The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-08-26 00:00:00

LECTURE BY THE REV. T. DE WILL
TALMAGE.
"THE BRIGHT SIDE OF THINGS."

The Wesleyan connection in Weymouth, and also
for mike around, were in a state of expectancy on
Wednesday evening last, when the great and popular
preacher and writer of the United States—the Rev.
T. De Witt Talmage—was announced to lecture at
the Wesleyan chapel, on" The Bright Side of Things."
The Rev. Doctor is so much in request, and
the time he intends staying in this country so limited,
that the friends of Weymouth were fortunate in
securing his services, though at so great an expense,
causing the charges for admission to be rather high,
to which may be attributed the comparatively small
audience, the chapel being only comfortably filled;
the weather, too, was unfavourable, a persistent
drizzle falling throughout the day. which may have
prevented some who would otherwise have attended,
though many friends availed themselves of the
arrangements made by the Railway companies to hear
the rev. gentiemat. The subject of the lecture was
"The Bright Side of Things," and for a practical
Illustration we could not do better than refer to Mr.
Talmage on this occasion, for be was exceedingly
bright and clever, occasionally enchanting the
audience with his brilliant descriptive powers, and
' touching them with his pathos and fine sentiment;
but not the least of the attractions of this great
preacher was his lively wit and humour, which, nazi-
blued with great and varied facial expresion,
convulsed the whole assembly with laughter. The
lecturer poeseessea voice of great power and flex y,
and there was not the slightest flagging in the interest
of the audience during the hourqind.lialf occupied in
its delivery, but the bursta of applause were very
frequent
The chair was taken by the Rev. T. A. (Utley,
M.A.., 13. D., and be was supported by the Rev.
Allen, the Rev. W. Lewis, the Rev. Harvey Phillips,
the Rev. E. Bolton, and others.

