The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-20
PEOPLE LIKED 1T.
DR.. Gunsaulus' Lecture Pleased Audi.
ence at the Auditorium.

President Roosevelt. football and the
habit of the rich in pilfering the her
aIdry book for coats Of arms were each
touched upon in the course of the lee
ture upon Sayonarola given last night
by DR.. F. W. Gunsaulus at the auditor
ium.
It is evident that DR. Gunsaulus has
very high esteem of the abilities of
Roosevelt, a correspondingly low esteem
for football and a. fund of humor for
the rich and their pretensions. It is
probably a far cry from SavonaroIa and
the Renaissance down to Roosevelt, the
doctrine of strenuousity. football and
the American millionaire but the incon-
gruous was not apparent and the sub
jects were worked in harmony with the
theme.
'ssavonarola.' he said. was a many
sided man. He was an orator, a states
man, a historian, a poet, a logician, a
reformer, a priest He saw but one
idea of man, but one conception of God
He began the work of reformation
through the transformation of man and
the conformation Of the church and
state to the needs and the Divine will
He became a reformer before the refor-
nation FOrty-three years before
Luther he preached the doctrine of jus
tifcation by faith. would like to have
you think of him as statesman He
separated himself from the politicians
of his period.
mo man realized so clearly as he that
revolution is delayed evolution. No
man ever lived that so clearly saw that
human life is never so strong as when
4 it is in conformation with the Divine.
/ He saw that the chariots of God were
going, going somewhere. Statesman
/ ship is the seeing of the chariots of God
going somewhere and the placing in
them Of commerce, art, science and all
these treasures which men hold dear.
He Anticipated the coming of the
chariots. Craftsmanship is a divine
affair. It is the discovery of Gods di-
/ vine will. Florence failed to understand
1 Savonarola. The American nation must
/ understand Roosevelt.
! 'SaVOnarOla was an aristocrat An
aristocrat by birth and training. Aris-
/ tOcracy is sometimes devil and some
/ times an angel Sometimes it crawhs
1 on all tours and then again it walks
/ erect. Sometimes we think it reverts
4 back at the present time to the primal
4 aristocracy. Primal aFistocracy was
/ the aristrOcracy of brute force; of bone
( of muscle, of body. We have a thought
sometimes that we are reverting back
1 to that at the present day, especially
so around about Thanksgiving day
when our football teams, growing more
hair on the outside of their heads than
thoughts on the inside, struggle on the
/ gridirOn.
Next to the aristocracy of the brute
is the aristocracy of caste. Above the
caste is the aristocracy of cant We
are getting some of this in Chicago
now. It's an aristOcracy in our part
/ of the country which has a coat OF
arms and its father no coat at all
SavonarOIa chose the aristocracy of in
tellect, of character and goodness. The
/ greatest in all the world"
The audience numbered something
over 1000, and thoroughly enjoyed the
talented exposition Of the Italian re-
! former.
The last number of the lecture course
/ given under the auspices of the United
i Brethren conference will be this even
ing at the Auditorium The Smith sis
tiers of Toledo, Iowa, have been en-
/ gagged to give an evening devoted to
| Eta Smith are talented musicians high
" trained while Miss Mabel Smith
/ reader is an ACCOMPLISHED artistic in her