Show LETTERS FROM JUNIUS 99 john ruskin buskin la Is generally regarded the high priest of fine art in modern europe it was he who denounced the factory chimney and the locomotive as the destroyers of the sublime and poe poetic tic in nature as the annihilators of the beautiful and exquisite in art and as the pervert per vertera ers of taste in all matters ves aesthetic it certainly seems un when one is brought face to face with the volume of soot smoke ind and cinders issuing from the womb of a chicago locomotive as it tears along one of our great highways it is not soothing to be awakened at midnight by one of its ear piercing whistles and it is not by any means a romantic deach to be run over by its tremendous wheels yet it is difficult to see in what respect the locomotive is less poetic than the stage coach the latter may be productive of sentiment but it was also a fruitful source of villainous backache when 6 held up tip byroad by road agents of co course u it was then melodramatically melo dramatically h heroic but is not the holding up of a whole train of bowie americans a much more enlivening spectacle Is it not the very quintessence of the sublime in ras rascality alltY surely mr ruskin buskin has put himself at the wrong end of the locomotive as the kentucky darkey did with the mule mr ruskin buskin has not examined the factory or the locomotive from the artistic standard he has not penetrated the interior of an immense freight yard at the witching hour of midnight he has not seen the monstrous steel armored giants at rest he has not seen one of these great mogul engines taking a snooze as it were after hauling a thousand tons of merchandise over miles of road he has not seen dozen different engines resting quietly their powerful headlights shining brilliantly and illuminating the upper air little jets of steam issuing lazily from the sides and a little suppressed sizzle almost reminding one of a homeric hero in rep repose ose liast sunday afternoon I 1 strolled into the weldon yard of the 1 I C B R B R in this city I 1 could not help standing in front of the roundhouse to others as well as to me the attraction was irresistible there were a score or more of locomotives resting around the grim smoky looking building some were dead some sleeping and some awake ready for action engine was standing a little way from her companions she was not sleeping though at rest occasionally a rumbling would be heard as if her whole interior were working in some terrific convulsion then again would issue a stream of hissing roaring steam almost deafening to the bystander I 1 got talking with the engineer a bluff cheerful full faced bronzed bostonian named tansey he proved a most communicative as well as an interesting personage he could tell about railroading away back before de war he was now waiting to switch a fruit train expected from new orleans just fancy bananas from guatemala were what was expected acted was not this alone enough to invest the steam engine with a poetic grandeur bananas from guatemala cocoa nuts from the west indies and pine apples from central america yes a whole train of these succulent fruits were on the wa way y to chicago rushing with lightning it haning rapidity to be distributed distri distributed buteT away up in dakota and abt away axy west in froming Wr lW oming where Is mr ruskin buskin now Is not AN this the very poetry of science w very sublime of mechanics the v vead religion of art and yet peo B us atiat science is not heaven bowa people tell us that god did not C craa cra 1 the intellect which h built the motive moti e that it was a mere mattor chance a mere development ft nihilism the weldon yards are situ situate at the foot of sixteenth street as the train hands were all 10 anxiously southward for the in ing train they noticed a ot ar persons on the take lake bank at the 0 1 1 A I of eighteenth street the 6 eye of engineer tansey at ott ai 1 pronounced the gathering a alws diva clr invited 13 J ger baptism tansey aboard he manipulated some affairs on his engine then bullot his big lever and we were on to p baptism there there were a crow crowd d Q unregenerate and unwashed IC pj cagians ca laughing chatting g so joking A little group of AN africa A situated on the waters edge casslo all the excitement we soon i that bishop lennox of the africa baptist church was about to baptis W 19 three sisters and in baptist par laoj was to give them complete im 01 J sion the bishop prem preached ached ito fro john fifth verse third chapel be barnof born of the water 11 hep dented a peculiarly pic picturesquely tures queW aro bearance pe arance his black visage ta 1 I 1 surmounted by an unusually fa glossy silk hat he wore a loog ja 4 chico gown of some black material wms glistened in the sun and he bep be ew p I 1 ed at the waist he was asseo assist by elder anderson also arrayed the three sisters were attired J light gauzy dresses the coal ba bla j faces making a fine contrast u bishop congratulated himself va he had a bigger multitude than 0 christ by the sea mr ta tansell engine covered by this time w men was standing on the track aalf 1 front of the bishop and only a 4 I 1 yards bards distant certainly this an adjunct to his baptism that had not not yet he he athe the bishup have had added that the engine