rs, the Mayor of a Western city, two United
States Senators, one Congressman, and a Justice of the Supreme Court
of the land. They were all great-souled men, who had shown in word and
action a touch of the spirit of Jesus Christ. Some of them had been
throwing light into dark places and driving money-changers from the
temple and casting out devils. They were all qualified to enlighten
and lift up our souls.

"I asked that their lessons should be drawn from the lives of the
modern prophets--Abraham Lincoln, Silas Wright, Daniel Webster,
Charles Sumner, Henry Clay, Noah Webster, George William Curtis,
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sidney Lanier, Horace Greeley, and others like
them. What I sought most was an increase of the love of honor and the
respect for industry in our young men and women. Holiness was a thing
for later consideration, it seemed to me.

"I put a full-page advertisement in each local paper, which read about
as follows:

"'The Church of All Faiths.

"'Built especially for sinners and for good people who wish to be
better.

"'Will begin its work in this community Sunday, June 19th, at twelve
o'clock, with a sermon by Socrates Potter, Esq., of Pointview, in
which he will set forth his view of what a church should do, and an
account of what this church proposes to do, for its parishioners.
Other churches are cordially invited to worship, and to work with us
for the good of Pointview.'

"The curiosity of all the people had been whetted to a keen edge. They
had begged for information, but Betsey and I had said that they
should know all about it in due time. I had given my plan to the
contributors only, and they were to keep still about it.

"Sometimes silence is the best advertisement, and certain men who seem
to be so modest that they are shocked by the least publicity are the
greatest advertisers in the world. The man who hides his candle under
a bushel is apt to be the one whose candle is best known. So it
happened with us. Nine hundred and sixteen people filled the seats in
our church that morning by twelve o'clock, and two hundred more were
trying to get in.

"At the next service an honored minister whose soul is even greater
than his fame preached for us, and that week a petition came to me,
signed by six hundred citizens, complaining that the hour was
inconvenient, and asking that it be changed to 10.30 A.M. I believe in
the voice of the people, and obeyed it; but I knew what would happen,
and it di