Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-11-29
Umso,a serytce at the House Of Hone.

/ Union SeTutce at the House of Hope.
! The Union services at the House of Hope
brought out large congregation, consisting
principally of members of that church, Day
ton avenue church, First Methodist and Ply
mouth churches, and the ministers of these
| churches assisted in the services. The must
cal part of the service was unusually good,
and the national anthem was sung with en-
thusiasm and spirit by the whole congreea-
ton.
DR.. Dana delivered the following practical
address, which was listened to with the
greatest attention:
St. Paul as 1t is st. Paul as 1t Is to BE- or
the City ace Desire and the City ace Can
| BWitd Up"
| Acts, XXI: 49, ga citizen ONO mean ety.
| The first thing we note about this utterance
| is Its manliness. 1t is the statement of one who
made the most of his citizenship, and who with
a just pride could refer to the place of his ma
tlVity. We like to hear man speak well of
his home, and make the most of the good fea-
| lures of the city in which he resides. 1t is
anything but noble-to live in a place but not
for 1t; to belong to it as the barnacle does to
| the ship, that you may prey On it's life. In
fact with our heterogeneous population, and
the competitions begotten by political par
ties and the clannshness which is inseparable
from race distinctions, are in danger of for
getting what citizenship involves in this new
| iand and these young western cities. The
apostle nsd good reason for his civic pride, for
| larsus was renowned place of education
under the early Roman emperors,
| vylng even with Athens and Alexandria Some
| noted scholars resided in it, increasing thereby
Its celebrity, and adding to its literary advan-
tages. Then it was also commercial centre
OF considerable Importance, its situation gave
| 1T wide connections, and Syrians, Cilicians.
| Isaurians and Cappadocians found in it their
most accessible emporium of trade. In it's
! schools Paul acquired that culture which dis
| tlngnIshed him in after years, and enabled him
| successfully to meet the philosophers and
| sophists who constituted his audiences in the
| cities where he preached. Its stirring business
| life too, was not without it's influence upon his
character, while the splendid buildings which
entitled 1t to a metropolitan fame, and the cnl-
tivated society it offered to a young man of his
position and promise-had not a little to do in
making MIN what he was. In fact. all of us
to an extent we do not realize are affected by
our environment. The place in which we We're
born, the advantages it possessed for the ac-
cushion of knowledge, the influences which
It's society had upon Its memb ers, all combined
to tlnge and shape our life AS Papl looked
back to Iarsus, the memory of what he owed
to the city, of his early school life therein and
the companionships which endeared it to him
IN his youth. prompted his ontspoken testimony
TO Its character, and while his words excite
our admiration for him; they also serve to
awaken a more than passing interest in the
place itself. 1t evidently counted for something
In this early time to hail from city or town Of
some repute. 1t kindIed in the minds OF 9th
ers a sort of instructive respect if the person
| could claim citizenship in some METROPOLIS
justly famous. Indeed there was a local pride.
q fealty to the municipality which took the
place now filled with the broader and better IN
! stlnct of patriotism. But that grew out of the
fact that the city was the country and the gov
eminent. Rome stood for the Empire, and
Athens for Greece. The loftiest affirmation
man could make was not that ne was a Ro-
man or a Greek, but citizen Of Rome and an
Armenian; that excess has been corrected in
modern times and loyalty to the country ia a
grander thing than fealty to city; still come
to this text on this occasion for sentiment
and principle that are worthy of new emphasis.
Tor 1T Will serve to point for the moral of
citizenship, and recall to us the duties and
| privileges incident to our connection with the
| metropolis in which we reside.
10 be able to take on our lips as we oupht
the words of st. Paul, we must have what he
had to speak of-''no mean city;" then our
citizenship would be at once our glory and our
pride. And yet civic life is but the expression
OF the life of the individuals associated to-
gether in the municipality. The latter gets its
character from the former. A. are the citizens
In principle and purpose, will be the city.
Wlsh therefore, to speak now of some of the
elements in a generous and intelligent civic
life, and then indicate some of the directions
III which we need to develop, in order to ap-
proxlmate the ideal city we desire to realize
The st. Paul that may be and ought to be
should be our study, for the city we want is the
city That under Providence we can build up.
PUBLIC sPIRIr-wHAr 1T IMPLIES
indispensable to the highest civic life con-
ditioning all real prosperity, is what is called
public spirit. Corporations, according to a.
bitter proyerb are SAID to have no souls but
there never was worse nor more wicked saw
Ing than this. For while it is true they have
more commonly acted as if possessing none
yet who doubted that in those in
stances they wilfully lost Or sold
them. The bank that has no con-
science, the railroad company that has no sense
OF right cannot last long. for they haze not the
| tlr.t condition of human confidence and re-
spect. Communities, cities, States, nations
all have souls, which can be lost or saved and
| by winch they are known and judged. This
soul consists not in the number of their popula-
| ton, nor their climate soil or Industries, but
| In their ruling ideas. When therefore we say
| GOD save the commonwealth of Minnesota
| we mean God preserve and protect the ideas
which underlie and conserve It's life So when
| we speak OF public spirit, we designate that
lmpalpabie but none the less real temper and
| purpose which animates the body polite. 1t
| Is the spirit which yields the Instruments and
compels the events OF municipal life. The city
| is Tor that reason moral person, and we may
say OF 1t, IN the language Milton applied to the
State, that it ought to be but as one huge Chris
/ m ,oVSN L.. Il.
| OF an honest man, as big and compact in vir-
| tue as IN body" The characteristics of public
spirit are then just what the term suggests
lt is distinguished by larseness and unselfsh-
ness which does not necessarily inhere in a
private individual. More than that, it is q
| spirit which prefers the public to all personal
or partisan interests, and regards the rights of
the many to those of the individual it has
larger ends to conserve. and cannot be subject
| ed TO the limitations OF mere personal prefer
| ence and convenience. Cities and commune
ties are guaged now by the degree in.which
such spirit obtains. Ii they animated by
| desire to promote the public veal, and make
sacrifices, and lay aside personal preferences
to secure what will inure to the good and gain
OF the commonalty, they forthwith acquire the
repute OF being far-sighted and generous
Ihelr enterprise, involving as it does generous
cooperation on the part of their respective cit
liens, and resulting in the prosperity which
| uniformly attends the former, secures for
| them civic fame, and draws to them the ele-
| ments which enter into a prosperous civic life,
The scope of this spirit is seen in whatever per
| tains to the people. It lies behind and prompts
to the improvements and internal development
OF the city, to the honorable and honest admin
| lstration of Its affairs. It's the spirit
winch leads citizens to tax themselves
for the building of schools, for the securing of
commercial facilities, for the openi g of streets
ETC., etc. Yet, to be deserving of the name in
It's more distinctive meaning, it involves more
| than these, which may, after all, be regarded
as the necessities, and the usually conceded
ones, OF all civic life Il is public spirit, when