New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-08-27

Fver,e14y be,vc N favor Of this Legislation, tie
evs.or wss pronounce 20 be 70 discussion, and the
Bible discussion Of the mo-nipg was resumed.
The Rev. Il. q. NoRTHROP, who CON nepeed the
discussion Of tbe morning, began again. lie had been
su-prSi tia. two Of the speakers had pro >osed 70
solye al difficulties by banishng the Bible from oho
schools. He thought this would strike down A.
H0rsl.ty.
To. Rev. Dr.. NlLsoS, President Of the College Of
An,ro thought twss not the province Of the STATE 70
teach lthcior: religion should pever be made 70 de-
p=nd on the fac;uA.Nn Of pohncs nwss the proper
work Of the parent 70 teach IL. II they could have
IA. Rh. read quietly in the schoos let the do IL;
bu. fo.ce Il ueverl His Protesta Bible Was as mach
tie syu De- q; bis religion as The trucInx OF Csho
he To respect the conscience OF the lrsh or German
tov wss better wsv 20 esf him 70 morality than 10
force hm even - read the Bible.
The Rev. Mr.. SAlrH OF Dorchs stsr, welt upon the
separation bch should always be kept oroa between
Chuch SID S'a,e. The set Of 1879, requiring the
r,a6rg Of the con version OF the Bible in al the
public schools wss rstrograde mo, ement toward
the union Of Church and State, by which the General
Corr once provided for the maintenance Of churches
IL the Bible not read IS religious exercise, 10
reading wGs Of no cons suence
In the evening the Rev. X. {. W,TERsroS Of Boe
ton gave lecture in the North Christian Chnrch, the
arce~, in The city on The Beautiful n Nature aai AT
as corrected with Education. God, be SAID, had 60
created the mind that there within Il innate
erse nj besu:y The visible creation into which this
mind hsd been cs.lei lie had crowded with lowell
ness. The love OF beauty was not simply love OF
ul in wha; is most familiar. He had seen bsrberry
bush resed with the greatest and highly valued
ID the gardens Of the king of Nsples. We o'ten im-
sgined hat II were on the other side OF the world
We should see something worth looking a. Bat God
had rot left the world destitute Of wonders tina. there
was rot What might excite submity and grandeur here
AROUND NJ. Ii we insersibe - the common as
poets Of nstufe, the more extraordinary pheeonena
would excite but momertary attention II was hard To
say which was most wonderful, the terminating seed
or the revolving world the blazing meteor or the fake
OF STOW. H. Newllampshire some years since ne was
hesj,ating AZ the foot of high bill whether he should
climb il Tor TIE sake of the prospect An honest farmer
coming bv, he ssked him whether there WAS anything
worth seeing from its summit. That depends uPon
who sees it, was the reply. Whittier, who bad been
shoemaker in his youth, with longings after the days
Of Romance. wishing that he had lived in days when
there wss something worth writing about, had told
him that he was awakened 10 the poetry Of the life
about him by reading Buns he thought that the Mer-
rimac was lust Rs good river a. bonny DOuD. To
perceive the beauty of nature required keen sersbty
and purity OF thought If we did not beauty in usae
the fault was in Cur. mind, not in her. There
nothing in the true love OF nature which led 20 nav
kish fsstidOusntss. Girls might sit by window 90
into ord ecsaes the beauty of the prospect and
shrink fIOm the actual duties Of household lie. But
the most practical life was tia. best fitted for tie
trueSt perception OF besuy. had 10 look at nature
with the eye and not merely with the eye, bat with
the mind and heart and these rightly cultured And
We should build our love of nature upon accurate
knowledge. Il Was better 10 love tree because i
Was green or brown than not 10 love u az sl; but II
was s better 20 understand the process of its GERM
nation and growth. Truth and Beauty always went
hand in hand. God made the first garden, and every
garden since taught Of him. In each visible thing We
might see His thought. If We looked rightly upon
ture we should find in il message from the Most
High From Nature Mr.. Waterston proceeded 70 9
consideration Of the beautiful IN Art which indeed he
considered greatly subordinate To the beauty OF nature
in This country. Ii We had not the works OF the Great
Masters we had the works OF the Crest Master and
al NOT. - al Art q
ideas of which art the embodiment aid in art II
was the idea which the test Of any true work. II
was not the costness of work OF art which measured
ia value The true value of work was not i.s selling
value picture or prin. was valusble IN proper
ton 10 the emotions which i excited. The simple
pript which was the progenitor of Whittier Poem oil
q Raphael was a stained lIthograph winch DID not
cost more than twenty five or thrty-seven cents.
Mr. Waterston concluded by offering some general
suopestons as 10 the methods Of ncucaD the love OF
beauty especially in the knowledge of Natural History
Above all things we must, IN teaching children 10 ap
/ precia'e nature, use ineligible language. Nature
made children Of her yotaries Franklin played WITH
| kite and the ightnng-rod was the result; the MAJ
uus of Worcester with tea'ksttle, and behold re
steam ng inc; Newton watched apples and blew soap
bubbles and the law which governs the worlds came
TO him Galy ami handled frogs ard the teegr sph and
eecroype of it. Great could be made Of the
black board Agassiz attempted u lecture to
illustrate anything without the blackboard. lie hoped
! that would be provided for the assembling OF
great works Of art in the country and he alluded 70 the
! literal oler OF instruction which had been made by
! Agasslz.