endeavor by all the ,christian means to 
bring the ,greek and ,american people   
into a mutual1 intellectual and         
intelligent understanding4 ,it has been 
my experience in studying conditions for
 the last six years1 that the ,greeks in
 the ,united ,states know very little or
 nothing of the ,american history1      
government1 political1 social1 customs  
and habits of the ,american people1     
which1 also1 unfortunate as it may      
appear1 yet it is the truth1 that only a
 very limited number of ,americans whom 

,i have found all over the ,united      
,states1 are well informed of the doings
 in ,greece1 and still fewer well       
acquainted and unprejudiced as to the   
historical and classical importance of  
the ,greek nation4  ,it is estimated    
that there are about #cjj1jjj ,greek    
people in the ,united ,states1          
representing the #ab1jjj1jjj of         
,greek-speaking people that is the      
,greek nation extended all around the   
,mediterranean countries4  ,when it is  
considered that the vast majority of the
 ,greeks in the ,united ,states1 has    
never had any opportunity to attend a   
,christian meeting1 or hear the ,gospel 
preached in their own language1 it is to
 their credit that1 with all the        
temptations and the ambiguous           
associations which the laboring class is
 often in contact with they have not    
been worse than they are2 it is an      
indication that the primitive and strong
 character of the ,greek seldom yields  
to temptation2 they hold fast to their  

historical energy and honesty4  ,there  
has never been an attempt of any        
importance1 neither has there ever been 
any organized effort1 for the           
regeneration of the ,greek people1 and  
while the ,home and ,foreign ,missions  
of ,america for the last #be years have 
given the best of their spiritual       
leaders for the conversion of the ,zulu 
and the ,mogul and millions of ,american
 dollars have been expended1 with       
insignificant returns1 in trying vainly 
to make real ,christians out of a       
barbarous and semi-human race of people1
 and trying to civilize the jungles of  
,africa1 the most urgent duty has been  
neglected1 and some spasmodical efforts 
that have been put forth by the zeal of 
earnest individuals1 were soon          
exhausted1 and failed1 not only for lack
 of financial support1 but1 the worst1  
by spiritual discouragements1 and today 
a noble and the most historical race of 
peoples1 the ,greeks1 are drifting in   
despair1 away from ,god1 politically    

perishing1 blind1 and ignorant priests1 
and political demagogues leading them   
fast into the ditch4  ,the harvest truly
 is plenteous1 but the laborers are few2
 who will help us to garner in8 ,,help6 
is the cry1 the most earnest cry1 that  
was ever uttered from the lips and from 
the heart of a sincere ,christian       
worker4  ,in organizing the             
,greek-,amerikan-,christian-,association
1 all the latest and most effective1    
spiritual and industrial methods will be
 employed4  ,it is hoped that the       
organization will be incorporated under 
the laws of the ,united ,states1 as soon
 as there are members sufficient in     
number to assemble in their first       
meeting and vote the ,constitution and  
the ,by-,laws of the ,association4      
,much consideration will be given to the
 methods of the ,y4 ,m4 ,c4 ,a41 and ,y4
 ,w4 ,c4 ,a4 ,this two-fold             
,institution1 which in the opinion of   
,christian leaders1 and the most        
distinguished sociologists1 of the      

present time1 is the very best agency to
 approach all nations1 and spread       
civilization1 well established upon the 
fundamental principles of ,christianity4
  ,for the last few months in my        
struggle trying to establish the        
,greek-,amerikan-,christian-,association
 and at the same time keep my soul and  
body together providing a lean          
livelihood by selling this book1 ,i can 
truthfully say that ,i had more         
experiences than in all my life before4 
,one clergyman of the high ,episcopal   
church in the most fashionable ,back    
,bay1 ,boston1 offered to grant me the  
use of his church any time ,i wanted to 
offer the mass as high priest according 
to the ritual of the ,greek ,orthodox   
,church1 if ,i would only break off all 
relations with ,protestant bodies here  
in ,america4 ,i have a letter from this 
clergyman which is the most astounding  
fact of his inconsistency1 because he   
himself is an active member of the      
,bible ,club1 a purely ,protestant      

