Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887 . ly sees therein an imageof the exalted mind which invests evenearthly things with heavenly glory, Krummacher s version of their earlytradition finds favor among those who to-day dwell beside the Ruhr, and they stilll^oint out the spot on a hill near Essenas the spot where their saint was buried. On the day annually observed through-out Germany as a day of prayer (Bettag) Idrove through the district of Essen, ob-served its happy villages and colonies, re-marked the peaceful populations enjoyingthe spring sunshine amid groves an
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887 . ly sees therein an imageof the exalted mind which invests evenearthly things with heavenly glory, Krummacher s version of their earlytradition finds favor among those who to-day dwell beside the Ruhr, and they stilll^oint out the spot on a hill near Essenas the spot where their saint was buried. On the day annually observed through-out Germany as a day of prayer (Bettag) Idrove through the district of Essen, ob-served its happy villages and colonies, re-marked the peaceful populations enjoyingthe spring sunshine amid groves and gar-dens embowered with blossoms—nowhereany noise or drunkenness or squalor—and could not believe that their ancestorshad ever been such brutal folk as pioustradition describes. The physicians gloryis proportionate with the badness of the Entered accofdinj; to Act of Congress, in the year 1886, by Harper and Brothers, in the Office of theLibrarian of Congress, at Washington. All rights reserved. Vol. LXXII.—No. 430.—34 496 HARPER^S NEW MONTHLY WORKS AT ESSEN IN 1852. case he cures. It is natural to paint blackbackgrounds for the halos of missionarysainfs, but it is likely that Alfriecl was nota missionary, as tradition says, and in anycase that his lines fell in pleasant, as theycertainly did in picturesque, phxces, I wasdriving along the road whereby Alfriedcame, and paused on the hill where he issaid to have first paused to contemplatethe country, and where at last his bodywas buried in x)eace a thousand years ago(anno 877). The forest which stretchedout under his vision is now a forest of tallchimneys, with dark foliage of smol^e;for the Iron Age is with us, and Essen(which surely ought to be called Eisen)has been built by it as completely as yonMinster was built by the Age of Faith. Inthe beginning of this century only a townof 3480 souls stood where now dwell near-ly 70,000. The surrounding district hasalso been made populous, chiefly by Es-sen. A wond
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