The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-12-22

lect audience. He commenced by saying that pnt.
losopher had divided human beings into two
classes enefactors and maiefactors II would
perhaps. be moro comprehensive classification tods
vide them INTO laborers and oafers for whichever
direction we looked we found the people VINO loafed
more or less undong the work OF the people who Ia
bored. The laborers brought out OF the woods.
The l0afers would have been content To Wild In
them forever. To the laborers we owed salvation;
TO the loafers most Of the evils which dls1gure it
From the tler OF the soil the occupations OF arts
and professions the man who shirked his work was
the great dsorganizer The right man in the right
place-oh that We always had him The wrong
man In the wrong place was too often our
exasperating experience. Charles the sec
ond. pronigate and idler, was King of
England and the Dutch fleet sailed up the
Thames The Duke de Richelieu commanded for tho
French King In Germany, and the general who dis
placed him wrote to Louis the Fnteenth:--'I have
found your Majesy's army divided into three bodies;
one above ground, which has become o parcel OF
thieves and vagabonds, all In rags; another under
ground, and still third in the hospitals. demand
your Majestys Instructions whether / will bring
The first army or whether | shall wait until
1t has joined the other two.u Woe to
to the nation which had It's proAigates In
curse OF others. The causes Of loafersm n human
nature were reducibe to imbecility or win and lee
bleness OF personality. Balzac the great French
romancer, had said:-"Wnen | took my modest
apartment in Paris I had numerous debts 70 dls-
charge; and what mad to face them with were q
he.tle OF ink, with an iron viii and streng energy
to overcome all difficulties ana break through all
Obstacles and, OF course ne oa IL war
to be u man. No man could DO happy and lazy.
Yet how many men there were sucn as farmers,
were looking hopefully forward to the period
when the results VI their labor would enable
man, man. recently said At asssias d nus Trends
"After my sudden downfall from power ID February,
ls4s, resolved to turn my grlei ~ hAru WORK. and
%aas ms again mus S Vs
to be more than four score. the moment tMe nrst
indisposion to labor was overepme by psrs0nai
effort the power to work gradually grew into tho
habit OF working until the viii betate Tlfnosr auto
~ s na 10 snS as 2
most hospitabe % ab0rers. Our country Is and IL 20
be the great field for labor. Our mission was toedu
cate for work and not for the Sinking Of work.
Whatever might be said OF let IL never be said tnat
we were l0anng nation. Having referred to India.
the industry OF Holland and Belgium with them:
he then drew parallel between Great Britain aud
s sss sn sSa Of n %af Sa
the Of the United States was great deal more
being three and hali millions OF square miles. Ths
coal regions Of the United States covered space
larger by Q hundred Thousand square miles than
the whole area Of the United Kngd0mS and
n the wear snan We dld. But the natural resources
OF Great Britain had limit while ours were unllln-
tied. over thirty millions Of people were placed In
country nearly as big as all Europe and in an age
which exceled all others In mechanical Inventions
and discoveries II We had ten tunes our present
population they could not do the work which
machines now did under human directiOn--and mar
chimes never l0aed. In the course OF Q GEN.
we now only perform marvsls. The diniculty with
England as compared with THIS country was ner re-
strcvs area me mad s,ss Inv M
emigration. 1t was the Inventive genius Of England
andn0t her great generals aud statesmen that made
her prosperous. We had lost all our wonder at the
mxrvels produced by mechanical Inventions, be-
cause they had now become 30 common. Az Bacon
tn aa were rare. founders q states aud clss
lawgvers tyrants and leaders OF the people, these
were honored but with the title o. worthless OF oemi
among the gods themselves" we might loox nope
ali our dirty work. even, perhaps the dirty work Of
our politicians (Laughter.) The unskilled labor Of
sDS4 Eulope es's While aa the Skilled labor
this country was better paid than tnat OF
DOCTORS lawyers and clergymen. Referring 70 me
pended ON q commanding intelligence placed la I'M
mediate contact with reality. Take Napoleon for
labor the Appearance Of inspiration. What We
called his nashes Of genius, ms intu!tiyc knowedge.
g 0ss 9a s1a l. rS ss as sss
half hour for that half hour may determine yonr
destiny.n Among our own generals, In the recent
war, Phil Sheridan made hts great marx on the pup-
lie mind by the impression he made by his cease,ess
activity OF body and SOUL He seemed to be Thought
horseback that time could not effect or bullets MT
Having passed glowing eul0glum on General Shert-
dan the lecturer proceeded 20 glance 1t the character
ofmoral loafng. amongst whose v0tares he included
such people as had pity for men who had committed
onences against the civil and the moral law. and
who would now call Jen Davis ian unfortunate
rebelu and wilkes Booth ian unfortunate assassin
the lecturer concluded BY advocating the West a.
tho great iold Of labor where all anxious TO make
their mark should HE.
Rev. stephen II. Tying Jr., will deliver the next
lecture OF the course