Show r Robert ibert a Collier in 1906 A CHAT WITH THE OLD BLACKSMITH PREACHER ABOUT HIMSELF THE NATION AND PUBLIC QUESTIONS 1 of file Drs UI 1 t In Corn II for Cor which tho tha Is a 11 b a black blacka I 1000 U It was Ioas mule by raid a who nho preached hero t n of oC Iho Ili 0 bells 1 8 us e d nt lit lit Ib one 0 nc dry daY for Cor lech ItY ey present ruin that ass III a 11 same hell that called him blot blotto nd It was wal the llie liS as II a boy ho or of eight ho he to 10 work the milks auks of oC labor In nil nn med TM The I rater C actor clor linen Dr rt the Hel to 10 Is b ot of the Iho past cars ono LQ 60 year cor orth P Pleading past lights or Of our leading y and who I ho note nOI lit IU S hus n II voice olce liS as U r us bright and u m m as eO eY d e as nil any man who n hu pounds the pal pili pala I a this Is Cull till III Ills fl lie He hold held Ida audience from the tad ng ti ii the Iho hoard hore thoroughlY r and I oC et and onel In sympathy 14 with the oC M today then hI he hall had con world d I met mat him In III tha chapel made Ill an for Ctr nil an then IMn and t r called upon him III his III at Saga college I this hili 1 afternoon rooms room an hour In response to my or r questions and n he talked Creel freely or hl his lICe Ife d work a n rv DOCTOR ON 0 LABOR LA I I referred I to 10 mad asked above Ih the b bill Jl the doctor to tell 1110 something Of oC his work a 1 lie replied i b began hard hale labor labur or of my IL at about a the Iho time the average American toy starts to LO school 1 rather father II a onel the auras S or of that time were such uch that hI could earn Iam oily about II a Wo We had hael a largo anti and the children were out to 10 In a 11 linen Ca factory near I b by 1111 dean as they were ere able I rent nt In ot at the lima aie of oC eight Our hours houn were lero d In the morning until s 8 lit at with an hour off at noon for tor din At t 5 the tho great bell ot of the factory was fas run rung and nil all wo we children for tor milts miles around were wert from Crom OUI beds bed 10 1 1 eP are Cor or this the day da That bell seemed to LO ring ever every morning before I Ia tad a been beell asleep ten len minutes and its III Found was 1115 an infernal ono one to 10 my ears enrI I can call hear It still OR as it II rang then It remained In the factory Until R a number or of years ean ago when the tho buildings were torn lorn down J 1 happened to 10 h In Eng InA England land at the time and the owner me the bell and J I shipped It here to omit ornen It will never cull call another child to work those e long hours hourI affect your our health donl t kilO know ns as to lu that but It seems to 10 me now that I could never noor get Iet enough sleep In tho those e days and the Iho seems very Iery hard We worked 76 hours I a week and when n few tew years rears later the factory net act van passed reducing the hours of oC child labor from 13 to 11 Ie e conalIe considered red It A great thing plow long do you OU think II a man ought ouch t to 10 work I think eight hours hourI Is long enough ellough for tor any one engaged In ph physical labor i and os as the world grows richer I hours will be cut cui down to 10 six ens 11 to 0 children they have no business In II I Morle and and they Ihl should he be kept kent front Cron hu labor until they have I McTOn rin 1111 DLACK A When did d h OU your our work as a blacksmith I r i vas kept in the linen factory until Its III fourteen and aud was as then Ihen taken out outto to a 0 trade I wan apprenticed to tos s 4 blacksmith nl at Ilkley and remained sib lIh hIm until I a os as oe That I my but I ret N altars bJ 63 G r I III the trade lunges lII first WOI work in III this IM liS as n II I rain ra l LII In I Iet II ss het I la Inking iron to lu lets little 1111 It n s n I Ig ehl I Prom n t lur I 1 went to tn In s or of work r i fill saw an 1111 lIl In II the ot of that