Daily Republican., 1885-11-12
Talk on " Pluck"

1t Is to be regretted that so small an
audience greeted so large lecture as
was delivered In the Opera House last
night by Rev. g. w. Miller, OF Phila.
delphia, but former pastor OF Grace
M. f. church this city. DIR. Miller il a
fine, classical orator, and his eloquent
speech WAS rich literary treat 10 the
medium but select and appreciatiye q
audience present. He was introd uced
TO The audience by Rev. G. w. Pretty.
man OF Union M. K. church, and he
proceeded immediately with mis- sub.
lject.
Pluck he said was rather All inelegaut
expression, not found In either classical
usage or In the dictionary, but 1t had
found place in the business affairs of
life, because 1t was the emblem OF sue
cess. Great was Diana, OF the Ephe-
sians, was the cry Of the times in the
apostolic ages, but pluck bad changed
the cry In the nineteenth century to
great Is Gam beta and Garfield.
Mr.. Miller, in q striking al d amusing
manner, defined pluck from cheek. The
latter fills men with vain conceit, and
makes them think they are born rulers
Pluck prepares man for the throne or
the Presidency, and enables him to lay
hold Of his desires.
Cheek Is impudeuce, but pluck was
never irreyerent. Pluck marks the
character OF every man who has been
successful In business whom all odds
were against him. Pluck IL inscribed
upon the breas: plates of tho-e who have
come TO the front ranks in business
The school girl sits entrarced while
! reading Of the exploits of that plucky
girl, Grace Darling, in saving human
| life, and the school boy recites with
ardent fervor the bravery of Casa
biap ca. who stood upon the burning
deck until envelOped In flames Mill.
tary history is made up almost exclu
sively Of pluck. In the late war two
military Generals exhibited the pres
ence and abser CO Of pluck
| Both of them had charge of the Army
Of the Potomac. The first was an nc
complisbed civil engineer. He could
plan q bridge that 1t would come to
gether as II by an automatic process.
He organized the finest disciplined
army under the sun, and matched II
against the enemy, but the only thing
for which he was noted was in the
magificent retreat he made. The othel
was different kind Of man, and
when told In his march upon Richmond
that General Lee was about to fall
upon his rear, replied and said, "Weilr
then, we will fall upon Lees rear"
When met with almost tunsurmounta
BILE barriers he said he would fight itou
on this line II 1t took all summer, or a
summer OF summers, and he hammered
Awsy at his task until the gates of Rich
mond gave way and Grant received the
Surrender of Lee at Appomattox. Gen.
Grant was the sixth great warrior OF
the worlds history, and upon the tenn
pie of fame Is inscribed the names OF
Cesar, Alexander, Hannibal, Frederick,
Napoleon and Grant. 1t was Pluck
that inspired the colored colder who
met Confederate officer and proceeded
TO take him prisoner. Il will never
surrender to Niger" said tho CoI'
federate.
Sorry to hear you say 80. Massa.
have TO shoot you righ. Aere tnen, for
,aaaveh'. time g ru1 and get white N AZ
TO take you," said the colored soldier
The lecture was listened to wild
earnest interest, and the speaker wa
often encouraged with hearty bursts D
Applause,