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ADDRESS BY REV. MIR. IRVINE.
Noble Characters in Ancient and Mod
ern Times.

interesting address at the Y. M. G. A
meeting at the Grand opera house on
Sunday. He spoke as follows:
| desire to review the lives of a Few
men of ancient and modern times, who
attained imperial manhood through
contact with the furnace of persecution
for righteousness sake.
Let us begin with Daniel. We are
not skating on thin ice when we take
him for a starting point in our search
for mighty character. He had MADE
his mark in Babylon, and some of the
mobiles became jealous. They invented
a plot to circumyent him. The king Is
persuaded to sign a decree that no man
in the empire shall pray to his god
during a period of thirty days under a
penalty of being cast into the lions
den. Listen to the text. 1t is the Key
to Daniels life.
"Now when Daniel knew that the
writing was signed, he went into ms
house; and his windows being open IN
his chamber toward Jerusalem, he
kneeled upon his knees three times a
day, and prayed and gave thanks be-
fore God, as he did aforetime"
Take a look at him in the attitude of
prayer. That is a picture of moral
courage God is a real person to this
man, and kings cannot move him and
princess tremble before him. Now see
him in the lions den, his physical cour-
Iage not wit behind his moral courage
That is Daniels furnace and he comes
through it without even the odor OF it,
| A similar circumstance is that of the
three Hebrews who refuse to bow down
to the heather gods preferring to per-
ish in the flames Of the fry furnace.
Our God will deliver us, but If not, o
King, we will not bow down to the
craven images"
| Another case of heroism among the
Jews is that of Mordecai. Hannah was
man who lived on the princes favors.
| Nearly the whole empire bowed to him.
| He was just one short. That was the
bow of Mordecai, Jew This man, so
sparing Of his bows stood there like
post every segment of his spinal col
umn as rigid as brass. Why all this
scrupulosity about the bend of a back?
1t is a man who will not accommodate
himself to his environments if he is not
right. A few Mordecai's in politics
would be quite healthy improvement
A few turns to the wheel of time The
scene changes. Babylon, Shushan and
Jerusalem have passed away as centers
of power A new force has come into
the world The Christ has come and
gone. He built no churches, he wrote
no books. He breathed a new breath
of life into the bosom of mankind, and
it thrills to-day more than ever it did.
Men have gone to the rack, the stakes
and the gibbet for it. They have stood
before kings and detied governments;
they have founded empires and changed
the heart of millions. A handful of
fishermen took from His hands the
balm which was to heal lost world
A few more turns and we are in
Florence. The admiral of the seas IS
seeking new world. Larenzo, the mag
nificent is dead. The French are in
Florence, and the excited populace
turns to Fra Giralomo, the prior of
San Marco Fra Giralomo, Savanar-
olo was perhaps the brightest of those |
meteors that flashed through the dark
ened skies of the fifteenth century, and
left behind them train of glory. He |
turned the search light upon the cor
rupt lives of the clergy; he withstood |
LarenZo and defied the most wicked of |
all the popes, the debauched Bargia, !
VI. A fearless preacher, a |
true citizen and a leader and master |
of men. His earthly reward was to be |
strangled and then burned on the pub
lie square. He was offered as sacri-
flee to the violence of the mob Mobs |
he 20 ,ta,. In,
countries and in all climes. Compare |
the mob of Boston in the nineteenth |
century with a fifteenth century mob |
in Florence. Both are violent unreas-
enable, mad. The mob is the best ex-
emplificaton of anarchy that | know
Of
Here is a man with the fire of an
Elijah, and the unselfshness of Christ. |
He sees a vision of an ensaved race,
and he goes to work to set it free. Will
liam Lloyd Garrison Centuries hence
the dspassionate historian will record
the labor Of this great man. AS sam
pie of the violent opposition Garrison
and his friends met let us begin at
home. The first voice ever raised for
negro education was raised here in
New Haven by the white pastor Of
3olored church, Rev. Simeon e. Joce-
yn. The colored people held a conven-
ton in Philadelphia in June, 1881 Gar
rlson and Jocelyn laid these same be-
fore it. It was to be called a "Colleg-
ate School on the Manual Labor Plan"
and Parson Jocelyn felt quite sure that
New Haven was the place for it and
hat it would get the support of all good
men. But he reckoned without his
lost. A town meeting was called in
New Haven in September and the reso-
ution passed declaring that the found
ng of colleges for educating colored
people was a dangerous interference
With the internal concerns of thG other ;
states and ought to be discouraged. A
college to establish leprosy or small
)ox could hardly have been opposed
more bitterly, and now we tumble over !
ZACH other to hear Booker r. Washing !
on, the brilliant educator of the colored j
ace The world does move right on,
'ut New Haven is still somewhat be- ]
lind, for there isn't a decent hotel in j
he city that isn't closed tight against I
hese college girls on this platform.
But to Boston. It's October II, 1886 {
There is an anti-slavery meeting being {
eld and Garrison, of course, is there. |
bowling mob has assembled and is