Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-19
TALMAGE AT TALLADEGA The Eminent Divine's Definition
 of a Chautauqua. IT IS A SORT OF POTPOURRl '0ne Drop of the Mixture Is Enough to Kill a BIgot as Dead as a
 Door Nail"


 were all filled, bringing some 2OOO vis- itors from Gainesville, Columbiana and other towns
 Mrs. Beauehamp at 9:30 gave an inter- estng talk upon scientific Temperance Instruction in the Public Schools" Eff teen years ago such a lecture would net have been possible, for witbin that time the great work has originated in the mind and heart of Mrs. Mary Hunt, who was inspired to it while listening to Dr. Joseph Cook in one of his Monday lec- tures At that time there was not tenn perance text book. not a law in regard to teaching temperance in the schools. Now every school under the control of the United States is compelled to furnish such instruction. Forty-two states have statutes to the same effect and 13. 000, 900 children are reached in this way. But the work is imperfectly done, the saloon is licensed vice is legalized. until the front fence is the dead line over which the mother hardly dares let her children pass.
 The Woman's Christian Temperance union which is only organized mother hood. has secured the revision and adop- tion of twenty-three different approved sets of physloogics- The highest office a woman is called to fill is the office of motherhood. If the mothers and teach CTS will only do their duty in the next twenty years a mighty revolution and evolution will be wrought. To help them in this work of scientific temperance teaching Mrs. Beauchamp recommended the School Physiology Journal, publisher at 23 Trull street Boston. She closed her talk with little unpublished poem: q know my hand may never reap its
 sowing,
 And L. may never see it's growing
 So short my little day.
 Still must l SOW, although I go forth
 weeping,
 l cannot, dare not, stay.
 God grant a harvest, though I may be
 sleeping
 Under the shadows gray"
 The interval between Mrs. Beau-l champs lecture and Dr. Talmage's was pleasantly filled with music by the Law erty band and orchestra and two anus ing songs, Little Shaking Quakers' and q Don't Want to Play In Your Back Yard" by some children of Miss Davis school in Oxford.
 MT. Graham. in presenting Dr. Tal- mage, said q proclaim today a triumph more splendid than any of the orient, a triumph of truth. righteousness and in tellect It is my privilege to present to you hero not of the battlefield nor yet of the senate, but a hero in moral war
 
 world" The eminent divine replied in pleasant words, saying he could express his thanks in no better way than by inviting us to "come to see him. But don't all come at once" Having been asked to define a Chautauqua, he said: Into a great cauldron put a number of John Wesley's sermons, a good many of Charles Wesley's hymns, the Presbyte- rian Westminster catechism, some Epis- copal liturgies, enough water from tter4t |. and stir. and stir, and there you have Chautauqua."
 One drop of this mixture is enough to kill bigot as dead as a door nail.
 My subject is "The Bright Side of Life" and I may as well tell you, for you'll find it out before I get through by nature and grace l am an optimist
 I've always been glad l got aboard this planet. I love the blue sky, the green grass; I'm so glad I have two eyes. If one should be lost I could still see my loved ones; two ears to hear the sweet sounds on both sides; that as for the nose. that organ of two stops, I'm glad in going through so many nuisances that l have but one.
 Where there's one discord there are a thousand harmonies. The sky is full of robins to one cuckoo.
 Not only is this a good world but it's a good time to live in it. The finest of all fine-is the art of looking on the bright side. Religion is sunshine and the only difference between the sunshine of earth and the sunshine of heaven is that earths sunshine is sometimes beclouded and that other is everlasting This world is very delightful place If we only try to behave ourselves and do our duty.
 Some persons have the happy faculty of being pleased with all things. In con trast with such, how repellent is the fault finder? After while he joins the church and the church has it's hands full. He wrthes and wriggles and squirms and whines. I don't see how he'll get to heaven unless he goes in backward. When he reaches the gate hell pick a crow with St. Peter. he won't like the music and he'll be sure the wall isn't plumb.
 If the heart is right all is right if the heart is wrong all is wrong Leave the owl to boot, the frog to croak, the bear to growl and the fault-finder to com plain. Many man of bad manners chief |. " shows his bad manners in looking on the dark side All the tailors in the world can't make a gentleman. Neither can all the arts of the dressmaker and per- fumer make lady. pr. Talmage gave several instances of we'll dressed people who were neither ladies nor gentlemen, nor would they ever be. You cant make them of such stuff.
 Some people may be with you only half minute. but by the aroma of good cheer and kindliness of Christian de- meanor they have left you all saturated with good humor.
 There is no more winsome art than that of saying pleasant things in pleasant manner.
 l woud not take the moral responsi- bility to tell anybody. You'll lose on them green peas.''
 Some people are never happy until they are miserable, and then l suppose they f have only happy misera bleness or mis- -erable happiness. Men are entitled t. | eccentricities, but some oddities are orirn- | inal Luther's strength would have been more effective with some of Melanctnon's s sweetness. A June morning will bring out more roses than all the clustering | January He showed the contrast h = | tween a certain senator and Henry Cl E. who by one flash of gentlemanly ius:t-ea | knew and did what was most pleasl:lt | When the great Kentuckian was speaker | of the house he never used the gavel. only a pen knife, but that sounded like | thunder when Henry Clay used it. Suav- | ity is no evidence of weakness or effem- macy.
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