Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-04-21
Things True Rather Than Things
Pleasant,

Pleasant"
IT was announced last week that DR.
GOTwALD, Of the l. o. q, 7. would lecture
ut the VI. L. ChurCh-his subject was q |.
so Misunderstanding True Rather Than
Things Pleasant" This taken into con.
oideratiOu With the fact OF the Doctor be
ing lecturer of experience. raised curl.
osiiy on tip-tOs.
In appearance the Lodge may we'll be
classed with those time honOred in tilu.
tions-the l. U. o T. and Masonry. We
hope IL may be successful in extermina
ting lis enemy, but we fear that unless
the Grand Lodge engages abler lecture rs
than DR. GoTwALD, the attainment oil
its object is very uncertain.
The Doctor commenced by saying Goo
in the Creation began with the lowest,
and closed with the highest, began with
the irrational, closed with the RATIONAL
That he last, highest, greatest act Of Gods
creative genius was woman, "a horrid
Bachelor at our left said this was pleasant,
rather than true), he then went on TO prove
that this paragon OF perfection, since long
be fore the AOod has been subject to a
"heart disease" entirely different from
that discussed by SYLvANus COBB or
GEORGE LIPpARD.
Thus far the assertions made by the Dr..
were in conflict. They were waging with
each other q war 10 the knife and we felt
sorry for The erratic wanderingS of his
genius.
lie quoted ST PAUL 'In wine there is
excess" He forgot TIMoTHY, Take wine
for the Stomach's sake :" lie read from
the Sporting News aud Round Table en-
tirely ignoring his best evidences--Th he
New York Clipper and Police Ntps. He
gave His own experience-he once saw q
woman in state Of inebriety. Ito the
prGctiee9 eye che was lady" Some gen
tleman told the DR.. that there once lived
another woman who was in the habit of
getting drunken on much wine.
This with what he read from the Round
Table and Sporting News, the DR.. concluded
was enough his audience too thought it
enough to establish his point that "Amer-
lean ladies did drink" Yet in the begin
ming and in the close he argued Rs God
had made her last, she was "Angelic," +"
The "Fairest," "brigh test," "best" "most
beautiful" Of Gods Creation.
His peroration was not Of the WEBsTE-
RIAN style, neither did il border on the
inimitable oratory of Wendell Phillips
whilst listening to 1t we thought once of
George Francis Train, twice Of the Inn
mortal ]. N.
j. N. courteOusly assumes the Pressure,
The DR.. evades the burthen and falls il
upon the weaker sex, and were it not for
the fact that 'American ladies did drink"
they could not with standi..
The DR.. is a talented lecturer so we
wero told. We saw no evidence Of it Fri
day syeuing-we only saw egotism assume
the responsibilities Of merit. vanity
address itself to us as modesty, self suf-
fciensy take upon itself the garb Of
humility. His arrogance was only equal
ed by his pomposity, his fustian by his
frothiness; forid and high sounding to
affectaiion, he became jejune and prosy.
If his rhetoric was subject for criti-
cism, his elocution was an object Of pity
the intonations Of his voice were unmu-
sicsl-its gradations wrong he evidently
forgets that harshness is q fault that
destroys melody, and that antics Ithat
were pardonable in men like CHoATE or
CoRwIN, are inexCusable in men Of genius
As n lecturer the DR.. is misca lied. It Is
not his sphere, de never was intended
for 1t, and we venture he will Try IL no
more. Thus much we would not have
said had not we like the Dr. chosen for
our theme-"Things True Rather Than
Things Pleasant"