The Rev. E. Demo offered • short prayer, and the
Ear. ALUM (Wesleyan Minister), having made • few
opening remarks,
Tbe Cadieux said he supposed on this occasion brevity
on the pert of the Chairman would not be interpreted as
Implying any want of interest on his part, whether in the
lecturer. the lecture, or the audience, and he could
readily eonceive se they were all come together for the
express purpose of tearing Dr. Talmage, they would
naturally be impatient of any delay on his part in intro-
ducing him. The name of Talmage wee not an
unknown one to them, for be might safely say that for
the lad sight or tau years in Christian families, not only
In America but in Ragland, the name of Talmage had
become almost an household word. He (the chairman)
was very pleased to see him, and to express his good-will
towards his American friend. He saw him some six or
eight weeks ago, soon alter he landed, and he now looked
, infinitely better for the knocking about which he had had.
He was inclined to think when be went back to America and
saw his friends at Brooklyn he would say—" I em glad to
see you, but upon my word there is no place like old
England." (Applause.) He hoped he should not be con.
Undated in this ataterneut He =pooped be would then
be looking on "The Bright aide of Things." (Hew,
hear.)
, Dr. Talmage, who wee most warmly received, said: I
thank you most heartily for your cordial greeting. Though
I sal three thousand mile any from my native land
r your greeting makes me feel at home. We here and those
on the other side of the Atlantic ought to think this is a
very pleasant world to live in. If you and I had been
moulted as to which of the stars we would choose to
walk upon we could not have done • wiser thing than to
, select this, I have always been glad that I got aboard
, this planet. The best colour I can think of for the sky is
blur, for the foliage green, for the water crystal The
, mountains are just high enough, the flowers sufficiently
, aromatic, the earth just right for solidity and growth. The
human face is admirably adapted tor its wort —sunshine
, in Its smile, tempest in its frown. Two eyes—one mare
, than is absolutely necessary, so that if one is put out we
, can still look upon the sunrise and the faces of our friends.
Only one nose—but quite sufficient for thou who walk
: among so many nuisauces—Gaughteri—being an "organ"
, with two stops, and adding dignity to the human face,
whether it is graceful, bordering on the "Roman," or
turning up towards the heavens with celestial aspirations
In the shape of • " pug," or wavering up and dorm, now
as if it would aspire, now as lilt would descend, until it
breaks off into unexpected directions, illuatrating the
proverb that "It is • long lane which has no turning."
, (Laughter.) Who would criticise the works of heaven)
Where there is one discord there are a thousand harmonies.
It is a splendid world. yet I hear a great many people de.
nous:icing not only the world but the age in which we
live. Now I think it is not only a good world to live in
but • good time to live in it. Instead of denouncing the
world and the age, go down on your knew and thank God
that you live in these times. I would rather lies ten
years now than 500 in the time of Methuselah I (Laughter),
r Is it not 'trans* that in such an auseabLe world there are
so many disagreeable people? Paining on to speak of
; religion, the lecturer went on to say,—My ideas 01
religion are • little different from some people's. I know
! that the beet people are the happied, and that the most
' useful peoples,. the most sunshiny, and that the man who
! comes to me with • long face trying to impress upon me by
' that face his superior goodness, why be don't looprees nue at
! all. The sourest-looking man I ever knew eras • man who
; borrowed of my father in dollars, and out of pure delicacy
of feeling never referred to the 'object again. (Laughter.)
' I have found oat that life is a plain matter-of (act thing,
! and the sooner a man finds it out the better for him.
, have no patience with those who talk of life in
grandiloquent strains, but anyone who works shoulder to
! shoulder with um in life's struggle, and throwing any sun-
shine on our paths we shall be greatly obliged to them.
My religion Is sunshine, and the difference between earth
and heaven is this—sunshine on earth sometimes pie
beclouded, but Heaven Is overeating sunshine. There is
nothing more characteristic of a man than fault-finding.
Contrast it with the opposite—a man who always looks
; on the " bright side of things "—a man who gem
' all the sweets be an out of life. You can make
which you like of life, bright or dark. Let us then
listen for sweet notes rather than discords—for thyme and
! anemone rather than for nightshade In • world where
God has put an exquisite tang, upon the hills, painted a
: paradise of bloom upon the little child's cheek, and
covered themotanteina with • hanging tapestry 31 I/x.IIIU
! mist, whets the lark saith "I will sing soprano." and the
, cascade replying "I will carry the bees," let us leave it to
! the owl to hoot, and the bear to growl, and to the fault-
finder to complain. The lecturer then went on to show
! what constituted • red gentleman. A very little
thing will rill tell you whether • man Is • true
or not. And the same with • lady.
rilw • lady bending over a dying soldier her dress was
very much faded, she had cocas from • very humble
home, and she had • little basket of delloscas mar arm.
She hod • boy in the army who altar the battle of Pitts-
burg was miming, and she wanted to do something for
others se she could do nothing for him. She walked the
