The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-03
AT ACTON PARK.
Bishop Mallalieu's Lecture, Yesterday After
noon, on "The March of the Saxon


and the cottagers stroled down toward the sta
ton TO see the trains go by ask each other the
conundrum whether Sam JONES' of Georgia.
would or would not be at the park on next Sun
day. The candy lemonade and popcorn men
are deeply interested in the matter. as, If
Jones comes. there win be . great crowd and
no Jones, no crowd. The men who have erected
a large tent on the grounds in which to exhibit
the panorama of the battle of Gettysburg do
not take as much interest in the Sunday crowd,
the pious authorities of the camp ground having
ruled that they shall not exhibit on Sunday.
The wise judges who have thus ruled eyes out
and gullet in, will probably have free range OF
the candy and lemonade stands during the con-
tinuance of the religious picnic
Bishop Willard F. Mallalieu, Of New Orleans,
La, lcctured in the afternoon, his subject being
The March of the Saxon" The lecturer said
if we were to take our stand on the high and
narrow bridge which spans the Elbe at Dresden
we could not fail to notice the appearance
of the passing throng--differsnt from that
seen in any capital city in Europe. Inc
men. for the most part, rather short than
otherwise, az compared with Americans, broad
shouldered, long bodied, short limbs, arms heavy,
especially above the elbows. complexion fair.
hair light eyes blue In walking they manifest
a quiet composure indicative of purpose and of
power. The women are not unlike the men In
general appearance and characteristics and look
though they might be efficient laborers in the
great task of bread winning to which most of
these people are devoted. These people are Sax
ons and this city of Dresden is the capital city
of Saxony. The Saxons are not aboriginal here,
for there still remains in Dresden a colony OF
people VINO descendants of those who pos
sessed the country before the Saxons ever set
eyes npon it. These two races, though occupy
ing adjacent streets, and living together for hun
dreds of years do not commingle
Occupying Germany, or portions OF Germany,
from period of remote antiquity, the Saxons at
length entered England and took possession of
the country. At length. America having been
discovered. there has been for nearly the last
three centuries a stream OF Saxon migration
across the Atlantic that finds to-day its repre-
sentatives in every country from the antarctic
circle to the arctic The Saxon blood to-day
dominates the entire Western hemisphere.
The Saxon race. like every other. has its char
ecteristics First of all. it is in the foundation
OF its nature coarse grained, blood thirsty and
brutal people. There can be no doubt that the
ancestors of the race two thousand years ago,
were cannibals. and offered their captlves
taken in war as sacrifices to their
diviEities. Their supreme divinity was the
god of war, and dealt in carnage and slaughter.
Tho highest place of the heaven to which Sax
foaming beer from the skulls Of their enemies,
slain in battle. Notwithstanding the molding
and modifying influences of Christianity, these
traits are. not unfrequently, seen cropping out
in modern times The Saxon race is character
lied for its courage and bravery, illustrated from
its earliest history to the present hour; aud Its
pugnacity. 1t IS fighting race. The fighting
princi pie is IN the blood, bone and Drawn. There
are not FIVE battles in 500 years IN which Saxons
have not been engaged
- a.
pared with the Spanish, French and Italians or
even with the old Greeks and Ph@ncians, they
STAND vastly their superiors. As national
corollary of this, every Saxon has design to
own land, and more land-all the land that joins
him. 1t is an inventive race. Seven-eighthS of
the valuable inventions OF modern times are the
result of Saxon ingenuity. The Saxon race is
distinguished for its reverence for women. Even
in its heather and barbarous days 1t presented
this trait of character and to-day it may be said
of women in America, which is the flower
of the development Of the Saxon race,
that they have here their paradise. And
where woman has hers. man has his,
if he has any at all; and this because here,
more than elsewhere. have been conceded to her
the rights which her due. This gives her
special responsibility and special power, and to
her hands, more than to the hands of man. is
committed the keeping of the destinies of the
country for the future.
The religion of the Saxons is peculiar in that
from the remotest antiquity they had implicit
faith in an almighty being that governs and
controls and is interested in the affairs of men.
They always made a broad distinction between
right and wrong and never for o moment sup
posed that the results from these two opposite
lines of conduct could be the same But it
needed that they should go to the old Hebrew
Scriptures in order to find the revelation of
God OF infinite love, mercy and compassion.
With such history and such characteristics
surely there must be future for this remark
able race If Germany is counted in as a part
of the Saxon family then there ought to be found
in that land government of the people. by the
people, and for the people. instead of military
despotism. There ought to be in England the dis
establishment of the church, the abrogaton of
the aristocracy and q government in which
the rights of all shall be equally re-
spected. In this country the poorest and
the humblest must be protected in the exer-
else of all rights in whatever portion of the land
their lot may be cast 1t is the mission of the
Saxon race to use its power for the uplifting of
the downtrodden and the oppressed TO benefit
aud bless, socially politically and relgously,
the whole world, to resist wrong wherever found,
and to spread abroad the blessings of civil gov
eminent founded on righteousness of home
founded on virtue, and religion founded on the
word of God.
In the evening Rev. Dr. ]. H. Mcconnell, of
Roberts Park NJ. K. Church, lectured on 1.-THE
Bible and Modern History"
To-day Prof. j. c. Ridpath LII. D., will lect-
ure. his subject TO be announced when he takes
the platform. In the evening w. /. Marshall
will lecture on IAN Evening in Wonderland"
letter has been received from the eminent
tragediau James E. Murdoch, of Cincinnati an
nouncing that he will be at Acton Park this
evening. Tomorrow afternoon he will give mis-
cellaneous readings from Shakespeare, Dickens
and modern poets
Island Park Assembly.
Special to tbe INDIANAPOLIS Journal
ROME Cry, Aug. 2-This is the closing week