The Cecil Whig., 1886-01-23
FROM ACORN TO OAK.

FROM ACORN TO OAK.
! The Rev. Waldo Messaros Opens the Young
Mems Lecture Course With brilliant
Grafton.
As far as the weather was concerned
the evening of Tuesday last was lot a
ence composed of the most intelligent
| citizens i'll our town gathered iu Odd
| Fellows Hall to hear the eIOQuent pull
| pit orator, Rev. Waldo Messlros lecture
| Mr.. MessaroS, beginning at s o'clock, en-
tertained his audience for two hours
never once during that time looSing their
attention or failing to produce upon them
| that magnetic influence which has made
him the best lecturer in oul country
| to-day. Upon the stage Mr.. AIessaros
appears small in stature but he is a man
whose presence attracts and impresses $;
and his grace of gesture and eloquence
of language are not to be equalled. His
method of Swaying the body while speak
ing is that taught by all the best schools
/ of oratory in the land and an art difficult
to attain as perfectly as he has acquired
| it. To say that his lecture was brilliant
and all too brief will not be necessary.
| The audience was wise and discrimna-
ting one and large portion of it have
| expressed the wish that he be secured
| again to deliver another lecture here
| is probable that h3 will be engaged to
appear here on Feb. 9th, his subject at
that time being "Old Naids.' The
lecture on Tuesday evening last was one
combining learning, poetry, and humor,
in their strongest sense and most delicate
refinement. The topics considered were
as follows: Origin of the Indians, with
various theories concerning their religion,
trade and politics prior to Columbus dis
covery. America the oldest continent
\ vast democracy, with proof of the
same. Three discoveries of America:
The Buddhist, 200 years B. c., the Morse
and the Spanish, with reasons why this
continent was not earlier colOnizcd. How
long it takes to make Il nation, with
sketch of the preparation of this, and
humorous comparison of the races of the
earth. Quakers and Puritans. How each
entered into possession, and unknown to
themselves, worked out the Divine de-
sign. The Revolution, its scenes, its
| heroes and its results. Why not an Amer
lean Abbey? The presidency of George
Washington. His cabinet. The strain
upon the young nation. It's forward
journey. Sixty years nation. The civil
war, Pennsylvania part i'll it. What it
Won for America. This country consid.
cred in its relation to humanity, with a
| glance at its future. \ lecture combiu
ing 50 many brilliant and important top
c, could not fail to win applause, and
great deal of it was heartily accorded Mr..
| Messaros. The first lecture of the course
could not have been more happily sue
cessfuh and it is the hope of the WING
| that the remaining lectures will be equally
as much SO. AS announced eles swhere in
these columns the Rev. Geo. r. Kramer,
of Brooklyn, will lecture on Jan. 29th.
His subject being Eloquence and Elocu-
ton. Of this lecturer the Brooklyn daily
Eaglt says: REV. Geo. X. Kramer is
an eloquent and forcible speaker, who
possesses the happy faculty of interesting
his audience in almost any theme upon
which he chooses to preach. His voice
isiclear and distinct, and his delivery
graceful and effective. And of him in
August 1882 the Whining daily Gazeue
thus spoke: 'Rev. Geo. r. Kramer is
what may be termed liberal thinker in
every sense of the word. He is a general
reader. He studies mankind and is
therefore able 20 speak to and of men.
He reaches the world and the people III
it, talking sense to men Of sense and rea
soning in way not to be mistaken on
misunderstood" Following Mr.. Kramer
on the ID of February the triumph of the
lecture course will be made b. the ap
pearance of Walt Whitman, the good
gray poet of Camden, who has been in.
duced at great expense and for personal
favors to deliver his famous lecture on
the death of Abraham Lincoln, which
the sternest critics of the poet say is the
most beautiful and touching and unsec
tional paper ever written upon the great
president. In this lecture Mr.. Whit.
msn views Lincoln as man without any
reference whatever to the Northern and
Southern feeling. Is lecturer Mr.
Whitman is eloquent and impressive
speaking clearly and strongly and using
no eccentric mannerism upon the stage
Immediately following the second lecture
will probably appear, though in the mean
time Chas. Emory Smith, Esq, may lee.
ture as he has expressed his intention tc
do so and the managers of the course are
at present negotiating with him for a
date.
The rentention of any waste matter in the
system produces in iury. The collection OF
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or throat affection should be promptly re-.
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