Ill to funk I gal ul the Jol I 1 Inn king but hUI I got Iho hang halli II of It H 1111 Inept 1111 nu 11 itt III that work for ears turl I 1 was laM still there when II hen III CI you Il a 7 I I 1 IUd did fairly well r Dr Dl During nurl n II visit to III th the old I larked HI gnus In III n a churchyard which 1 phout till cars ago They Iho were oat very 11 l surd III as i them themi T i tell like Ilke II a tiro and sub Huh at them fur Cur till the old All As I naked dos I III II that they wr n Just as hl lieu they Ih hot Ing they hlll sating bark Juck anti forth tOl Inoru than Sears The rhe lock lork hand beet put PUL Oil Om b by person hall broken but bill or of the gates not It a rivet wall tuns sprung I IllS Horum I Could you make n II hont horseshoe ho tocla doctor i lI I Yes may hll have 0 seen cn ono one horn In which I at the limo lino tit of the Iho Chicago lire 1 was n Pastor there the It hunted III uty church chui cla to 10 u usher 1 mulo mu to a sll on Oa Iho ruins urging ln that tho I the Iho Ill city bo at and lilY my faith In the Iho tutu The Iho sermon rmon was widely looted and I a 11 letter from Crom Cornell college slating that It knew I Iwas was 1118 n 11 and It wanted n 11 hor hoe ot of III my own om I thereupon there thele upon went to Ln n 1 shop nearby and got llama to 1 me Ii a and rho Ut use ot of the forge In III a short time lute J I had m nay horseshoe It stilt Oil nn here and nill the college Itoh too 1000 tor 01 It II that money Into III any now new newchurch church chulch I ISAN SAN SA l YS S The conversation lure IlIre turned 1 to 10 the treat great lire fire lit San Sail Francisco amid Ire I re erred terret to a statement rec recently undo itt III tI ft sermon formon that the IhO city was burned on ot of Its wickedness Dr DI Tho same onlO charges were Wien waft Bras burned but I dont belleva that God works that way war the rho jUell Judg meals or of are ure not nOI hilt but perspective God disciplines ties nIl up out pulling down There was Willi no rea Iea son eon wh why Chicago should ho be made mallo nn an X II 1110 fOl he rest oC nr the world and there was Willi no wh why San Francis Francisco co should have huo been heln such Son San Iran Prall cl co will rise me Chicago rose It has nil all the geographical advantages whIch made It l a great city In the lIHt It H will always be the great city of oC the Pacific slope the m oils ot of the o lent TUE fUE I FUTURE OF OUR oun COUNTRY Then you Ou look far tor 1 a great growth out west doctor Kahil said 1 Yes I look for tor growth We 8 II are nation nl the WO ot out of ot our OUI will 1 It tl e eprime we lh of at and begin to go godown godown prune prime The fhe the other side down all On They can c n great destiny who are areto areto future ot of the ore are the tho people Gods God will lit III the tho to nid most in III doing world are 1111 that wo we many say doctor nut Hut to tl s genee mill corrupt we redemption l I I gotten gottell beyond l that we have t 5 td k fl 1 tv r rt t j 1 t f t ic t I 2 5 t i I Ii i t I 1 I t tf f t I u DR ROBERT COLLYER IN 1906 1006 I will I n good nay W down 1 Oil on the other sid s 7 I dint t believe It 1 Wt c 1100 l acan dais It Is t Ill e there are Isles and evidences or of corruption unearthed Is no reason roa el why we should Ih de or III grog are uro only the tho ell dences 1 that we are still in the Iho or of our youth and not that we lost host ideals rho fhe count country Is vl sight ht or of our nul all right and the people are 1110 all right which I W Pe are new 1101 1 a mull mud bath amens to 10 heaven hut but from whIch In hr the end we shall emerge with our so teal mid Industrial healed d or of their Present sores and merle pure and clean I ant not ot of the American people A WORD ABOUT Yes ies doctor but how about the for Cor rs who lire are coming in hl such Huch hordes from Europe There in III Ito to h ho alarmed that Th They