New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-08-25
LECTURES At CHAUTACQOA.
CEREMONIES OF RECOGNITION DAY-A TALK ON
BOOKS AND ONE ABOUT HORACE GREELEY

CEREMONIES OF RECOGNITION DAY-A TALK ON
BOOKS AND ONE ABOUT HORACE GREELEY.
The last week o. the Chautauqua season is at
hand. and before another has passed the sounds OF
music and the murmur OF laughing voices will be
hushei a.ong the streets. and the people will be
scattered to their homes. The boats taking
heavy cargoes OF trunks and passengers every day.
and the crowd is diminishing, but there is a goodiy
nimbar still on the grounds. and there are many
attractions yet. Among them is the expected pres
ence Of William Mckinley who will make the ad
dress on Grand Army Day. and ex-senator Warner
Miller. who will give lecture on the Nicaragua
Canal
The fourteenth annual Recognition Day OBJ
served on Wednesday with songs and flowers Tiny
children led the procession to the hall, and strewed
floral offerings under the feet OF the graduates who
were recognized by the Chancellor, when the pro-
cession reformed and proceeded to the amphithe
atre. Appropriate exercises he'd, and the
Grafton delivered by the Rev. Hamilton Mabie
His subject Literature Personal Re-
source. and he began by saying that books. in their
deepest relation to mankind. were not mere sources
OF pleasure or even information but had their great
est effects as they touched and enlarged the inner
life All skill is measured. ne said by the central
power in man. not talent, however great that may
be. but vitality which is more masterful than
skill. and whatever feeds that feeds the immortal
part of his being. and 1t is In this relationship that
books should be considered. There are specific
forms in which power comes" said Dr. Mabie.
Fest. freshness and enthusiasm are qualities char
acterlstc of all art: they the power Of life. and
the signs Of great and women. They are also
the qualities which soonest from us In our battle
with the world. and generally supposed to be-
long to youth alone But there are still to be found
men of eghty-five who grapple with problems and
attack open questions. II would be truly great
there must be dying out OF the fires. paling Of
the forces. no lowering of hopes and only physical
slipping out OF life at its close.
These things the pecu.iarities OF all art and
especially of all great literature. Homer Is the poet
of youth. and in this day. when humanity is cut
TO pieces and laid out the table when we seem
to get literature from the hospitals. such books
the odyssey needed Chaucer and Shake
speare preserved this freshness of feeling and our
Emerson of life believing that all
things were noble. Another need is depth, for a
great wave cannot roll in or out OF shallow
nature. Ideals are necessity to human existence;
when they die all else dies too. for they not
dreams, but fulflment of the real
Horace Greeley, Product and Factor" was the
title Of eloquent address made last week by the
Rev Or. d. H. Moore, Editor Of THE Western
Christian Advocate of Cincinnati. 'Sixty-four
years ago." began the speaker I'VE had popula-
ton of about thirteen million and the wonderful dis
coveres of science were just dawnng upon US. Al
that time a vertable Chautauquan pilgrim. youth
of about twenty years, boy in appearance. save
in stature. was pushing his way through these for
to Erie to seek the aids a city affords. He
had family to give him a standing. he was not
prepossessng in manner face; he had only the
world before him, and years Of tosome living be-
hind, but there was in him fine fibre OF manhood.
So him a product of his self-exer-
ton, and factor we should. perhaps. begin the
consideration of his character with the advent OF the
paper in NewYork City which was later such
potent influence in the world of letters and the
of politics
with the log cabin. rather than against the man.
sion for his devotion was TO those beneath, his
principles for man. for humanity as endowed
with equal rights. and his object was to secure
those rights as far was in his power He was an
independent, laboring and toiling for the people.
therefore 1t was impossible to espouse the cause Of
Van Buren, when over against 1t the cause OF
the common people That was wonderful cam
paign. with its horizon red with the light OF bon
fires its air vibrant with its building Of cabins.
and its cry against palace and aristocracy Never
the slave Of any party, never swerying from the
principle to the people to the last hour OF MS
life. you would expect his paper The New-York
Tribune, to grapple with all the issues. He believed
that the aboring man should lift himself up by
and through his work. and when the first idea CT CO.
operation brought here from France. 1t found
in him firm supporter. He looked forward to
time when there should be more Of liberty and
freedom, when humanity would achieve something
divine, and to-day. when intellect has right 10 De
considered and the relations between employe and
employer are SO much broader and more generous.
who shall say that this sage and pioneer Horace
Greeley was not a potential factor In the product
Of the present age?
Great men cannot be made without great oppor..
tunites." continued DR.. Moore. He was steadfast
that the slaves should be free When Lincoln
to bear for the PRESERVATION Of the Union
freedom of the slaves. And then his sympl:h.iess
went out TO the South. and when for two years me
President was kept %nen asan a
was needed in the dilemma to sign the pailbond Of
the prisoner. Horace Greeley hestated not put
H%dns the oSs na ns a.
was one Of course BY the Rev ,o Ws II, Saans
Of Washington. on sociology from the Standpoint
Of the Church" THE eighteenth md nineteenth
crafts, which. however. did not really begin until
the middle OF the eighteenth, and feeby then. Inc
machinery but there was only twilight until after
the year 1884, for In that first third OF the century
Europe ""S Great e Brans Magma chsria had been
seS"r@ for and S'f n ss Ps
House Of Lords and House OF , bsek Gs,s ana is
popular pull government was established IN some form
throughout Chrlsendom eScsp, IN nvss snce s es
s % h wn bee" dob
been moral progress in the world at large since then
Three black hrces stand out In our statistics Of
this third Of century The consumption OF LIQUOR py
piled by about three times as last as me popuia-
ION TO ms period belongs the Ssrs,r Gf sne
nlclpa corruptIons and labor instructions. ono
the Because 81 aP ny hsch has NOT
recognized the promotion OF personal and social
ethics Integral part o. lis work S,o chr ns
FORM but Judging from the slight attention paid
to 1t by the churches one would suppose they were
not only poor relations but distant also where
as reform is the latest and best child OF the Chris
family. and should be supported and guided ac-
cordingly" , -. ,,
H. II Regain. OF Syracuse closed series OK Nus
trated lectures with one on "Alaska Alaska
chase" said Mr. Regan mo doubted that the
Government had been swinded and great deai
OF ridlcule was poured out on the new possession,
In the twenty years In which 1t has been owned by
the United States. its vast domains nave received
but little attention and only two small ISLANDS nave
been put to These alone have been worth nearly
the entire cost OF the whole. and with little care
and nursing neglected. despsed Alaska would
Alb Investment. veritable