The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-08-08
Fulsoms Compliments.

80 unreal, SO nauseating to the finer feel-
iDgs as to create sense of utter disgust
1t displays lack of good sense on the part
of the one who indulges in unreal compli-
ments, and the real motive is so transpar-
ent to the one for which the fiattery is in-
tended. that it cannot but awaken feel
ing Of loathlng. Apropos, is the article in
the Moline Revie,o, on Rev. Z. G. Bar
nard, which is so slobberly, gross, and
overreaching 10 its nature as not to permit
its being passed unnoticed. The writer
proceeds to say that:
Rev. Z. g. Barnard, of the Congrega
tional church is a remarkable preacher.
His sermon last Sabbath on Capital and
Labor" was one of the ablest discourses we
have ever heard delivered by any man."
His sermon was good one. no doubt.
and may have been the best he tthe editorl
ever heard. Perhaps he had very small
list to select from. But listen to the way
he blows his own bugle:
We are glad to observe that he took
the same view of the labor and capital
question, taken by the ReUiea0 10 its issue
of the Friday previous
Now, if the Rerie,o had any opinion
during the recent strike. its editorials were
not sufficiently lucid to admit of any such
Interpretation. Again, he gushes, wit:
THE call Of him to the pastorate of the
Congregational church has iuaugurated
newsera in the pulpit eloquence of this CITY,"
New Era" is good, pulpit eloquence"
is better, and the whole sentence is at
variance with what everybody knows, that
K. G. Barnard is not an elocutionist But
dwell on this brilliant effusion:
His intellect is imperial, his resources
are inexhaustible. As preacher ne has
no superior in the west. In matter, in
structure. in diction, in phraseoogy, in de-
} livery, and in everything, his sermons are
strikingly original They are characterized
by depth of thought, love. sympathy and
mercy-a force of logic, a wealth of
language, a sparkle of metaphor, vivid
ness of description, a gracefulness of transi
ton, and felicity OF elocutlon, which, to
gether, constitute the perfection Of elo-
quence.
To the average reader it will need no
explanation to show how utterly wrong this
is. Everybody who has heard Rev. Barn
ard knows that his delivery is poor, that
he is not a brilliant orator. Sparkle of
metaphor" why, anyone to read this ut
terly disgusting slobbering would imagine,
if they were uuacquainted with Mr..
Barnard, that he was Cicero" q
Socrates, or prototype of one of the
NEUROLOGICAL geniuses we read about 10
a word it is gross injustice to Mr.. Barnard,
who is a man of good hard sense and a
preacher of genuine usefulness, hut by no
means rhetorician or elocutionist. That
he has valuable fund of thought, and is
an able man, no one will dispute, but as
for comparison with noted oratorical minis
ters, when he lacks in oratory, in rhetorical
3 display, and impassioued metaphoric
passages, is simply fulsome, unreal, and
patronizing 10 the extreme, and cannot but
a do harm where good was intended. If
anything were needed to show the incon.
sistency of the whole eulogy(?), the fol-
lowing conclusiYely proves it:
The person of the reverend gentleman
0 is rather delicate, and his voice is of nc
great strength nor compass"
Here the writer 10 the Recieao, contra.
diets all he has said. The whole article is
far from complimentary to Mr.. Barnard
and instead of serving the purpose for
which it was intended, cannot but create a
feeling of disgust among all true friends,
and members of his congregation.
b1-The Rock river bridge tender re.
ports 800 "A collected for tolls in July.
g~Magistrate Swander reports 2S
arrests. and $I06 35 collected for fines
during July.
EGThe game of ball between the
: Golfers. of Rapids City, and Remingtons,
! of Davenport, yesterday, was draw game.
each scoring l3 runs.
R5The resignation of J. w. Morey,
chief of the fire department. is probably
the result of the negligence of the council
fire committee. Mr.. Morey does not wish
to shoulder the responsibility of going to
another fire with u worthless engine. and
bear the censure and curses of an infuri-
!. ated mob of imbeciles who know not where
the blame belongs.
sara man giving the name of Joseph
Desett, was arrested by Officer Teller, for
wandering aimlessly around town in sus-
n picious manner, about clock this morn
e ing. He was taken before Magistrate
!, Swander, aud there being no further evil
!, dence against him, was discharged upon
E payment of COSTS He acted very ner-
: vously and appeared in a great hurry to
: get out of the Office, so much SO, that the
n suspicious of Officers Olson and Teller
I were aroused. and they watched him take a
. circuitous route and start east on the rail
road as fast as be could walk, when they
: gave chase. overlook, and again lodged him
: in the calaboose. He answers the descrip.
ton of the tramp who did such bloody
work in Knox county, last Sunday; iu
Y some respects very accurately, He had
y on striped pants, is dark complicated, and
|. has an old brown coat in bis satchell. lie
can hardly be the man, however, for Mr..
Gault says he took supper at his house
Sunday night, bat bis appearance is sus-
Ipiclous.
Magistrate Swander's Court