The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-02-03
MIR. EveIett's Lecture mt the Academy sf
Music,

OF the largest audiences that have ever assembled
in the Academy Of Music attended the lecture of Mr.
Everett last evening The was made at the
close Of the address which that gentleman made here
about week ago, that he would deliver discourse on
Charity, for the Womens Protective Emigration Socie
ty At least an hour before the appointed the build
ing hronged and very of the reserved seats on
the stage were unoccuped by eight o'clock the
passages were crowded. Mayor Temann presided, and
introduced the lecturer, who was received with the
warmest applause When silence restores Mr.
Everett commenced by stating the subject Of bis
lecture" Cbsrity"-apd then proceeded to speak
Of the obligations which rested the wealthy
and independent towards the poor and destitute There
were any who had steeed their hearts against the su
ferDgs and want Of their fellow beings-suy whose sor
did passion for gold had blunted oil the generous i'm
pulses Of nature, and closed the door OF human feeling
against the demands OF benevoence and charity. He
knew Of who had been rescued from the streets by
charitable society and who by of the assistance af
had become wealthy. His riches, however, instead of
furnishing him the 10 relieve others from the dest
tuition to which he had been exposed and from which he
had been rescued had the very opposite eiecths mind
became contracted in the pursuit Of wealth, and when
that society which had been the friend Of his YOUTH APP
piled to him for assistance, he codly refused. A CON-
psnon, who had known him in his younger
days, and who was reduced TO privation
hs S No. and Ss.sd him for SS
fereIco Shall give you his name said tho lecturer
Give you his nsme What need Is there Of that You all
Wall street. you meet him in Broadway ard he some
times goes TO church on Sunday. He is the man OF
pnchipg poverty Of his fellow creatures have claim
He is the youth who drives fast horses in the fast road to
destructon You see the same character in the woman
who PASSES her time in the frivoes Of c and whose
the wall Of charity falls UNDECIDED. OF what avail Is
wealth to SUCH and Of what the lessons which
every day teachesf They into the world destitute
dependent and they found friends who them
in the carly struggles OF life. Their country extended
hs aid and protection; but once in possession
snce, they forget their own former hclplessncss
and close their purses sgainst the calls Of charity Tue
lecturer here spoke Of those who had done much the
u Chart, aud of whom too much could be said
in their praise. Among these was 81 Vincent de Paul
who had organized association Of Sisters OF Charity
anc whose life was spent IN acts OF benevolencc. lie
led incident OF Of these sisters who had asked
the founder st. Vincent 10 be gent take the place txo
who Lad died Of virueht disease which they had
tacted from patients on whom they were attendipg
Unoemsyed by the slmoet certainty o. death, che re
qrssted permission 10 wait On The sick and persisted IN
her application till II granted. But this not the
only noble instance OF self devotion for while the Anglo
Saxon exss AMI the English language Is spokeu the
rame Of Florence Nightingale, who sought, among
the horrors OF the battle Geld, subjects Zoe
Der charitable care ami assistance n the cnes has
ia tale Of terrors and suerings and death hes It's
record Of nevoence Of self denial aud Of
charity performed by true, noble, Christian women The
lecturer drew a forcible Illustration from an incident
which Is related OF the relief OF Lucknow BY Sir Colin
Campbell and his gallant Hghlsndors II lha. Of the
Scotch girl who, when all Of the beleaguered nhaolnts
the ruthless enemy who surrounded the IOWA told lhsm
that she knew they would be saved for she had heard
the slogan OF her native land With what Joy did they
hail the approach Of their dolverors and the dispersal Of
the enemy Let us look around us, continued the lee
turor and will find under the shadow or palaces,
within our oSn city, thousands who struggling
against a. remorseIess, M ruthless foo that
which threatened the beleagured inhabitants Of Lucknow
ard whose fate, not relieved Is horrible for the Christian
" contemplate Think Of the want the SUFFERING the dos
tituton which exists in midst OF the youth who
brought up in this great city dependent upon the charity
OF the wealthy OF the women whom toll and drudgery
and neglect have driven 10 desperation, and who in tho
bitterness OF their poverty and despair have been forced
from the paths OF vrtue-of the men whom the with
erng hand Of desttuton has fallen with crushing weight
and who have become social outcasts through the coli
and Indifference which thinks not OF their suerings,
which them with unchariable eye. Think Of
the host Of enemies against which they have 10 neh Of
the terrible array that drawn against them and let
those who have the them Forget not the
cury which be has who gveh 70 the poor, aud which Il
far above any that this world can give
At the conclusion % Mr. Everes lecture, OF shich
have given but brief synopsis aseries Of complimentary
resolutions offered by Dr. Warner and adopted unsni
mously.