The Advocate and news., 1898-02-16

Florida until 1929, when he became coli
league OF the pastor Of the Second Uni.
tartan church in Boston. He was mar
ried the same year, but his wife died In
few months, Finding that he could
not believe all the doctrine Of the church
he gave up the ministry.
The men who welded an influence
over Emerson were Edward Everett, q
teacher and an orator, and three famous
men whom he met In England-Wo
worth, the poet OF nature; Coleridge, the
poet, philosopher and German student,
Carlyle, the essayist and mOralist, with
whom he formed n lasting friendship.
Emerson's Representative Men Is
in some parts counterpart of Carlyle's
Hero Worship and At Is asserted by
some that he had received some points
from Carlyle's works. But the English
writer's works were full of pessimism
and dissatisfaction, while Emerson was
to the end Of his life consistent Opti-
mist. Although so very bitter towards
most of the world, Carlyle says OF Emer-
son: "One of the most lovable Crea-
lures in himself we had ever looked
upon" and all that ever knew him say
the same kind words.
For forty-six years Emerson lectured
at Concord. These lectures, polished
and changed, are what make his essays.
His first famous verses, "The Concord
Hymn" he read at the anniversary OF
the battle of Lexington, April l9, 1886.
Two lines in 1t have become famous,
They are:
Here once the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard round the
world"
The same year his first book, Mature,
appeared. 1t was full of beautiful
thoughts, each Of them polished gem.
OF Nature he said;
Every rational creature has all ma
ture for his dowry and estate, IL Is
his II he will He may divest himself OF
It; he may creep into corner and abb
dicate his kingdom, as most men do;
but he is entitled to the world by his
constitution. In proportion to the en-
ergy Of his thought and will he takes
ND the world unto himself.
Mature stretches out her arms to
embrace man. only let his thoughts be
of equal greatness"
Emerson believed that everybody had
a birth chance to do the right instead Of
the wrong. He lived calmly and mod
estly, unconsCously setting before ad-
miring eyes the example Of an ideal
man.
Not a rich man. yet he always had
money to give away and in his jour
nal he writes: "Rich, say you? How
rich? Rich enough to help anybody,
rich enough to succor the friendlees,
the questionable the eccentric"
His manners were perfect, and no mat
ter how disagreeable or eccentric the
people who came to see him, he always
showed the same characteristic sweet
ness and lovable disposition.
Emerson was not afraid OF being
homely in expressing thought, and the
expression of Hitch your wagon to o
star" is a good instance Of his Origi-
nality.
Though one of the founders Of our
literature, his books are neither many
or large Mature" is his first book.
Self Reliance" History and Friend
ship" are some essays in the FIRST Sc
ries and Character" Manners" in
second series. "0ther Volumes Of Lee
lures or Essays" his poems.
SOME WELL-KNOWN WORDS.
Trust men, and they will be true 10
you; treat them greatly and they will
show themselves great
life Is train of moods like a string
Of beads, and as we pass through them
they prove to be many-coOred lenses
which paint the world their own hue"
Truth is the summit Of being; justice
is the application of 1t to affairs"
"The days are made on loom whereof
the warp and woOf are past and future
time"