Semi=weekly graphic., 1897-01-20
VOLUME X.
WeNDLlNc THE ORATOR.
Is-tsrand Lecture on "Unseen Realities Heard by 8 Cultured and AdmlFihg
 Audience Last Night.

Audience Ahsb NikAts
 Hon. George R. Vending, the ia nous pi tfo m lecturer, is no stran ger in Pine Bluff. Mir. Vending hal been on the lecture platform fol several years and has been regular visitor to the Institute in this city where he is q popularfaverite and tc which he never fails to attract large audiences. Since Mir. Vending de Hyered his first lecture in this city on .Stonewan Jackson" it has been the happy part of Pine Biuftians to hear all his lectures, and he is ad- mired here as no other lecturer that visits this city. He is recognized throughout the cultured world as Americas greatest platform orator, John B. Cough and Robert 1ngersol not excepted.
 While the Pine Bluff lecture-going public is familiar with Mir. Vending s splendid abilities. yet his audience at the Institute last night was hardly prepared for the incomparable liter ary, scientific and oratoarial treat that was served up to them. Great as Vending is, it is the universal opinion ofhthose who sat within his charmed circle last night that he sur passed himself. Matchless and in- comparable was that magnificent lecture, and for an hour and a quar- ter his intelligent audience sat with eager and bated breath, enraptured with the elegance of his diction' the scientific trend of his thoughts, his brilliant flights of oratory and his grand dramatic climaxes. As Macauley said of Edmund Burke's great speech in the trial of Warren Hastings, so can it be said of MT. Wendlings great lecture last night, that he gathered up all the jewels of science, history and literature and laid them at the feet of his hearers.
 It would be impossible for the writer to give an adequate synopsis of MT. Wendling's s leeturein this brief article. Sc rapid was the lecturers speech and so absorbed was the re- porter in his utterances that no notes whatever were made. Indeed, no newspaper report could do justice to the subject, and it would be un- fair t0 Mr! Vending to report it for two reasons; first, because the lee ture is his private property, and. second, any attempt to report it without the presence of the dramatic power of the orator would seriously detract from his magic and matchless Orat0ry.
 However, some definite idea 0f his lecture may be conveyed to our read CTS by saying that he treated as the Unseen Realities" the forces and influences that daily direct and con- trol our lives, yet each of theseforces is unseen, but nevertheless a recog- nized force, a a"reality. The text of his lecture was taken from Shakespeare's Hamlet" in the following passage:
 "There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreampt of in our philosophy" For instance, he fguratively picked up q pebble and analysed the same. The history of the stone is unknown, yet it dates back centuries. Hit the rock with 8 sharp instrument, and it will produce a spark, or fire, yet none of the metaphysicians can tell ''why?" 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 Hound a crystal, yet no one can tell whence or where it came. This was mentioned merely to show and illus- trate 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 materiaists and agnostics, but not in an offensive manner. I he mater ialists and spiritualists (the latter who recognize as realities" things that are "unseen") he claimed, were working to the same end. except that when the materialist reach a certain point they shadow all things in doubt. These, he claimed, were enemies to scientific discovery, and were obstructionists to the onward advances of civilization.
 His peroration was grand and remarkable climax which was q rapid survey of the history of the world from the time of Christ to the present, outlining the chief his torical events. and showing that the meek and lowly Nazarene had at last triumphed and accomplished the greatest advances of civilization and wrought the highest destiny of man.
 On the occasion of this lecture the Institute was crowded to it's fullest capacity and witnessed the largest audience of the season.
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