engine wl but the result of christs work the colored congregation ss on jordan jordans Is stormy banks ks I 1 ata and cast a wistful eye during singing an old colored gentle fl went around to take una up a collect callec for the benefit of the church carried a thick felt sombrero W contribution box pebbles bu button and an occasional nickel ya dropped into the hat bat by the j washed whites and mr Tan Tansey seyd 0 dared that banty thompson yard foreman dropped a cou pin into the hat almost shat at tw the poor alms monger of baptist church 1 I 1 hardly 4 bely this because banty is a nativo boston and of pure puritan 0 but then strange things happen w j days a la IX finally the three sisters were in succession out into the water a each completely dipped this P of the ceremony gave the aud a splendid opportunity for lau laus lidit and talk the basho bishop p and p took out a sister one stood at side of her I 1 held her hands UP fl aj mand dipped her backwards 00 plemely immersing her when she demae out dripping and working in frightful gotful contortions as if overpowered by some spirit her appear roee was something more serious an laughter to the thoughtful ober ketyer i just as the ceremony was siut ut to be completed the fruit train ae dashing a long along on the west rain mn track and the engineer little ang ing the crowd slowed up a here Is a picture for ruskin he ue ed not bother himself about the future bore rore of the negro or the education of the colored race but take this rican bakti baptism sm on the shore of 60 ke se michigan surrounded by a bowd composed of persons from all rationalities in europe witnessed y a modern locomotive and stand in close clae proximity to bananas flam m central america turpentine from ati the carolinas maize from the dakotas iron ore from michigan strawberries sherries wh erries from southern illinois nd what grander theme for modern art rt or poetry can be found surely this ought to be an age of religion but ou it is not one ane day in the early part of the week I 1 had occasion to visit the library I 1 noticed an im ng of people in the public corridor of the east wing 0 the aty qty hall wherein is situated the arte court rte fj the public library is in the west wing I 1 learned that the crowd wanted to see mrs Cart erthe carnous farnous woman of the divorce court amin 1 fell ill with the throng arong and after all holas hard work succeeded in setting letting into the court room I 1 got 4 glance nce at mrs carter and that was intent Ic tent she sat in the court 4 j aa oga a hoard of hungry looking evidently enjoying the 0 riet she was waa creati creating ng mr effir r w was also there he is a dudis dude dm looking king person he wears aae e eyeglasses and dude burnsides k its 11 11 general make up a miniature re berry wall m I 1 went next to the chicago avette church to hear mr moody the el evangelist Is angelist I 1 uke eke to hear him he a plain practical man full of good 8 jad sense good humor and pos ati eted of a certain instinct in re 0 oak h commands the respect 11 liap the masses aneses aae ses As usual he de u v red a nice sensible discourse said that the spirit of religion w goodness was not fostered by eon tion and strife that nothing ACI be accomplished by the man the agno calls the pope a pirate or by 74 man who 0 o tries to d despoil 1 a ormon or blackmail a methodist eth odist luimit 4 this at atrain rain he proceeded for 20 bete w and an was assiduously I 1 lon ned to 0 mr r moody never makes olig n discourses and he has a ion oat felicitous tous method of bringing it winded preachers to a stop e t ste ute is t about ut to bring athe the bible ansti to brov a cose close tn in a measure it r 4 the th veda a success oss he will reopen re open ornit it terean autumn and endeavor to in t X mr 1 the various sects in its work local moody was interviewed by a aaa 04 reporter arter and here is what he the of his hia bible institute and of ooL condition of religion in this T ry Y mr moody says acler one of athe the great y faults ulta of the ergy y i have been led to believe is that they have been educated above the mass of the people and out of sympathy with them when a young man has gone through college and then through a theological seminary he is in a certain sense removed from those he wishes to serve there is a gap which I 1 have long been speculating how bow to fill I 1 believe there should be a body of workers between preachers and the people they seek to reach men and women well qualified to teach religion but still not preachers and willing to go out into the wards of cities and do the preliminary work of redemption I 1 think they should be business and working men and women who will perhaps know better how to sympathize with and move the masses than the clergymen now in the pulpit this thir body of assistants lay clergy if you please is what I 1 hope to create by the convention just opened I 1 have chave great ambitions in the matter but I 1 do not know what to expect and hence do not care to give expression to my expectations in the matter te will you do work for our local churches of the kind you speak of 11 1 I expect to operate cooperate co with the resident pastors and the men and women who attend the morning sessions will be sent out into the different bardson wards on