The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-04-23
ANNIVERSARY MEETING.

ANNIVERSARY MEETING.
Sunday being the first anniversary of the intro
ducton Of the c. L. s. c. in this institution. the
usual exercises were dispensed with and the fol.
lowing program was substituted:
Address,. Hynes.
Recitation, Guilty but Drunk" .. Henry
REGULATIONS. "Smiting the Rock" The Moneyless
Man. lone Night With Gin "My Friends Sc
cret," Observation-Disclosures. Barnum.
Recitation, 1.-The Fate of Sir John Franklin,"....
Particle.
Remarks by the Critic, ... Rev: j. H. Albert
THE ADDRESS.
When those learned and wise men first Assem-.
bled on the shores of that beautiful lake from
which the class has borrowed its name, it was
their hope and desire to bring into communion
the present generation with-frst God; second
our fellowmen. and third nature. How near they
have accomplished their mission is not for me to
say. but truthfully assert that the history Of
our country contains no chapter of work which
has been more far.reaching and with better re.
suits than the Chautauqua Circle.
Our reverend chaplain and critic ably instructs
us, in his mastery way, on the first part of the
mission-God, and it is on the second and third
parts shall speak
The Chautauqua Circle has opened more clearly
and wider to us that priceless and nexhaustibls
treasure of books it has brought its members face
to face with the spirit of the greatest writer's of
the world, especially those of the English Ian.
guage. whether historic, scientific or fctional
Thus, in desultory way, all the good things
comes under our eye; and they should not be to
hasty gone through. but pursued with serious
and intention of taking from them that
which is most beneficial. That man who has
never tasted of the sweets contained in the writ.
ings of the poets, sages and philosophers of the
world, has been deprived of one of the greatest
blessings which falls to the lot of man; he knows
nothing of the affairs of the world, cares not
whether he lives under q republic monarchy or
a czardom as long he is not interfered with per-
sonally. Science to him is something unheard of,
or so remote from his natursl conce ption that he
has not the least idea to the different forma.
tions he is seeing every day in the Sum- Moon,
Stars and Earth. What to the man who has not
been reader is art if he were to journey to that
beautiful city in southern Italy. Florence where
there is to-day assembled a concourse of learned
men from all the civilized world, holding a me.
mortal service in commemoration of the greatest
preacher that lived, Savanorola, would he
feel that divine inspiration that secret reverence
while gazing on the exquisite treasures that adorn
the cells of San Marco? Would he be overcome
with raptures of joy when viewing Angelica
"Crucifxion." what soul-stirring effect would the
angelic paintings of Michael Angelo have upon
him? Would he drink of the cup of admiration
on first beholding Raphaels "Madonna?" fea,
not. To him. the cheap chrome possesses all the
virtues of the "Angelus," and plaster paris cas-,
would bring forth his applause as readily as q
sculptured chiselng of Raphaers
The class has also given to its members, tina,
love for nature which is the highest worldly en-
dowment of all. They can view the panorama OF
the year with keen delight and renewed
interest to them, the beautiful summer dawns anG
glorious September sunsets have untold Joys; the
rocks, the mountains. the sky, have sublime eff
feet upon the true lover of nature. And here
where the class has penetrated the gloom which
surrounds prison. the memory of those beautiful
things we have ourselves seen has a soothing eff
feet upon troubled mind; and higher appre
citation of those beauties is attained by the cult
walton OF the mind through the institution of thu
Chautauqua class.