Show HE RET MY ROBERT KOBERT COLLIER COLL TEll some mo farto about lh t he 3 alx lx DIkI tb ud noted prenatal J ath Is at require I 1 lat in tho boyear year 19 think lawns it was I 1 knew new robert collyer as a blacksmith black smith w 0 king in ID an axe factory about eight miles M north or of the city of philadel phia he had bad been in america only about two desm icare having emigrated from everaud with his hin wild he was wait to nod and brought from eng lead bis big methodist lying that be wis was a jay ay preacher in ID the Weal cyan order the la in which he lived was su substantial bilant a 1 aad in du without being at all anquist In quist LITO in a ab tu oj teloga or generally in formed armed about U 1 common worldly etem tare lure it ws was a on community an y where diun maid quakerism in ia its ita it declining GO g and lical condition W wm as compiling with radical poll lei ad 0 no side aad the disorder or of various old orthodox do dominations on the other of which aba be principal were acro the bleth methodist odlat and the abo I 1 was about 13 years old tat t that hat time and my father who was a methodist minister mount ed cd me ins on an old white while liono bona to tide over 1 lo 10 the axe factory rod aad get ct brother collyer to preach on the foll wing ering sun day I 1 would probably bavo collyer to tx be a of tho the usual ran ol of mitat are arc call called ed local or secular preachers but ut for the fact that a manufacturers a on of the neighborhood who had bad just corno come bulot 01 college an d had got get as high as reading haw flow corlet letter just juit about that ciaio am a published told me confidentially that collyar WM a remarkable man and th abo 0 only bo eared to bear preach io in the ibo pulpit I 1 the last day adny I 1 at over to get bit collyer Colly cr I 1 writ arrived oil on oa t tho 10 ancient wh lie horse hore at tho the dinner hour when he was lying down on the grass grant with tharl telny or forty other workmen meo all with the their I 1 r tin no dinner dinder kettles kettle underneath them and ho he had a big tike down lo in the grain item irom of III he bo read while he be too took 1 his ahli metal m strong english face walh a smile upon it welcomed me and ho he a I 1 iwaya wl accept accepted edthe ane lotita iyoob perhaps Is an opportunity to keep his hi bond in tho the methodists rattier regulated is 1 that quarter BO be much interesting presca ing this man did dad not dot about nor roar nor hold bold people over red hot stores sad and tell them hem that in ia ovan seven minutes by the watch unless they experienced a change of beat tiny would bo be no bet ter chaa to 0 much rout pork the suspicion grow that perhaps ho he had new never been ili ia tho the imminent fear of euch itic a himself ho preached with feeling tracing buma iture itself klocic coal through its ita pains rod daily troubles and the stopping places of relief trend aad upward crul taut as doubt after doubt disappeared sod and man became reconciled to life sad tho the boys boy liked this without exactly tat ll it appeared to tie 10 nearly ad g good sam BJ madair thu the sunday school books it boac of nelch referred to the ordinary lives of boys and their errors error and faults and DJ bow they our aur mounted them and full a little toward anh on account ot at it my aly rather fabor never turned on nobody body out of church believing that tbt there WM was something bing worth keeping la in every roan man and as long AS he bo was wan there it mr r Col collea lya preached to own as lie he wante wanted d to aldir no a moved away tile fillacy of this very young man maa who had bad thought so 0 o welt well of collyer roue rose up rud and wild that ho he hod had heard beard heresy fron from his bu workmen possibly the be said niao mae up login employer or nod and I 1 laborera lib orera rather disliked to bear a prea preacher charof of the fronial gradolf grade of lla lis workmen with so much knowledge of back bobki rod nuch much command of eoon la YOU cannot lacap out of piety these aristocratic resentment sidy many lany a mao man hu bed beta driven dra irum from iho abe orthodox fold of atly envy coty aud and palo which may exist in t ibo a human buman bw body long after it has react reached ical the ibo point 0 ot what li IN oiled called MUCH aioo aIon 1 I 1 fall hey put collyer ahr nigh for harcy lie ho ciul rd reduced I 1 lethew ibo ent eat individuals io in the ibe trinity trio 1 ty to can co p heno vo being I 1 am aca dot is ier with the of this trial rial but they nero ere probably pro bibly brief and the ibo next place I 1 saw him to la was wa be L libraty amay philadelphia S hero he bad gone gine to