y be swallowed up UI upa it In lh o great sea SUII ot a f m and a III 11 time will make good citizens These I II may ho be compared to 10 taus which flow lIow down tho hi hills hll l Into tho Some or of the streams are loaded with some slime tainted with corruption but nil all are swallowed up and the ocean itself is III purr pure I know that man nicely ot of our immigrants cone come the lower lowel of oC ti u m S Sonic Home are Ignorant and some vicious will ah lint hilt our groat body hody them and still Its lis purity run individuality There Is nothing Ilk like the influences ot of can liberty The immigrant begins to change the he resolves to copse to 10 us UR When then halt hiatt way IA across Iho ha I he throws his apron and the Iho Word taster into Inlo Ih the sea tend Thu Tho here hen to 10 the tho theory or Dr Osler that elan should he be lit at about sixty Ill as his hi life Is III then OWl over and andI J I Dr os as to In the years during durin which hll ha was teas nt at his hili best hel J 11 I 1 think I did well until after 1 wits iO 70 I lean WIlS In continuous work until that line mid I have been Preaching mutt mUI or lean over 11 shire M 1 hust hest years were II cre from the time thins I entered the church until II a year fir or so 80 after th lire The Tho train strain ot of that thul was Willi such that It affected my then and since then J i have had hOtl to work workmore snore more slowly 1101 carefully Still my has haH been lIeen nail I believe bellco that during tin tho greater part ot of my life lito It has hils been as 1111 good gooel work as I 1 could to do It If n a man miln can sleep right eight hours hourI nud eat cat three fall Cull meals every IIII tiny there Is r Cason why t hI I t this e should not continue his work ork until three score anti ond ten pro 1110 provided vided Ideel he uses common sense and moo mod I heM heard you preach doe doc doctor tor sold I 1 and It seemed to me that your our olce Will was ns as clear and ond your our art he nA as as 1111 when I first heard you OU In All Souls church over 23 3 yearn ago ogo The sermon was wal goad and your OUr reading ot of the nimble wise Willi In Itself a 1 sermon I nm ant glad you rou thought that tha t r replied Dr oller Collyer and amid am glad you OU told me meso so I want to know Imol ho how I am nod to 10 void avoid the mill mistake toke ot of on mu after atler I should stale I now preach only Q 1 H Having Wor Worked ed in a Factory as a Joy of Eight He Child Labor Six il II Hours Enough for Any He Made Claw Hammers and a II d q San Francisco Fire vs That of LS t 4 an Octogenarian Worker Thinks of Dr Dr Collyer Got Hit Hh Anvil to First Book of Dick Whittington and His Cat tun looking for tor sigra Ig lIB LIt of decay PANTS n 70 10 ItE i T I ROOD W Full h health II Is goad gOhl the Ihl octogenarian 1 and t I 1111 III t o KII go tu lu I Ii R la fill I Id ell J 1 to IJ sec lIet the IIII old country t rM rs Is only ont one thing that holds use IIII hark hack harkI hackI I teal fear I tray die there I dont want to 10 elo du Ibis Ia my home III my ennui tr and It lf Is hel here 1 want to 10 b be burin fly 1 ual 1111 life lite ban lJ heels In ht L line Ill Patted Shines 11 for it II lIere Jere my III children II acre erl born bom and here 11 wire 10 Bled J 1 pass 1 want to 10 bt placed her In the beautiful tens tel at rill It TO 10 CHE During our Dr tail ale hll he hc a L ills father qua liAS 1 n Methodist and 11 he isaI 11 brought up 1111 under Ih the shadow of John Johll lie teas years lIIM old when II h sins all eota 1 I d and It was shortly that that Ihl he 1111 began to speak In meet lags Itic 1111 Methodists thought 1111 ell o 0 as IL a harm or lr This about years befit ate lAC to Ito his 1 V hue working itt at Isis hili trod here IsOre and In lino began to 1 act st 1 a suit SliP ply pis In III Slit Iho It w s II about then hI he discovered last hie hI dill