The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-03-14
He Delivers the First of.the Faculty.
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The first OF the faculty Lectures
delivered at Richmond College last night
by Professor Mitchell on the subject,
1.-THE Lion Of the Tribe of Germans" A
large audience heard the splendid lecture,
part of which follows:
At Berlin, in the National Art Gallery,
is a frieze that rehearses the history Of
Germany. The first figure in that long
list of illustrious men is Arminius, that
personitication of German nationality.
Rome provoked many ntagonists-Han-
nibal, AIfthradntes and Arminius, all Of
whom are great and pic turesque charac-#
tiers; burt the only successful one of these
was our own ancestor. Arninius. He it
was who fixed the northern boundary of
the Roman Empire at the Rhine rather
than at the Elbe
ut is Bismarck who closes that line Of
worthless on the frieze in the National
Gallery. He wasthe present-day Arminius.
che creator of German naturalization.
Nothing is so marked in this century as.
the unconditional tendency. Greece set
the example, and then followed Ro1l--
mania, Servia, and, above all, Italy and
Germany, whose political unihcation was
worked out simultaneously, and In part
with the same forces. The consolidation
of the numerous petty and mutually re-
pellent States of Germany into one e1n-
pire, vigorous and Victoriourthat was
the work of Bismarck.
On the frieze between these two CO.
lossal figures stands Martin Luther. the
man who restored to the modern world
civil liberty and spiritual Christianity.
Luther was born in 14S3, the same year as
Raphael. Michael Angelo was then boy
of nine years, and Corpernfcus a lad of
ten, while Erasmus was in his fifteenth
year. The report Of Columbus discovery
must have reached Luther when a boy
Of nine years of age in a school in Ger
many. The mention of these names suffi-
GENTLY indicates the ,Germanal character
of the great century in to which Luther
was ushered. To that age belonged Bacon
and Shakespeare, Leo X, and Ignatius
Joyola, Queen Elizabeth and Charles v.
Genius had seemingly become contagious
and chronic. Columbus revealed new
world in geography. Copernicus in as
tronomy, Raphael in art, Erasmus in
learning, Luther in religion. The six
teenth was a century Of creations, as the
nineteenth is a century of EXAMINATIONS.
Luther was admirably trained. The
kindness Of Frau Gotta ito the boy when
he was begging .aS a student in Eisenach
need not be rrehearsed. That good woman
was perhaps largely responsible for the
mighty forces of the Reformation. Luther
spent four years at the University of
Erfurt
Guther's work at W1ttenberg was re-
counted, how his sermons moved the peo-
pie, how he nailed the famous Theses
to the door of the Church, how these flew
over Europe, how Luther faced the Die.
pat Worms, how he wrought at4the trans.
alation .of the Bible during his imprison-
ment at the Wartburg.
The Emperor Charles " stands for a
type of mind. An accumulation of CROWNS
tumbled upon his head-Spain, Naples,
Sicily, Netherlands, burgundy, Bohemia.
Hungary, Austrian possessions of the Baps-
lburgs, America, and finally, the German
Empire. Charles, moreover, was both
able and practical. With ouch material
forces, with such mental powers, SEEM
singly ne was omnipotent. As the curtain
rolled up there was brought to view
gorgeous stage on which he was to act
leading part. In surveying the objects
on that scene, Charles did not fafl~to ca st
an eye at the monk in Wittenberg. who
had just begun to open his heart to his
rude neighbors in that obscure town But
Charles course was dictated by large con-
siderations of policy. His way Of looking
at things was exclusively political. He
was mighty In diplomacy.
The radical defect Of the politician,
whether secular or ecclesiastic, is that
he views men as so many pieces on the
schessboard, that move according to the
impulses Of the sovereign will.
Charles Y. could take into his reckon
ing things that you can measure, things
that You can count. such as silver bull.
lion from America, armies in Spain. and
self-interest in Pope and Princes. What
always escaped him was the spirit-the
spirit of nationality that stirred IN Ger
many, the spirit of religious reform that
stirred in all Europe. Napoleon's keen
eye detected this fatal lack. Charles
w." said the Corsiean. was "a fool not
to take advantage of such a moment to