New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-12-26
cHrIsruAs AND CHARLES DICKENS.

Miss Kate Field repeated her lecture on
Charlie, Dickens. last evening. at the Firth Avenue
TLcatcr introducing it with this seasonabie preface
1.-THE better the day the bet!r the deed declares the
Old saw / bel this firmly, II the deed Do hohtsl
and It seems Ia cmincnty iitilnS lhnI cue nun "hY
did much u make every day beautiful WIN Enou
cheer, should be the subject Of sabbath DISCOURSE
especially OF dsconrse from stage iCT one OF Tue nent
papers Ia "1nc UncOmmcrcial Traveller, dWclls upon
SUNDAY meetings in thcatcrS. 81 do not doubt writes
Dickens. that they will work lower ana lower down an
the soci scale. # hose who preside over them Will ht
very careful not set themselves In antagunitm 10 the
Unborn desire OF the mass OI nanklhu 10 ctteaN cu
solves and to be amused" Pursuing the argument
such audience ~ cuo"-slnnersf l. II nor thoEn 20
feluw-CrCaurcs born csterddY suffering ana STRIVING
to-day, DIVING tomorrow BY our common humanity
my brothers ana sl.tcrS by our c9mu"h 'apscte oi
pleasure and PAIN by common laughter aud our com
tears, by our common aspirations u reach some 'hiHE
better than OuTselyes-by these, hear me- -.
Tonight, with Charles Dickens for my teXt-a text
neChbOr as mysclfiI address yOu, my brothers ana s,
ter by our common Laughter aud our common tears
DRY should be kept green not that Of him who has done
more to make Christmas glorious man an me resi- OF Ine
world clergy and laity put together twenty
5 o 81 - 9ienf III hardest harris opened the ght.
est purses made poetry Of stern reality. Chimes sue
halifax Utcrat,rc without which tho world eli today
would indeed be Impoverished. Standing here,
there starts up be. ore me larger Ianly
squeezing, wrencbng. casping, cutchne, coyeton.
Old ScrUOgr, who lcen his Offices III the dogdtls, ana
didu't tbaw IL ono degree Christmas; Mrs Fezl
wig one va.t substantial sIue that humble, CRATE
mi Cratchit family around their festive gonse hear Tiny
Tim telling his simp, hearted father how he hoped the
people saw him in the church. because nc a cripple
and Il might be pleasant 10 them Ia remember upon
Christmas Day who made lame ncgurs walk and b iud
mon see" hear sweet bells singing. Toby Week Toby
Week keen good heart, Toby Toby Week, job coming
soon Toby Week. jODe coming soon" And comes nj Iasi
taihcrg' asks Meg. always. Never fails" hear the
kettle and the Cricket the Hearth see how much
COSTS night tine Battle Of Life" see ghost bar.
gaining with the hollow checked Haunted MAN."
the Head Waiter at he Slimam Coffee House, Lon
don, apprJprating "Somehody's Luggage" under the
bed IL No ~ and pouring over the tonchnG narrative OF
Little Bebrlle aud the Corporal" find self wander
,rc into Mn Lrrpers Lodgings, and bequeathing 20
myself Iirrper's Legacy" find doctor MarigOld's
Prescription very sweet to takefOr life sweet as To
render even Ghost Stories paataDe. and 1.-THE Boy
at Slugby Junction refreshing spectacle. hear he
loved 'I;OOts" relating his experience at the Holly
Tree Inn" aud TIE "Seyen Poor Travellers" in
Rochester listening tho exquisite "StOIy of Richard
DOnbledics" hear glad voices singing the Christmas
yond see tie Uttered form Of "Tny Tim" held in the
arms OF Dickens himself. the boy folds his hands To
pray, God bless IL, eyeryOne''