Show y BISHOP BISHO FOWLER DEAD All over the world there Is IsS mourning because Bishop Fowler Fowier Is S dead Ho lie was one ono of the leaders of ot i the Methodist church and had halt been beena a great figure in its work and history i He lacked but hut a few months of being eighty eIght years ears old And his labors covered the period all aU the way from Peter Cartwright to the present da day He saw sav the Methodist church grow from the stage of the circuit rider to that of or the perfected pulpit and the college-bred college preacher He saw that t I organization rise risu from weakness to splendid strength And In all aU the f I progress in all aU the advance he did dida a n mans man's share No man in Methodism kne knew the Bible better and aud no man was more quick of or pertinent retort One time timo timor timeT T r at the general conference in Omaha Omaha- that must have been in 1892 he 1892 he was wasp p presiding when Buckley and Moore both Advocate editors editor were at the thet summit t of their long conflict Buckley Buckley Buck Buck- ley Icy a sharp and feared debater Insisted In 1 L on forcing the conference into a consideration of or his measures out of their place as Bishop Fowler thought and editor and bishop stood there in a 3 battle of or wits that will not i 4 I I II be forgotten by those who witnessed it Finally when Buckley found toun himself him him- solf self overruled o he e ex exclaimed with from the much heat Dolver cr us snare of ot the fowler And the alert bishop completing tb the passage retorted retorted retorted re re- re- re And An from the noisome pestilence EYer Every man and every woman of or the great audience caught Instantly th the absolute crushing force of ot the rejoinder rejoinder rejoinder re re- re- re joinder and Buckley sat down down-abse- down absolutely floored Bishop Fowler was as gentle as he was strong His life Ufe was a constant service to humanity More mild than Merrill he was as capable a fighter for Cor what seemed best in his lila church And whatever In Methodism Is better now than fifty years ears ago Is due in generous part to the work and the devotion of ot Charles Henry Fowler bishop of the Methodist 1 church |