The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-12-04

been'powferulla in all movements for in
tellectuaI and moral culture. For over a
decade his free lectures upon the great
classics of the world constituted an an
nual winter feast that stimulated the
movement among women for the regular
study of the literary clubs that finally
resulted in the Woman's Literary Union,
an organized effort for intellectual Gull
ture among women that is not surpassed
and probably not equalled in any city
in this country and thereforesin the world
in proportion to its population. 70 DR..
Dalton, more than anyone else, and to
his influence more than anything else is
due this remarak BILE intellectual activity
among the women Of Portland.
Ana towards the union in spirit and
effort among the different churches of
the city he has always been a leading in
fuence. The union service of last
Thanksgiving day, which be was largely
instrumental in bringing about, and
similar ones in the past are to him a
source of great satisfa ction as tending
towards that harmonious cooperation of
all churches that alone can promulgate
the full blessings of Christianity.
Though an Episcopal clergyman, there
is not pulpit in this city which he has
not occupied. 1t is needless to add that
he is the great low churchman of Maine,
and that he has frequently been spoken
of as the Phillips Brooks of Maine.
DIR. Dalton came to this city from New
York, where he was assistant pastor in
the Church of the Ascension and editor
of the Protestant Churchman. He was
from the first prominent among low
churchmen. AS one eminent clergyman
of Baltimore expressed it, "Mr. Dalton
always cuts cleaner swath than the
rest of us" At that time, while he was
editor, Phillips Brooks was just coming
forward as young divine in Philadel-
phla, and was the correspondent of the
Churchman for that city. In this con-
nection the following incident is of es-
pecial interest. When Canon Farrar WIS.,
tied this city he was the guest of Gen.
Neal Dow, and DR.. Dalton was invited
to4supper to meet the eminent English
divine. Phillips Brooks was also pres
ent. When DIR. Dalton arrived Gen. Dow
introduced him to Cannon Farrar, and
then turning to Phillips Brooks said
:" And you know the DIR. I believe.n
Know him. said Phillips Brooks, II
have been taught to look up to him all
my life.n
TO say to Portland people that DR..
Dalton is a ripe scholar would be as in
adequate as saying that Gen. Dow is a
good orator. 1t was because his histori-
cal and metaphysical researches had been
SO thorough, systematic and intelligent
for SO many years that his lectures were
of such splendid influence and that
whatever he says on anv and all occas-
ions in regard to any and all important
matters is of SO much weight. He seems
to be always looking forth upon the
movements of men, whether American
or foreign, as one looks upon landscape
from an exalted position. And he recog-
nizes the thing that he sees and it's signi-
ficance, because the landscape is familiar
to him, as it can only be to the real
student of history.
1t will add special interest to the report
of yesterdays event to state what is per
haps not generally known, that st.
Stephens pal ish was formed here in 1868
and is the second oldest in the city. It
was formed as ST. Paul's church, but was
afterward changed to st. Stephens.
The sermon yesterday was from the
text Romans XIII, IL and was entitled
Knowing the Time" DR.. Dalton said:
The wisdom of the Greeks was summed
up in the saying know thyself,." To
know ourselves is indeed all important,
but to know "the Timen in which we
live Is no less so, if we would live to
some good purpose. In vain we rise up
ariy~and SIT up late, toiling all day,
aGlng the bread of carefulness. unless
Fe watch the tides of Time taking them
Tue nooa that it may carry us on and
Malu. nefe IS tendency in some
mas 20 undervalue, in others to overes-
,ate the time in which we live-"our
:" Rightly lived our times are
ug the most eyentful in history.
marvellous changes have we Wit
I. Before our day, the same are
its essntial features, lasted for
generations. The same fundamen-
ures in chuuch and State, the
neral style of living, the same
life itself, of the origin of the
of man, the right relation of
society, the fortunate few and
millions, the ignorance and