Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-07-24
AT DETROIT, MICH.

N very large anu quite IaSnlOnaDle
audience crowded the Detroit Opera
House Sunday afternoon, November 5,
to hear Judge w. g. Ewing, of Chicago,
defend and expound Christian Science.
1t was an immense audience, filing the
entire seating capacity of.,the parquet
and balcony and boxes, and showing a
goodly number in the upper gallery.
There were many persons who stood
throughout his lecture. Judge Ewing
is well known in this city. He add
dressed the Detroit Bar Association last
spring, and has spoken here on more
than one occasion. This was his first
appearance here as q pulpit orator,
however. He is an elderly man, but
strong and vigorous and a thorough
convert to Christian Science. He is
widely known for his great legal learn
ing and his legal powers of oratory.
He was introduced by Don M. Dickin-
son.-Iribune, Detroit, Mich.
Don M. Dickinson, who introduced
Judge Ewing, was in President Cleve-
lands cabinet as postmaster-general,
and he is one of the foremost men OF
Michigan. Following are his remarks
in full -
Felloao Citizens, Ladies and Genttsnaen -
1t is with degree of humiliation that
L confess before such vast audience
of cultivated people that / know little
or nothing of the subject of Christian
Science, and that have read none of
its literature. | am one of the large
majority of busy Americans. We leave
undone many things that we ought to
do, and there is really too little mental
health in US.
At the same time have great re-
spect for anything that do not under
stand, and it is a respect that is not in
the least detracted from by the general
or wholesale condemnation of ortho-
doxy, whether orthodoxy in medicine
or orthodoxy in religion.
Moreover, a propaganda which has
for his chief postulate the infinite good
ness and the -peryading presence of
God, is entitled to receive the respect
full attention and consideration of all
mankind. And when it presents, as its
teachers, eminent men, who had al
ready attained in other fields fame for
their learning, their great ability, and
their honesty of intellect and of heart
fame as wide as the country, as In the
case of your distinguished lecturer to-
night, THE subject must command the
study of intelligent men.
Mr.. Lincoln, when on the stump in
Illinois away back in the fifties, used
frequently to visit Bloomington. There
he was the ever-welcome guest-al-
though Wing in politics-of the
Ewing family, the head of which THE
father of my friend who sits behind mel
was leading citizen of that state and
one of the staunchest democrats in the
country.
On one occasion, Mr.. Lincoln, in re-
ferring to the large family of Ewing
boys, said to their father, Don't let all
these fine boys grow up democrats; let
me make Wing of one of them
well" said Mr.. Ewing, there is that
little fellow there he is a weakling.
and don't know whethef we can raise
him-you may take him.
Thereupon Mr. Lincoln took the boy
upon his knee, and then and ever after
called him my Wing Ewing
The weakly boy Uas raised, and de-
veloped a sound mind and sound
body. And always from that time to
this day, his friends, whose name is
legion, affectionately call him s'Whig
Ewing He is here, and / take great
pleasure in now presenting to you my
friend of many years, Hon. w. G.
Ewing, of Illinois.
Hon. w. O. Ewing viii lecture on
Christian Science, the Religion of
Jesus Christ at the Grand Opera
House in Nausau, next Monday even.
ing, July s0th, 1900. Everybody invited.
Admission free.