Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-11-11

LECTURE ny REV. T. STAIR KING.--Notwith
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last night, the Melodeon nearly full of hTst
class lecture audience, who gathered to hear the
celebrated Thomas Starr King lecture. The
speaker is slender gentleman with a very youth
full appearance. His subject was the "Dstinction
between Existence and Life,' and as his eloquent
thoughts we're poured forth in appropriate words,
it was evident lhat he had hUsd and not merely
eristed The lecture was Rn excellent beginning
| Of the winter course.
A few iotlins will DO found below.
The speaker commenced by saying that Life iS
not measured by years. Myriads do more in
this world than simply to continue here and do
lire The Creator provides infinite stores of the
material to keep alive the human life, except that
for the support Of the digestive organs, and we're
there a million times as many inhabitants as now,
there would be oven enough for the lungs of ALL
But for the supply of animal sustenAnoe, man
must work. and hence the various phases of social
ism which spring up in all our large cities
Life is something infinitely higher than exist
ence, and yet how many live to eat and not eat to
live. They think the chief end Of man is TO feod
his digestive system, What should we think Of an
engine, if the sense Ct taste could be miraculous
ly impaired to it, which should spend all its time
10 munchDg wood and tasting the faVOrS Of birch
and hack atrack as the chief object for which il
/ was made.
We often talk of n lipe man, but the majority Of
men are not half alive, and many Of US, as to oul
morality and intellectual life, are not yet born
That is a noble and fitting canabaism for the sou
which lives upon the great minds that have spread
abroad heir healthful influence to render the world
at large nobler aud better. We hnd some meT
whose hearts are 30 hard and petrihed by the
canker drops that have steadily dropped upon then
that we may break the paving stones Of Wal
street upon them If we so disposed.
man lives where his thoughts are. One may
live 10 Paradise and dream OF a cat bage garden
and another lives in a cabbage garden and drean
of Paradise Paul worked ip tent>makera shop
but no lived when the tent Of time DER spread
about him and he saw such glorious sights as d
TO not fall to the usual lot OF man.
We each ana all live in spheres OF action, th
character of which show the nature Of the life tina
flows into our souls, and we are judged by thos
al spheres as they appear to the outside world.
III Ii a man really hBes In his house aud home an
for not merely exists Il ere, the home should be n
in persprGton Of his soul, ustas the lobster aud
lei slDediS the shell in which he lvea That IL goo
d saving Of Willis that man In the country Is III
fig Ou the tree, but man In the city is like 4
- in a drum. The cbilliness and discomfort OF mi
nv Of the arsiocraic dwellings, is well illustrate
BY the euuntryman, who. after visiting an a.
quaintance In the city who had grown sudden
rich, aud who, with bis vile, had an army OF colo
ed servants In the house reported that his ireI
was reduced TO iGepng negro boarding house.
We live, not by months and years, but by e.
periences The speaker sometimes thought Il
the secret OF old Father Methuselahs 8 long Nc "
that ne was q slOl0 coach and 1t took him 80 lO
10 accomplish any deeds.
e We see tomb stOnes-that "Mr. So and So al
oi aged 20 years." when his soul had not probsl
'"O lived more than five minutes Wa live by eve
al as epoehs. The politician lives from one Pre-
DENTAL election 10 another, the daudy from
80, orayat or pair Of boots 70 another, The fashiona
our lady from one wrinkle to another, &c,
l,ch Think what COpenicus must have felt when
,n, was announced that new planet had been brou
forth by hls sOrceries Of figures in Washing
/, or as the sword oil Cornwallis was handed TO HIM
greater still, aud greatest Of oil, how thoug
- rushed through the mini Of Columbus as al
the deck Of his little vessel he saw the candle
p San Salvador, throw its little light back to
'' CASTLE and through all the ages Of darkness
ignorance.
We need more calmuess in our daily life.
rush from east TO west aud 80 do we fly thToV
life that the genuine Yankee probably gains J
heap OF life, by the very momentum which carries
iS past the poinilwhere he should take bis depaTtl
We cannot wait TO read an autboPs, throughlu q
. books, but they are driven round the country
in Cuba they drive cows 10 all the houses wi
they want milk. We reec many books ia B
a hurry that We are nearly as much oOnfuse
q wasthe old Dutohman who visited Chilon on l.
Luzerne, and asked TO see where byron
chaiued as be had related In "The Prisone
Chillon"-aDd who be sAid was chained there
cause he would not take on bis hat TO Cess
d. cBp, and then he was banisbed TO the ial0 Of
for thirty.two years aud saw no human being
bis man Friday"