The New York herald., 1874-11-30
he performer or tue morning came down upon the

he u tau ana angular, with mce like snake,
especially In the restless movement OF the neck
and the eye. which. ordinarily cold and nshy ylook-
! ing SENDS out at moments a singulary stealthy
| CLEAN OF cunning. This face was skirted by two
red mutton-chop whiskerl, and the roof OF his
l. head, which was bald, was supported BY wings OF
the same complexion His manner, without q
touch OF sympathy, freezes; and his voice dis
owns, even In some few passages where 1t would
have borne IL, the silver music OF one soft sound.
He macadamizes his sentences and with ham,
mer OF expression breaks them into bits. His
pronunciation Ii wholly imperfect, aud as to
that grammar, the absence Of which he COM
planned or and very Justly, in so many
actors, he threw with reckless profuson
. whole cohort OF innocent substantives
and adverDs on the world without the
smallest provision for their support Perhaps
however this is his art and he is about 10 develop
new theory Of anti-grammarianism. Mr.. 6tig-
ins Talmage has essen rially what Dr. Franz in his
celebrated work IN which he has almost reduced
TO system expression as an index OF the mind,
dennes as "the short look named the sensual,n
which expresses rather an effOrI TO single out some
single object or even portion OF an object With
which It may occupy itself exclusively. The mind
OF such person Ia satisfied with the things 1t fnds
within narrow circle OF vision, and his ideas
never rise beyond sensible objects He Is satisfied
ofsense"-'hKes to be jollyn-"and Is indifferent to
the moral feelings. such man 10 not TO be feared,
put but We , should be on our guard 10 our intercourse
taxing his text as ! presume you have Rlven
1t and the silly remarks which followed.
was never received and accompanied on an open.
ing night with greater applause, nor does Colonel
piece oil acting, though hard, It was success
with the audience II was essentially Rrotesque
and appealed strongly to their morbid numor.
For myself would ask no higher PROOF OF the
truth OF Christianity than that 1t mas survived the
preaching OF such fellows Tor so many years. The
Il Md nnh a
What he talked was such trash tnat 1t is almost an
abuse oil the privilege OF reasoning to reply to 1t
simply Bllllngsgate controversialst, VINO tries
| TO toss and gore every one who comes within his
number OF deienceless women, the majority OF
them the truest OF wives the kindest oil sisters,
s1s tsan Of mothers AND in
DAVID Garrck, herself an actress, reposes IN one
OF the most sacred and conspicuous parts OF West
minister Abbey, and close by sleep the remains OF
samuel Johnson, the author o the tragedy
"Irene," the great moralist and stout defender Of
Christian ethics and Of Richard BriDsley Sheridan,
| VINO revived the British drama without writing
line that was not in the service oil all that was
good. He makes an exception to his caIumnies OF
Charlotte Cushman, who, with an lndecate satire,
ne describes as having under great temptations
el m N as ns s
rats In corn stack. II hts present pew specula-
ton was TO perish we should find him, as
der the skirts Of Mcthodlsm and laying
down sewers for the old corruptions to
/
ners OF his mouth and abe Jolly" What does his
congregation think OF this consistent shepherda
He states that he attended tne theatre in his
youth. There are some theatres TO when youth
should not resort, as there are some pastors that
are me she corrap,ers oi youth 1t might, however,
now. Hamlet says
Ihave heard that guilty sitting play,
ofly Sai sssaf
They have proclaimed their maleiactions.
remember to have heard OF a strange scene on
lake III the interior OF Pennsylvania most fitting
Tor the teachings OF the stage Ii have Ii drama
tlZed will Mr.. TaImage sit at the play? The guilty
uncle OF Hamlet did not.
II the stage is not loser by such men as he
retiring with their aggressive mediocrty behind
spectacular effects intruded by them Tor mer-
cenary objects into sacred places, the Church is
certainly not the gamer, and II actors were
men they would have every reason to lie gratlfed
at finding these plack sheep OF tue dramatic art
and iorgiving saviour. The Illumination of sucn
fellows, with wnom Providence and subscriptions
60 ToSesner a9S pewseing ~ and profitable zeal
Tor the TACT that there are In all othoo parishes,
certain number , OF honorable communicants
psIormsnces p,aroymsn or,A % agn toned ana noble
sincere preJudices Of these good Christians
and teach them tnat the dramatic art is destined
to .renne and elevate and only to be discounte
nanced where IL tends to demOraZe and degrade.
There are many such, thank Heaven, who prefer,
as their Divine Master, to think most OF human
natures BRIGHT redeemng points, and who are
not Implicated in fhe storm as not sometimes
to delight IN looking AT the rainbow. But mere
triclous cergymen dwell only on the abuse and
never on the noole uses OF the stage, aud stand
in the same position with those who Condemn all
ministers OF Christ because some, Brooklyn
especially, are laise TO their Masters teaching
aud mystfy instead of ediiying their nock. In my
former letter nave shown tnat lor centuries the
stage was The most potential handmade Oh religion
and the sacred mysteries OF the Church formed
the only themes of theatrical performance. he
has not even dared to assaL the proud and firm
lacts brought up, tnat wnen the great Hebraist
first discovered the grand psalm OF JOB its express
sion was OF dramatic form; that the drama was
the creator ana accompaniment Oh the most glo-
rIous periods oil Greece. Rome, OF the Italian
Republics, OF England; that 1t has never been a
stranger to the highest, purest and most chaste
and eniclenl offices and purposes OF Christian
ethics; tnat 1t has been consecrated by the sane
tlonng smile OF the highest, purest and most VEN
Grated OF clefgymen; tnat under the direction
OF such IL nas sned over the most beautiful
homes and schools OF every coun ry healthy
influence and inrnsned the most delightful Of
exercises to youthu In tellect and fancy Even at
the present day VISITORS from all parts OF the word
rush annually to Oberammerger 10 witness there
the sublime performance OF the most thrilling
events IN the Saviour's lie and passion. The sec
ular drama has won equally great victories In
weaving man from wees, In aIlurlng him virtue OF
the emcacy oI which, as All example, the drama OF
George Barnweli lu.lJ attests. lie is not aware OF
course, tnat the great Goethe as the great Shake
speare was manager oil a theatre. And when en-
perors and kings, the first and nobest in the
world, were called together at Eriurth, they sent
for TalIna to make oeauti iul their evenings. The
good queen Victoria and the plous Eugene made
the theatre almost nightly delight, as does
the salnted wue and the pattern dGughter-ln-idw
of Germany's Emperor William. The TACT OF
1t Is II the Church hau rules stringent for iaise
teachings in miscellaneous sermons as IN points
OF dogma TINS Stlgglns falmage would be hissed of
the stage an 4 he'd up to the scOrn ana opprobrum
oi the community; and II the Saviour was TO come
now upon eartn and walk through the streets OF
Brooklyn as He dd IN days OF old through the
cities oi Judea, the first person like to whipped
out ol any tempe named after Him, were the
money changers, would De this pc W speculator and
mock clergyman, Mr. Stiggins Iamage. There was
tlIne as everybody KNOWS when the Purltans, to
spite the Cavaliers derided all the latters' joyous
Manifestations and the Pilgrim Fathers carried
some OF that spirit 10 the New World and mace the
atmosphere grim with long faces and malignant
hatred against tnose VINO wished to make earth not
only nobie but also Joyous That was the time OF
nerce persecution, when the same stern monitors
OF human conscience who thought 1t sinful to
smile at an actors w.t. or to find dellgat IN the
compositions OF great masters OF music, gloated
with savage glee over the fire which con snned the