. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . t i -Tenement HouseLeague, and legisla-tion has been enactedlooking toward thecure of one of thegravest evils of mod-ern times. It is im-possible here to givemore than a bare ^ /7^Sk, outline of the fasci-nating story of hislife. He was bornin Corvallis, Oregon,Nov. 12, 185s, theson of LebbjeusIrwin and Mary(Hurlburt) attended thepublic schools andPhilomath College inOregon, and at six-teen was licensed asa preacher of theUnited BrethrenChurch. Fro
. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . t i -Tenement HouseLeague, and legisla-tion has been enactedlooking toward thecure of one of thegravest evils of mod-ern times. It is im-possible here to givemore than a bare ^ /7^Sk, outline of the fasci-nating story of hislife. He was bornin Corvallis, Oregon,Nov. 12, 185s, theson of LebbjeusIrwin and Mary(Hurlburt) attended thepublic schools andPhilomath College inOregon, and at six-teen was licensed asa preacher of theUnited BrethrenChurch. From sev-enteen to twenty-onehe taught school andstudied law, beingadmitted to the bar in December, 1877. After a years legal practice, heunited with the Oregon Conference of the MethodistChurch. He was ordained an elder in the MethodistEpiscopal Church by Bishop Henry W. Warren, at Van-couver, Washington, Aug. 26, 1883. Mr. Banks has beenpastor of churches in Portland, Oregon ; Boise City,Idaho; Vancouver and Seattle, Washington, and inCincinnati. In 1886 he came to Boston as pastor ofthe Egleston Square Chunh, which had a remarkable. LOUIS A. BANKS growth under his ministrations, as had also St. JohnsChurch, in South Boston, over which he was subse-quently settled. He is now pastor of the First Metho-dist Episcopal Church of Boston. While in Vancouverhe edited the Pacific Censor, the organ of the Tem-perance Alliance of the territory, and in June, 1880, wasshot down on the street by an infuriated agent of thesaloons. For two months he preached, reclining acrossthree chairs, to large and enthusiastic congregations. During his pastorateat Seattle the anti-Chinese riots brokeout on the Pacificcoast, and on theplatform and in the^Ij^^ pulpit he defended ^^^^ the rights of the Chi- ^^^B nese. He was re- ^^^^H peatedly threatened ™*^ w i t h assassination, and once his housewas surrounded byan armed mob ofmen who came tohang him. F o r t u -nately, however, hewas absent. In Bos-ton,
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