The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-09-28

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We quote the heading of Mr.. Harmon.
bills, and propose t" give an honest criti'
cism of his entertainment at the Methods
Church last Monday evening. But oul
space islimitcd. hence we would suppress
into one word our opinion. and that WORD
is: Humbuy. And it was the most com
pletc humJuy we ever witnessed. In fact
we forgot, tor the noncc, that we were in 4
building devoted to the worship of God
We could not conceal from those near u-
our disgust that Mr.. Harmon should SC
well succeed in imposing upon our poo
pie. And, yet, he did not impose upon
them. The people of Winchester are not
fools. They listened with complaisant
politcncss to the murder of the Kings
English" by this lecturer, who took pains
to assure them, Il thousand times more Of
ten than necessary, that he had been to the
Jesus once sat. and when he heard the
birds singing that sang uhen our Saviour
was Mere-OII!-and then cam IN his
exclamations of nonsense. 1t was non
sense to ourself at least, for when an ignO-
ramus continually goes over tanfaronade,
it is like too many doses OF epicac-we get
sick. And the whole audience became
sick Of the vanity of this illiterate travel
err. If he wanted to establish an assertion
as truth, he said: | seen it. His vanity
was the most remarkable feature of his
insane loquacity. We were. actually, sc
lisgustcd that our stomach became sick
Our brain was undisturbed, for he Offered
no food OF a palatable nature for it. Now
1t is difficult to believe the excellence OF
those who praise themselves. and so it is
difficult to fancy those criminal who con
denim. Mr. or ProfessOr-he may be pro-
fessor, for most all charlatans are profcs-
sors now-but Mr. Harmon praised him
self all along he had seen so and so-ht
felt so and so. and he-oli! it was he all the
time. And when he condemned the inf
dels who went to the pool of Sloan, we
could but think that the infidels were far
ahead OF him, and better able to teach. As
for %ourself, We believe more in honest skep-
ticism than blind belief. And Mr.. Har-
mon came to Winchester to teach! Why.
sir, we can find a number Of tcn-year-Old
boys in our town who could instruct him
in the very first principles Of English
Grammar. He ought to get one Of them
to 90 along with him, and save his pre-
sumption from making him appear a very
fool. Such a boy might teach him to use
ten words acknowledgement keep
him from sickcning M intelligent au-
dicncc with the grossest sOlecism,. We
hold it to be right. that no man who as
sumcs to instruct should be a perfect ignO-
rainus. And he should either he able him
self to talk grammatically. or employ
some one to talk for him. But our profess
sor's vanity, and his love of dollars and
cents more than his love for or belief in
the Bible, or the Savior he talked of. led
him to an attempt to gull Us here in Win
chester. His parrots with which he is
tlOttilS aIouIu "ViC HoI VII tAIlDllNb ll.
He said they could speak 500 words dis
tinctly. but we never heard them speak a
single word for two days. Wedidn't want
to believe that a parrOtt could surpass our
ordinary people, and, to tell the truth. we
didn't believe what the professor said.
And. SURF enough, the parrots never did
make "A single articulation OF the human
voice. The parrots failed, but the profess
sor failed more egregiously than his birds.
lie knew nothing of grammar. nothing of
information, and only used the church as a
means of foisting himselfupon us. But he
deceived no one in the end. Those who
heard his afternoon discourse on Sunday at
the church must have seen his ignorance
Of the English language, but they thought