Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-06-18


little river Main, few miles east Of It's juno
ton with the Rhine It isa city Of 10000
inhabitants, sufficiently handsome, and per.
vaded by spirit Of active business that is
almost American. Some Of the residences Of
the bankers aud wealthy merchants on the new
Mainser-strasse, are very tasteful aud elegant
and reminded me Of the hilltop suburbs Of
Cincinnati We found excellent nccommo.
dations OF the Russeher Hol--a palstal
hotel-and then started out to find the banker
in whose care our letters we're TO reach US We
obtained before starting an accurate descrip-
ton the locality Of his place Of business, but
in searching for it we scoired the neghbor
hood two or three times in vain. We
asked the porters in houses in the vicinity,
but none O.. them had ever heard Of eny such
a Arm, although we were told at the hotel th It
il was one Of the most prominent in the city.
We at length went up stairway to the British
consulate to~enquire, when 10 our surprise
we found our gentlemen on the same floor
in an adjoining room ln these revolutionary
localities, wealthy men seem to regard it as
an advantage to be obscure, and not the Sign
of sign have they to indicate where they
where they keep their treasures.
Our next movement, as "a matter Of course,
L
way the statues which stand ia the streeta of
Gultenbery, Faust and S,ho, fer. the iuyen-
tors of printing, and cf the great poet Goethe
who was born here in l749 The
/ gallery has some few very fine pictures,
"Mars and Venus" by Paolo Veronese is
1ood but very nearly if not quite indecent
A dutch baby, sitting in It's chair eating II
cake and grinniog from ear to ear, was so
natural and jolly, that TO look al it was to
laugh. Although small affair. il is not one
of the least admirable of the works Of the
great Rubens.
Two pictures by Lessing are the gems OF
the collection One is called "Ezgelin in
prison exhorted by the monks to repentance
The white haired old man sits there loaded
with chains With spirit so stern and defiant
though death looks him in the face that we
felt like saying to him as George Freundsberg
did to Luther "lf you are right and you are
sure Of it, stand by your faith in Gods name
One of the monks has evidently been con
vinced that all arguments expostulalfons and
entreaties are useless there, and seems urg
ing bis younger companion, whose face is q
is II beautiful one--iull OF sincerity, compass
sion and sorrow to come away and leave the
hereto to his fate.
The other picture is John Huss, the Re
former and Martyr defending himself before
the council of Constance, against the charge
Of teresy. The ideas here are wildly set forth
aud you read the story at a glance Huss
stands before his judges with Bible in bis
hand and but little imagination is requested
10 suggest the arguments he is using Il is q
bold thing for him to say to these good men
for they doubtless weee such, although
blinded by the prejudices Of their age--that
they are all wrong and that the whole
christian world is wrong and he only right
but there is the word of God, he says, and
does it not sustain himl "lf | speak God s
truth how will you dare oppose iR' If
am deluded and in error, why do you fear
my teachng2 The faces of his judges are
full of expression and each one of them is a
study Two or three are thoughtful, aud ap
parently anxious that the enthusiast should
escape but they are in a minority aud he Is
condemned TO the stske.-4o please God
of conrse God made US sin his own image
and we make God in our own image and
imagine that whatever pleases our wicked
and intolerant hearts, viii please him2