The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1896-02-06
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Miss Sibiey i'll Portland.

SHE WINS FRESH LAuRELs IN THE FOREST CITY
A large and delighted audience listened
Wednesday evening Jan Doth, to Miss Char
lotte 7. Sibley's thoroughly enjoyable, at all
times interesting, and occasionally very bril-
liant lecture, cover the Hills of Palestine on
Horseback" Williston church was well
filed when Rev. d. NJ Pratt gracefully in
trodueed the speaker of the evening.
Miss Sibley has rare descriptive powers.
Her eyes We're open, and every striking bit
of landscape, every historic spot in all the
Holy mountains, every group of half clad,
but picturesque children, seemed to have
been simply photographed on her mind, to
be called up at viii much duller people
can turn the pages of book.
She might have made one OF that bright
party of Pilgrims of which Mark Twain was
the bright particular star, and her sparkling
wit would have rivalled his. For example,
Jonah, she termed, ''tlat famous but relllc-
tant reviValist." Pages couldn't have added
anything to that description. The main in
uustry of one town ,iescrib bed and at the
same time the habits Of its people pictured
when she said, soap is manufactured, and
exported The hope of the restoration of
the Jews seemed to her to he dim and far off
as long us there are four times rs many Jews
III New 1DIk Dis III all IdltSblnt, White The
"dews of Hebron closely resembling a
Maine storm seemed to her, "Neyer likely
to be mist"
Some of her illustrations We're strilzinglv
bold. Miller, when he described a Califor-
MIA mountain as being "as lonely as God, :"
said a sufficiently striking thing, but her de-
scription of a snow covered mountain top
touched by a rainbow, THAT recalled the
great white THRONE surpassed it.
Her party declined to battle in the Jordan,
and when one of ti.eir horses and donkey
ventured in they all "concluded that the
horse was donkey for doing it,
But when her Wit ceased to sparkle and
she spoke in a more serious strain She grew
eloquent. Her description of the gathering
of The Jews to mourn over tue vanished
glory of their nation brilliant bit of
descriptive word painting, and one could
almost hear the pathetic voices unite in
mourning "for the palaces that lie beneath,
for the walls that are overthrown, for our
great men that are dead, and for our aiesty
that is departed" Her picture of Jerusalem
was brief but effective, and almost every
place of interest in all Palestine was touch
ed on.
Step by step, not one incident following
another, but as city after city was visited,
the events in the life of Christ We're recalled,
and while she admitted that in a land where
one is asked to believe so very much, where
legend touches legend, it is hard to believe
anything that is told you, still their party
threw doubts aside when they sat by the
we'll in the village where Jesus lived all his
life until he took up his public work, and
again when they stood by the Well by the
side of which he sat when he talked with
the woman who felt her sinful lite rebuked
by his words. There, at least, they had the
great comfort Of thinking that they We're
looking off over a scene very like that He
looked upon, and heard as lie heard the
music Of the birds and streams
But tie Maine girl couldn't after all see
fallen Palestine other than it is to-day. The
guide showed them where Jacob lay down
TO dream his marvellous dream OF an open
heaven, and ascending and descending
angels, hut when he pointed to the rock
that formed his pillow, she could but reflect
that sic probably had several other rocks
for a bed, for it was hard to see where he
found ground enough to lie down on
Miss Sibley has everything in her favor.
10 charming personality, is added a good
platform presence, and a voice that fills a
room while she is hardly ever forced to raise
it above an ordinary conversational tone.
She has when she chooses to display it much
dramatic power, and her remarkable com
mand of language never fails her. 1t was
lecture to which one would hardly feel like
applying the term good, it was far more, it
was facinating.
At the close of her lecture Miss Sibley
held an informal reception, and was pre-
sented by Mr.. Pratt to many of those who
had listened to her. Portland Press.