The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-10-02
URGING Home CULTURE.
Hudson County Chautau-
quans Hold a Ra11yat the
Tabernacle.
STUDY GODS WORD AND WORKS.
Mr.. Scudder Will Have Books Put
in His Coffin TO Read on
the Other Side.
GODS WORD AND WORKS.

in the Tabernacle. excellent speeches
were delivered to delegates from every
Circle" practically in Hudson county,
For some years q few enthusiasts about
the methods Of Chautaugua College
started n circle in Jersey City. West Ber-
gen having the honor of being the oldest
circle. The circle widened until its cir
cumtereuce enclosed members from
every part of the city, and there is every
indication that after last nighs's meeting
the ranks of those seeking after mental
culture will have been materially
strengthened.
On the Tabernacle platform at the
rally" as Yesterdays meeting vas
called, Mr.. Horace c. Wait OF Hasbrouck
Institute presided, having beside him
Mr.. w. II. Beach. Director of the Boatd
of Education, Rev. john L. Scadder.
DID,, and Rev. j. Lester Wells. LII from {
of Nj Wait was q large boiy of dele
gates. mainly composed OF young woman,
who, at the Introduction and close OF u
speech, sigui1sd their approval by giving
the Chautauqaa Saluts or waving their
handkercniets. "Clappiug the hands Is
inartistic aud lacks culture" explained
one of the audience.
Mr.. Wait, after All opening prayer by
MIR. Wells, praised the CnSutauqua sys-
tenn aud It's followers in Jersey City,
whom he termed the real arlstoc racy of
the city. Tue effort of the circle Is to
perfect intellectually.
I'VE are connected, he said, with
families whose names are Socrates, Aris-
totie, Plato, Marcus, Aurslius, Jesus
Christ. Our aim Is IN the direction OF
improvement. Culture is hand in hand
with religion and everything we strive
at ls towards Development. He thou.
introduced Mr.. Scudder. who extend ed
q hearty welcome Co the delegates.
THE HOME OLLEG
He recognized C~hautauQua as the
home college and believes In its primer
pies. Tne ordinary college, like Yale
and Harvard. Is too expensive for the
young working man SO that really they
are for the ricn only. The question to
the young man should be:-"how can l
get a collegiate educationf" There is
only one way and that Ia TO do the work
oneself.
Culture means developing In health.
and wneu the body is healthy the mind
and character will be affected bene-
fici ally. He instHnced Mr.. Gladstone as q
marvellous specimen of u sound mind in
q sound BODY.
"Why he chews his meat thirty times
when eating and cuts down trees when
not pounding the House of Lords.
If your lungs ale out of order. or you
suffer from stomachache or ~tooJhache
you will feel wretched aud your religion
will suffer. Keep, therefore. your body
in good condition.
1.-THE body after all is only a basis.
Cultivate the mind. Where were the
brains put? At the top OF the body.
While Idon'5 disapBrove of dancing. 1
can't say / much admire educating the
feet. Educate the other end. An intel
lectual man ever feels that he has little
time and never gets tired OF literature. |
want TO read lots or books, only l haven't
time. When l die l will have tuem put
IN my coffin to read on the other side."
Lastly, Mr.. Scudder said that culture
of character must never be lost sight OF.
elf we cultivated that and asserted our
manhood at the primaries, democrats
and republicans alike would not be able
to run them In the way they hRve been
doing"
He closed by urging the delegates to
develop the body, mind and character.
Mr.. Beach was next introduced, and
his appearance was warmly sRluted when
MIR. Wait cried out "AIl of you who
have clean handkerchief take them out
and salute Mr.. Beach," (Laugnter.)
Mr.. Beach's subject was Tine Advant-
ags of Culture and the ~Chautanqua
Literary and Scientific Circle as a Help
10 Securing IT,"
He defended the meaning of the word,
culture, which he said inter alta is ZEN
heightened aud discipline acquired by
mental training"
Matthew Arnold might be said to bs
the apostle of culture. though many smile
at the "efeminateness of this doctrine Of
sweetness and light"
ut it be true, AS he says, that culture Is
the disinterested enoeavor after mans
perfection. ii it ws US how worthy and
divine a thing is the religious side of
man, though it is not the whole Of mau;
IL it be. quoting Montesquieu to rendsr
an Intelligent being yet mere Intelligent
or as Bishop Wilson puts 1t, to make
reason and the will of God prevail; il il
be all of this it surely is n very different
thing from what john Bright said ir was
with ne little bitterness. That distiu-
auished gentleman said: People talk
about Whist they call culture. by which
they mean a little sinattering of the w
dead languages Of Greek and Latin
"Then," continued Mr.. Beach. "Prof.
Blaehie Of Edinburgh says:-'I have the
from Oxford who think because they Can
scan a few lines of an old tragedian, that
they are sent from Heaven as ~orac1es of
WISDOM" Laughter.
H "~UNDERGRADn OF TODAY.
The speaker satirlZed the undergrad"
of today with his absurd dress, and over
whelming conceit and badges of Greek
letter societies. But in spite of these
there was SUCH a thing as culture. He
then referred TO the origin Of the Chau-
tauQuan system and Chancellor Win
cents idea of elevatlng the people by
culture. Then the speaker mentioned
the classes to be benefited by the system.
Not only College graduates, nigh school
pupils, but mechanics, apprentices
mothers. and messenger boys. In short
all who are not quite satisfied with their
present education.
tine notices adopted by all true
-Chautauquans. and which we repeat in
concert SO often as the class meets are:-
We study the word and works of God
Let US keep our Heavenly Father in our
midst Never be discouraged
but some one will say that that
smacks strong of religion. Not a whit
stronger than ali true manliness and
w~omanliness smacks of godliness. The
day for putting the doctrine that faith
in Jesus Christ is necessary to man or
w~otnauhood in a IA psule aud thus SNUG
Cling IL into the spiritual aud moral stom-
achs of men is past. The day that once
made it necessary 10 apologize for the
Introduction of the Bible into all systems
of education and moral reform ls past,
and the course adopted for elevating men,
that has no Christ Or Bible in 1t, is of no
ccount. The design to educate the
heart of the reader as well as the head is
made prominent everywhere in this
Eoveme we study the Word and
Works OF God.'"
Mr.. Beach in a splendid peroratiou
summed up the advantages OF mental
and moral culture
Mrs. Rheinhard presented the women's
side Of the question ana said that III,
Chautauuua system makes woman more