Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-01-23

DR.. HOLLANDS IECTURE.-Ihe lectuIs oI
DR.. Holland, before the Young Mems Chris
tian Association, we are glad to learn, is most
highly commended BY all who had the good
fortune to hear it. DR.. H. is an exceedingly
pleasant speaker, both in manner and in
matter, two things which are apt not to be
found united, in many of those who appear
before US. The following is q brief synopsis
of his remarks.
Self help is that power which distinguishes
man from animals, and from all the forms
Of life with which we are acquainted. Those
who have had but little connection with the
schools, have been addressed, through the
medium Of biographies of men who, from
humble beginning have risen to eminence
through proverbs and maxims and in any
imaginable way which tended to rouse IN
tutored ambition.
Let us look at sonre of these maxims
which these biographies are intended to il
!ustrate. "Where there's a viii there's a
way"-one Of the largest lies ever Palmed
off on increduleus humanity. Everybody
has a desire to be rich--but there's no way
for everybody to be rich. At least thou
sand men have will to become President
Of the United states-but there is no way for
one in five hundred of them to achieve that
ambition.
"Labor omnia rincit" is another lie-the
power Of the 1aborer mus. be equal TO the
power required by his to s or it viii con-
ouer nothing. Set an ass 20 carry an ele-
plants burden and his back will break,
There is no instituted process by which
true manhood can be manufactured. The
popular notion is that he is a self-made man,
who, without the aid of schools or the regu-
I processes Of education, arrives at excel
! lenee in knowledge, or who, without the ad-
vantages of wealth and culture, achieves
high position. a day labOrer for instance,
acquires in the intervals Of his toll a score
of languages, and he is at once dubbed a
self-made man. A man by craft and cum
ming and meanness, may acquire wealth
and through it influence, and people will at
once style him self-made man. A vulgar
wretch, by chicanery and duplieity and
bribery may arrive at place and power and
he viii find tools and toadies enough to glo-
rify him as aself- made man.
Of self-made men, like these, the high
places in the country are shamefulIy fall
to-day-but the majority of them are not
self-made men at all They are by nc
means so plenty.
College-made men are fine ornamental
men, very good things for celebrations, 4tt
of July orators, contributors to family news
papers, etc. They make respectable candi
dates, to be supported BY respectable gentle
men for respectable public Offices, to which
there is no hope 0f)electjng them. TheJ
presehunexceptionable sermons to unezcep
tionable persons, and reverentlyl put Of
tHeiE shoes among those who have the repu
ticn Of tender corns. With a great respec
for the christian ministry of the country,
am compelled to believe that full half Q
+ its rnembsrs are the creatures of college
i and-tbs lmPuth- pieces of schools that the.
& entered their profession, not because the.
& Il We're GQapteq 70 u Dub were moved 70 u ..
; a mistakeh sense Of dufy,.or a false idea 9
7 pref i6hal life. 7sg71 - -
$ oftheover-erowded professions Of law an,
medicine, I speak with less hesitation be
{ cause haze to deal With-isss delicate mo
r tives Of life, Men go 10 these professions (
get living and position. In the popula
! idea the medical profession is the least al
Z traetivs Of the three which we csll learned
but think how rare and peculiar the individ
8 uality must be that is adapted to it: Thin
4 OF the pure heart-the answering honor
4 the Christian integrity that should be hi
; Ground whom the faith and affections Of fY
4 hundred families cluster; who enters int
. their life, shares their secrets and has the
: dearest earthly interest in keeping, an
Z then look at the multitudes Of men poure
: out every year by our medical institution
t some Of whom have studied medicine sim
e ply because they were not fitted for law {
L theOlogy-reminding one Of the dog that We
: supposed to be good for rabbits, because b
was good for nothing else. Think Of ell tn.
Issyj aad marvel not that distipguishe