The New York herald., 1867-02-01
THE ROLL OF HONOR.

lecture BY the Rev. D4.. Chapin.
Aiarys and fashionable audience gathered last even
Ing a the Reformed Dutch church t3sw Dr.. Alex r.
Thempsensh onTwsnsy .fsss ssrsst. nsar Sixth avsis
y listen 70 lecture BY the Rev. ~ Cnpin, D. D.,
upon the subject u the Roll Of Hopsrp This il the
nth Of seriss u lectures which being delivered
IN two weeks bsfops That church society BY dis
tinguisasd speakers After voluntary nom ts organ
Dr. Thompson introduced the oraaorof the evening who
spoke substantially IS follows
Nothing is moro faIacous than contsmpt for asrac-
lions; for very little renectioa will that
they drive the machinery Of the world. OF human
ticns except tho sensual and impusve, drawn
tho conditions which cannot bs superseded but which
are felt power Sometimes it seems TO be a. il all
things governed by money; but that great agent
In the long run yields to ideas Truth realizes higher
than market prices, and justice weighs than gold
Even physical force is rested only upon the plan of
physical being s supremacy arises a the threshold Of
the soul Inspired by loyalty those who offered their
ives in its defence may surely claim the freedom per-
haps the life, OF tho country resting upon their
TONS and may sec the fruit OF their exertons in the
glory and unity Of the nation While for many ages
every sacrifice for the aspirations Of those who have
lived significantly and lined the centuries with lustrous
deeds and giorv and lived with heroc Names men have
suffered and fought and sacrificed for the splendid idea
that has yet been fully realized and which call
freedom" repeat, the machinery d tho world
is driven BY distractions refer not 10 that
mens and lays them in the higher place OF the
inspiration Of ambition and the Of reunion. Al
Ife to ve that life 10 not made up merely Of goods
shat can weigh and measure; and this honor Is
object Of universal attraction Hardly any will ad-
why the man himself s lost To find honor must 60
DOWN down below the Of tho Senate Chamber and
tho Common Councilman, II there 10 honor in those
(Applause There few, however lew fallen, who
DO not mako some 70 honor There are some
men whose assertions Of honor In their own persons arc
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cred sIncere in the delusion Nov, take rom him
the conceit Of honor and h nediens o his character
for himself II Falstas remarks be true that 'honor
cannot ses leg,n then there was no than
honor and the ch absolute realities there are per-
who arc called good who are; in fsot compelled 10
act BY circumstances They never did ses the moral
csssd @ motive. @ Thsy ~ never cheated i man ont Of
~ns. sism. sor. Of honor Ss
lack charity those instances In which honor has been
prefers honesty This Is the age or sksptcsm There
arc those who tell N that Il - wise to reconstruct the
pnsopy Of the dim IN. assa Tns,s s;s s cSossnH
you will allow the expression, would say that here
s'honors easy" mosquito can hardly strike any
the osossis and generals where sss rank and asi Il
the private station 10 not the post Of homer 10 tho post
passss from lip 70 lip without handle A. people y
not lacking Of but thing which belongs 70 hoocf
and thaa . reverence No people more truly honor NV
lacking The nation has passed through the earthquake
Of revolution; but Il hss paused in iss great work
iogsshsr BY insrainsd loyalty TO. erdsr. There /.
4 refined honor In the second generations climbing and
Is s natural as i ossusui tsine Cha. honor Is The
rule Thee may he exceponA but DO noe let =: indulge
Z No pous IL ASA @ iof 70 che
ground. There other tests ALSO Hew grandly, yet
sadly this breaks upon " nearly every day whom some