Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-07-10
ILOQUlNCl And SENSE
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Audience
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Certainly not less than 1000 people
assembled al Hartnan's Hall lsst even
ing. 10 listen TO perhaps the most oele-
bfated divine, Of this generation. the
Rev. Dr. i. Dewitt Talmage, Of Brook
lyn. DR. Talmage. while sn orator, 10
an orator whose individuality 10 re-
marksble and totally different from
any other on the lecture platform.
Force rather than smoothness charact-
erizes hls speech. His general theme
last evening Was; '1s the World Better
or WorseY 20
He began; "if we leave 20 the the
ologians the question as 10 whittier We
are going, we have stsll the fact before
us that we are here. We are AZ the very
acme Of HISTORY, and II took all tie ages
TO make this minute possible. Id Ike
70 ask you ali 90 come and see us.
Come TO New York, come 10 brooklyn.
come 90 my house, bui don't all come
AT once.
81 want 10 say az the start that | am
an opiimst. The world began Ia glory
and will end sn. Show me q mans
spectacles and Ill tell you how he sees
this world. First have the heart right
and then the liver
with both of them right, you're ali
right. l sat af dinner today with n
friend who was troubled with dyspepsia.
As he sat and ate two pieces of lemon
pie, he became crusfy. sald: snow
is beautiful in winter Putting hls
hands over hrs PIE. be replied, 1t
makes slush.' l continued: There's
enough wisdom in the structure oi \
cricket to confound the wisdom O; all
the earth. This Is world OF gorgeous
beauty My friend could not see the
force OF these remarks. aud ] retired To
my room. ! am gong 20 SAY all the
pleasant things can think of, but not
as did the minister. who bad a well
read but irtoNcated iistens who kept
calling out the names of tie authors of
the minister's beautiful qnotations.
Finally much vexed, the minister said;
Shut up, you old fool
That's yours, called out the
drunken man.
"It's great thing 10 have your subj
ject carefully announced. Once the
bill boards got mine.mlxed and 60 my
astonishment | read on a bali t,oard
that Rev. +. Dewitt Talmage at smiths
Hall would welcome Heensn. the
champion pugIIlst, etc. etc. never
had such Job IN all my life. We have
not all means 10 graduate at Harvard,
Oxford or Yale. But We all have the
college OF adversely. Kicks and cuffs
are curriculum aud adversely the pro-
fessor. The heart right, all's right; the
heart wrong. ali's wrong
The speaker related che incident of !
John Jacob ~Astor, who WAS asked at
the point of q revolver 10 divide his
$40 ,0o0.0 900 OF wealth. He gave the
man 81 as his just share, there being
IL. 200. 900 people in the country.
Yes. he continued. Its all as We
look at II. I've seen thirty-room houses
that were gates 10 perditon; I've seen
two-room houses that were the vesti-
bules 10 Heaven.
s'Says one birc, Pm only 20 he shot
at, No says the other The world IL
our play ground, flowers are ours 30
drink out of, mountains for our perch
and the world st - glance
Different WAYS of looking at IL. IL
seems 10 me that about the happlcst
people. Judging by their looks. are The
old apple women knitting and wait
Ing for customers.
"An old lame man, full Of pain. once
| world OF mefrics left-God bless YOU
] had given him a ride. hut when he
said that. | didn't know bat he had
gwen me ride.
"A great Perfian poet going bare
footed down the street. SAID 10 himself.
| y, the greatest poet of all Persia. and
haresootcdr Then he saw poor man
without any feet. and felt content.
"In the worlds esistence. the DAYS
of sunshine vastly outnumheT the davs
Of gloom. In every dandelian - beauty
more than in Walter Scott's mar
mon. In wedding out my gar
den | throw Longfeilows over the
fence The trouble 10 that people
| don't know what they wsnt % he
happy. Having n livelihood. they want
sffiuerGe: with afiinence, they wBnt
superfuty, and with that they want
more.
81 believe there are very few bad
people m the world, most Of them are
the victims of circumstances. You or
! IN the esme circumstances would have
been IN the very came place. With 800
| faults of our own, We ought 60 Iet some
| body else have one. I'm afraid the
! imperfeciioas OF other people vii kiH
us vet. Lamb hated Coisldge. Plato
and Nepopbon's hatred is as ti.rnsi ss
their works. Dryden and shsdwell lie
| IN Westminster together. and each said
the other wssnf poet.
"I've paid - TO hear Jennie Lind
sing, but never paid cent 10 lsesr
man eroan.
"Tbe people say the world - going 20
ruin. The old bats, the manner cf
| dressing hair i'm 1900 would drive us al
crazy. Even George Washington wore
Md gloves, rufiies. tecks. etc, etc.
onre ssked my father ne the world
| worse than Il used " ts7
s*psd folks hate " admit much - the
children and he repl,sd, ne his eyes
shone; We'll, Dewitt. the world never
vas any better than i ought 10 be-
"why, talk 81 dissipation, look a
the old side boards and dances frofn
| winch they never went hrfpt tili morn
ine. Think Of Aaron Burr coming
within one vote of beine President.
/ don 4 see how our fathers and fnofhers
consented ~ stay 80 tire corrupt essietv
Of olden times. bot for our sake I'm
glad they did.
just in the proportion ~ Ne are
nd. Ioxine, Iofglying and cheerful.
are we useful.
The modern wars compare vsrr 1T
I tle with sncieut fnsssncrss IN whuh
| rniifsfyEss fell. The sword . fact turn
ine 20 . psrv share The intelligent
races are fast taking possessicn 81 tie
world. Where they 90 tie 4finiing
press = without censorship ard fbe b.
bic without arbitrary Interpretation.
E~psfn osce owned orIe.serenfh Of
the whole world hut now sfe . almost