The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-02-17
DIR. WooLFoLK,s LECTURES.
What Constitutes Character REGULATION OF
Ingersoll.

ha ~ 4'OAi . tiaii W hcdi LIZ bpcdh
in refutation of Col Robert G. Ingersoll's
anti-Christian arguments, but for some unex-
planned reason the subject had been changed,
and the Doctor lectured upon Character"
He was introduced to the audience by Col.
Irvine, and said:
There is nothing more important than char
acter; not one-sided but WE'LL poised one
An inferior character may be more respected
and be more successful, If well poised, than
great character strong in one direction.
Character limns itself in the face; changes
In peoples features are not so much the work
OF time as of character. Time effaces no
line of beauty from the face; it develops no.
bility in the features If there liz nobility In
the heart. Passion, not time, brings the fur
rows to the face. Man does not grow old as
long as he improves; when progress stops,
then the man has practically reached old age.
If the youths development ceases when he
is eighteen, he might as we'll then be sixty
If growth stops at twenty-five, the man is
like June apple-good, perhaps, for the
time, but he won't keep fresh and sweet-he
will wither and decay with age. Let the
heart and the mind develop and you will al
ways NC SOuuR. SHdTAGbeT De Hht u
pillar. The first quality is erectness; then
the column has its base, its shaft, and its cap
ital the faculties of character match these
parts of the column. Intellect does not enter
into character except as pervading essence;
1t determines the material of which the char
acter is composed ; some great intellects are
poor in character. The executive group of
faculties make the base Of character. There
can be no grand character without these fac
ulties are strongly developed. The central
stone, the core, is firmness, decision. This
is the most essential element in a noble char
acter. More lives have been wrecked for
want Of tirmness than from any ether cause.
There is a difference between firmness and
obstinacy. The firm man uses his Judgment,
thinks out the best course, and then pursues
1t infiexibly. Obstinacy is firmness without
the intellect, without judgment Next to
firmness is the faculty of destructiveness Its
real effect is executiveness. 1t is the doing
faculty; the man that possesses it does his
work without hesitation. This faculty should
not be suppressed, as is often the case, but
should be cultivated and guided. The true
secret of grand character is grand faculties
Even the passions should be grand. Com
bativeness is the next faculty necessary. 1t
is grand virtue; make 1t powerful. 1t is
nothing but intensity, causing the possessor
to do with energy and might whatever is to
be done. Quarreling is its perversion. There
are four other elements in the base of char
acter: Self-reliance, which should be the re-
suit Of having accomplished something. Per-
1t IL,
little avail what good is it to commence any
thing without persevering tc the end. Pune
tuality is necessary to executiveness. So also
is method or order those without order will
nothing. This base is not beauti-
full or grand, but it is strong A man having
this base has a strong manhood, but without
more his manhood is low; he
needs the beautiful white shaft of the moral
faculties. The central core of this shaft is
these days. The newspapers have made IL
reverence study. The best man has SUI
preme respect for God, and equal respect for
himself and for his fellow men. The man
having little respect for God and his fellow
men is proud man. But proud man has
not great self-respect; he is always ready to
do something mean. The remedy is to be
more respectful to Others and reverential to
God. A beautiful faculty is hope, aspiration
The gentlest, sweetest trait of character is
These faculties compose the
shaft of the column. But higher than all are
the social qualities they are nobler than
the moral faculties. This may seem a para
dox, but it is true. These qualities are two
and Agreeableness. Kindness is
the king faculty. Social life can not exist
without it; the want of it fills the world with
misery, fills the family with jars and quar-
rels. Kindliness is the glorious sun of our
existence it beams shed light and warmth
around us. 1t is the best means of resisting
much good, except to ourselves, unless we
have agreeableness. We should have pleas
ant thoughts, pleasant words, pleasant tones,
pleasant acts, for all with whom we meet.
Kindliness and agreeableness are sister fac
ulties and the browning graces of the soul.
Cultivate them. Many have these facu lilies
necessary to form a grand character but al
low them to introvert, and then they become
Selfshness, self-love, and other bad traits.
they feel kindly to you. There can be no con-
fidence in businesses, social, or family rela-
tons without this faith. 1t is the golden
cord that binds humanity together and all to
God.
In the above report we have been able to
give but brief outline of the eloquent ad-
dress. To the Doctors occasional criticisms
Of newspapers, we would but refer him to
his own words in regard to destructiveness
and combativeness. He says they are grand
virtues and should not be repressed, but must
be trained Alright. So the press is grand
power working for the general elevation of
and If mistakes are made they are
not due to the power but to the want of train
ing In the engineers. But even unframed en-
gineers are better to endure than bridled
press.
Tuesday evening DR.. Woolf ok delivered
his lecture in refutation Of Ingersol
to a moderate-sized audience. He de-
scribed Ingersoll as dashing and brilliant
guerrilla chief of infdelity, but incapable of
profound reasoning or the prin-
ciples of the religion which he ridiculed he
is the matchless orator of the day, and If he
had but the wisdom of the philosopher he
would be great leader Of men. Ingersoll
assails religion from two lines of attack one
line is that of atheism, the other the anthem.
ITCHY of the Bible as divine revelation
Huxley, Tyndall, Darwin, and numerous
other scientists are equally atheists with In
gersoll, though they are not so bold in pro-
claiming their views, but promulgate their
ideas by Insinuation. They say there is no
evidence in nature of the existence of c-e-
ator and That there is no necessity for one. I
believe that the existence of God is as easily
demonstrable as any physical fact The great
argument of Ingersoll against the existence
of God is the presence of evil. But Inger-
soils mistake is in his misconception of the
divine nature-that the omnipotence of God
gives Him choice of all paths. 1t is mis-
take to think God omnipotent; He IL limited
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