Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-19
msuoLlNc THE ORATOR.
Lecture on "Unseen Realities ...,a by Cultured and Admlrins
 .,d,ence Last. Night.

E,.n
 ays .latform lecturer, is no stran- 1C op. f pine Bluff. Mir. Vending has
 on the lecture platform for
 ~ sa,al years and has been a regular
 's asto the Institute in this city,
 ,'n he is a popularfavorite and to
 a'.s s he never fails to attract large j. FDsa s..sos Since Mir. Vending de-
 'o., ''.d his first lecture in this city on
 lsssosswalI ss,s Jackson" :" it has been
 '' sonuy part of Pine Biuffians to
 I all his lectures, and he is ad-
 sa a.d n here as no other lecturer that
 M ,.ts this city. He is recognized
 .suobout the cultured world as SS2 msriea's greatest platform orator,
 h0 B Cough and Robert Ingersol
 ot excepted.
 While the Pine Bluff lecture-going
 .hle isfamiIiar with MT. Wendling's
 s,ondid abilities. yet his audience at
 bo institute last night was hardly
 .onarpd for the incomparable liter
 - scientific and oratoarial treat
 hst WAS served up to them. Great
 Vending is, it is the universal
 Ininion ofsthose who sat within his s8barmed circle last night that he sur
 ossod himself. Matchless and in- Iomnarable was that magnificent < 5scture, andfor an hour and quar- zpr his intelligent audience sat with
 ooer and bated breath, enraptured
 uith the elegance of his diction,
 ho scientific trend of his thoughts,
 is h4t.liAht lights of oratory and S|bis grand dramatic climaxes. As
 dacauley said Of Edmund Burke's grpet speech in the trial of Warren Aastipgs. so can it be said of Mir SEendling's great lecture last night, that he gathered up all the jewels of zsclence. history and literature and laid them at the feet of his hearers.
 It would be impossible for the writer to give an adequate synopsis Sof Mir. Wendlin9's leeturein this brief Particle. So rapid was the lecturers kpeech and so absorbed was the re- Sborter in his utteranees that no notes whatever were made. Indeed, ho newspaper report could do justice z.to the subject, and it would be un- sair to Mr. Vending to report it for ! Wo reasons; first, because the lee fure is his private property, and. Becond, any attempt to report 1t swithout the presence of the dramatic Npower of the orator would seriously #detraet from his magic and matchless Oratory.
 q However, some definite idea of his #eeture may be conveyed to our read 8rs by saying that he treated as the #Unseen Realities" the forces and Influences that daily direct and con #rol our lives, yet each of theseforces R "uhseen," but nevertheless recog- #ized force, a reality.
 4 The text of his lecture was taken From Shakespeare's Hamlet" in the following passage:
 "There are more things in Heaven Sand Earth, Horatio, than are Edreampt of in our philosophy" For instance, he fguratively picked Spa pebble and analysed the same. The history of the stone is unknown, get it dates back centuries. Hit the 'fock with 8 sharp instrument, and M will produce spark, or fire, yet none of the metaphysicians can tell lwhy?' By friction it will produce heat, by another agent, electricity, yet, even Edison, the wizard and master of the fluid element, can't tell what electricity is. Break open the stone and in it's hidden walls may be lound crystal, yet no one can tell Whence or where it came. This was 
 mentioned merely to show and illus llrate that daily we are dealing with hidden forces, Unseen Realities That only the God can know and understand.
 He also paid his respects to the nateriaists and agnostics, but not M an offensive manner. I he mater lallsts and spiritualists (the latter who recognize as realities things nat are "unseen") he claimed, were working to the same end. except That when the materialist reach certain point they shadow all things n doubt. These, he claimed, were enemies to scientific discovery, and We're obstructioDists to the onward duvances of civilization.
 His peroration was a grand and aemarkable climax which was a rapid survey of the history of the
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