The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-07
ROLLINS AND BRISTOL
Their Remarkable Likeness In Thought
and Expression.
HERE'S A PICTURE IN PRINT
The Butte Mans Lectures Make
Very Road able Matter at Any
Rate and There's Much
Wisdom In Them Too.

Wisdom In Them Too.
Butte, Feb. 6.-Rev. William Rollins
said to a STANDARD reporter Monday
evening:
judge of my discourse by taking the words
MS they fall from my lips"
1t would seem that Mr.. Rollins could
assuredly have less ground for complaint
by the publication of the copy prepared
and written by himself, than by a copy
furnished by q reporter. Still, in antici-
patton that his work might possibly prove
useful, shorthand reporter was engaged
by the STANDARD to take a verbatim re-
port of Rev. Mr.. Rollins lecture last
Sunday evening. A careful comparison
oil the shorthand report of Rev. Mr.. Roll
Inns lecture and of q printed lecture of
DIR. Frank NJ. Bristol shows a most re-
markable similarity, a similarity only a
little less striking than exists between the
manuscript copy of Mr.. Rollins lecture
on THE Discovery of America" and DIR.
BristoPs printed lecture on the same SUBJ
ject.
DR.. Bristol's little volume contains four
lectures. Rev. Rollins series included
four lectures, the first of which was deliv-
SASh VII anu tue ldSL on SUNDAY
evening last. DR.. Bristol's first lecture
was on THE Renaissance" Mr.. Rollins
first lecture was on "The Revival of
Learning" These titles, as applied to
certain period in history, are identical.
The STANDARD printed only a brief SYM
opsis of Rev. Mr.. Rollins lecture on "The
Revival of Learning" 1t is most appar-
ent from perusal of DR.. Bristol's lecture
that precisely the same ground is covered
in exactly the same way.
DR.. BristoPs second lecture was on "The
Reformation" which was also the title of
Rev. Mr.. Rollins second lecture. No
report of this second lecture was pub
lished. The third lecture of DR.. Bristol
and the third lecture of Rev. Mr.. Rollins
were on 1.-THE Discovery of America" and
the marvellous similarity of the two lee
lures has already been shown in the
STANDARD.
Mr.. Rollins expresses preference to
be Judged by verbatim report obtained
as the words fell "from his lips" rather
than by report prepared and given to
the press by himself. 1t must be said in
all fairness, that, according to the short
hand reporter, Mr.. Rollins lecture last
Sunday evening was not so remarkably
like the corresponding lecture by DR..
Bristol, as was his lecture on THE Dis
covery of America" like the lecture of
DIR. Bristol on the same subject. In the
lecture on "The Discovery of America"
according to Mr.. Rollins own manuscript,
there was not a single idea, suggestion,
thought or conclusion that does not an
pear in DR.. BristoPs book on that subject.
Mr.. Rollins may have read other books in
preparing his lecture, but he did not use
them. He can claim nothing of the lee
ture save the changing occasionally of DIR.
BristoPs phraseoloRy.
In the lecture last Sunday evening, how |
ever, Mr.. Rollins displayed greater inde- |
pendence. The two lectures, although |
having different titles, cover the same
ground. Mr.. Rollins, however, gives
some incidents, mentions some facts not
contained in DR.. Bristol's lecture. He also
amplifies some of DR.. Brstol's points,
Others he omits and others he cuts short.
The difference in tho two lectures is such
as might be expected from some distin-
guished lecturer giving lectures on the
same subject at an interval of "a year.
The general run of the second discourse
would be the same .as the first. The
language would be changed. Some points
would be enlarged upon and others would
be dismissed with few words. In fact,
TO deduct DR.. Bristol's lecture from the
lecture of Rev. Mr.. Rollins last Sunday
evening and there would not be enough
left to satisfy the brains of cat.
The subject of the fourth lecture in DR..
volume is "The Settlement of
Our Country" The subject of the fourth
lecture in the series of Rev. MIR. Rollins,
delivered last Sunday evening, is "Our
Early Pioneers"
Mr.. Rollins started his lecture last Sum-
day evening by saying:
"America was discovered just IN time.n
DIR. Bristol says: THE discovery of the
new world by Columbus in 1892 :.
Mr.. Rollins gives as the reason for this.
Two centuries before that superstition, ,
ignorance, Catholicism dominated, and
o-day instead of having the bravest civil |
zation upon the face of the earth we
anger Peru, that is ALL"
DIR. Bristol says: "A new world was as
'evere blow to superstition, bigotry, and
cligious Intolerance as was the Reforma- :
ion itself. What would all North Amer
ca have become without a Professionalism?
/ larger Mexico-nothing more"
The lecturers respectfully put the next
Joint in this way:
ROLLINS. BRISTOL. c
But the reformation Like the plant in a :
vas likely to run itselfItiny vase, the great +
nut IN he old country. cause OF Christian civil
ne reformation must iZation, In its rapid de-
ave room. You can-lYeopment, was burst
OF nave healthy NC its limitations, and u
lant IN very small there was danger OF its q
o. II you Try that 50 outgrowing the soil
orr OF lining you vii as TO perish for lack OF L
lon find out that the lnourishment.
liant will exhaust the
utrition that is there
nd il will soon wither
nd die. :
Rev. Mr.. Rollins says that America
as as necessary for the reformation as
he reformation was for America DR..
irIstol says 'it would be difficult to tell
hich was the most helpful, the influence
( the discovery of America on the
,lormation or tho influence of the
formation on the discoverv oF |