St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-12
TO OVERCOME OUR OERBERUS.
A Lecture by the Rev. Washington
GLADDEN., ID. D.. at Mahtomedi.
The Attendance and Interest Increas-
ing--The Work of To-day.

ing--The Work of To-day.
Decidedly the most notable event in yes
terday's session of the Mahtomedi assembly
was the delivery of lecture by Rev.
Washington GLADDEN. of Columbus, o.
1t was to have been delivered in the after
noon, but was deferred until o'clock in
the evening. The morning trains
brought many passengers from ST. Paul
and elsewhere who had come for the pur-
pose of hearing the lecture, but were I'M
able to stay until evening. The attendance
at yesterdays assembly was mostly of
transitory kind. Incoming trains brought
many passengers, but those returning to
the city took quite as many away.
The earlier proceedings were but poorly at
tended and it was not until Mr.. LeOnVincent
appeared on the platform to talk about
EARLY English DramatistS" that the audi
ence at the tabernacle was at all respect
able. The days work was begun by de-
votional meeting at o'clock. This was
followed by chorus class and the normal
class. Mr.. Vincent lectured on the lives
and works of Christopher Marlowe and
Shakespeare, He treated, somewhat at
length, of the early history of the English
drama.
During the afternoon session Rev. j.
Dewitt Miller spoke Oh the Uses of Ugli-
ness" His lecture abounded with humor-
GUS illusions and stories, and was received
with much favor by his listeners.
DIR. GLADDEN's LECTURE.
The audience which gathered to hear DR..
GLADDEN. was the largest which has yet met
in the tabernacle. DIR. GLADDEN. is portly,
full-bearded gentleman of about IS years.
He spoke rapidly and in tone of great
earnestness He used but few gestures,
and seemed intent on hnpressng those who
heard him with the gravity of his discourse.
His subject was How Shall We Stay
Our Cerberus?" His appearance on the
platform was the signal for prolonged out
burst of applause. He began in low tone,
gradually warming to his subject.
| DR.. Washington GLADDEN. was born in
Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, but
his earlier days were spent principally at
Owego, n. Y. He joined the Con-
gregational ministry in 1850, and officiated
as pastor at different times at Brooklyn and
New York city. He also spent some time
at North Adams and Springfield, Mass. He
is now pastor of the First Congregational
church of Columbus, o. Dr.. GLADDEN.
is the author of several works, chief among
which are, '.Plain Thoughts on the Art of
Living" ''Workingmen and Their EN-
ployers," and Things; New and Old. )"
DR.. GLADDEN. was for four years editor of
the independent. A most remarkable arti-
Gle by him appears in this months
Century Magazine, entitled is it
Peace or War ? +" Last night
he began by asking, ''Why is it so many
even in fruitful and bountiful land like
this, live always near the borders and
sometimes within the borders of want?"
| Doubtless he continued, ''the reasons
are many. In all communities are many who
must be helped and pitied on account of their
| misfortunes. Such are these who are alway s
with us, and there is ample chance for Chris
| tan kindness and charity ia treating with
| them.
cit is evident said he, ''that the present
social system needs to be reconstructed.
There is class of the rich in this land grow
ing 1icher, while there is a large class of the
| laboring poor growing steadily poorer; they
are becoming paupers; they are losing heart
and hopes; they are beginning TO be q very
heavy charge upon our benevolence. The
extent of such phenomenon in this land is
dangerous. This land is incomparably richer
now than 1t was thirty years ago. Who
are getting the benefit of this mag
nificent increase? l have been forced
to the conclusion that it is in no
sense the people who work for
wages. They are better off than they were
thirty years ago. but not much better off
The average price Of years work will not
buy much larger proportion of the neces-
saries of life than it did thirty years ago.
Your Vanderbilts, your Gouds, your Sages
have been accommodating thei1 stupendous
riches, while the poorer classes have been
growing out of all proportion to the popula-
tion There are more paupers than there
were forty years ago. How do you account
for this? I don't believe any one explanation
can be given. But the great reason that the
great majority of able-bodied people are poor
is that the great majority who live in want
continue in that condition because they have
no distinct and strong desire to esca pc from
it. That this is the great explanation of the
penury in this land to-day will not be doubted
by anybody who gives the subject any de-
gree of study. How are we
- i yaken in the hearts of the multitude
. VINO are now too willing to remain in poverty
' the desire to overcome it? How can we
arouse in the hearts of men the hunger and
spirit Of righteousness? The only way to
create in the souls of men any love of good
ness, is by revealing it in our own lives All
the preaching in the world, all the threaten
ing of pam, all the promise of gain will not
make one bad man good, but show him the
beauty, the holiness of thrift and good deeds,
and for adventure he will fall IN love with it.
So soon as this takes possession of his soul, sc
= soon is his salvation possible. 1t is not by
! constitutional amendments, nor by law, fol
all these are powerless when not backed up by
cannon. 1t is by the lives lived around them
that we can hope for the salvation of these
people.
Much applause followed the closing re-
marks of DR.. GLADDEN..
The exercises to-day include lecture by
Leon Vincent on ''Puritansm in Liter
ature' and addresses by DIR. GLADDEN. and
Wallace Bruce. At 1880 o'clock In the
evening the latter gentleman will deliver