The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-11-19

from the church by these officials with
hgh-sounding titles? We are a mis-
s satUna al Shureh. Our money comes from
tney gave us, and with 1t keep up the
pretentous machinery of a hiers rchv ,
Shall we withdraw our missionaries To
supPort FEW digniffed old gentlemen
, NH .neir mitres? We do not need a
inefarchy, but a revival of true religion
"a religion that regulates cont,,,ct md
| forms character. Lee. 1t not be said of
us as was said OF the Church of Rome.
that her ritual was grand, &C., but where
ene Christ OF Nazareth and Calvary?"
Bishop Newton spoke with great Iih-
erty, and made a, splendid impression.
as a speaker upon his audience. He
used plain. practical language. but used
1t in very incisive sentences
OPPOSES so MUCH SHOW.
Rev DIR. w. r. Huntingdon of New
| york, then spoke. He said, in part:
With a proposition that the hierarchy
mems peacock feathers, yellow Jackets
&c, 1 have no patience, but Bishop
white would be surprised to wake up
and find that wherever he wrote State
we have written diocese. / believe the
time VIII come when every State in the
Union VIII nave Its House of Bishops
with ITS presiding Bishop, and that the
Union will have its House of Bishops
with Its Presiding Bishop. 1 do not be-
Heve that this is q revolutionary idea.
me Church was intended to conform
to the form OF government, of the coun-
try, and believe it WILL The change
of attitude of the Church of Rome makes
1t necessary for US to have q philosophy
OF our own"
Dr. Huntington was substituted as a
speaker to the topic. because of the alb
sence of DR. Dumbell. His address
was forc!blc and effective
The hymn. Sing My Soul. His Won
drous Love was then sung. and 1880
O'Clock the Congress adjourned for the
evening session. the benediction being
pronounced by Bishop Randolph
THE EVENING SESSION.
The audience which gathered at the
Academy OF Music last night in attend
ance upon the evening session was even
larger than that of the night before
and fully as interested. paying the clos
est and most intelligent attention to
the addresses throughout.
The exercises were opened by the
president, Bishop Randolph, with pray
err, followed by hymn No. II sung by
choir ami audience.
The topic for discussion was '"rhe
Ideal and the Real in Literature" Mr..
Thomas Nelson Page, of Washington,
ID. c.. the great Southern author, was
unavoidably absent, being detained in
New York by the illness of his child
His position in the list of writer's was
filed by Rev. William Wilherforce New
ton, ID. D., OF PittSfield, Mass.
MIR. Newton is Il man of imposing
presence and impression delivery; his
deep bearing and intimate knowledge of
his subject was at once apparent and
he was followed with the strictest at
tention.
IDEALISM AND REALISM
"In art to-day" said lie, there are
two schools. that of the realist and that
of the impressionist." He contrasted
ftrT
the old school Of literature of which
Shakespeare was an exponent, ana of
the modern school when authors have
| turned painters and instead of writing
books paint books.
There are laws and principles in the
subject of realism and idealism." he de-
clarcd, but there can not be rules"
This problem of idealism and realism
hangs upon three points. 1t is all n
question OF vision, or what do YOU see;
method can never create a higher OBJ
ject than the object painted. What do
our writers see to-day-mostly fads-
| and there is money in the monetary
| fads.
The hope is" said he. that to-mor-
row will give us something nearer To
the ideal and with less OF the realism
II is in his possibilities that n man rises
above the plane Of realism to the ideal.
We can not merely bid for the copper
coin OF momcniGry approval.
lteailSm is the presentation of natu-
raj objects as the artist sees them.
Ideaiism is the portrayal of the object in
the highest form as the artist sees ii
with his soul.
Beauty is quite as real as ugliness;
purity as vice, the good is just as real
the Zola's filth.
aConscious that idealism in the effete
form Of the last century was n sham
authors went to the other extreme of
realism. But the pendulum must swing
back.
THE ideal and the real in literature is
the same problem as the old question of
the ideal philosophy. 20 we make
the real things OF earth move around
the spiritual centre of earth or do we
make the ideal come down TO the fad of
the moment, the publishers check, the
popular fancy, the Stock Exchange, or
a petty whim?
The ideal and the real in literature
is the old problem of the ideal and the
real in life. Either the ideal revolves
around the real or the real revolves
around the IDEAL"
THE RECORD OF LIFE.
The next speaker Rev. Percy S.
Grant, of New York n tall, slim, classic
faced, dark-eyed gentleman with flow
ing locks and soft voice. emphasized
tin" cact that literature was merely the
record of life, whether ii were found in
the novel, the drama, the poem, or on
bronze tablet or pyramid.
Modern literature. he said. was SO
dominated by novels that 1t was not
wonderful that the people were almost