The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-13

cIearnesS and everyday common sense OF
the most utiiitarian intellect; he was an
idealist able to apply his philosophy TO the
conduct Of life. lie was sweet and deyout
in spirit, humane in action, entirely fear
less and Independent of public opinion;
without passion or partisanship he obeyed
his intuitions Of truth in things spiritual
a. unswervingly as Darwin did in science.
He was no copyist, imitatOr or absorber
of Carlyle in style or thought. Carlyle
was mentally and spiritually go saturated
with bilious cynicism that ne was utterly
incapable Of Emerson's sweetness, calm
ness and uusel6sh kindness Of temper and
action. Emerson wrote:
/ "IIie is too short to waste
III critic peep or cynic bark,
Quarrel or reprfrnand;
Twill soon be dark
Up heed thine own aim, and
God speed the mark"
Carlyle was in his philosophy the in
carnation OF moral heartlessness, who
''gloriied the eallows and garlanded the
rack" he was for slavery in Jamaica, and
for slavery in 1851. His heroes were not
Washington or Lincoln, whom he sneered
at; they were men like Frederick the
Great, whose desolating path in history is
marked by cairns of human bones, who
pitiiessly failed humanity 70 death right
aud left to crafty their own selfish pur-
pose, unmoyed by the groans and tears
and prayers OF those they found in misery
and succeeded in making more miserable.
Carlyle sneered at every movement that
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stumbling, cropping, suffering humanity in
it, and he is fairly described by John
Morley as one who 'begins with intro
spections and eternities and ends in blood
and iron"
Emerson was the champion of colored
mems rights as early as 1885: made pOliti-
| cal speeches against slavery in 1sif; de-
nounccd Webster in 1850; defended
| Charles Sumner and spoke eloduently
over John Brown. He was an anti-sIavery
man before single church in America re-
| VOTED against slavery; before even the
| famous division of the Methodist church
North aud South took place; he was open
iy against slavery when, with the excep-
ton of the Methodist church, all the
churches Of the land were either silent
against this great crime or had impiously
planted its pirate flag upon the Old Tesla
| ment as the rock of its defence; he was an
"nti-slavery man. earnest and outspoken,
before even Charming spoke; when the
cause needed friends badly. when it was a
social stigma upon man to be known as
a champion OF negro rights. A man with
out creed or theology, he was a true
teacher and inspirer of Christian life and
conduct, If that means to initiate Christ:
to walk in his foots teps of mercy and sac
rifice.
In the realm of spiritual philosophy ap-
piled 10 the conduct of life, Matthew
Arnold and Professor Tyndal hold that
Europe has given the world no thinker
teacher or poet equal TO Emerson. He
was fugitive from the ranks of the old
harsh theology of New England Puritan
ism, but his writings are instinct with re-
ligious spirit His high faith was elo-
quently expressed when he said, zone
with God is majority; come into port
grandly or dare with God the open sea"
Was he Christian? Phillips Brooks and
Rev. DR.. huntington. of the Episcopal
church. fastened To say from their pulpits
that while Emerson stood noninalIv
outside of all churches, he was
true Christian in life, temper.
moral teaching and purpose, worthy to be
hailed as a noble man and brother nv anv
true Christian church." The Rev. DIR. +
K. Parker, q distinguished orthodox
clergyman of Hartford, Conn, last wear
preached sermon on the DIVERSITY of
Christian Science" in which he said.
"Can we think of Emerson, of his sim.
plicity and purity of character, of his good
will 10 men, of his radiant life and fragrant
memory; can We think of him IS outside
the kingdom OF heaven-that giant with
4 child's heart ?" The Rev. DR.. Parker holds
that rs the pure in heart shall see God
sometime and somewhere that Emerson
| Herbert Spencer and Charles Sumner s'in
spite OF doctginal deficiency or even pres
ent agnostic mind are men of solid and
unquestionable religious worth in the
sight OF God" 81. Clair McKelgay. the
able editor of the Brooklyn Eagle. in an adj
| dress delivered before a conference of Ban
tiSt ministers in his city defined the real
/ N''N''N'' - N''-'NtNtiAl@ Oh ali VINO MDTSuID
Jehovah IN any form, if they do so in sin
cereity and In truth"
| Emerson spiritually stood for the very
capsheaf of New England religious cult
ure; he was the result of that same pr,-
cess OF evolution in the spiritual world
that he recognized IN the natural world.
ten years before Darwin's book appeared.
! when he wrote.
| And, striving TO be man. the worn,
Mounts through all the spires OF f,--, d,
! Emerson was the inspi-er and teacher
| o. modern tnItarianism, and yet the Rev.
| Or. Martinesn, the famous English Uni-
tartan, on the completion Of his S2i vea-
was presented with an address Stoned bv
theolos5ans of all schools. o-.hodnx
| Roman Catholics, Methodists and
/ Presbyterians, expressing the FEELING
| OF reverence and affection felt
/ for DIR. Martineau and thanking
him for the help given "to those who seek
| to combine love of truth with the Christian
life, and 10 recognize his great service n
philosophy and religion" Ma-tIneau is
Eatsa a Cayissisn in Ea.,aad because he