Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-08-26
.-x henry WARD BEECHERs Lee.
TIRE.
v.- Reign II the Common People
uaw and why They Reign.

Ian Church was at an early hour last
avanine filed by an intelligent and criii-
=, snaieace. who had assembled to
listen to lecture by Rev. Henry Ward
Bsecher. The lecturer came in while the
.,a;epcs was still arriving, and was
a,se,ed with applause. AT about forty
n;nutes past eight, all seats and the
.;sles Of the church being filled to re
,,s,;on. the reverend gentleman arose
ppnd sas introduced to the audience by
psv r. Strange, pastor of the Third
street Presbyterian Church, who said:
Ladies' and gentlemen, / have the
bonor and also the pleasure OF intro
sncjng TO you Rev. Henry Ward Bsecher,
vho will deliver his lecture on the reign
of the common people.
We can give but a meager abstract
If this lecture of MIR. Beecher. 1t was
rsnlete With thought; tsrse, eloquent, SO
much 40 that an attempt to condense it
mnst result In comparative failure.
The lscturer began by saying that We
who have been 80 thoroughly trained do
rot stop to think that the first or lowest
order OF society was when men lived by
hunting or fishing. fne next order Is
ths pastoral life, and then society com
mences to develop and form nations.
When men are so ignorant that they
do not know how to think for them
selves. they must be governed by nen
Who an think for them. When Sanl
went 10 the throne he WAS head and
shoulders above his fellows. They were
p,storsl then. As the higher stage OF
Government succeeds, there are more
Than one who are capable OF governing
this makes an aristscracy. Then, when
Won have still more, II becomes limit
ed monarchy; and then comes Deniocra-
cyor Kepubiin-a government adapted
To the needs of the common people.
The most difficult and complex govern
ment in the world is that OF the con-
mon people. The CEASE. war, and CON-
msrce tend to make men think. About
ali of education is to teach men to think.
The first education began in Egypt.
The schools we're only in the royal fam
;lv. Priests were of that family. A
man may be chock full of knowledge,
bat that isn't all that ia necessary. A
man may be full of college knowledge
and not know enouga 10 come In when
il rams. Egypt was merely a store
house where some knowledge was kept.
Il was stealing for common people 10
Get knowledge. The next We fond of
knowledge was in Greece. Every
BODY might be educated there,
il they had money to pay for IL except
slaves and women. They heve always
stood about on the same level down to
cur time. If "a woman wished to live ~
a modest maiden there she must be ig-
norant Only courtesans were edu-
Gated, Ignorance meant virtue, Wis
dom meant vice. This throws IRuch
light upon some OF the New Testament.
Paul said, LET your women keep silence
in the churches Paul aaid this when
writing to Timothy, Bishop of Greek
church in Asia Minor. II never was so
written of a Hebrew woman. Jewish
woman could be anything that man
could. At this day how absurd 1t - 10
our churches that n woman may speak
in class or lecture room. she may be
missionary to the heather, but must not
sneak iu church, because there Ia the
text. and they dare not jump IT. In
Eoypt it WAS not permitted to gam
knowiedpe in the schools now eduoa-
ton ia made compulsory. The result
hss been very striking. Luminosity OF
the mind has been working down until
ia Europe the whole people are becom-
ino educated. Today all the laboring
CLASSES of Europe are demanding educa-
tion, not for themselves SO much. but
for their children. Two hundred years
ago they didn't want it. They thought
il only belonged to great men-men
with white hands. who dout work. The
common people demand education now
because they are more unhappy. Edu-
cation uufolds new parts of the brain.
Each fold 30 exposed Is a hunger, de-
handing food. As nen grow and un-
fold there are wants. Want Of food for
the brain creates unhappiness.
Men are asking why they are 80 I'M
happv. Why should We remain at the
bottom while white hands go to the top;
WHY VIC should do all the work and they
get oil the plyI God created man IA an
animal. aud also AZ q creature OF intelii-
cence Ii men want to 90 TO the top
thew must go by thought; they can't go
mn by societies and trade unions alone.
Bone and muscle will stop at the bottom
always. Since the people have found
this out, they ask that their children be
eduoated. The reason that European
governments are willing to educate their
subjects Ia that they are more easily
governed. There's another thing. 1t
has been found out that brains are bet
ter soldiers than hands. That is a
great discovery. In olden times it didn't
make any difference whether a man
knew ANYTHING or MOTT was q battle
of aviordupois. One of our batteries of
artillery would thin out regiment OF
such soldiers in minute. Tho prtnci-
pal cohesion OF our armies In the intel
IiRence existing between the soldiers.
The wear and tear of field and camp
life in better borne by cerobfated sol
diers. The lecturer here illustrated At
some length the differences between
ignorant and educated men in q
certain regiment in the late war;
City life always whets the brain:
Anything that tends 70 unfold the
brain makes men. They used to md OF
these city boys in the regiment that
they didn't get sick 30 often, they
marched better and rested quicker, and
when wounded got we'll sooner. This
has been found out not alone by rs, tut
in the last French and German war.
The French soldiers were ~ class ig-
noraut. The Germans were educated
II was the Gcrman schoolhonse that
knocked down the French forts. France
has found this ont, and the very camps
Of the French army are schools today
The dream OF universal peace Is dream
that has not yet known any waking.
prophesied thirty years ago that The
period Of wars was ended. Since that
time there have been 6vo bloody wars.
There 10 another element which En-
roma perceives: the greater capacity Of
educnted men TO produce wealth. s.
poor are the nations OF Europe tina
ANYTHING that tends to create wealth y
OF paramount importance. Kings wouls
lump Al il. There isn't nation on th'
face Of Europe that can pay its debts
While governments have been educating
the people God has had his ends to sub
serve. Today there Is net nation II
Europe that dare take any proninen
step without first consulting iss people
The only exception il Russia. She doe
not give any chance to her common peo
Die, and IL Russia doesn't give eduoa
tion 70 her people within q generation
she will be shattered TO pieces. Coz
grant il. On this side the water, the Az
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