The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1880-03-17

event by rough handling of the Johnny
raws." The old salts, ludicrously dressed up
as Neptune, Tritons and sea nymphs, seized
the hapless fresh seameu, andtfeated them to
bath in foul water and shaving process in
which tar and piece of hoop-iron served for
soap and razor. Capt. Edward Hall has some
where given lively description of such an
entertainment. But gentler manners have
entered the navy aud mercantile marine,
alike and the fete 6 under the line y will as
sumo, now, more of the character of well
ordered marine carnival. Only in College
hdssng do the barbarous rites of the heather
Saturnalia still survive. Sailors have adj
vanced in refinement of manners a little fast
Ell than Students.
March 81, 1s43 Two minstrel spirits pass
ed from earth on this day, Robert Southey,
England's laureate next before Wordsworth
and Tennys,n and the Baron Fouque'. Had
Southey written less, he would have been
more read as his poems by their length
scare off more readers than they weary. His
ballads, however, will always please his
prose is almost unequaled tor elegance, ease
and cearness, as in his Letters, Book of the
Church, and Lives of John Wesley and Lord
Nelson =; and his g Doctor" is a marvellous
serap-bag of rare humor and out-of-the-
way learning. Fouquei is not known by En-
glish readers as he deserves. Southey wrote
full fiction of modern times" AS much may
be said of Sintram, and of Minstrel Love-
These romances have a tender, mystic charm,
that brings to mind our own Hawthorne but
Fouquei is more deeply religious, more cheer
full too, than the author of The Scarlet Let
ter and the Seven Gables and his story
moves in the most romantic times and lands
the Middle Age, Scandinavia, Provence
We are rapt by it quite away from nineteenth
century scenes and thoughts but it let's us
come home again, claimed, animated, refresh
ed.
On the same day, 1865, Thomas Cramner
came to the stake. He was always true to his
changeable master, Henry VIII and earnest
in prosecuting the great work of Church re-
formation. 1t is easy to detect flaws in the
conduct of public man in a difficult posi-
ton but it will not be easy to name one who
during so checkered life bore, on the whole,
straigbter course than he who was forced
into high places against his win by one mon
arch, and by another tortured into momen-
tary recantation, and then, burnt for the opin-
ions which he had thus disavowed. We are
thankful for his self censure, =" That unwor-
thy right hand.' And we accept another's
summing up of his character F" As man he
was vacilating as Christian strong as
both prudent" And had he not the very
charity of the gospel in him, of whom the
world said, +" Do my lord of Canterbury an
i'll turn, and he is your friend forever"
March %. Jonathan Edwards died, 1858 /;
J. w. Won Goethe, 1885. Two men more un-
like could scarce be named together. The first
a Calvnistic divine and one of the strongest
and most uncompromisng advocates of that
peculiar system, was President of the College
of New Jersey for the last two months of his
life. The second, Germany's idol, and by
some esteemed German Shakespeare, was
indeed poet of rare genius and a man of
varied learning but his verse; like his life,
was often set in the low key of sensuality.-
His Hermann and Dorotteo, however, one
may read with pure delight. 1t is lovely
idyl possessing the charms of Goldsmith's
Vicar and Longfelow's Evangelne, with an
additional charm that is all its own.
This week, coming just before Easter, is
the saddest, most solemn season in all the
Christian year commemorative, as it does,
the Cross and Passion ofgoursBlessed Lord -
1t is called Passion Week, the Holy Week,
the Great Week. Several of its days, too,
have distinctive names. Sunday is Palm Sun
day, when Christ entered Jerusalem in His
lowly triumph and was greeted by the chill
dren singing hosannas, and the people strew-
ing His path with garments and palm branch
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Wednesday is the day of theTBetrayal, when
Judas " communed with the chief priests
and they covenanted with him for thirty
pieces of silver"
Thursday is the day of the Institution of
the Lords Supper. 1t is called Maundy
Thursday the word being corruption of
mandate, 1. o. the command of the Saviour -
g Do this in remembrance Of me-"
Friday is the day of the Cruciiiction Above
all others, Good Friday.
"The darkest hour
That dawned ON nfu earth,
Can touch the heart with softer power
For comfort, than angels mirth"
Saturday is the day during which Christ's
sacred body rested in the tomb, while His
spirit was in the place of departed spirits,
q Paradise" as He called it, when answering
the prayer of the penitent thief.
We call it Easter Even. and feel the com
fort, thus of naming it for the day of Resur-
rection, Easter. And so, while the bodies Of
our dear departed ones sleep in the dust, We
rejoice in the confidence that the ir souls are
in the peace of Paradise, awaiting the fina
rising day. when their bodies shall come forth
and in soul and body they shall ascend t.
heaven, "to His Father and our Father, t
| His God and our Cod x.
FINAL ADJOURNMENT OF THE LEGIsLA-
TURE.-At twelve o'clock precisely last Fri
day, the Legislature was adjourned sine die
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