Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-12
A BASKET OF QUERIES
TO WHICH DIR. BUCKLEY RETURNS BRIEF
COMPREHENSIVE ANSWERS.

| TO WHICH DIR. BUCKLEY RETURNS BRIEF
COMPREHENSIVE ANSWERS.
A Variety of Topics Treated in an Enter
tnininR styIe-CoIumbus Viewed In a
New Lieht--Tbe Guardian Angels of the
Great Discoverer-Church and stnte.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPArcH.i
7 AXE CHAUTAUoUA, August u--Wh nat
multitude of people and what multitude
of meetings. To and from hall and amphi-
theater, through the Holy Land, along the
Roman way, everywhere you see the busy
bodies hustIing about. They stop only at meal
time and when the echoing chimes lull them to
sleep in the evening. The meetings are SO
numerous and complex that it makes the head
of the unsophisticated fairly swim to contem-
plate, much more to attempt to attend them.
1t might seem that many of the enthusiastic
persons would be on the verge of insanity,
overcome by this glittering and diverse array
of topics and talent But no; the sweet Chau-
tauqua girl is sensible. She takes in Just what
she wants and what is suitable to her intel
lectual capacity. She plays tennis SO much in
the sun 1t is difficult to tell whether she cares
for anything or anybody else, except her
favorite diversion.
The big share of the crowd found their way
to the Amphitheater impelled by curiosity and
/
York, answer the questions sent in written
Slips at the morning session. George Vincent
came on the platform bearing a small basket
containing the questions. He gave them
eneery shaking up and DIR. Buckley dived his
hands in the depths, mixed them about some
more, and then they we're ready. The old saw
| that "a fool can ask question which no wise
man could answer" was fully vindicated by
Ibis basket of queries. Personal and pertinent
nd aha dfn NIL and oh Gnrd
sensible and foolish inquiries were fred at him
broadside, longside, underhand and every
which way, but the doctor was not embarrassed,
and the felicity and ease with which the editor
Of the Christian Advocate answered them
would have surprised any one who did not
know him to be one of the brightest and readi-
est men on the American platform. He knew
ABOUT most OF them, and those he DID no. ne ne
sophistry. sHf
Queries TerseIy Answered.
fT AM not here to answer denominational
questions" =" he said when he began, 'for
this is not a denominational body. l am not
here to answer conundrums or impertinent
queries" Then he commenced drawing them
from the basket. SIS it the proper thing to
write a church letter on postal card ?' ANY
man that will do it has decided porcine quail
ties" docs prayer influence the Creator ?''
IF it does not, it is the grande st farce in the
universe. Those who believe in objective
prayer never petition for anything" What
| indications are there that the church will be
united all under one head p IF the external
| church is meant, have never seen any indica-
| t1ons. There is good deal of foolish talk
| about church union. The only one that is indi-
What IS life ?' Life is the opposite of death;
| that is all / know about it." do you think
there is any ground for third or prohibition
party f' THAT is for the citizen to answer In
his own conscience;I vote as l think" do
you think you are advancing the cause of
Christ by voting with liquor men P' IF
| agreed on matter of politics with the worst
| man in America, / would vote with him. The
| time may come when the Protestants will have
| to vote with the infides against the Roman
Catholics: Then you may count me in with
| the inf1dels."
| DO you think the time will ever come when
| we can combine chemical properties and make
food without the aid Of natureF' IF the time
| ever comes when L cannot get one of my
mothers old-fashioned pies. you may count me
| out. You cannot get ahead of nature. don't
want any chemical properties in mIne." What
| are we going to do with trampsT "Say to
| them what a newspaper editor said to Daniel
| Pratt who went into his Office ard introduced
himself thus: Don't you know me? am Daniel
then hen travel" ira what do YOU think of the the
! progress of the black racer II think that
| their improvement has been remarkable"
What is your method of preparing a lecturer
| 81 did not take much breakfast this morning
| and received force. Usually the process is
| that of involut1on and then of evolution"
How about the exclusion of the Chinese7"
theoretically am opposed to it. With such
law in our country it is amusing for US to send
petition to the Gear of Russia concerning his
treatment of the Hebrews" do you think
that Christian science is opposed to Christian
ity?' SIT is worse than Ingersollism. There Is
no reliance in 1t whatever. l have spent much
money and time in studying it under the best
| leaders and teachers" rs there ANYTHING in
the fact that criminals have abnormaily deyel-
| oped heads?' mo; some of the greatest
| forgers ever known have heads that would do
honor to the portrait Of a United States sena-
| lor. 1 sat for an hour and half in the cell of
| Charles J. Guiteau, and he looked no more like
| a criminal than lots of Methodist ministers
| John Wilkes Booth was a handsome man. and
| if he was to appear here to-day, and you did
not know who he was, you would be pleasantly
surprised"
DR.. Buckley's answers were frequently inter-
rupted with applause, for each time they were
generally to the point.
Columbus in a New Light.
2 Ev RUSSELL CoNNELL of Philadelphia,
spoke on columbus" in the afternoon.
Dr. Connell generally deduces something new
from whatever subject he handles. SIT is not
my purpose this afternoon to discuss the life
and character of Columbus but to consider him
in a new light and on a new side. will try and
correct my failure IN making too much fun, as
my friends say, and get down to the Chau-
tauqua idea of regular historical lecture. We
are lectured on the fact that we know more
about the New Testament characters than
those who lived so years after. and more about
the life of Columbus than those who existed In
the same century. hold up my two hands, five
fingers of the one and two of the other repre-
senting the seven guardian angels of Columbus.
Columbus was seven times discovered. His
mother was womaRof aristocratic birth, and,
like many American women, married below her
station, wedding foreign count, and like them
in another respect, she was obliged to support
him. When child Columbus lived and slept
by the stories of FARGO Polo, the italian voy-
ager. He always felt that God had special
work for him to do. an idea inspired by his
mother, his first guardian angel Columbus
was a lonesome man and lived far away from
those around him. Women always like the
lonesome best, and so he grew up in high rev.
erence Of them. But, nevertheless, he grew up
to be an old bachelor. He kept upon the sea
for the purpose of keeping away from the
women. When thrown upon the shore of Portu-
gal from the wrecked ship he met Phillipa, his
subsequent wife. She taught him three things
the art of printing, the use of the Quadrant
and an improvement of the clumsy Compass of
that time. The third angel-you may wonder
at it-but she was mother-in-law.
Not only did she love him and
treat MIN nicely, but she gave him his board for
nothing. She petted and coaxed him, and he
did not need to work unless lie chose (and he
did not choose). She awakened in him the de-
sire for the sea. The fourth guardian angel
was his sister-in-law. She deserves a very large