organization3 he invited me to one of   
their meetings1 but he would not        
purchase my book to help me to my bread 
and butter4 ,another clergyman1 a member
 of the executive committee of ,city    
,missions1 ,boston1 would not purchase  
my book1 unless ,i offered myself to be 
employed by them at a certain salary1   
and he gave me his card introducing me  
to the chairman of that organization4   
,last winter ,i began to preach to the  
,greeks at ,kneeland street1 ,boston1 in
 the open air1 and when ,i went to see  
the police captain of that district he  
promised to co-operate with me and gave 
me his consent to go on with my work1   
but the following ,sunday his           
,lieutenant came up to me1 while ,i was 
preaching on the street1 he stopped me1 
on the pretense1 that he was informed of
 a plot among the ,greeks to take my    
life4 ,and when ,i made my complaints to
 the ,general ,secretary of ,new        
,england ,missions1 he told me that ,i  
should have known that ,boston is a     

,catholic town1 and that the police     
being informed that ,i was an ex-priest1
 they simply would not tolerate me4     
,horror stricken by this statement ,i   
went to see the captain myself1 and the 
very same man who promised co-operation1
 only a few days hence1 he stood up in  
front of my face and in a savage manner 
told me that he would not tolerate me to
 preach on the streets of ,boston4  ,the
 names of all concerned are in my       
possession and open to investigation by 
the general public4 ,but ,i will omit   
them here for reasons well understood4  
,a number of other discouraging         
instances1 only worked together to      
deeper impress upon my heart the        
importance and the excellency of my high
 calling4 ,sooner or later1 in the      
inevitable law of evolution and         
universal progress1 the ,greek nation   
must be regenerated in spirit and in    
truth3 and ,i believe that it is not    
only a case of courtesy1 but1 there is a
 sense of duty for every true ,american 

man and woman to co-operate in the      
uplifting of all mankind4 ,as for me ,i 
fully appreciate the privilege to suffer
 for the benefit of my fellow men1 and  
,i can hopefully repeat ,tennyson's     
immortal words3      ,once in a golden  
hour       ,i cast to earth a seed1     
,up then came a flower1       ,the      
people said1 a weed4      ,to and fro   
they went       ,thro' my garden bower1 
,and muttering discontent       ,cursed 
me and my flower4      ,then it grew so 
tall1       ,it wore a crown of light1  
,but thieves from o'er the wall         
,stole the seed by night4      ,sow'd it
 far and wide1       ,by every town and 
tower1     ,till all the people cried1  
,splendid is the flower3      ,read my  
little fable1       ,he that runs may   
read3     ,most can raise the flower    
now1       ,for all have got the seed4  
,conclusion   ,allow me1 dear reader1 to
 say in closing1 that it is my sincere  
opinion that in view of the reasonings  
and facts presented in the preceding    

pages1 every individual who reads this  
,book intelligently1 and who is in      
possession of a sound and unprejudiced  
reason1 will come to the conclusion that
 there is only one religion worth       
having1 and that is the religion by     
,jesus1 of ,jesus1 for ,jesus1 which is 
the revelation of the ,bible1 ,divinely 
adapted to produce the greatest present 
and eternal spiritual good to the human 
family4 ,and if anyone should doubt ,his
 power 7which1 in view of its           
adaptations and its effects as herein   
developed1 would involve the absurdity  
of doubting whether an intelligent      
design had an intelligent designer71    
still1 be the origin of the ,gospel of  
,jesus where it may1 in heaven1 earth1  
or hell1 the demonstration is conclusive
 that it is the only religion possible  
for man1 in order to perfect his nature1
 and restore his lapsed powers to       
harmony and holiness1 which is the only 
avenue to usefulness and happiness4