The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-05-28
The regular meetings Of the Columbia

| held on the second Monday night il
each month. at the Masonic hall; when
besides the usual business, an essay i
read by one of the members. We I'm
derstand that Mr.. H. 2. Figuers is t,
address the Association at it's mex
meeting. Having ialready noticed til,
good work that this Association is do
ing, we conclude this article by wishing
it the most abundant success in all O
its laudable undertakings.
Dr.. E. Munsey.
On last Friday night DIR. Munsey de,
| livered lecture at the Atheneum, on
"The Ideal, Art, Music" to a large and
| select audience, OF course no effort will
! be made here to report him-nO man
| cap do that. He is strictly Sui 1eueriS.
In learning, in thought, in logic, in eIo~
| quence, he stands alone, the intellect
ual landmark of the nineteenth centu-
ry. DR.. Munsey is a wonderful cOmbi-
nation of reason and Imagination, of
strong practical sense and exuberaut
fancy, OF unrivaled power both in anal
ysis and synthesis. His logic is more
fautless, clearer, deeper, stronger and
more perspicuOuS than that OF any
mind this age has produced. He coy~
ers every subject with flo Cd of learn
ing and eliminates the most abstruse
problems with so much power and
ulC0Gy, IudL OIuludIy uuIuClS are SGuun6O
and rarely able to keep up i'll the
intricate evolution of the great subjects
he handles. In this respect he far sur
passes DIR. Stiles, of New Hork, who
created so much sensation in the relig,
iOus world in 1860, as he does also DR..
SpurgeOn, of England, one of natures
favOrites, who has created quite stir
for the last twenty years. When we
watch DIR. Munsoy take subject to
IC1, 4
at the perfection to which the human
mind can be brought. When he has
pulled it to pieces, and we watch him
take up tho disiOinted fragments and
build up his argument, piece by piece
fitted nicely together, and united to
their places in a network of iron, the !
structure gradually assuming |
shape as it approaches completion, un~ |
til it stands a huge colossus, grand in |
perfect in symmetry and immOvable as |
truth, the mind is Oyerawed and con-
the mechanism in humility |
and wonder. When the edifice is dono |
and he begins to paint it, no pen can I
sketch him. Genius warns his fancy |
into life. His Imagination, with the
Q Sc of bird upon the wing, floats to
the very confines of thought, brushing
away the Cabala5 of superstition like
cobwebs from the hOary fanes of ages
and adding new beauty to truth itself
We grow giddy as we watch him sweep
ing through immonsity, on and still on
over diamond fields no human eye has
9vor pierced before, throwing back the
brightest pearls to sparkle in the
rack of his flight, leaping from height
% height and scathing the nebulOus
nists with the blaze of genius, until the
istener, no longer able to climb the dir
~ heights, pauses in amazement at his
gifts.
But the chiefstrength and beauty both
If his life and his sermons are found in
no simple faith and Christian humility
If tho man. A firm believer in our sys-
em of religion, his acts and thoughts
re full of the meekness and charity
aught by tho humble NazareDe. Pos
of exhau stive learning, endowed |
With wonderful gifts, ard admitted on
II sides to be the greatest preacher Of
he age, to his credit be it spoken that
e is one of the greatest aud humblest
t Christians