wards of the hospital with a cheerful smile on her fem.
' and the sick tried to look as well as possible as she
Sivt=pied beside the bed of • young man wgreweL
end feared he would nowt see the familiar faces
! again. Site wrote karma for him, put ice on his shattered
um, end softened his herd pillow, offering • silent
"God do so to me and my soldier boy who is missing
ige* O I
neglect to care for these poor wounded fellows r She
pared down the ward sad a man bearing the widowing
of other" Polls up the bandage that coven his eyes that
had been powder-bladed and said "God bless her I May
she get her soldier boy who is missing." and a gray tall
new Hampshire captain looked over to • Winsoonsin
, lieut, and said 'No sham about that! She is • lady r
(Aura) That vistas of kindness line in the western
..
mead, and that very night be *into he is home
again on the prairies and the arms of affection about his
neck. Compare such • Christian lady in the hospital,
with the woman I sew in • street car in Philadelphia. A
poor soldier came and eat does to where she was, and the
immediately got up sad sat the other side saying "The
dirty fellow r I think there was more nobility in the
poorest pack on the men's back than in that lady from
the toviser heed down to the sole of her foot. She was
not a never wee never will be. You can't make
'em out 'each stuff. (Applause.) You can tell a lady
anywhere and • gentleman too. I was one day
en a car going from Philadelphia to New York.
There was • window open and I contrived to keep
=rc erondtabis by means of an extra shawl; but
use a sick lady in the car who seemed very touch
disturbed by the open window, so I thomffit I would go
over end ask the man to put it down. I begged of him
with all possible suavity--my best friends would not have
known me—and I said My dear sir, will you be so kind
as to put down that window it is disquieting • sick lady
very muck' Hs replied " I don't know who he
wee, but he was not • gentleman—never was, never will
be. I was once going from Brooklyn to New York, and a
boy came up having almanacs for ale. He had his hand
bound up carefully. He offered an almanac to • maa
witting opposite, who mid—" What Is the sodas, with
your hand r and the boy reified "I got It crushed." The
man said "' Let me misA" &El unwound the bandages—lt
was an awful eight. When he had unwound It the man
said—" Wind It op oath Iltave nothiag for such fellows
as your I could hardly wade my Indignation, I don't
know who he wee; he was far better dressed than I am
but he was not a gentleman—sever was, never will be. ,
You can't make them out of such stuff. (Applause.) As
an instance of meanness, • man was asked if he would
take • drink No," he replied," but I will take a cigar
and 6d." (Laughter.) But then that man lived on ihe
other side of the Atlantic Goma. (Laughter.) A man
without a particle of true wit or humour, but with a
Christian cheracterLand who awe** looks on "The bright
aide of things." can keep • whole neighbourhood in good
cheer. It is not a very wonderful attribute, yet we don't
' mem all to potent it, nor do we all culture It Mare is no
more seresable art than that of being able
_to say pleasant
things to • element way, and none more distast than
that which has always econething meddlesome and
disagresabie to mention. I will tell you two persons who
are lust opposite in character—one tells you all the
pleasant things he knows of you and your past affairs, and
saver about unpleasant thing.; the other who goes and
aus all the armament things he knows of you and none
/*the pleasant things. Hainan nature all the world over.
There are some people miserable themselves and who try
Is make everybody elm miserable. I was owe siring
usguing going through the market in New York when I
hoard • bay say to another, "Joe, you will lose on then,
goes pest" I said ° Hew do you know he is Lingio
them kne
en peen pour Tor bun the looks of , end
Ike leeks of aspen peas, I didn't believe it, ow, if
OM kg
_was going to km on "these green peas" would
be est bad It out seen enough) (Hear, hear.) I Iliner in
Si mg life would tell any man or any boy hens going to
eaunestbent gym pea..." Some people are never happy
diailihir are mloerable I (Laughter.) If there is one
hig abompla the pasture field, all the crows within ten
miles hew It and are ready to sit in Peel .4.,14.4
We when the circus drops, and there are some men who
erm miserable things abOut everything, and if they find
bait-a-dozen people engaged in thereat chat. May are
there to diop in upon tbety with soma dieureesble
subject. If tour father was unfortunate enoueh to
have been hung they will persist in discussing with you
capital punialunent If you have failed in business. !
=aro ever making cutting remarks about ther
purr laws. (Laughter.) They are always
bolas easektoue about your health, and eomethass
when you feel a little weary they will Illetoii YOU with
"illig.how had you do look r. I had a brother who was
Fag aka( meet the beck streets of Brooklyn awe dic
sad a maa came up to him sod sold " Are you the alea ea
this street that's dtunif consumption r " No." sell mg
brother, " there Is the matter with "
said the man. "I Was la.g eo for a men that's
.41 be
of
enmae and from your looks I thought you
the teme " Nu" mid my brother, guess
there is astblegthe matter with tee nit In the hems •
good deek eel that makes me • little gels; but I have
bees a Wailer ter Altos 7.411. sad eiltring lilae
have toted about aft, fablookbg Whys lika you r
(lnughleg.) limmilmes It Is not so meek In wards that
liar died so is lasi way, • gomptiortsd asional

