Wake Forest University - Howler Yearbook (Winston Salem, NC)

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Xlbomas IDiion. 3r. trii- ' maa ©iioii, 3r. v.« born in SJclbv, 1H C Janiuus 11, ISiH, an? is tbc of IRco. Cbonu6 Biion, one ot tbc b;st mt:UrtLn-3 in the .iB.nnist Cbiucb. AT the a-e of llftCL-n, he matri. nlatc 1 at Wake KoreM College, a.t.l uas gra.luatea with hi-hest honors in 1SS3. A year later, at the early age ot twenty, l.efore he himself conld wield a ballot, he was elected to the State Legislature. Alter leavm- Wake Korest he was graduated at the C.reensbaro Law School, becoii.ng a bar- rister tn 1886. Later, he was awarded a S holarshii, in History and I ' olitKs at Johrs Hopkins University. , In 18S6, he entered the ministry and entered n|)0n his first |,astorate at Raleigh, N. L., in 1887. He was called to a Boston pastorate in 1888, and in 1889 to the People ' s Church, New York, where he preached to larger throngs of people, than any other preacher in America. In 1899 he resigned to become a public lecturer. Of recent years he has retired to his beautiful Virginia home at Dixondale, on the shore of the Chesapeake Bay. His purpo. e has been Iron childhood, to pursue a liter- ary career— a purpose, which he has reali .ed with ronsumate sue. ess m two no els, -The Leopard ' s Spots. and •■The One Woman, the remarkable success of which has shown him to be an author of no mean ability. Of all her sons Wake I ' orcst has noae who has reflected more honor ujjon his .-Mma Mater.