, 1877-06-05
Tho I1ural Minister'S WIfc Expresses
llcr Opinion Of Him.
Robert Collyer Again---His Little
New Poem.
Robert 1ngorsoll Announced for the Free
Religious Festival,
While the Newspapers Say He IL In
California.

Fr.slytl, and thou1h oliver Won1ell Holmes was
a. great Il mime and In measure brought comfort
10 m, there were ntiil good many lntnentlng Ra-
c,c]s an,ongkt M, tefushg to t,e comiortcd; but
uuiccd that tlev did not refuhc to bc prtscntthat
thry 1nckci 10 llcnr tho huiotrat, and seemed 10
forget tlicr disappointment whlio they listened bnd
npplnndcd. AMI The anlocraf did well, 20 far AZ
matter VENT but ho las bad littls voice, which,
will his very plan lltt1o person, without An clio.
mcnt Of elegance or distinction. does not BY any
means carry out onc's idea Of tho man who IL al.
wnyh writing nhout Ane old family trails both Of
person nnd mind.
'lln Ia tho commonest looking filtlo man ever
raw," whispered tflu wife Of ono Of tho rural min
,.tcrt, ns she tookcd upon the great-named liItlc
nun, 'anI II wctn be. should 10 careful how
held forth about family and b1no blo0d, and It's
outward signs Of nobility"
1Iut Holmes, luckily or unlnc1ti'y, had not
3ns ssE.slsts sas S'.s's {. hs e. H.
or perhaps II he had te would lave Eono on just
thc sac, for II Is doubtful II ha writts about these
thIugs from my personal pride, though opinions
differ upun lhla point, and thcre nrc those who Tor
years, ever since tho nutocrat papers, and 'Elsc
VENEER" wl,cru Holmes constantly conveys tho
Impression of conscious b!tth privilege, 50 to
epeak, tnvc Insisted that tho author was 10 con.
ecIuus ds 10 bo
A aooD DEAL OF A sNon.
Tho rural minister's wife, herself OF tho rural
population, remembers. md cannot forgive Tho
ndvsce that Holmes gives the promising young
man, "Not 10 throw his magnificent future into
the checked apron Of somc country Elrl." hut
when the autocrat IL introduced by The President
Of tho Christian UnIoa, who wns Chairman OF tho
Festival Committee, IL was Just bcforo dinner and
1|r, Holmes could do nothing but get up aud bow
In rather pulpit sort Of wav to thd big waiting
crowd In Music HILL. Bnt lis seat at the front IL.
wnks " % 81 e apaon III no
havs snnch pcrnupaltty OF undue dignity in It.
And when utter the dinner he fa1s,J got
s nsH "oco wn. foa,oa. On IL va we vsry
from tile beginning, Ak5Dx opportunity to say
a 10 nn % Sa S
IL bis aalzziea issiii.n i tbey would Kindly iIstsn
a.ticns. twentieth eaptef an an tif ee se's 5er:s
IAN eloquent man Il known far and near, but a
nan Of ua1sts'analng knoweth when he slIppeth. "
Of Curtis, to say that no offered BIZ sncere synra-
tn!cs 10 tho audience that. thonsh they wero
Was te ea f0 moutner liz tep oa Of onco MS
being called upon 10 ':dll the piaea" oi - 'A''
nurus cnoArE
''that hnn won thu crown OF nlnfyr yrdon1 by that
act Of accommodation, but enough Of mo still
enrsiyrs It teelps, for another auto da H." A. II
ivre l,ola,e. st upon l|s tcet VIII Holmes WHY
NulH(K Hppn Iuht UCGQHlDH WHICH QH Qlu NQk re-
pcut upon tl1d, but which II worth repeating that
''it wna absurd to talk about ailiAg Choats's
place" he t'cnuld oaiy raftt round tn l." Iiorea
having very ken srnec Of his own smallnass Of
person. Lie then eal gracious and 1no thlngs
ot tho n'rcnt Prince George. and dnaiIy
icstie1 down to very 1he and etron.
ItatrMent Of his own view Of theology.
clgion, and philosophy. lilo beloved that Il waa
fact that tie bcltrfs of Now England Gnxo boon
hendlly approaching tlls ground occupied By what
1knuwn III Llhcral Christianity. ..Old orthodoxy
has been stripping itse1f like . circus rdcf who
throws OF ono garment nnd Q!lcn anuthef AZ ho
rides nround tho ring Of the generations. First
was tho fcuriet suit Of tho wic!.hantcr; then tho
Gencyn cloak Of thu predcatination; then tic Jow:
ia. eaherdino Of the Subbaiarians; and 30 On. And
now we begin 10 sec tho fnlr and natural outlines
of our common humanity. which has bdon 80 long
ob1cured by ttleso alxHufses."
lie spoke Of lncfeaao Mathcr's burning OF Rpbcr It
Cosefs l,nok against tho dclnslon Of WtthcrAit in
HARVARD coI1EoH,
~, "sn ~ WI s,![ss. ann tso uten
nv fic ie,, umnfcd ft~n lin iii fhrninricnl nufu
c;ut who iri,GSxi in tnia enravlt. n, tnrh Nm NJ
trnt thnI H. Ii.nn. III ~ nfsnt. H. HI wsr. w
''As AS "''F 49,. ..au'.. ~ III. ~ .' ""''
TNry may tm1lH, NH Snnn :" ~ p'tSs .cn.
s,iII mi" t ttbgn, a liz Vii siinW
Ike tastfit roons ii tEIi.
.Then In 1o,Iof. ~ nj. +b.t :. tnt1or