The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1864-12-21
D.. Hollands Lecture.

The following sharp criticism on Dr..
Hollands lecture was handed 70 rs TOO late
fcr insertion las week: but as that lecture .
has excited q great amount Of comment f
anon the hearers. we think these remarks F
viii Sill have interest.-ED. REPUB.l
The sect OF s.. Cost and Compensation /
was e.oquently handled by the distinguished .
author and lecturer. J G. Holland. n D.. +
tie other evening. The application OF lis .
doctrines 10 mean mer in communities and /
TO matters Of national concern were very
clear Du, we have heard many express /
doubts as 10 tie way il Is 10 he applied Il
certain things that have come under their
own observation.
We have heard some dwell with exceed
ing delight ON the doctrine OF compensation
in character made 50 plain 10 the under
standing through the illustration OF Tie
india rubber doll No man has faults with
out some excess Of virtue 20 make up for il.
The more and the grosser your mental and
moral deficiencies. tile sub.imer some good
quality Of Your mind and heart towers above
tie general level of mankind. We heard
Others who were much disturbedt that doc
Urine 50 excellent Us that oftle Equality Of
Cost and Compensation should have been
anniA.ia,el by lis illustration ending in
no. believe he didn't" for ifit De an ex-
ample Of The working Of things. the law is
not true; but if the law be true, the Illus
tration was not. To lose the law is 10 lose
The locture-to lose tile illustration is to lose
the whites. point in il; but how TO save
both is task too hard for ordinary COM
mon sense.
One good Christian who had been taught
whether We eat or drink, do al TO the
glory Of God" and who thought, by SO do
ing he was turning az time to the highest
uses. this discipline OF his Will and adec-
tlCus. and the nurture Of his piety, now
learned with sadness that no one of Us has
50 much as one-tenth of all our time TO de-
vote to The gaining OF LIES greatest good
some VIII probably sill keep 10 the New
Testament view, while those Of small attain
ments IN christian culture will feel that as
the tng placed 10 their account has teen
reduced TO one-teuth. SO should tie expec-
taiions Of their proficiency be- We heard
one Christian inquiring where was Tire
equality between our work and Gods gift.
in the pardon and redemption OF the soul
from sin. For. according TO the lecturer
we receire only what we earn, and this in
exact proportionto orr labor. in accordance
with an eternal law.
But our own perplexity--for we too had
pensation forthc money cost OF the lecture is
ample-an instructive and interesting lee
ture and the signt and hearing Of one who
has an honorable and national fame Tie
same well paid Tor the lime spent in listen
ing. valued, I suppose, at twenty cents.
For the lecturer said that a lecture had a
money value and miglt he counted at fi's
cents a bearer. Deduct the twenty-five
cents admission 10 The Hall and there Ie-
mains twenty-five cents. the value al one
hour OF time. All this Is plain. But villa,
perpleXes us is how We did or do. or, il il
Is yet future, how We shall, receive cOmpcn-
sauon iOg the extra three quarters of an
hour spent after hali-past seven, before the
1ity cents worth began Is the compensa-
zion oi a kind that warrants the lecturer, OF
the Society, or anybody whatever, in putting
us 10 that cost: Some Of lis are proles
slonal men who can hardly ind time TO At
tend lectures at all some Of US came from
four 10 SIX miles away 10 the literary treat
and Ike 10 lie q. home before midnight.
All OF Us value our time at least as highly
Is the lecturers estimate Of twenty-five
+ cents an hour. We lately read a mighty
epic called the "Jobs.ad." wherein the
moncy-spending hero. writing home "ioi
more" after recouuiing the di.apidated
state Of his apparel. his late illness. the ex-
tor,'on If the College, and other well
iei-aed causes. makes especial lament OF
Tho loss OF some money which
AL auony.loas person yesterday stole
F There we're At the lecture Two hundred and
df.y Of us at least: and VIVA. anonymous
person had a right - pisier from each ofus
the forty-ive minutes aioresaid-in all, al
twenty-five cents per hour per head ,o.a
OF over for,y-six dollars Had a tax
gathetcr ran away with twenty-five cent.
Of each OF US. we should. in thinking OF ia,
loss. have looked d; j, in the gross: why not
so now?
Tie lecturer .aid that Baltimore was, ai
il were, one person with bis peculiar char
- acicristics, virtues aad vices. So Boston
So Chicago, So Lansing. Il has long beer
pat down as Characteristic OF the latte
ci'e that IL was always TOO late In gc,tiu.
anywhere. Lectures. Concerts. Education
a.. Exercises never begin at the publishe,
/ time. We have frequently waited lon.e
than on last Friday evening We hav0
waited over f,ro hours after The pabli-he.
time. for exercises L. begin.
3 We lad earnestly hoped that the Society
in these lectures. would sei the comnunit.
q GOOD example Of prompiness and punctu
aiity-an example very much needed. lie
Tie time he as late as You choose. but one
fixed let il BE adhered %.
4 Card.