The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-08-30

The largest audience that has as
sambled at the Richmond Chautauqua
this year listened to a wonderful adj
dress yesterday afternoon by DR..
Frank Gunsaulus, of Chicago, who
chose for his subject, Gladstone. Z"
Few men, perhaps, at least few Ameri-
cans. are SO intimately acquainted
with the character of the great Eng
Frank Gunsaulus. To him Gladstone
has been a source of inspiration. He
knew him in his declining years, he
was so fortunate as to hear him speak
on questions of great moment in the
English Parliament, and he has made
his life study. The elements of
Gladstones grfeat character; the
things that made him infinitely great
er than contemporaneous statesmen of
his own and every other nation, were
brought clearly before Dr. Gunsaulus
hearers, while his wanderful gift of
eloquence fairly fascinated and serv-
ed to carry his audience into the very
presence of the English statesman.
Elements of Character.
DR.. Gunsaulus, in beginning his adj
dress, indicated how utterly impossi-
BILE it was to attempt in the brief time
allotted speaker to review, how
ever briefly, the career and the char
acter of man who achieved great
ness as an orator. pubhcist, thologi-
an, scholar, reformer, statesman, pa
friO ChriS
bined. the speaker said, all the great
elements of mind and character of a
half dozen great men of his time.
In Liverpool" said Dr. Gunsaulus.
there stands statute of the great
English statesman that depicts the
Gladstone of youth. AS you come in
to the presence of this bronze being
you see face of radiant beauty.
though one of grave seriousness that
is entirely responsive to the soul that
wakes within. Every line in that
fine face denotes eloquence and rare
distinction in character. There is
courageous manlineSs in the entire per-
sonality. Study this statue well for
it is the Gladstone of his younger
years. That Gladstone, who like
Theodore Roosevelt, the man to whom
this nation turns its face with hope,
was not afraid to be inconsistent, the
Gladstone who was not afraid of mis-
takes. Gladstone was often incon-
slstent, and our own Roosevelt often
refreshes us with mistakes These
are the types of men who shock the
conservatives. Gladstone began as
Tory, but who is here who knows
the long and circuitous voyage that
he took to land safely in another port?
The greatest difficulty of mankind is
to overcome self, and when that self
is luxuriously provided with genius.
the difficulty becomes the harder to
overcome. Gladstone was gifted as
lew men have ever been gifted as an
orator. His audiences were under
the influence of wonderful. subtle
creative power. But the history of
craftsmanship is not the history of
oratory. Yet You say, if man be
a great GATOR is not his battle to reach
craftsmanship half won? Noi II
tell you that battle is half lost and
TO achieve the one he must forego the
other. The quality of the orators
mind is the prepossession of intelli-
genee swept by emotions, which carry
him To lofty flights and oftimes with
out the realm of fact-a quality that is
not dominant in the true statesman.
Great Power Was Perilous.
ITO Gladstone. his power as an ora
tor was positively perilous TO his fu-
ture greatness. He, with the abund
ant black hair, with eyes that gave
forth excessive light. with a voice that
was both strong and musical, with a
superlative presence that was magnffi-
cent, with body which from head to