The Gavelyte, April 1908

CEDARVILLE COLLEGE. Dr. McChesney is becoming popu- States senator at 3G years of age, lar as a speaker. We are glad . of professor of rhetoric and belles– this fac(; He addressed the Dayton letters in Harvard, minister' to Russia, Y. M. c.:"A. one Sabbath and there (a~soci;t·e justice of the United made a deep impression a n d. Stat8s supreme court was offered to aroused much thought and still later him) commissioner of pE>ace at Ghent in the month he we?t to..Morrow,\ to Great Brrtain, mini'ster to England, where our mutual friend, Ware, is j secretary of state, member of ·the laboring so successfully, and ad- 1 House of Representatives elected by dressed the brotherhood of that J the anti-mason party, and ran for place. Needless to say the Profes- governor of Mas~ac}lusetts. He was sor has fulfilled all expectations rn the "champion of the people and of his outside work. the right ' of free speech." He was bitterly opposed to slavery. He was John Quincy Ada.tns ·.considered the best debater o{ his · _ _ day. He Was one of the very few presidents, who had the moral cour- DR. w. R. MCCHESNEY. I age in his Thanksgiving proclamation John Quincy Adams, the sixth I to acknowledge Jesus Christ and his president and a son of the second I kindly daims; this too, though president, was born in MassachusettEi, 'Adams was Unitarian. July 11, 1767 and died February 23, He was. robust and strong' and at 1848, two days at ter a stroke of 1 80 years of age, only one year before paralysis while in his seat in the j his death, could swim the Potomac N~tion~l Hous~ of R~~re:,n·t~tives . . 1 :'7ith the ease of a school-boy. ~ven Hi.,; dyrng word,, were, Tins 1s the rn old age he was known as the Old !.ast o~ earth; I am content.'' i man Eloquent" b.~cause of his foren- Wh1le a boy, .he tr~velled through- , sic ability. out Europe with h1::i father. He I . . . graduated from Har~ard at 21 years I His s~~cess .rn hfe was due _ t~ a of aa-p and was admitted to the bar I worthy father, a careful home tram– at 24'. He wrote considerably for I ing; a thorough :rnd wide education -the newspapers. Besides being i in college, law, travel, writing, and chiPf mi:igistrate of our republic, he I debate; and to a blameless reputation held among others the following , irreproachable character. He de– p1ominent positions:- Minister to the !serves a high place among our Hague, minister to Berlin, member of i nation's seven greatest and best MaRRachuRetts legislature, lTnited j prPsiilentR.