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28 Pages Three Cents. 
A PREACHER TO THE TIMES. 
BY D. F. LAMSON. 
Hugh Latimer, * sometime Bishop 
of Worcester,’ who with Ridley 
suffered martyrdom under Queen Mary 
in 1556, was emphatically a” * preacher to 
the times.’’ He preached to men’s 
business and bosoms, he hit — straight 
from the shoulder, he did not beat about 
the bush, he handled both his subject 
and his hearers without gloves; with 
him a spade was a spade always; he did 
not hold that language was invented to — 
conceal thought. He was no courtier 
r ‘‘trimmer,’’ he was not afraid to tell 
kings and nobles just what he thought of 
them, and some of his sermons to clowns 
and yokels at St. Paul’s cross must have 
made the ears of all them that heard 
them to tingle. His humor was some- 
times a little broad, and his language 
sometimes coarse: but the age of the 
Plantagenets was not an age of refine- 
ment in manners or speech. If he was 
sometimes blunt, however, he was never 
finical; if he did not cultivate the amen- 
ities, he did not preach to tickle or capti- 
vate his hearers. His style would have 
hardly passed muster with critics of the 
school of Addison and Pope, but for 
racy, idiomatic English, for language 
that could be ‘“‘understanded of the 
people,’’ for mother-wit, keen invective, 
forceful argument and cogent appeal, 
Latimer is perhaps unsurpassed in the 
long roll of England’s great preachers. 
There are many things in his sermons 
that throw light onthe habits and cus- 
toms of his day, some of which are sig- 
nificant of the great changes in social 
life of the past three or four hundred 
years, while others remind us that hu- 
man nature is a pretty constant quantity, 
that does not change as habits and cus- 
toms and fashions in dress change. It 
seems that there were lawyers in 
Latimer’s time, and that sometimes they 
were the gentry that profited most by 
lawsuits. Inthe first sermon preached 
before King Edward the Sixth, March 
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PURCHASE OF ELECTRIC PLANT 
Considered by Manchester Voters at Adjourned Meeting. Committee:appointed 
to investigate. 
Company Refuses to Extend Further Option. 
Pine Street Layout rejected. 
Resolutions on 
the Death of the late Samuel Knight. 
At the adjourned town meeting in 
Manchester, Wednesday evening, the 
matter of purchasing the Manchester 
Electric Co. was considered, though 
definite action in this direction will be 
withheld until an adjourned or special 
town meeting later on. The committee 
appointed at the March meeting reported 
that the company would not extend the 
option which the town has of purchasing 
the plant, expiring on Sept. 18, of this 
year. 
The company agrees, practically, to 
sell its plant to the town for $150,000, 
which is nearly $50,000 less than its ac- 
tual cost. E. S. Knight, F. K. Swett 
and James Hoare were appointed a com- 
mittee of three to investigate, and $300 
was appropriated for its use. 
The matter of Pine street relocation 
and layout was also brought before the 
meeting and after some discussion as to 
awards the layout was rejected. This 
means that the whole matter will be gone 
over again, as the necessity of widening 
the street and relocating some of its lines 
is very apparent. 
Resolutions on the death of the late 
Samuel Knight were also adopted and 
Roland C. Lincoln paid a grand tribute 
to Mr. Knight’s memory in moving the 
adoption of the resolutions. 
When the meeting was called to order 
at 7.40 by Moderator Allen there were 
less than 50 voters present. This num- 
ber was swelled a little, however, later 
on. 
Art. 45, option on purchase of elec- 
tric light plant was the first business taken 
up. F. K. Hooper, chairman of the 
committee appointed at the March meet- 
ing to wait on the company and see if 
the option on the plant expiring on Sept. 
18, 1908, could be extended, reported 
briefly as follows: 
*“'The Manchester Electric Co. deem 
it inexpedient to extend the time on 
which said option expires, which is more 
fully explained by a letter from the presi- 
dent of the company herewith sub- 
mitted.’ 
©. T. Roberts is president of the 
company and Mr. Hooper read a letter 
from him in which Mr. Roberts said that 
the real power to extend the option was 
in the hands of the stock-holders, al- 
though the directors felt morally certain 
that the stock-holders were not willing to 
extend the option and the directors felt 
it useless to call a meeting to take up the 
matter. 
Mr. Hooper also read a lenethy letter 
from Philip Dexter one of the directors 
in which Mr. Dexter said that the ditrec- 
tors felt the town ought to decide now 
whether or not it would buy the plant, 
though there was no necessity of paying 
for it immediately. "The:company was 
started originally out of public spirited- 
ness and the stockholders were now will- 
ing and ready to sell, even though they 
would have to sell at a loss. While the 
company has not made any’ money thus 
far, the plant was now on practically a 
paying basis. The very best of every- 
thing had been used in establishing the 
plant, wires had been put underground, 
etc. 
Mr. Dexter suggested that if the town 
agree to buy, payment might be postponed 
two years and thus overcome the difficulty 
of:payment until the new water supply was 
settled. The desire of the directors is 
to know to whom they are going to sell, 
when and how much. ‘The plant has 
cost $200,000 in cash and the company 
would sell for $150,000, payable in two 
years without interest. 
Mr. Hooper said further that the com- 
pany had one or two interested parties 
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