The New York herald., 1876-02-28

image ana the very age ana pody or the time his ford
and pressure" is by the mouth Of Hamlet to the play
Shakospeares yerable account Of their business
and the preacher otherwise we'll discharge hls
ONCE than BY the same veracity and fidelity Of rene0
ton and delineationf What ID the Bible, with ali its
characters good and bad but such reflector and
reractor OF human lfef Paul says OF himself and hia
apostolic comrades I'VE are a spectacle-iterally
theatre-"to God and angels and !" all their laborn
and sunerings so many acts and scenes performed
on stage Job declares to his very hlsrionc friends.
alter all their ahecations Of justice and pety, now
will also act, "answer my part' OF the programme
in expounding my views Of human fortunes and divine
equity.
is the repeated exhortaton, 10 the utmost sublimy
Of effort OF achievement man Is capable OF, but this
'Put ye the Lord Jesus Christ I" Cicero has been
called "the mocking bird Of eoquence" " because he has
appropriated the exquisite traits OF all other orators 10
himself So must we appropriate and project all the
moral graces and virtues and do IL only through
this native faculty by puritans scorned mimetid
and denounced as irreligous Indeed wherever is any
lively and effective demonstration Of language gcs.
ture to impress and quicken men with the image %
truth, impulse TO devotion or stimulus OF any worth,
this inclination possesses the private person TO multi
ply himself with the riches OF his race into the
bers Of the community, and be or share by generosity
the whole society 10 which he belongs Such dignity
has the natural propensity to widen our being by putt
ting others on Though, then Charlotte Cushman an
actor and Horace Bushnell preacher, believe they
BOTH with whatever diversity OF method and degree, cub
yaed this art capacity and reaped the proper fruit
TO lourIsh others and themselves. maintain, in
doubtless fused together in the actor and preacher Oh
whom speak; and the stage think, should be more
proud OF the conduct than even OF the unmatched
achievement OF its American queen and pattern IN
every way Was aught lett for her OF the hag IN Meg
Mersiles reduced from Scotts Guy Mannering or OF
horror in DicKens's Nancy In "Oliver Twstf me m
personator Of these parts was clean and sweet IN per-
feet balance without one gaping defect or eccentric
fault A born princess, she was native 10 command
A wave OF influence from magnetic battery 10
company holding hands, swept from her and laid on
the thousands the assembly she acted or read 10 ono
hushing SPELL She had what the French historian
Nisard attributes TO Cpsar-charm. II was moral
grandeur, in and through the artists giiI
What majesty is in her gait Remember
If eer thou look DIST On majesty.
In my two Illustrations o-day-pupit and stage.
actor and preacher, Charlotte Cushman and Horace
Bushnel-the power manifest us the Skill Both
had alike not only in their mode OF communicatoni
the circle Of beauty; but in the substance OF demeano
the indomitabe and rectinear will The circle was-so
large II the right line of heaven and earth and 10
preachers ana actors | commend them models
which TO copy is equally blessed and safe.