The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1874-02-26
CAMoa kIAGsLEY "a BOSTON.
Inc English Lectvrer Greeted by .
Distinguished Aadienee--The KO.
nance Of Ena lands Great Abbey

Boston, Feb, LII has become quite the
fashion for wAoyer is bes, and brightest in
England 10 cone 10 America. Oae after
one We arc welcoming to our shores our IL
lustrious English COUSINS, and to not one of
them Since Dickens sine and went, has our
welcome been more kea..y thsn to the Rev
Chss. Kingsley, poet, novelist, preacher,
and Canon Of Westminster Abbey, which
WAS his subject this evening. Every one
reads his books, every one sings his verses,
and OF course every one wanted TO see him.
No wonder, therefore, that fremont Temple
was filled with an eager audience, and one
of the most refined and distinguished char.
acter, among which were many OF cur schol-
airs and wise men. The lecturer came on
accompanied by Mr.. 5. L. Clemens Mark
Twain, VINO introduced him in a charsc-
teri.tic little speech. When he wrote "ln-
nocents Abroad" he said, he thought the
book would at once bring him into close re-
latiOns with the clergy; but from that day
to this he had never been called on even TO
vouch for a minister, and even now. when
his hour had come, he had only been
requested TO introduce one who needed no in
troduc len. He was not called upon TO in
dorse Mr.. Kingsley, but he did that because
NC tiibs " 1<Ctsi
o. ali was it necessary TO praise Mr.. King
sley, whom he should speedily deafen were
he able to concentrate in his single voice the
enthusiasm OF welcome and appreciation
which was there present. He spoke of Mr..
kiDgsley's hospitality toward Americans, OF
which he himself had had so much exper.
fence az to give certain fitness TO his select
ion as the one TO deliver over our English
guest to the tender mercies of an American
audience.
On this hint Mr.. Kingsley came to the
front, and We sawa tall, rather slender per.
son, an unmistakabie Engiishman, with
iron-gray hair gray side whiskers. cut in the
English fashion, with features irregular bul
moet expressive with crayish blue eyes, keen
and shrewd, yet full OF feeling
la large mouth with somewhat
prominent under lip and firm jaw. l heard
some people suggest that he resemhled his
friend Froude; TO me there was something
in the face which suggested our own Emer.
con, and something else which suggested
| George Macdonald, bu, he was less philo
sophical than Emerson, and less poelica
than Macdonald, and perhaps more in earn.
| est than either. His manner was Iathel
awkward and somewhat shy. He spoke in {
loud voice and with a certain sing some mon
| Otoneous intonation, which comes OF the in
| tOning practiCed so much in the Church o
England. 1t fell strangely at first on Amer
| lean ears, but after getting little accustom
| ed to it, 1t was agreeable and certainly help
| ed him to make himself heard. He is a goo,
| muscular Christian" with strong lungs ant
healthy color: and you felt, above all else
| how alive he was in soul, mind, and body
Iu the course Of his address he spoke i
follows Of Westminster Abbey:
| The chief glory Of Westminster Abbey
| the thing that makes 10 be inferred there
seem to an Ebglishman the Growing glor,
of a glorious life-is not that kings aHt
queens sleep there or that it is the scene O
their coronations. 1t il uecause men of gen
ius OF every kind have been en,ombed there
and to lie down among them Is indeed Il
Join glorious company. Those who wer,
friend once and those vino were sterhest fees
are aliks at peace there. Castleresgh i
there in spite of Byron,s and of Shelley
scOrn. Pitt and Fox, Warron, Hastings ana
Macauley, can afford TO be Rear each o;he
in the Abbey. The Romish Abbo,'s bone
do not stir in their graves beside III
bones OF the Protestant divine whom h.
would have burned on earth if he could
Queen Elizabeth, the old crowned lioEess o
England, rests as queitly Is fair trail Scot
fish Mary, for whose sake so much bloot
was spilt. The great soldiers are there of tn
times before the civil wars, whose glory
the common heritage of America an,
England. The English siatesmed are ther
who dared to defend in Parliament the re
bellious colonies, and the poets and philoso
piers who spoke our common tongue, AM
belonged to al! English speaking peoples il
all times. The place IL no. sad, in: awiu
and :ul OF solemn glory. IT. very archi
lecture wants the iighiness of the foreig
cstheisal-, bat !; is grand in heish; and Q
severe proportion. Inside Successive aIchi
tects have sduandered on it the treasures Q
their fancy, and made j, the most splendi
specimen in the world OF one of those ston
forests in which the men of old delighted L
reproduce those leafy ministers which God
not man, has built.