The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-12-02
NUMBER 4S.

Rev Mr. Trnax the closing Invocation
The sermon by Rev G. w. Gallagher was
unto me, write, Blessed are they which
are called unto the marriage supper
of the lamb. And he saith to me,
These are the true sayings of God" Mr..
Gallagher said that the value of any re-
ligion must be determined by its power to-
reveal truth. If believe it, it must be to,
me as a revelation. Abstract truth and
principle fail to take hold of the human
heart and life. The whole force of Gods
truth is in its revealed character. II IL is a
revelation 1t has all power over our
thoughts and deeds. This season OF the
year suggests its joyous festival; the
greater feast, here called the marriage sup
per OF the lamb, is an ingatherng OF all right
eOus sruls to celebrate the triumph of
Christ over sin. 1t is communion of fell
lowship; festival OF peace, of Joy. The
principal thought Of this feast is the sacrifice
of the cross blended with the light of
heaven. Love and sacrifice are the two
great principles upon which human pro-
gress must be made. Gods love and Gods
sacrifice were typfed by the marriage sup
per of the lamb.
| THE WATCHMAS does not care to develop
| the abnormal excrescence known as - A
| bump on itself" If accomplishes a cred
table piece of work it is content to let the
| public discover the fact, without question
ing IFS intelligence by informing the latter
OF it. The ArguS has hitherto been ex-
|
achievements, and we are grieved to note
in its last issue an incipient departure from
| the straight and narrow path of moderate
self-respect. The Argts, in using up about
| three "stickfuls in an account of the
Brock reception, devoted mainly to com
ments on the agility and exceptional
grace of the ushers, regets that "space for
bids anything but the scaniiest reference
| TO the elaborate costumes, Then it goes
| right along TO waste half column in re-
| port OF the CaDturn of n gnpnOapI
robber in Washington, an item of news
whose local Importance was comparatively
sllght. 1t is no concern of ours how or
with what the ArguS fills its columns, but
when it ntimates that the WATCHMAN and
other papers were badly left in reporting
that particular case, we arise in the inter-
est of our readers and protest. According
10 the ArQuS, Its young man was the only
person on deck at that particular time. The
other newspaper men were down in the
cabin somewhere playing pedro. Into his
ei terprising ear the detective was pouring
great chunks of information, and "the
other papers were left, as usual" One of
the bits OF exclusive information which he
devoured was that the young man accom-
panying the detective had no suspicion that
the latter was an officer. On the contrary,
the chap told George E. White in answer
to an inquiry, that his companion was de-
tective. The natural inference is that the
ArguS assimilated quite an elaborate fairy
tale. Anyway, the item loses still further
Importance by dispatch from Utica, n.
T., that Heaton, the young man arrested,
is not the man wanted, and that an error in
telegraphing led to the mistake in the ar
rest. These few lines are written simply to
call the attention of our readers to the fact
that the Arq,tS' local columns are not the
sole repository of the wisdom of the an-
clients and the enterprise of the moderns.
The substantial facts in the arrest of the
supposed robber were published in last
weeks WATERMAN but the sufficient report
was not blended with any dissertation on
the spots on the sun or the grain ukase in
Russia.
II is sincere pleasure to artist and audi
ence when the former makes so unques-
tionable an impression upon the latter that
criticism is unthought Of undesired and
out of the question. That was exactly the
effect produced by Edouard Remenyi, the
worlds great violinist, in the Opera-house,
last Friday evening. His visit will be long
remembered with genuine pleasure by the
large audience that greeted him. The time
honored and half-suspcous query, Chow
did you like the concert last night?" was for
once supertluous; there was, there could he,
but one opinion NJ. Remenyis visit to-
; Montpelier eleven years ago had, in a meas
ure, prepared our people for the treat in
store for them, and when the curtain rose
: on Friday evening large and brilliant au-
dience was in attendance. The absence Of
the sans culotteS was gratifyingly noticeable,
and the almost absolute silence that pre-
! vailed beyond the stage was broken only by
the vibration of the violin strings. AS to
NJ. Remenyi's performance you who were
: there know you who were absent, who can
l tell it to you? There are viOlinsts in Bos-
tou, in New York, in many places who far
excel Remenyi in execution. But it is me-
, chanics against SOUL there is but one Re-
menyi, and so far as Montpelier is con-
l cerned he came, he saw, he conquered.
The peculiar style of the great violinist was
more clearly shown in his own compost
Eat
2 his transcription of " Hungarian Melodies -
He plays as he pleases, and he pleases as
! he playS-with half-Closed eyes. He leads
: you, by many modulating by-ways through
) dreamy dndanteS, and then, just as you
: strain your ears to catch the last faint whis-
per of "A minor chord, there is rush of
scintilant scales. a momentary pause, aud
[ a burst into rierce allegro that thrills to
, the core of your musical soul-if you
/ have one. Perhaps the most enjoyable
numbers were Chopins Romance in e,
' and Mazurka in b, while a change
! for those who enjoyed a depression from
the severely classical, there was the Hun
E garian Liberty Hymn, remarkably ac-
curate octave study, and Raif's never
cloying Cavatina. The former evoked a
perfect storm of applause, to which the
artist again and again responded He was
= pleased with the more than cordial recep-
I tion rendered him. The first sweep OF his
bow established sympathy between him
i and his eager listeners that was as crafty
' ing as it is rare. The company is worthy
the artist it supports. The tenor voice of
w. III. Fessenden was heard in much of it's
! old-time vigor. A fire, manlness throbs
in his voice which is lacking in the tones of
almost every other New England tenor.
I Mrs Alice May Rice soprano Miss Edith
: McGregor, contralto, and Miss +. Cliff
Berry, pianist, made an excellent impress
sion, the latter especially. A little more
. animation would not have injured her in
' depreciation of Webber's Polacca Brillante,
I but it is easy to ascribe any sins of omission
! or commission to the lugubrious piano which
; handicapped her in her efforts to tell the
, composers story. An artist who could
draw out harmony from that four-legged
; atrocty could play Home Sweet Home" I"
. with variations, on stone-boat