The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1857-12-05
TIRE LECTURE LAST NIGHT.


Notwithstanding the inclemency Of the
weather, Mr.. SHuLLABER was greeted BY
large and fashionable audience at Cries.
cent Hall last evening, who were richly
repaid in the sparkling gems he scattered
over the Hall, for the dangers and DIS
agreeabilities they incurred in their en-
counters with the rain and mud. An
urgent effort was made to retain the lee
turer with us for another evening, which
we hope will not be unsuccessful.
Mr.. SHrLLABER gave as the ground
work Of his lecture, the LIFE OF MAH,
portrayed in poem Of cheerfulness, d.
vested of the dark and cadaverous hues
with which too many were disposed to
shroud it, and said, though he admitted
that there were shades of darkness that
mingled with and obscured it, he passed
them in expressive silence by, leaving
the old one to keep his own account. He
ther proceeded toa pleasant expose Of
what he regarded true life to bs-illus-
trating it by three pictures-of Youth,
with its "life and animosity" contrast.
ed with the youth that poetry and art
had shown-of Man, the earnest, toiling
and struggling man, with his hopes and
aims and loves in the various walks oil
life, enjoining the moral that "he 10 the
bappest who loves the most "-of grace
full Aqe where the brow is clothed with
"Time's regalia, honorably won,
The auroral wreath that crowns tho set
ting sun,
before the closing dawn Of the night, and
showing that the source of true respec
liability is in being respectable. From
it all, he deduced the moral that all we
term hUing is not life-that it is not liv
ing, merely to consume years by an in
glorious and selfish inactivity and self
indulgence, but that it must be measured
by the uses to which it is put. BY this
standard oil measurement, he said, Lie
of four score seltishly spent might be 70
garded as span, not to be compared in
worth to the brief existence Of chile
whose life was full of love. He said,
=. More than a life-to reckon time by bliss
j. SPAWNED by arms in fond parenthess,
Where, like hOwer-crowned garland they
bcdeck
Childhood's sweet altar, the maternal neck.
From this he reasoned that we shoult
be bigger, and truer hearted, and admi
our brothers. claim in Gods heritage Il
be as good as our own, and that W
should not, too readily, in our fanciet
superiority, condemn unfortunate man
not knowing how much Of temptation b.
had resisted. while resistance, though
seemingly fruitless might count IS good q
success with Him who can read tn
heart. Mr.. SHILLABER's philosophy re
garded everything as good, and implies
that the shadows were essential to form
the great whole that the mighty arts
meant, proving in the old saying that
takes every one to make world, an
that all are in the places finest for ther
that each one tugs at his allotted rop'
Ringing harmonic changes on the chime
That swings within the beliry tower Of
Time" 20 af-
We have not followed in the precis
order of the lecture, but have embodie
its general tone and sentiment. 1t va
not so funny as many had anticipated
its humor not displaying in any sudde
flashes or epigrammaatie clap traps, b,
was mildly diffused and made accessoI
rather than principal in the Performance