The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1869-01-06

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crowd, whose presence Ais ejaiss Does tba
repaid. Genius u - saey . ~ maa Who
has II. 70 bsne6csnt too 70 thoss Who enjoy
il. The humblest plant that lives By it, rays,
never any more than the San itself-thinks
!" How hard il 10 for the sun to shine For
it is sssy 10 each; and the bene6osncs is
two fold; tho heat and light are in The sun
but they ars in the plant - veil, and become
it's life and light. We 70 stumbling along
mental automatic, With our brain taken with
! dry rust. Then man Of Gods making
comes upon us, and his genius quickens u.s.
and We feel how near being geniuses We all
are. It's Is Emerson says: We hear ea-
gerly every thought and word quoted from an
intellectual mind. But, in his presence, our
own mind is reused 70 activity, and We forget
very fast what be says, much moro interested
10 the new play Of our own thought than IN
any thought Of his. It's the majesty into
which No have suddenly mounted -. Once
We were stepping little this way, and little
that way; now We ere . men in balloon,
and do not think so much Of the point We
have left, or the point We would make, - Of
the liberty and glory Of the way" Genius
is vivifylns. That is 80 easy to US, now that
ii has been said We wonder that We didn't
think Of it before. Genius quickens US and
lifts us into kinship with itself. "Clear
Grit !" was skeleton phrase 70 ron and ~
meant what We could gather from the die
tionary. And then Collyer came along, and
breathed upon it with bis genins and the
skeleton stirred and became . living soul to
us henceforth, full Of : noble intelligence.
When God makes genius-He alwsys
makes the man more than any
thing the man ever says.
Because the genius is Gods typical revela !.
ton of the future man; of the man that may be
possible come Of these odd millions OF years
to come, but who isn't possible yet. Tho
air is full of ideas, and the genius is Gods
prophet to utter such as may be lawful. But
his life is more than the words he utters; for
his life is the unuttered - we'll a. the utter
ed. So, We say again the man il more than
anything he says. But what Collyer sAid,
Was good enough and grand enough in itself /;
even if it were not supplemented BY his yet
more eloquent presence and unconscious ex-
preston.
Clear Grit: As IN honest working, and
fully doing manhood, Collyer is the very en-
bodiment Of his theme. A blacksmith until
after he was married man; one of the most
eminent Is he il one Of the very ablest in the
American pulpit to-day. Preparing himself
in the early time ia his intervals of rest be-
tween work-ay even in that work itself pre-
pairing himself for his later work-he is q
splendid example Of "Clear Grit. =
An honest end and work in life; marriage
and children; the Indictment to true man.
hood in these particulars, was the prescribed
"Clear Grit of this present lecture. We
don't believe in reporting lectures. They are
their owners private property. And the
person who could have heard DR.. Collyer,
and didn't, don't deserve to know anything
about what he said. IfDr. C. were captious
ly criticised by the canons, of the proper
gestures and graces for the platform, there
would be room for fault-fnding. His ges'
lures are unconsciously laborioas. But il
anybody wants to think Of gestures and atti
.udinizings while DR.. C. is speaking, or aftel
he he has spoken, they are welcome to do il
-we can't divide their labors in that line
DR.. Colyer has q mission to the people il
this lecture delicate and momentous one
and he delivers it as q man thoroughly il
| earnest.
| Before he lectnred We said that no create
lecture had ever been delivered in Keokuk-
that no greater lecture ever would be deliv
cred here than DR.. Collyer's. Now that h
has come and lectured, We repeat with EN-
phasis that anticipated criticism.
Following our rule with lecturers we vii
not ..even try to give bare outline OF tn
points made. Still to those who don't kno,
we should like to convey some idea Of no,
be talks. And SO as he has said in anothe
place and time, and in part quoted it les
evening, we give here this extract from hi
talk about the home. He was talking Q
"Healing aud Hurting Shadows and b
said -
"And, foremost OF all shadows, of greater bal
or blessing than perhaps any other No can casi
is the shadow Of the home the place where f.
Their, mother, and children dwell together where
four times in century, God makes new earth
and out Of which he peoples . new heaven tn
most holy place on earth, the place wise ma
will ever enter with profane or careless step.
| h~ horA ouan al In Gotb
cathedral on tho earth, listening to choir an
organ that to me seemed Is the voices of the sing
ers. and the music that IL heard, when the mai
tyrs enter heaven. And for years / sat- in m
youth, in simple country church. on every Sur
day morning, joining in the old liturgies, tina
. in one form another, had been said and sun
ever since the Saxon embraced the Christia
faith Just beside where I sat was . figure cal
: ven in stone, the memorial Of man who cam
home, FIVE hundred.an ty years ago, all broke
from fighting for the Holy Land in one Of Ii
Crueades, and vas laid there in the tomb to va
for the resurrection. And ont Of the low, lattice
! windows could look on green graveyard
where the dust Of Roman and Saxon. Dane m
Englishmsp, rested afer life's htfnl fsrsr, With
the shadow Of the awful mystery. And once,
remember, rose in the gray light, an stood alon
by Niagara, while the sound OF its mighty thur
der rose up fresh and pure, unbroken - yet an
undefed BY tho clamor Of those money. changer
r VINO uebeFve Wulp oi NOT V0fy emeH cofQe 10
profaning that place, in which, Of all places. th
soul longs to be alone with her God: And fe,
no regret, that did not realize how good th
shadows are that were cast over me from thos
mighty waters that noble temple, and that rust
church in which men and women have worshippe
for thousand years. l did feel those influences
These were sacred places. But the most sscre
place, tho hottest OF ali, the place whose shade
! stretches over forty-hve hundred miles Of cart
and sea, and forty years Of time, and is still
shadow Of healing, is q little place built Of gra
stone. 1t nestled under hill that sheltered
from the blasts that came sweeping over the gre,
moorlands out of ths North. II was cottae
with one door, and two windows looking rigI
into the eye Of the South. A little clump of 70,
bushes and plum tree grew fast BY the door an
one branch Of that tree, reaching up to the chan
Der window, became, to . little child used
know, what the tree Of the knowledge of goo
and evil was to our first parent in Eden. For Il
branch once bore only one plum; and the goo
] mother said, "My child, you must not cat th,
plum !" and rather proud the man is Jet, that tt
boy obeyed his mother, and never did eat Il
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