The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-09-18
ENGLISH FLUNKYlSN.

inherent tIunky;sm OF English sOciet.
was curioukly illustrated at a recen
fair in London. Princesses and PRO
Iessional beauties" had agreed {;
keep stalls ia fancy dresses, and ih'
crowd which rushed to see them |a'
go immense that it was impossible te
move about, difficult to see anything,
and ,he doors were closed to prevent
a catastrophe. Nobody bad any
pleasure, but everybody was tired and
i'll tempered, and brought away few
ridiculous things which they did cot
want, and for which they had paid alb
surdly extraYagant prices. Yet the fair
yielded nearly forty thousand dollsEs,
and the paper sardonically adviA3s
the managers of Hospital Sunday"
to engage lew princesses and duch-
esses to hold the plates, and to be
sure and advertise freely. 1t might
be we'll 10 provide that nobody should
be admitted to divine worship on that
Sunday who did not agree in ad 'ance
to put guinea in the plate. But
that ia probably needless. Franklin
emptied his peckets when be heard
Whitfield's pathetic appeals; and no
true Briten could refuse q guinea to
plate held by princess or PRO
fessional beauty"
Flunkys love a lerd. But we know
80 more amusing illustration OF it
than a sermon that we lately saG.
preached a hundred and twenty years
ago. The clerical funky is net the
most uncommon, but he is the most
disagreeable of the kind. We get
glimpsessof him at the levses OF prime
ministers at the very period to which
the sermon belongs. They went beg
giDg for preierment, and we're ready
to DO What was necessary to get 1t.
Thackeray devotes three papers of
his great book TO clerical snobs. He
would have enjoyed the one who COM
posed and delivered this sermon,
which was in commemoration of that
precious ornament OF his species, to
whom Thsckeray himself has done
justice, King George II. 1t is edifying
to turn from HerVey's memoirs of the
court of. bat monarch, and from
Tnackeray's legend for his statue, to
the sermon delivered at Nassau Hall,
January IA, rs l. on the Death of
His Late Majesty King George IL,
George ia no morep saith the
preacher; "George, the Mighty. the
Just, the Gentle, and the Wise;
George, the Father OF Britain and her
Colonies, the guardian of Laws and
Liberty; the Protector of the Op-
pressed, the Arbiter OF Europe, the
Terror of Tyrants and France;
George, the Friend Of Man, the Bene-
factor of Millions, is no more! Mill
ions tremble at the Alarm. Britain
expresses her Sorrow in National
Groans, Europe re-echoes to the Mel.
ancholy sCund; the melancholy sound
circulstes far and wide. This remote
American Continent shares in the
| loyal sympathy. The wide interme-
Mate Atlantic rolls the Tide of Grief
to these distant Shores. Aud even
the reciCse Sons of Nassau Hall feel
the immense bereavement with all
the sensibllity of filial Heart, and
must mourn with their Country, with
Britain, with Europe, with the world.
George was our Father too. In his
Reign-a Raign so suspicious to Lit
erature and all the Improvements Of
human Nsture-8as this Foundation
laid, aud the College Of New Jersey
| received its Existence. And though,
lie the Gun, be shone in distant
sphere, We felt lmost sensibly felt)
His benign Influences, cherishing
Science and her votsries. in this her
newborn Temple"
This was the way in which the
Tory pulpit Wors hiped the throne oil
earthly grace and favor hundred and
twenty years ago. But this strain is
cold compared with the ecstasies Of a
foot-ncte which records the millen-
mum foretcld by one of the very first
acts of George Ill: "a Proclamation
for the Encouragement of Piety and
Virtue; and for Preventing of Vice,
Profsneness, and immortality" The
preacher, forgetting that he bad been
depicting the lament d second George
az the paragon Of all excellence,
breaks out, exultingly, ''Virtuel
Thou Heaven-born exile! Return to
| court!' There is nothing in the sat-
Tres of this inherent funkyism" OF
English society which is so ludicrous
as it's sincere manifestations. All
this clerical sdulstion was besto1ed
upon q man whom John Quincy
Adams described as "a rude. illiterate
old soldier of the wars for the Spanish
succession; little versed even in the
language of the nations over which
he ruled; educated to the msxims and
principles of the feudsl law, of openly
lioentious life, and of moral character
far from credltable; be styled himself,
By the grace of God, of Great Britain,
France, and Ireland, King" It is
perhaps the highest praise OF the
ability of Sir Robert Wslpole that
with such a person on the throne,
without the modern restraints OF the
prsrogative, and with Jacobite intrigue
seething on every side, he gave the
direction to Englsnd which she has
never lost.
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