The herald., 1898-07-23

him through the CnautauQua ASSEMBLY anu
through the class rooms, and when he
comes back from college you would not
know him.
II believe in powder. Milton gives the
devil the credit for inventinN it. believe
in giving the devil his dues, but don't be-
lieve in giving him credit for that. 1 believe
that powder is Christian institution and
! has done more than anything except Chris
tianity to civilize the world If there is any,
thing l abhor 1t is being butchered If 1 am
going to be killed want to be shot at, and
want the man that shoots at me to be abou.
five miles away. The way they used to
fight, the hot breath was in each others
faces and they grappled with each others
threats and stabbed them. 1t made men
brutal and fit only for war, and that is the
reason they engaged in it all the time. But
now they do it in a genteei way. They
stand off and shoot at each other. Powder
| does the work.
I'VE live in a fastidious age-men talk
about culture and they believe in the sup
preston of your feelings. believe in letting
yourself out If there is anything in you. and
that is the reason 1 like the Methodists-
they let themselves out. How many bullets
do you suppose it takes to kill a man? 1t
| takes four thousand by actual count. That
| relieved me when 1 was drafted, but one
| thing troubled mel didn't know whether
1t would be the first or the last one.
Evening Session
| There was another large audience at the
evening session, the fame of DR., Henson,
| the fine singing by the Lorelei quartet and
the dialect rendition of the humorous skit,
| 1.-THE Nest Egg" and the Jolly Hunters
| by the boy Orator. Mr.. Lee E. Bassett,
as well as the whistling solo by the whis-
| thing wonder Mr.. Rae Condit being the
| attractions The prelude was as follows:
"In Autumn" (Ohne), Lorelei quartet;
| reading, NEST Egg" encore Jolly Hunt
ers," l.. z. Bassett; "Rockaby (Neidlin-
ger), Lorelei quartet; whistling solo, Rae
Condit; "Old Folks at Home" eau Root,
| Lorelei quartet.
| DR.. Henson followed with his celebrated
| lecture on Money or the Golden Calf"
There never was nation, savage or CIV
| ilized, that has not sought to facilitate ex-
change by the introduction of some form
| of currency-a word derived from the Lat
| in euro, to run, and eminently suggestive
| of the fatal facility with which 1t slips
| through your fingers. 1t was first called
| money from Juno Moneta. within the pre-
cincts of whose temple 1t was subsequently
coined
After describing some of the various SUBJ
stances that have been used for money, the
| lecturer said that the pulpit and press both
| launched fierce phillipics at the love of
| money, and yet it might be generally ques-
| toned whether If these sages were taken
at their own suggestion and men were to
cease striving after money, the moralist
would not become alarmed at the sweep of
| their own experiment and hasten to rekin-
die at almost any cost the extinguished
| fires of desire, for 1t is this that drives the
| fevered wheels that drag the worlds great
| load uphill. 1t dreams of far-off golden
shores and fits out it's Nina, the Pinta and
Santo Maria and plants the standard of
Ferdinand and Isabella on the shores of
San Salvador.
Man wanted something more than roof
and crust. He wanted the choicest Gull
| ture and the best society and the freedom
| of the world, and all this needed money,
| for Solomon says that Money answereth
| all things" He portrayed the polemics of
currency and the miseries of poverty. He
said it was not sin to be rich but sin
not to be, If a man might have been by the
diligent use of God-given opportunities.
+ Lazarus was not taken to heaven because
he was poor, but because he was pious.
and Dives was not sent to hell because he
| was rich, but because he was rascal.
| What he did inveigh against was that
inordinate passion for wealth and that
| hot haste to be rich which is so character
| istic of American society and which leads
| to all manner Of wild speculation and
every form Of sin and shame. The speaker
| showed in conclusion how a man might be
rich in other things besides money-in chill
dren, in youth and health, in truth and
faith, and SO could scorn the epicures low
delight. The richest man of all and the
only truly real man was he who had the
unsearchablc riches of Christ and a title to
an inheritance in heaven.
Chautauqua Notes
Immediately after DR.. Henson delivered
| his afternoon lecture he was entertained
| by DR.. and Mrs. F. B. Ives at their home
| on Cedar avenue. The entertainment was
| in the form of q reception, the Ebell club.
| of this place, also being present
Rev. C. P. Dorland. of East Los Angeles.
| director in the Chautauqua association,
came down today.
ANDRoUS CONGRATULATED {.
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