missionary work in one sense however our missionary and revival work will be secondary we will feel that a great good is being accomplished if we can but equip several hundred men and women to take up the lords work and assume the humble position of clergy mens assistants if I 1 had 1000 such persons persona today I 1 could find fields of work for them all without delay the men who are about to assist me in the duties of the convention are all men of earnestness and ability who will for love of the work continue the lessons of the morning sessions by going out with those who attend our instructions into the homes of the people who need us the plan is unique and its novelty alone makes me unwilling to predict about the result can any man in utah read this and not say why mr moody is copying from joseph smith 1 JUNTOS junrus CHICAGO may 1889 in the city of chicago during the past week everybody was talking g of dr cronin and his mysterious disappearance I 1 too began to think 1 I 1 would disappear for a short time but not in any sensational sensation alway way in fact I 1 thought I 1 would take a holiday and leave chicago to take care of itself for a few weeks our great city go got along without carter harrison an and I 1 am sure it can get along without me and greally I 1 really believe it could get along without frank collier though it was frank that crushed brushe john A roche boche and his machine independent of all this I 1 thought it would be a fine thing to rank as a pilgrim a tourist or an emigrant if you will for a time so sd I 1 concluded to be one or the other or all if necessary four hundred years ago agotha the tourist was denominated a pilgrim the word pilgrim is riot not unknown even in our day recent decent arrivals in western mining camps are usually called pilgrims though the epithet carries with it a flavor of deprecation it is true erasmus did not speak flatteringly or complimentary of the mediaeval media medi eval veval pilgrims formerly pilgrims traveled in batches and under the guidance of a personal conductor technically us from england the favorite objective points were the holy land and the shrine of st james the compostella the organization of pilgrimages developed into a regular department of commerce the patrons pat ronus chartered a ship provisioned it and conducted pilgrims at so much a head for the round trip in the fifteenth century an english traveler counted eighty such vessels inthe in the harbor of coranna corunna Cor unna thirty two of them english caxton the printer issued a book of In formacion for grymes unto the holy londe the book proved a profitable enterprise and made money for the practical caxton while many of the other early printers ruined themselves publishing luxurious editions of the classic authors the guide book gave special instructions how to reach venice from england venice being the favorite port for jerusalem it also cautioned pilgrims to make solid covenants with the patrons pat ronus who was a person given to sharp practices it specially cautions against cyprus but be well ware ye make covenant that ye come not at famagush Fam agust in cypres for no cormany for many and other also have dayed there for that ayre is so corrupt there aboyte and the water there also this interesting book also tells the pilgrim to keep chepa the po to his contract in the matter of food and to be sure to get et meat twice i a day and good wine and good water ani ana also the bys cute judging from the book the pilgrim did not always travel tavel as a penitent with peas in n his boots and gunny sacks for shirting recluse he is instructed ted to get three barcelles bar relles eche of a quart which quart holdych ten gallons two of these barrels were for wine and one for water this was tobe to be taken along by the pilgrim at his own expense to supplement the ships allowance he was also instructed to make quick time from the ship at jaffa so as to procure a good donkey to ride to jerusalem let the sleepy sleep y pilgrim u ia rahe im h 1 have 1 A ve 1 the worst d donkey e y I 1 it t further r s says a y s also when when y e r yde to the river jordane take brede wyne water hard eggs and cheese for two days for there is none to sell and Andi fye to the place lace LM where our lord ghesu chryste fasted forty days it is pam angly hot and bryght high and when ye come downe again for any drink no water but rest you a lytell and then eat brede and dronke wine without water for water gen dereth a flux or a fever that many have dyed thereof fees were exacted from pilgrims for entrance or passage to most of the holy places to see the place at ramah where st george was martyred marty red cost a venetian groat but the church granted for this seven years indulgence and seven lents of course englishmen did not omit this part of the tour the modern tourist or pilgrim has no need of a patrons pat ronus though mr cook and others of the kind seem to flourish he has only to select his line of route and gripsack in hand start out fortunately for us of chicago we have a zion and a holy land in our own auntry ou nou why not a pilgrimage to salt lake city the jerusalem of this latter day on the route to salt lake one may not see the kind of relies relics shown to med medle leeval aval pilgrims he wont see the cup of emerald stone |