New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-03-05


of the people / subsequently took up arms
to defend, / am without hope for the futurei
seem to be homeless, without family ana
without shelter, with gaunt poverty staring
me in the face. At my advanced age, the
present prospects are 80 gloomy that my
heart gives way, and the conviction 10 I:
forced upon me that have lived too long,"
Horace Bushnell and Charlotte Cushman.
Last Sunday the Rev. C. A. Bartol, OF
Boston, preached memorial sermon a. Q
pulpit tribute to the late Rev. Horace
Bushnell. who died recently in Connecti-
cut. and to Charlotte Cushman, whose re-
mains have Just been laid away in the
quiet of Mount Auburn. 1t is perhaps the
first sermon ever delivered grouping TO-
gether memories of preacher and player
and containing praise for both. Ills te1t
and short excerpt from the discourse ls
here given.
"Diversities of gifts, but the same
spirit."-I Corinthians, xiii, 4. The artists
risks are increased when he tries to put two
heads on one canvas; and it may seem rash
to portray such persons az Horace Bushnell
and Charlotte Cushman in single 0ls-
course. The great tragedienne was cosmo-
politan. The necessities OF her profession
made her traveller; The circumstances OF
her life and biography we're open and mani
fold, SO exposing her as q figure in the gen
eral view that few human creatures were
more tamiliarly in appearance known; her
features, the illumination of so many
stage, sculptured and photographed; her
companionship aud acquaintance not only
all over the United States, but in England,
Italy and France, although, believe. in the
latter country she declined opportunities OF
though for his pre-eminent powers IN
avOidably celebrated and unable to
shun extensive notice, lived compare
lively obscure. The eyes of the great
world were little fixed on his habits and
daily career. The most stubborn prejudice
in the Church has been and still is
against the stage and all its properties and
scenery, dressing and dancing, dramatic
dialogue or operatic song. The orchestra,
to the saint, with all its pipes and drums
and bassoons and fddles, has been
demoniac-the open-eyed and moon faced
gaping crowd before the curtain on the
broad way to destruction, and the most fire.
uuented portion of the theatre rightly
named the pit. But must these two diverse
callings confront each other in q manner
SO sharp7 Is enc lawful and the other
illegitimate; one sacred and the other
sacrllegel 1t depends not on the vocations,
but the motive OF both, and the way either
is pursued. They are alike arts of express
sion; why need they be rival artist What
do they equally propose to express but the
truth of human life, as its immense, many
colored panorama is unrolled through the
earth by an Almighty handl "As in mir
ror' is the English Of the Latin phrase
which my wondering boyish eyes first be.
held printed over the fOetlights. ITO hold,
as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show
virtue her own feature, scOrn her own image,
and the very age and body Of the time
his form and PRESSURE" is, by the mouth of
Hamlet to the players, Shakespeare's veri-
table account Of their business; and can
the preacher otherwise well discharge his
office than by the same veracity and fidelity
of reflection and delineatiOnl What is the
Bible, with all it characters, good and bad,
but such q vast reflector and refractor of
human life} Paul says Of himself and his
apostolic comrades: 1--WE are spectacle
literally theatre-"to God and angels and
men," all their labors and suferings so
many acts and scenes, as it performed On a
stage. Job declares to his very histrionic
friends, after all their aft Citations of justice
and piety, now l will also act, or ANSWER
my part Of the programme in expoundiny
my views OF human fortunes and divine
equity. Say not advise aught unchristian
or unwise! What is the repeated exhorta-
ton, as to the utmost sublimi:y of effort or
achievement man is capable Of, but this:
. Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christi Cicero
has been called "the hooking bird
p.oprisssd the exquisite traits aAe Of all al
other orators to himself. So must
we appropriate and project all the moral
yraces and virtues, and We can do it only
through this native faculty by puritans so
,corned as mimetic, and denounced as ire
igious. Indeed, wherever is any lively |
and effective demonstration, Of language
)r gesture, to impre 50 and quicken men
With the image of truth, impulse to devo-
ion or stimulus OF any worth, this in
,lination possesses the private person to |
multiply himself with the riches of his |
ace, iato the members Of the community,
md be or share by generosity the whole |
'ociety TO which he belongs. Such dignity |
las the natural propensity to widen our |
being by putting others on. Though, then, |
Cushman was an actress and |
Horace Bushnell preacher, believe they
10Th, with whatever diversity Of method |
md degree, cultivated this art capacity,
md reaped the proper food to nourlsh
principle, the heavenly grace and human
trength were doubtless fus. together id
he actress and preacher of whom speak;
nd the stage, l think, should be more
'rOud of the conduct than even of
he unmatched achievement Of it's
american queen and pattern in every
way. Was aught left for her of the
ag in Meg MerriUes, reduced from SCOTS
Guy Mannering," or of horror in Dickens
Vancy, in "Oliver Twisti' The impersona-
or vi these parts was clean and sweet, in
ertect balance. without one gaping defect
r eccentric fault. A born princess, she was
ative to command. A wave of influence,
g from magnetic battery to q company
Gliding hands, swept from her and laid on
be thousands in the assembly. she acted or
cad TO one hushing spell. She had what
he French historian Nisard attributes to |
'a -ar-charm. 1t was moral grande ur, in
nd through the artists gilt. In my two
Illustrations tO-day-pulpit and stage-aotor
nd preacher, Charlotte Cusbman and
lorace BushDell-the power was a. mani
est as the skill. Both had alike, not only
] their mode of communication, the circle |
beauty, but in the substance of demeap- |
r, the indomitable and rectilinear will.
he circle was SO large, it was the right line
heaven and earth; and to preachers and
etors commend them as models which to |
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