The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-03-21

lOToiSueTS nave 10 equlVdl6ub iOT OuI
term gentleman" The officers re-
ferred to. according to the remarks of an
ex-major to the Blackwood writer. seem
to have no conception of the influence
of their daily life over their men. Their
dispositions, their habits, their CONVEX
sation. are constant topics imported
into the barrack room by sergeants, ser.
wants, and mess walters. Their most
secret transactions. creditable or other
wise, leak out with an accuracy of detail
which you little suspect" 10 short they
they we're not gentlemen, for an indis-
pensable requisite to a gentleman is a
certain fine reserve in matters personal.
The difference is one to be noted with
some exactness. There are many people
who are reserved to the extent of boor-
ishness and churlshness, yet these are
as far from being gentlemen as the Off
GERS referred to, every petty detail Of
whose lives furnished conversation for
the barracks. The man who holds you
SO far from him that you never feel Ger
tain you know him, may be we'll worth
the knowing for certain admirable quail.
tiles of character that even his mantle
of churlishness does not altogether con-
ceal. With the gentleman, on the con-
trary, you are at perfect ease. You feel
that all that it is good or essential that
you shall know concerning him he will
tell you, and that,if you are gentleman
yourself, will suffice. There is no air Of
restraint, of holding off, but on the con-
trary there is not a weak pouring forth
of every detail that characterizes the
youthful, immature and those who are
never mature.
This kind of reticence is always an
accompaniment of the noblest character
and is to acquaintance, friendship and
even love, what the bloom is to the peach
and plum. Too much heralding Of petty
personal details is apt to proclaim vac
uous or malicious mind. Listen to half
a dozen persons in a room talking for
half an hour and the experienced OBJ
server will have as little difficulty in
naming the gentlemen as he will in de-
termining to which of these he would
himself incline in friendship. The graces
and charm that distinguish the we'll
bred from the vulgar can be partly &C.
quired, at least. by every one. but
gentleman, like the true poet, is born as
we'll as made.
The garden and summer house once
owned by the poet Cowper are thus ad-
vertised for sale in London: LOT 3.
All that far famed garden and orchard
known as Cowper's Garden and the
guinea orchard the former containing
the poets celebrated summer house in
which many of his works were written"
This is the garden celebrated in the
third book of the Task, a charming
poem too little read. it is to be feared,
nowadays. 1t is of this garden the poet
writes in one of his letters to charming
lady in this strain: my dear: l will
not let you come till the end of May or
beginning OF June; because, before that
time my green house will not be ready
to receive u.s. And there you shall sit
with bed of mignonette at your eide.
and hedge of honeysuckles, roses and
jasmine. and will make you bouquet
of myrtle every day." Now the charming
garden of which he wrote is offered for
sale, realizing his own words,
Estates are landscapes, gael upon awhile,
Then advertised, and auctioneer'd away
800
The church revivals on the circus
plan alluded to by our Michigan CORES
pondent are evidently under Congrega-
tional auspices. Revivalist Arney holds
his meetings at Otsego in the Congrega-
tional church. Here is sample of the
advertisements which he circulates, and
also of his sensational methods to attract
sinners to his meetings:
"Silver given away! Eight dollars!
IL -DiSht dbd OoSh ONOoAuS ohio WOon a.
the Congregational church. Two dol.
lars each evening at the close of the SER
vice."
Then follow eight Scripture texts with
the letters all askew 30 that they read
like Choctaw, sample text being;
Gamma niano tho frie fud to cnoaly.
Tipss jichd asst hnh tot oil wins eucrs
Corinthians" The first man to un-
ravel each text gets % cents. The sensa
tional parson is brother of the famous
Parson Arney.'
This clerical mountebank should have
attention from our good Congregational
brethren whose cause is brought into
disrepute by his sensational methods.
NOS
No wonder the Oak Park Society
has had a successful twenty five years.
Its voyage has always been attended
with favoring Gales and it has Hoard
of precious memories. accidentally
omitted from a speech at the banquet.)
800
DIR. Hanson is with our readers once
more this week on his favorite theme of
southern California. The article reached
US, as usual. amid the seventies of a