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‘1) d! The material facts of his life can be told in brief. Luther Stillman Bingham was born in Morristown, Vt., April 12, 1807, and died in Spar ta, Wis, October 5, 1897, being 90 years andabout six months old. His father was a farmer, and he was reared in and to the samejlife. The country in northern Vermont, in his boyhood, was comparatively new,-its advantages few, but such as they were, they were highly prized and wisely improved. His father was a marked man. often chosen by his , fellow citizens to represent them in l the state legislature, where he became t intimately acquained with the lead» ing men of the state. He looked at all questions and issues from the moral standpoint. His father's home - was also a sort of ministerial head- quarters. a kind of hospitality. the boys in a home do not always partic- ularly enjoy, but which in after years they look back upon with great pleas- ure, from the fact that it brought them into personal contact with in- telligent. high-toned men, and heal- thy intellectual and moral life. At 21 years of age, Aug. 17th, 1828, Father Bingham married ‘Miss Fi- delia P. Rockwell. who died in Spar- ta, Jan. 20111 1881. They settled on a farm near his father's, soon after which he was converted and became , {inactive Christian, and so remained 2m his life. After living on his farm a few years he moved to Stowe. a business centre a few miles away. and thence to New York City in 1851, whence he went to Sparta in 185V), and remained there, till [H8], or the, time of his wife's death, when he came to the Park where he remained till last April, when he Went, hack to Sparta. to the home of his son-inâ€"luw, where he diudms he wished. and was buried beside his wife. fli ghl and Park News. : VOL II. But what concerns us more than lhesv (1m ails was his moral character. Funlilinri'lml with high moral prin- viplos frum childhood and with all hira l'uritun nntvcmlt-nls, his was u “FATHER" BINGHAM.’ character of sterling solidity,strength and worth. He was high-toned mo- ‘ rally before he became a Christian, and his subsequent character was based on his deep, fervid and script- ural Christian experience, which was remarkably broad and comprehensive. We have known but very few men his equal in knowledge of the Bible: he could quote accurately and felic- itously more Scripture than any per son, save one, we ever knew, and we have heard him do it often in such a connection as to be like the rifting of a cloud through which the light streamed. His theology was thorough- ly Calvinistic, of the old type, sin. ners dead in sin, saved by the sov- erign grace of God. For the so-called new theology, he had no use. and for those who dabbled with it he had little respect and less fellowship. For short cuts into Christian life, the 1 palace car type of Christian living 1 and snap shot methods of going;' to heaven were all obnoxious to him. The modern exaltation 0f the social and a‘sthetic sides of church life, at the expense of the experimental and spiritual were an abiding grief to him. Being such a man. he was a spirit ual power. a tower of strength in the church and community. It is our‘ candid conviction that asa moral, : spiritual force. having power with God, Father Bingham. shut up as he was these last two years in his proph» cts chamber, was worth more to this 1 Presbyterian church and this com- , munity than any score of Christians you can select from our midst, for the God of lsraxl hath proclaimed it, lsaiah. (3:13. “The holy seed shall be the substance thereof." Mr. Burliugzune. of Huughton. Mimin (10.. told us the other day that, the! demand for Bret Harm's Works was constantly increasing; that, flw sales of his works was press- ing hard (m thnsv of Lungfulhnv's. Tho fut-t is, he has done for our wild wvst of thv Pacific coast what Kip- ling and nthvrs urn dning for India and the- ()rian The family of W. S. Ellis, who have lived nearly two years in Mrs. Leach‘s house on Laurel avenue, moved to La Grange Tuesday, having bought a choice home there. Where their sons can easily reach them every day from their business in Chicago. Rev. Galusha Anderson, D. D., of the Chicago University divinity school will preach next Sunday morn- ing in the Baptist church. This will enable those who wanted to hear him two weeks ago, but did not know he was going to preach, to avail them- selves of this opportunity. St. Mary's church with its accus- tomed enterprise. will hold its an- nual fair in Goldberg's opera house next week, beginningr Tuesday eve- ning the. 13th. We don‘t'know what : they will have or what they will do and sell, but we do know they will ~ . succeed. they always do that. they know how. Prof. O'Connor will have charge of the music. Don't, fail to see it. Mrs. Charles H. Baker, with Jack and Miss Raffen have gone to Chi- cago for a few days with their sister, Mrs. Manson, Washington boulevard. Charles H. Baker has been heard from out on the Wyoming ranch. He has not yet killed any bufialo. only a few prairie dogs at first. but the bison will come next week. The foundations are about in for Lawyer Schumacher's new house. and from all that can be discovered therefrom, he will have a fine home; “lamb-foundations are put in very thoroughly. ‘, 1897 A man with a genius for figures has found out that there are 10.00“ boats on the Efie Canal. which if pluced in line like a train of cars would stretch half way from Buffalo to NM\' York. and that a “right train lung ummgh to move our wheat, crop of this your. 337‘MWJWU hush vls. \V()l|l(l rvach all the way from Sun Frmu-isvn tn Now York. or about 3.51)” miles. OF LOCAL INTEREST. I '11 to move our wheat, “r, SZSJNNUWU hush I: all the way from tn New York. or about NO 20.