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Show PASTOR OF THE POOR"! 1 For two reasons the Bev. Dr. A. F. . Schaufflcr is one of the most widely known of American church leaders. He ' is an expert along two distinct lines oi Christian effort. Ono is city mission work and the other Sundn.y-school. Bis influence rests upon no denominational lines, for, although his" ecclesiastical connection is Presb3-teriaii. and he was ordained in a Congregational church, ho has been for thirt3'-fivc .years in undenominational un-denominational work" and his opinions 1 are sought for throughout the evangelical evan-gelical denominations. 'It was A., F. Se.han filer who made I Rev,. Dr. Actolphus F. Schauffler. one of the earliest successes t in this country along, the lines .of institutional church' work. As .the head of Olivet chapel, on Xew York's East side, an institution maintained hy the Now York Cit3' Mission and Tract society, he developed de-veloped a veritable beehive of Christian activity. Clubs, classes and other forms of Hoeial effort- were inaugurated, tho Sundav-school became a model to which visitors went from all over the country. aud in what would have been accounted -lfl a very i-nprjomising neighborhood for f a church Dr. Sclian filer built up an Mi organization of almost a thousand mum- j i bers. When ho left Olivet: chapel it was to superintend all the work of the Cirv '- BH Mission society. The experiences which C he has added during the years to those vfli obtained as pastor of a mission church I have brought: Dr. Schauffler to . tho H front in what has come to be generally r-sH known as the "East side word" in (? great cities. Hardly a day passes but there will be found' in Dr Schauftler'" "H office aoino man from a Western or a I Southern city seeking light on tho gx'cat problem of rcnching and aiding- tho pco- I pic in congested neighborhoods and in the lowei walks of life. With all his work, it is a marvel how Dr. Scliaufller , has time to devote lo all these seekers , after knowledge; bnt no man ever goes ' - n way from that office without a sub-ptantinl sub-ptantinl addition to the sum of his knowledge of mission work. In Sunday-school circles Dr. Schauf-ficr Schauf-ficr is equally influential. For a mini-ber mini-ber of 3onrs"hc has been the secretary of what is known as the international 11 lesson committee. Li is this committee. 'IH which has members both in this couu- BH try and in Europe, that prcpiivos the iHi scnemcs ror tne iniernaiionui ouimav- m school -Lessons, which are uscil by thou- fifl sands of Sunday schools all over the -U world. It goes without saying that the . lessons aro criticised. Zo persou or committee could prepare work for so HH wide a field and huve evor3 Suuda-- ' Bi school superintendent and teacher per- mfl fcctly satisfied. So here Dr. Sehaut.'- '.fll Iter comes in for his share of the criti- K cism. But nobody doubts his deep IB knowledge of the "subje et, his sincere rBH interest in it or the self -sacrifice that '-HI leads him to put so large an amount H of work on it. In methods of teaching, Dr. Schauffler is also an authority. He 'H is not to be found in this regard stand- Kl ing by the side of those, who claim that WM the principles of pedagogy and ps.v- ifi cholog3' arc the only ones that should 'FgH govern the methods of the Suud" Rl school, but rather with those who lair r'9 tho middle ground, that the older molh- ods wcro effective, but that they should , kiH bo supplemented 13' what may be gained $M from scientific study of the child mind, :'t3M not supplanted by tho newer science. VH A. F. Schauffler was boru iu Con- 'ijH Htanlinoplc, Turkey, about sixt.yyenvu ftfll ago, when his father was a missionary rjH there, ire came to America when quito bfl voting in years and received most of JrlH Iiis education here. Ho was graduated from Williams college and received tho i?r degree of Doctor of Divinity from the f4m University of the City of New York, f'Am |