Omaha daily bee., 1890-07-09
The Crete Assembly.

CRETE, Neb., July S.-[Specal to THEBEE.
The subject of this mornings bible reading
was "The Rich Man and Lazarus" DR..
Hurlbut corrected the mistaken impression
that wealth on this earth implies disgrace
hereafter Character alone determines des-
tiny. The doctor stated that the great teach
ing of the parable was: LAS one enters
eternity 50 must he remain forever. There
can be no change after entering the Great
u nknown."
Mrs. Kenncdy's forenoon classes continued
their study of the life of Christ, going on
from the miracles. The topic of consideration
this morning was "The Parables.n
DIR. Duryea IN his bible students class,
entered into an investigation of the latter
half of the Sermon on the Mount Each i'm
portant point was taken up separately and
given thorough consideration. The inter
est in Dr. Duryea's class shows no abatement,
the audience room of the Congregational
headquarters being crowded each morning.
The subject OF DR. Hurlbut's morning nor
NAL class was "The Week of Passion The
last year Of the Savior's public ministry re
ceived IL careful consideration and the many
interesting events connected with it were no
tiCed and commented upon. The following
points were made IN regard to this last year
l. 1t was year of wandering, 2, A time of
retirement. 3. period Of instruction. A.
| An interval of opposition.
The Women's Christian Temperance union
| temperance training classs handled "Evange-
! iStc Work. and "Work for Railroad Men,
At II o'clock Prof. j, &. Freeman, of the
| Wisconsin university, delivered the second Of
| his series of lectures on English literature.
| the subject of this mornings address was
| Dan Chaucer" The following interesting
/ points were made by the speaker: Chaucer
was born between 1925 and lS45. He was not
! of noble birth, but was well versed in all the
| learning of his time. He first became
prominent as an officer of the king
and soon after was appointed for
returned to England From 1874 to 1877 he
! held various royal offices. In 1886 he became
! member OF parliament from the county OF
| Kent, but was soon depOsed from all his Of
! fees. Chaucer'S character was so velS atile
that he was successful in whatever he under
! took
After various msfortunes, during the latter
| decade of the fourteenth century, he was
! taken into kings favor in 1899. His life, how
! ever went out with that OF the century His
! first work was a translation from the French.
! He was the first great English poet, ana un-
| sWerVingly stood by his mother tongue. lie
was the creator of our literary dialect. The
| "BOOk of the Duchess is his most interest
| ing early work. Canterbury Tales al
| though his greatest work, is not original in
! idea. Chaucer sought originality, not of
story, but oflanguage description, etc" Mr..
| Freeman gave IA very fine illustration of Eng
| lish pronunciation 500 years ago.
This evenings lecture was delivered By
| Rev. r. W. Gunsaulus. Subject Cromwell,
| Washington and Napoleon Among other
things he said: When Rome fell the world
seemed lost in cheers There We're at that
| time two PHILOSOPHERS, that of Cnsarism and
that of Christianity. The old political idea
| of CRsarism represented two personalities,
one above Jupiter one below Caesar. The
sentiment of both Jupiter aud Caesar was,
| might makes right. The new political idea
| nf lhIiStinnitX l.
tiles, God and Christ.
Its creed was, right makes might Every
decisive battle of the dark ages was
a strife between Christianity and Cgsarism.
The former cause was always triumphant.
No great idea ever dies The signing of the
Magma Charta is the first bloodless victory
for the idea that right makes might. Never
until the time of Oliver Cromwell did the