sessettisity we dont salad. God arm repeats himself,
and he um busted tire
.people to be alike. Ourneenfferitige awe the 000 in tle whilst showing what
penweapetiee pi/m. 04
12*e =Divined
societylOnL It Ii
th. .vmkaa il
society
sue, and in proportion make us %melees. Even' man
has en occiaeuon eat out for him. Only one. There is
just one thing for you ts do, and no other man In the
world can dolt If the work which God intends you to do
is not do. by yourself, it is Dever done. Every man get'
:o call from God to do same one thing. God assigns some
occenation, end our patu.liarities indicate what our work
Is. Tell ma whet • mans peculiarities we, and I will tell
YOU whet hie work Is. A man often has Wailers
eccentricities. It Is ieobody's business if the philosopher
in his ebeentinindefinem puts his candle to bed, and
blows himself out of the window. (Laughter.) But
yet there are oddities that are criminal when
they make Inroads me the happiness of othera The
lecturer then boomed upon them the Importance of
being gentle. Luther's eloquence, said be, could have been
emitted by gentlenees and suavity. How much chagrin
would parents save themselves from, if they taught their
children the elements of rood manners and sentience..
Let two young men go out into the world, one with 211,000
dollen of capital and lad manners, the other with no
capital at all nod good manners, and the last will surpass
the other after all in the great 'trout* of life. applause.)
Pet the general impression &braid -is that if • man be
urbane and °oedema he is weak—very polite but soft.
Pentaness end suavity are Oct indications of effeminacy;
• man may be courteous and urbane, yet straw
for the great bottle of life. Hoer it, young
men ! Hear it. Some men are perpetually desponding
and lachrymose, and always looking on the dark side
of everything, and for them there I. to their mind no
exemption from evil. HOw oofortunato have some of our
great men been. The pout Gribbe walked all night on
Westminster Bridge being too poor to Itsy for his lodging;
Fielding, who had tickled the worlds fancy with the
story of "Tom Jose.; was buried among paupers without
a stone to mark his genre; Butler, who threw the world
Into fita of laughter with thither's,, starved to death for
lack of a crust : Tame, in • sonnet bean the
light of. cat'a eve, because be could not afford • candle,
thisgreateet of Italian comedians being refused admittance
Into the very heepital that be had built out of his own
Pocket ; John Weeley was pelted with atones and Hilton
was blind. There is not an eye in this house to-night that
Wm never wept, or a heart that has never been broken'
and even the banished Empties must mourn for her eon
slain on the battle field, and the world mourning with her
broken heart. The only eon of his mother, and she was
• widow." (Applause.) Paradoxical ea it must seem, I
think the people who have most trouble are the happiest,
that ia if their troubles have been sanctified. In the
lottery of life there are more prizes than blank., and
whole orchards of pippins to one tree of crab., one
unfortunate pair of Siamese twins to millions of children
happily horn. To oue misfortune there are fifty
advantages. If parents would have their children grow
up good and Christian, teach them that religion, instead
of twine • glum, doleful, lachrymose thine, Ii the
brightest, the most radiant, the meet Jubilent, the
most triumphant thins that ever came down from
Heaven. One resume why I like the Weeleyens is becomes
their religion dwell seem to agree with them. (Applauee).
Despondency is the moat unprofitable feeling a man can
have. I have never known a man fret himself up, but
plen4 who have fretted themselves down. Goof cheer
divides our burdens, and carries threafourthe of them.
God knows we or, enough. If we mit sometimes laugh
and play and sing, I don't know what would become of
us. One good hearty laugh is • bombshell exploding in
the right place, whilst spleen and discontent ere • run
that knocks over the maa that shoota it off A met
many men have the Moos about their country ; but in the
United States or in England, where the Governments an
founded on the principles of righteousness, justice. and
Christianity, it can never be overthrown. There may be
vacillations, and we may seem to be going heck, bet
the tide is Ansi, and the cane, of principle and Justine
will be triumphant over all the world, over all our foss,
and triumphant for ever. (Applause.) " Heaven mid earth
may pass away, but truth, liberty, and Justice shall never
pass away. (Letid applause.)

wzymoUTH HAIABOIIII TEDI TABLE
DAM INS IFAIM LUD /M 1.. IMIR ULF FLOM

lON an. 1ip..1
11.16 p.m. 1.111 a.m.
1L.44 kra.

1210 0.111.
1120 p.m
1 iim.
I 28 p.m.
1.24 kta.
120 p.m.
2.46 am.
812 p.m.
134 so.
4. 4p.m.

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Ltd p.m. 9.18 p.m. 21
&18&m 0.44 &m. 23

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A.
1.44 p. m
2.10 a.m.
136 p.m.
3.28 p. m.
3 54 a.m.
4
4.46 a m.
6.15 pin.
6.38
6. 4 p.m.

3 44 p.m. 10 10 p.m. 24
4.10 km. 10 36 km. 24
4.36 p.m. 11. 2 p.m 36
6 2 km. 11 18 a.m. 25
626 p.m. 11.64 p.m. 16
6 64 km. 1210 p.m. 26
6.10 p.m 11.46 m. 27
6.46 kea 115 p.m. 27
7.1, p.m. 138 m.3Bs.
738 km. 1 4 p.m. 28
2.4 p.m. t30m.36

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