The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1852-12-31
THE LIFE OF WEBSTER.
"A SERMON.
PBFAcnEDAT THE MELoDEoN, IN BOSTON,
By rev. Theodore Parker, ''1
ON SUNDAY MORNING, OCT 81, 1859.

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ON SUNDAY MORNING, OCT 81, 1859.
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Webster was q ereatman, a man Of The
,argest mould, a. grea, body and a great
brain: be seemed made to last a hundred
years Since Socrates, there has seldom
beena head 50 massive huge seldom
sucha face, since The stormy features ol
Michael Angelo. 89''s'9si1F ny Z a'3l ~
.The hand that rounded Peters dome, " ~
It9 And groined the aisles of Christian Rome--'
he who sculplured Day and Night into
suchrbea,iful torrnse-he looked them in
his face before he chisseledlihem IN
sione.s DOpuytren and Cuvier are said
to be the Only menin our day Bthat have
had abrnin 50 vast, Since CharlemagDe,
Ithink there has not been suchca grand
figure in all Chrstendoms IA large man,
decorous ia dress, dignifed in deportmem,
he walked as If he. felt himself king
Men from the country, who knew him not.
stared at him as he passed through the
streets. The coaltlieayers and poriers
Of London looked on him as one Of the
great forces Of The globe; they recegnized
anaiiye king.b In the Senate of The u.
States he looked an emperor in that conn
Gil. Eventhe mnjestic Calhoun seemed
common compared with him. Clay look
ed vulgary and Van Buren hut eaiiox.--
What mouth he lad! II was alion's
mouth. Yet there was 9 sweet grandeur
in his smile, and a woman's sweetness
when he would. Wbata browitswas!-
What eyes! like charcoal fire in the bol-
tom ofiadeep. dark well. His face was
rugged with volcanic fires, great passions,
and, great thoughts. 1 aai q bas
III s'The front of Jove himself;bea .HniIgs ,sEi}
,lt Aneye like Mars, TO threaten and command"
Divide the faculties, not bodily, info
tie intellectual, moral, .afftetual and re-
ligious; ard Try him on that scale. His
late life shows that be had liile religion
somewhat Of lis lower canven-
tional, deyoutness, Formally Of prayer,
athe oIdipances Of religion;" but lie lad
moi great mans all-conquerihg look 10
God, Iiis easy 10 be 1deyou.," The
Pbafisee was more so then the Publican,
Il is hard 10 be moral. "Deyoutness"
took the Priest and The Leviie TO the
Temple, Morality the Samaritan 70 the
man fallen among thieves. Men tell US
he was religious, and in proof declare
that he read the Bible; thought Job a
great epic poem; quoted Habbakuk from
memory, and knew hymns BY heat, and
la,ierly agreed with a New Hampshire
divine in all The doctrines Of a Christian
life. .s-,:i.. III ,......,
OF The effsctons, he was well provided
by nature-ihoueh they were little cult
yaied-very atlractable to a few. Those
who knew him loved him tenderly, and IL
he hated like gian, he loved also like q
king. OF unimpassioned and unrelated
love there are two chief forms: Friend
ship and Philanthropy, Friendship be
surely had. All along the shore, men
loved him. Men in Boston loved hin,;I
even Washington held loving hearts that
worshiped him. r ,,,,.
Ofphilapthrqpy, ! canuol clpim, much
for him; | find il not, Of conscience.ii
seemed 10 me he had 1.-THE: in his later
life, exceedingly little; his moral sense
seemed long besot,ed; almost, though
not wholly, gone. Hence, though he
was often generous, he was not Jus, r. ID
Free 70 give as 10 grasp, he was charita-
ble by instinct, not disinterested on prin-I
ciple.
His strength lay not in the religions,
nor in the affectlonal, nor in the moral
part Of man. Hisintellect was immense :,
His power Of comprehension was vast
tie methodized swiftly. But if you look
a, the forms Of intellectual action, you
may distribute then, into three great
modes Of force, the Understanding, the
Imagination, and tile Reason ;-the un-.
derslanding, dealing with details and
methods; imagination, with beauty, is
power 10 create; reason with first prlnci-
pies and universal laws. , ,l,.
We must deny to Mr.. Webster ihe
grea, reason. lie does not belong TO the
great mef Of that departnent--ihe So
crates, Aristotle, Plato, Leibnitz, Newton,
Descar;es, and the other miehties. He
seldom grasps a universal law. His
measures of exnediency 'ior today are