Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-08-04

The Commonwealth quartatte, an
aggregation composed of four young
men who have been known for some
time as professional sonssters, gave
a musical entertainment Wednesday
afternoon and evening. Adrian NJ.
Newens delivered his famous lecture
on A Message from Mars
People will remember Dir. George
R. Stuart, formerly pastor of the
First Methodist Episcopal church.
South, at Chattanooga, Tennessee
who held his audience of twenty hun
drcd people in close attention for
ninety minutes Wednesday evening
His almost drastic sentences produc-
ed hlarity and serious meditation.
commonly adapted by platform speak.
ars. His nature is a tender one, and
the visions portrayed of his home
life, his wife. whom he wed as an
awkward, uncouth and poor Southern
young man. gave his audience to un-
derstand that his words were chos en-
from experience, and his homely phil
osophy was genuine and real.
His epigrams and wit Travelled with
incalcuable rapidity from sarcasm
and ridicule of exaggerated customs
now prevailing among the Weather
class of our country to the most pure
poecy and eloquent praise of the
true and harmonious. DR.. Stuart did
not take for his subject the physi-
cal deformity but the moral lop-sided-
ness and mental CREATIONS of the hui
man family. His religious nature is
highly developed. His personal idea
divides people into a trinity of trim
tiles, namely: those who think, laugh
and weep; business, social and relig-
ious and physical, mental and senti-
mental. The preacher-lecturer likes
man who thinks, but thinking, as Il
single characteristic becomes bore.
some and as colt os !. dogs nose. A
man who does cothing but laugh is
only a gisgling fool, and in combining
his life to weeping, he is fit only for
a graveyard.
His review of the second trinity
was highly amusing and expressive
of keen humor and sarcastic reflec-
ton. The farmer, business man or
specialist who spends his life in go.
ing down to the barn and back to
the house,; down to the office and
back to the home; down to the
store and back to the home, were
portrayed in such Il precision OF
thought. accompanied by expressive
oscillations, that most uninterested
person in the crowd caught the lee
turers inference and reflected upon
his own ways and doings.
On the other hand, the dude and due
inc were made as ridiculous as langu.
age permits. and the religious cranks
who "stand upon the sure foundation
of piousness" are apt to be classed
as debtors and owing shopkeeper
for the shoes which clothe their feet
God has given us bodies, heads and
hearts, said Or. Stuart Each needs
separate development. The man with
a perfect physical strength and void
of the finer qualities is nothing but
a brute; the educated hermit is re-
pulsive, while the sentimental idiot
is a useless and unwelcome produc-
ton. The Tennessan constructed
into Il versatility of stories fine eX-
amples of each of three natures. In
to his tapestry of thought were WOW
en- threads of impersonal and person
al love affairs. The recitation of his
own courtship was wholesome and
couched in beautiful rhetoric which
would do credit to the greatest of
orators. His keen imagination, artis-
tic fire and finer perceptions of what
a revival of old-fashioned wooing
would mean to the younger genera
ton of the Twentieth century we're
clearly defined.