had find books hadap tm io 10 his hia bottar mental developer which he bo could oot not buy because of iju bid poverty A circumstance hd had occurred 10 abo in torTal bich brought hima him no now aw of moro cono want with wilh this thinking and faith ila had bad lived near the axe factory tary in one of a sachet of cal la bonit houses hou att siu n urton on iran belving shelving hel ving file of A hill bill as Unia terest houses MI ad could be possibly poi built fri 0 world orld fur for a miclar api clur coque human bureau bart to inhabit there wes wa no DO amu amusement lement la in that country but religion until omo timo time eface the ibe rise of the Ut publican party when the ibo old whir whig element or of W wu Is em called lied upon to ioweta KO know OW candidate sod and ono one who ob ch rw to 1 the of slavery near 3 mr collar c lived in a comforts corn for lable allocation a r e mark ablo old woman she IRA a native or of nantucket and of that folger family which produced tho the mother a or ab aj h an franklin mod the ahlff lt f J jmj ice or the ibe state of if sow gar york iler removed to the bidd middle Is slafca ho was oung and am bo carrid marr leil james mott alett a merchant Luc bad been becq a preach at areu coo of tho the Ilick sato th the a aro are not ono or of aho thom galal old northera worn am en ell who made up her mind it possible 1 donna her lifetime lifo timo thread laj cod ai of lur atif C fila vury y mile eel lit eon 2 a inlaw m I 1 eard datu to w waft he was ono one of the ibe founders of york nation afterward utilized a amill school houm bound la th tue axe factory to hold a debate among the rue tic tim on 00 the slavery question body wu vu wanted who would cold take lake the lahiry side bide and aad ram the bo bleth adist church batch waa very conservative among politics politic at that time collyer was brou brought glit lur for word to the abe rights aud and cani ila mado made such euch so au iro am ptomaine pres not dot only on 00 iho he listener who we were plain country people but do the abo molt bamily red acil was waa so no cheerful mad COUrIC wll lilt liall all ills big wit ft sod precis son ion that at the end of tle the fic fickal lal these quakers became III alj 4 friends they him to lo dr F Fura eya tho the principal arlea clat clergyman mouth bouth of bew ew york who had bad A largo argo cb church urchin in philadelphia and wan he aa aaita slavery dan aad illi hu a communication in him ale methodist th at tier MOUN moab until tie bo was as I 1 base said mid I 1 tried of the church dr famois n v ho he at ill that at time could loan bably ly support onu one lareo fargo unitarian outs ape asted to start another c church b ore b of the nine denomination lo in phil add and there lie A few years year working up hilt hill till ill the ibe eni lotions of chicago invited him out among lam and he bo built up ao an ilc cle fant tit ebur church chand and basits wa hi pastor for about elgh teta at twenty years lob ob taming loaning a reputation at the same am lime as a 4 lecturer and abar I 1 caw him no ao more till 1111 about 1805 1863 when I 1 was HU lecturing la in the vicinity of chi cago ue lie bad gresty greatly a area bened himself through tho the by his 1111 altitude oa the war question as a muting bitting to keep up the iho spirit of the country and aad to take caroo both lu in the fluid mad and in the hospi hospitals bos tho the chicago cd ad about that thai time or seen abon after rod aad I 1 mr collyer telling mo me lust at critical erl it had bad wavered to in courage co araKe w while ell 0 the ibo of old d tribune there ahr ro bad fought a good fight figh after nearly dearly thirty yar egx of study labor and pro gre grea mr ir collyar haj had become became ft a fixed t cha clarot ratler in new lork ally lay ali good old wife who cimo cime out with him irom from loffland england Is i still till alive enjoying a loving big social mad and moral and aad till his children aro are marrying loki and am getting ceiling ahead to la the country which hoj has so 0 o much and nacda ao much more A few if months a ho 0 ago blob a bracht lit maa 2 oa abo new york yolk pg arcu w wa IQ buried alc whom he olac 11 mr r C collyar II 11 0 O it bad ait never a V k known I 1 io a accor d a with I 1 ali I 1 st FI to while III alive it il ill wa d dit jid botlo thi AS ak it a liaa ot mr Coll colliers victim to 1 bo him bt alst att t the iho grave I 1 called lied OR oa hima him adi lo in a low few words word ott slated ad who I 1 ibo he subject of ibo funeral was sad and had bad beoo been lie ile grasped the character w 0 tam well thai hot t ut from that grave friends to lo swill bla big an congregation |