The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-04-19
KEYSTONE STATE NORMAL
SCEUOOI,.

Monday, 7th inst, the Summer Session of
the Keystone State Normal school opened
with perfect rush of new students. More
boarders reported during the first two days
than were present at any time during the
previous year. BY the time those who en-
gagged ROOMS and for various reasons could
not come the first week, shall have register
ed, the total number in attendance will
roach nearly three hundred. The first Of
the series of lectures arranged for the pres
elt session, was delivered on Friday even
ing by Rev, S. Henry Bell, o. Port Carbon
The chapel was crowded by the students and
citizens; and for an hour and three quarters
the audience listened with the closest atten-
tion to the lecturer as he iifted the veil from
the numerous counlerleits in trade, society,
and professional life by which modern in
genuity deceives the public.
REV. Dr.. BELLS LEcTvRE.
The speaker introduced his subject by
quoting the familiar, though, as he remark.
ed, often mis- quoted Shakesperian aphorism,
:" All that glistens is not gold" We cannot
Judge from outward appearances. Surface
show is not always q sure index of what it
covers. Traffic Of commercial intercourse is
one Of the main forces that move the world
1t brings nations together, breaks down the
walls OF partition that separate races, and
spreads civilization and culture over the en-
tire globe. 1t is honorable and noble. Yet
it has its shams. Cheating has been reduc-
cd to an exact science. The authorizations o
liquors and groceries defy the highest
kind Of chemical skill. 1t is estimated that
every year about 100000 persons are mur.
dered by adulterate liquors alone. Here The
speaker enumerated q member of sweetlneat
and articles Of daily food aduterutad to sucl
49, degree as to make them positively poison
Gus. Even our mineral waters, etc.. etc. arr
not exempt from the use of chemistry. 1t i
wonderful how three or four different kind
may he drawn from the same fountain
beautiful illustration of unity and variety
Here we may, indeed say that we have 9Th
devil in solution" Evcny sphere Of tlalii
has its false show. Every manufacture
makes the best article ofils kind. lie send
his agents to every quarter of the globe
They haunt you in the wlds of Brazil, am
in the junples of India, in Jerusalem AMI i
London. They are perfectly ubiquitous
They aus missionaries Of humbuggery. The
are no respecters of person, going alike al
ter Greek, Barbarian and Scythian, bon
and free. In your summer tour you sc
their advertisements beautifully imtcrmir
gled with the natural scenery through whic
you travel.
Shrewdness is the virtue that the worl
admires. Poor Richards almanac is obsolet
Honesty is no longer the best policy. Frank
lin should have been born later or has
lived longer to SC c this age of emaneipatio
from primitive restrictions.
journalism has likewise its false outwar
show. Editorials are often written by pa
ties interested in their contents and who al
not on the editorial staff. Strange to sa,
some papers Of Reading often have Talmage
sermons before his congregation in Brool
lyn have them.
1t is perhaps in money matters that "
find the greatest fraud and deception "Bo
row" once implied the idea Of rctuluia
But language changes Now when a ma
borrows money he finds it against his inte
est to return the principal ana against h
principle To return the interest.
Society also has its counterieits. Man
s,eial nature Is capable of unlimited cultuT
But there is an element ofhuman natu
common. to the savage and the aristocrat tn
no culture can efacv or eradicate. There
after all no great gulf between the peasa
and the gentleman. olten nothing but mol
ey is required FOR social promotion. 1t
ridiculous TO notice how families who SUI
denly grow rich move from the wharf al
the fish market To 5th Avenue and th,
make an effort to forget their past histor
In such persons rcpulsive vulgarty is OF,
found lurking beneath the thin surface
outward kid-glove polish. Often a mar
claim 10 aristoeracy is based on the soci
standing Of his ancestry, US il great-gran
fathers virtues could cover the sins of i
children to the fourth generation How s.
it's that few are born into this world wi
qrcat-great grandlathers. The speaker iu
ther exposed with cutting sarcasm the EN-
tiness OF worldly fame and pleasure, sho'
ing how unsatisfactory they are in the ei
and how utterly they fail in making q
evening of life cheerful and happy.
closed with a beautiful perortion ON moi
character, depicting the happiness Of a m'
whose heart il stranger To remorsc al
who has no charge to answer at the bar
an outraged conscience.
The above is but q brief abstract Of 4
main points # the lecturer, no effort Is ina
~ reproduce the speakers sentences Al
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