Show how a great rr eacher started the way in which phillips brooks brook 3 began to preach the gospel is so 0 o unique that the story must be told in full two or three miles from the hill bill in virginia on which the alexandria seminary stands Is a little littin hamlet called sharon composed of poo poor whites and negroes which one of the classmates undertook to work up it was wase a task in which he needed help and brooks reluctantly consented to go after he be had bad been once his heart was interested and he was ready to go again here ho be preached his first sermon and began the work of ministering to human souls the success of the little mission stirred up opposition which wag was headed by a northern man who had become an infidel and delighted to express ills his opinions to a few followers these appeared determined to break up the meetings and when young brooks was fully aware of their purpose one sunday lie denounced the whole bet in terms of scat scathing bing rebuke which his class mat estill remembers us thomast the tho most searching sarcastic speech that he be ever heard beard little as he may have occasion to use it phillips brooks Is as effective and powerful a master of invective as ever theodore parker was and the effect of his speech upon this little community was to destroy the opposition and to briny bring all but one of the hostile persons and that was not the leader to baptism and confirmation rev julius 11 II ward lu in new england magazine with the present safety devices it la Is just as safe to run elevators fast as it is to run blow accidents are few and invariably due to neglect on the part of the elevator attendants or the passengers when acal accidents do happen it is usually a case ca se of the car catching persons as they step on or off passengers frequently try to board acar a car after it starts with the lie result that if caught by the elevator between the cur car a and 11 d the loor floor or ceiling they are killed in nine be out of or ten CHAOS ces chicago journal of commerce |