Birmingham age-herald., 1894-08-02
GROWING IN INTEREST Is the Greatest of Great Alabama
 Cbautauquas. DIR. G. B.. EAGER ON MOB LAW
 $ And ldf 9S Highly Enjoyed. Prof. z Wers Advocates the Hu Z Hey Amendment.

:7
 SHELBY SPRINGS, July y3.-LSpecial Cor respondence. ]-The feature of the morn ing's prayer meeting, led by pr. Jones, was the relation by Dr. A. H. Mitchell of
 his Christian experience, which he charac-
 terized as long and happy, but not eveut-
 ful. Converted in his junior year at col-
 lege, he entered the itinerant ministry in
 1881, since which time he has held sixty
 regular appointments. During his first
 five years' service he had twenty five churches, preaching every day except
 Monday, and receiving for his whole work S550-s5O of that his brides marriage por-
 tion.
 At Il o'clock there was music by the or.
 chestra, after which announcements in re-
 gard to the c. L. 8. c. work were made by
 two graduates in the course, Rev. Dr.
 Clark and MT. Witherby of Shelby. Dr.
 George B. Eager of Montgomery, in be- ginning his lecture, said that 1t was more properly upon "Lynch" than upon 'Mob Law.' His address upon this subject hay ing no fascination save that of horror, was
 marked by deep earnestness. We are
 wrestling with a grave problem, having In our midst mighty mass of negroes,
 another great company who are merely looking on and scolding, the lynch
 ing habit has grown into a mania. All
 lynching is extra, legal, not only malum
 prohi bitum, but also malum In SC, and by
 the acquescence of public opinion in
 lynching, the only barrier between anarch-
 ism and civilization will be broken down
 and civilization itself will suffer an inevit-
 able if not total eclipse. The lnpullty or
 lynch law as a preventive of crime has been
 fully demonstrated, for lynchings are grow
 ing in frequency, recklessness and brutal ity. The remedy for this nightmare brood
 Ing over the south lies largely in the hands of the negroes themselves, in the speedy
 enforcement of the laws and in education.
 The south is not the home of lawlessness,
 for the recent strikes have conclusively
 proven southern fidelity to law and order.
 At the close of the address the assembly,
 at the suggestion of Dr. Clark, rose and
 gave the Chautauqua salute to General
 Gordon for the work he has recently done
 for the south in the senate.
 At 4 80 were celebrated the very inter-
 estng and beautiful exercises of the C. l..
 8. C. recognition day. The rostrum was
 decorated with cut flowers and growing plants and over the central aisle was an, arch of oak branches, emolematic or the Chautauuua movement. To the strains of | march by Miss Hobson at the piano, Pro 1 lessor Joseph upon the violin and MT. Neil upon the flute, this years one Ala banla graduate of the C.. l.. 5. c. course, Mrs. Laura Foster Kirkpatrick of Talla- dega, was escorted by the Chautauqua
 readers present to her placs, with the dls- tinguished visitors upon the siage. The exercises were conducted by President
 Jones, Manager West, pr. Eager, pr. Clark, MT. Witherby and Professor Gar rett, and Mrs. Kirkpatrick read her grad uating essay upon the c. l.. s. c. work and received her well-earned diploma. After a short recess President James K. Powers of the State Normal college at
 Florence, by special request, delivered an address upon the Hundley amendment. He gave lucid explanation of the pro- posed amendment and made strong ap- peal to the voters to defeat it neither oy their opposition nor by tber indifference. A high and deserved tribute was that paid Miss Brown, the efficient teacher, ac- complished elocutionist and charming woman after her splendid rendition thls
 special request. Three times did the en- thusiastic audience recall her, and not until she graciously responded with delightful encore did they reluctantly cease their
 indeed remarkably gifted in every depart
 ment of the elocutionary art. Last night | in Collins "Ode on the Passions' she was
 superb; indeed, in her every. appearance
 she has won the highest enconiums;:, Dr.. Eager's lecture upon "ldeals' was joy during its delivery and treasure to be carried away by those who were so for tunate as to hear it. Ideals are like the frmament-they are real, they overreach 1 everything; we measure everything by | them; we can't explain them and we can't | get them out of the way. The real problem | is to wed the real and the ideal, to "hitch | our wagon to a star," to make life itself | ideal, to idealizs the real. Describing | Miller's wonderful painting, ''The An | eelus,' '' he said the ideal was painted into | the picture. It's three grand clements are l the dignity of labor, the glory of devotion | to God, and love between man and woman. | Life is what we make it under the leader l ship of our ideals-a splendid cathedral or | a low, mean barracks. The lecture was | fiittingly closed by Bishop Doane's beauti- | ful lines:
 Sculptors of life are we, as we stand with cur lives uncarved before us
 | Waiting the hour when at Gods command our l life dream passes oer us.
 | At the close of the address Miss Hobson sang well that plaintive Scotch song. I uBonnie Sweet Bessie," and at Dr. Jones' l very proper suggestion the Chautauqua | salute was given with right good will to l Miss Bunnie Love, to whom is due so l s. c. exercises. Warm praise was also be-
 slowed upon Rev. s. P. West, the man | who has been and is the very handspring | of the Alabama Chautauqua. The crowds | are increasing in numbers and interest. l Among today's arrivals are: Hon. Gastor l A. Robbins, Selma; Hon. E. s. Lyman, l Montevallo; J. M. Dewberry, Montgomery; 1 Misses Pearl and Milton Burr, Talladega; | Rev. O. l.. Dobbs, Calera; Miss Mary
 Lisles, J. R. White and J. w. Johnson, l Columbiana.
 The truo Cathelicity of the Chaptauqua 1 spirit was plainly evident this afternoon
 when representatives of five Christian de- l nominations were seen sitting in harmony