The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-09-29

ling, but gives her peace, and gives both coun-
tries new international rules of the highest
value, besides establishing precedent that can
not fail to be beneficial to all nations' Such
language reveals authority, and it indicates sat
isfaction. With the Chambers of Commerce
as well as the mass of the people on his side,
Mr.. Gladstone has little cause to fear any
attack which can be made by Lord John Rus
sell or to dread the reassembling Of the House
of Commons
And why should England complaint Has
not the treaty been q gain to herr We won
der not that Cabinet Ministers speak with
satisfaction of the Geneva settlement. We
wonder rather that Sir Alexander Cockburn
should protest and give himself the trouble to
repeat in elaborate form, strong arguments
when the case is settled. tits not to be denied
that our diplomatists have come off second
best; but, in view of the great good which this
new mode of settling international difficulties
may do to the world, we can afford to accept
the lesson, which, we trust, our diplomatists
have learned, with some degree of equanimity.
American Preachers In English Pull
pits.
tits always pleasant to hear ourselves spoken
well Of but it is especially agreeable to find
that our public and representative men are
duly appreciated by such phlegmatic and
matter-of-fact critics as Englishmen are reputed
to be- The Rev. DR.. Bellows, who has recently
returned from trip to Europe, has during
his absence occupied some Of the English pull
pits and in the Liverpool Post we find
column editorial sketch of his style and per-
sonnet as he appeared in That city. The writer
introduces the Doctor by remarking that the
latter fame arises from the fact that he is
''the one divine of the present day who has
publicly defended the stage" And, though
the term theatrical cannot be applied to
the Doctors gestures or elocution, yet
"both owe something to the stage"
The Post editor goes on to liken
DR.. Bellows in personal appearance to the
British Attorney General and in oratorical
powers and silverness of voice to Sir John
Coleridge. But the Doctors voice is much
fuller and deeper, and has at times q slightly
nasal quality, and che is more richly
endowed with the natural gifts of an
orator and has cultivated them at once
with greater freedom and more refine
ment" There is, however, q striking differ
ence between the Doctor and the Attorney
General, and it is, that while the latter ex-
temporizes or recites, the former reads; ''but
it is beautiful reading" adds the Post critic;
''more beautiful we have never listened to-"
but he thinks cit cannot be called the highest
style of oratory." New Workers. need not be
Of the faithfulness of this picture
without the contrast. The Doctors discourses
are written speeches. rather than written
essays or sermons. ''The structure and modu-
lation Of every sentence are conceived with
view to speech. The thought never kindles
too much or too little for the sound, and moth
ing comes tardily off,
Referring to Dr. Bellows style the editor
observes that nothing is more remarkable
than the frequent efaorescence of illustration
and of language by which his style is at once
and adorned" The writer then
goes on to give illustrations from the Doctors
sermons, one of which served to make appar-
ent the truth that ''there is no sect in which
religious peace has not been found, and none
in which religious peace has not been LOST
o statement which the Post critic declares is
ga new and pithy way of expressing the only
true doctrine of catholicity" Another illus
tration which this critic says was well worthy
of Massillon for brilliant tenderness, but
subtler than Massillon in its thought, was that
in which the Doctor pictured the human soul
discovering within itself something precious
and secret-another self; self such as it
would wish to be-sweetly contemplates it
until there comes slowly out of the
obscurity face SO sweet, SO holy and so full
of benignity that the beholder utters in
solemn ecstasy the ejaculation of St. Thomas,
my Lord and my God /" DR.. Bellows is
classed by this editor among the immortal
few who are able to give "a new edge to the
sword of truth, and who find q new shade, or
tint, or touch of form in ever SO insignificant
q foweret of revelation" Excelling in per-
sonal dignity, classical and refined to the
highest degree of academic culture, as rigidly
simple and devoid of glitter as he is uniformly
harmonious and full of JUNCTION, using
language as bidding rod to work magical
changes among the commonplace of expert
mental divinity, this great American preacher.
adds the Englishman, offers ON example of
homiletic power and grace such as has rarely
been surpassed either in America or in Eng
and The criticism closes with declaration
that DR.. Bellows is the first great
orator whom the writer
had heard speak like an Englishman. This,
by English readers, will probably be consid-
cred a. very high compliment, and none the
less so by Americans. Of our own knowledge
we can say that DR.. Bellows is one of the very
few public speakers whose sermons, speeches