Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-06-05
THE DAILY RECORD-UNI0N.
MANHATTANISMS.
FELIX AnLER's MARRIAGE, MIND AND
MANNERS.
Edwin Booths Probable Engagement in
Europe-Is the Metropolis in
the Torrid Zone?
NEW YORK. May q, 1850.

New YORK, May p, 1850.
Colonel Robert C. Ingersoll's second lect-
ure .at Booths Theater, Sunday evening"
drew fully as large an audience as the first
lecture. The house was packed with highly
intelligent, elegantly dressed men and
women of the better class, who were as en-
Enthusiastically approbative of "The Gods"
as they had been Of "What Shall We Do
to be Saved" The SPECTATORS did not
reap such harvest as they had reaped, be-
cause the public, having gained knowledge
by experience, had provided themselves
with tickets at the box-office beforehand.
In all other respects, the audience was al
most identical with that of the previous
evening, representing the liberal, thought
full, individual part of the community. The
daily city papers have generally given very
fair reports of Ingerzoll's lectures; but
some of them have thought it best-for
their pecuniary interest, perhaps-to defer
a little to orthodoxy. One of them spoke,
for example, of Ingersoll having been
"soundly hissed," adding that there are
some things which even
SUNDAY AMUSEMENT SEEKERS
VIII not stand. It seems that only one
man Kissed, and he was put out, proceed
ing with which the lecturer could hardly
have been pleased, since he believes so en-
phatically in the fullest freedom of ex-
preston. The speakers response to the
hiss was, "Let Jehovah take care of him.
self; he ought to be able to. ! would
rather deal directly with God than with
any OF his agents | have ever seem" On
the subject of the Press, it is here as it is
elsewhere. The working journalists, they
who are the body and brain of the papers,
are almost invariably rationalists, while
the proprietary interests are in the hands
of those inclined to orthodoxy, if not on
principle, because it is regarded as re-
munerative. Money usually makes people
conservative, and one of the generally IN
recognized strengths of ecclesiasticism is
purely financial. The Church property of
the metropolis is estimated at $500, 600, 900.
No wonder churches have some influence
apart from spirituality. There is reason
for the opinion that priests, of whatever de-
uUIuihtl4Ull. CdLl lOb iCll ali lIOul lOUhlug
upon theological questions from the vulgar
bread-and- butter point OF view. I do not
blame them; at least, / should not, if they
did not make such lofty pretense if they
did not pirate SO A;ppantly of their sacred
Office" When they shall admit that their
calling is like any other calling, they will
be more logical than they now are, and
will escape much of their present criticism.
While they often admit privately that they
are like other men, their common giving
out is that they are of the elect; that they
are removed from the common herd. They
never seem to me as other men, and not as
women. Perhaps they are neither. They
may be as the French say of the third SEX
FELIX ADLER As BENEDIcg.
Professor Felix Adler, the head and
front of the Society for Ethical Culture.
has, as you have probably seen, Just mar
RED Nellie Goldmark, described as slen-
der, pretty brunette, daughter of
physician, a scholarly ex-Hebrew of
Brooklyn, ard the brother of the noted
German composer. l have been told that
there was disposition on the part of some
of Adler's friends to have him take wife
from one of the young women of wealth
who belong to his Society. But he chose
through his affections girl who has, !
learn, no other dowry that her personal
and mental attractions. Adler is an I'M
compromising idealist in every thing, and
yet was devoid of practically in matters
practical. One Of the grave defects of
The mass of Jews is, in his judgment, their
excessive commercial spirit and passion for
money He would not be very likely,
therefore, to allow property to influence
his connubial conduct Adler was married
by the Mayor of Brooklyn. showing that
he considers marriage merely civil con-
tract, having no reference to religion.
Even if he had regarded it otherwise he
could not have been united by any priest
with any sort of consistency. Not by
rabbi, because he has separated himself
from both the orthodox and the reformed
Jews, indeed from all kinds Of Jews, dis
tinctively such. Not by Roman Catho-
lie priest, because he has no sort of faith in
the Roman Church, tc him the stronghold
of superstition. Not by a Protestant cler-
gyman, because he disbelieves in Protest.
antism totally. g.. His own Society has no
rabbis, priests or pastors. He is its
lecturer, and in such capacity might, by
strain, have performed the ceremony for
himself Under all the circumstances, the
Mayor Of Brooklyn was the best person to
convert him into Benedick.
ADLKR's ANTECFDETs.
Adler is the son of a German rabbi,
remarkable tor his learning and intellect,
and now retired on account of mis- years.
He was born in this city barely 80 years
ago; studied in Germany, and received
the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from
the University OF Berlin probably the
first seat of learning in the world. AL
though reared in the old Hebraic faith, he
very early began to doubt all creed and
dogma, and after returning home from Ber-
lin, some of his friends, rich Jews, offered
to endow Chair of Hebrew and the ORR
entail Languages at Cornell University,
provided they conld name the incumbent.
The offer was gratefully accepted. Felix
Adler became Professor at Ithaca. He
had been at Cornell only brief while,
when an organization, which afterward de-
veloped into the Ethical Society, was
formed here, and Adler invited to lecture
before it every Sunday for eight months
in the year. He would leave Ithaca
Saturday, arrive here in the afternoon,
lecture Sunday morning, take the evening
train and be back in abundant time for his
collegiate duties. He naturally expressed
his individual opinions in his dscourses,
and as they were heretical and striking
they got into the newspapers, provoked
much comment, excited evangelical CEN
sure and disturbed the equanimity of Cor
nelps Trustees, who were and are rigidly
orthodox. They made no protest, how
ever. They merely waited until the year
had expired, and then informed the rich
endowers that they could not consent to
the continuation of the chair unless they
were allowed to select tie man to fill it.
This was, of course, direct blow at Ad.
Ter, but they lacked the moral courage to
be wholly candid. The Professors friends
declined to have anything more to do with
the matter, Cornell ceased to have the par
ticular chair, and Adler was regularly
appointed lecturer of the Society at s., 900,
ard is likely to continue there as long as he