did not 1101 believe Iu ht linn 1 disc trines lie Ho 1111 total d du our tOI and 11 he also shaky In regard to the Ihl natty ChI fh Ihl und at on r of oC their conferences took 1001 hIm hm to task fur or hi his loose hol stair LillI ments fury asket him him if I hi he dad not nott t he arts or of place III th Ih list church and taken hI he said II h thought ho was Ih they refit d 11 to 10 mme lie hlo and hl he cease fl to 0 b a odist preacher It was shortly after this that i 11 bal all rr fI a T There rl was for tor n 11 preacher oC that Ihl hurl It In III who could coul all act not 1101 eel a temporary temporal supply but also labor lallor among the pour loor and teach night a hool The sumo or of this WS w s suggested and this result WC svgs the t lie he hew w went nl to Chicago Dr Collyer says that his hl employer wan disgusted al his hla leaving nud thul h he lold InId him blurt ho hI would Id a his hili for tor him Cor or Otto ear for 01 ho knew Hutt ho hI would Co conic 11 I Inch Upon Ihl this young Colin replied lint linthe hI he novel never would and hI nevor 1101 did 1 Dr 1 succeeded nl at once III o Ito began there In ht I 1961 and scout one ot th the of oC Ito tho elt cIty lie Ito IP IC there O 0 years and then went tO III NOW ow York II where h Irl ho now ho hI vas IM preaching in III ChIcago Ilia 1110 ot Of Isis his took n a luru bean tour Lour ho Iho 1 tv h rt O his o uAl nt was 11 He lie was Willi shown the tho el impost whIch ho worked waked and wa was St so thereat theat that ho hI bought hought It and shipped It to 10 Chicago where It Wn n Placed In the thc room of at the church HOW HOR WAS Wk ED Is 11 sic II chatted I mu ke 1 DI r rt t 10 tell mo mn hOI ho not got his education Ito Jle on non Of It tho di bc 1 men or of the lito English Is 1 Iho purest or of Anglo Saxon hi his talk Is ns as clean JIan and clear cut as I n a copper plate engraving r roll Ills his en nr am poetry In pro prose II lie Is I should say ono one ot of the tho well public men ot of thin lIo tiny and that taint not hili life lito was 11 be begun gun to n I e factory a nil hl bo boy boyhood hood and anI young oun nt the anvil DI I to 10 school J I wits s 11 years old amid I had the of nt two w Inters III at n II night j school chool when 1 wars I 1 I and 15 I was horn It a hut bout for tOl In fly 1 fill father her was an II lie t to 14 It a render alii I a 11 book luter 10 1 lie 1 had hut but few CI books bOOk but Ill ie bort t ed 01 here o c owned 11 II a III I hn ih s DI BI a t wo or n r t T ree s slather Ico I ha s t lather be rt and and timer books front to 10 tin lIm I whatever I 1 could gut get hold hohl of oC I 01 lmH UI Do you re 11 m the Iho book ever VI on I I tin do soul 1111 Uw doctor art artIda Ida hit hi ii e e eyes lit III up 1111 It Ii In the Ihl lust money I 1 ever had I cut call r onIca b a If 1 f l le cells The Th l s n Its 1 It ot of Ih the old I hili It 11 us UI hi us 1 n lIt cart 1 nit I looked at al it II nud J I nay lips as t I though lit of the tho candy It would hu Inq I tech It with inn 1110 anti antiN v N cent to n a shop near 11 cony onto where nud sonic 1111 tl 7 Ions sold In the window ts IM IMn as hr n 1 great jar toil or candy beside it II u n 4 t tub 1 t t It DId price one potty I dont how 1110 It was Wil but 1 resolutely abut 1111 o my eyes on that cIHI t bought hought the r t E t Lad 1 hat o a book bok I 1 11 I 1 tan can lien 0 hi I 1 I and no one on l lCt ref Ct l persuade nit mi that III its slur told it III It lIlt cite Dick anti hll car Pin bl boy nun 11 coin LOndon ti lIh only n II rat cat and ruse to Ii ho bo 4 ail the I 1 s S t tout out the tho ou Dick sitt out J his hili way WIY to 1 believe in III It all 1111 Dick ih tun cat the ruts rutH and Um rj s l of t the he mayo hl I now 1000 In my i s t tIt but It Inn n or is aY and anel WI its true Iru IS as The es or If Ju 11 price Oil one penny u l FRANK It K G 0 H P 1 |