The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-01-01
MASONIC TEMPLE.
A CENTENNIAL. MISREPRESENTATION BY REV.

A CENTENNIAL MISREPRESENTATION BY REV.
O. u. FRoTHINGHlM
A large congregation assembled in Masonic Temple
Yesterday morning. Without text or Introduction Mr..
Frothing CHAM began bis discourse folows:-The
centennial has como and gone. II has begun and
IL has ended II has given its promise and summed
its judgments 1t began with noise and uproar; 1t
goes out, as ali years 60 out In dead silence Its
promise was full; It's issue is doubtful and In many
respects gloomy. We hope everything; We receive
little We hope for prosperity, for rcviving
trade for wealth and power Tor readus,mcut OF old
differences OF all that We expected, how little nave
we received OF all that dreamed Of, nothing. so
II always Is. Providence goes by slow stages,
working covertly Underground, making line con-
nections, scarcely ever showing It's hand
The order oil life consists oil hoping Tor
everything not expecting anything Every lie Is
amess, and yet every life in some respects is sue
cess We never hit tho marx. What ambitions
iostered for this great national day Months before
It's first sunbeams struck the planet tho historians and
the chronclers abroad gathering up the crumbs
of wisdom and telling the great story OF oritudc and
endurance OF achievements and victory How superbly
the great forms doomed up from the past What a
splendid record of hope and achevemcnts what sacr-
nccs what disn teresedness, what conservation Is de-
voted to poor ideal hands
WAY TO PROGRESS.
In speaking OF female suffrage Mr.. Rockingham
said II seemed unfair that the whole should be DIS
chised that their property should be taken and
ed without asking their advice. But what IS TO be
doney AS yet we have only touched upon H. we
have not made advance toward the solution oil ~
In other words, have not analysed H. We have lett
things where We found them. Look az our cvii ser
wee. The first thing that any organization demands
OF It ~ to appoint tasks and trusts, to distribute tue
different Offices among people who are appointed
to hold them. That Is what We do III the household.
=. tiU.lV La I'M. IN. ItVh ItI
is no small State Europe that PRIDE itself
upon doing so. What have we done IN 100 ycarsY IL
Is needless 10 say. ihc powers Of carcaturc have
yet developed themselves to such an extent that
they describe civil service. 1t rs beyond Tid-
Guile We have reduced TO science the power Of
people precisely where they do not belong AS though
we trying TO do IT, DO we wish superintendent
OF Education We appoint man who cannot write
his name. Is Minister Ia foreign court dcsifedr
is pick cd out who can not oven spt ak the Ian
puagc OF the nation TO which he is accredited. man
manage the affairs OF the country. Look NJ our political
situation. what a slough, what Norass IL ". And
is this the upshot OF the 100 years OF experiment.
tho centennial, the year OF rhetoric and boosting,
when invited all to come aud see how magni ncent
areY AMI alter all hrs truiDpctiDg such show as
tns Not that the election has been the closest one
that would be possible Not that there are Two capdi-
dates Tor the national favor; that IS not unlikely Not
tnat party spirit run high that Is good thing Not
that there so mucn lying; that might be looked
Tor Ii IN mono OF these things we complain OF. IL
rs that know hat the election has been conducted
with lrsud Both parties nave been facing euch other
conscious OF fraud. The only question Is winch has
cheated the hardest In closIDg Mr. rockingham
said we, as a nation had the satisfaction that wo had
only really had but ity years ~ attain our present