The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-16
.DR. JONES LECTURES ON GEN. R. [. LEE
Large Audience Pays Rapt AttentiOn-Many Vet
 erans Present

l Dr. Jenkin Lloyd Jones lecture en- titled Robert E. Lee, the Man Who Conquered Defeat" delivered at Tenn
 pie Emann-E1 yesterday afternoon. was
 listened 70 with rapt attention by q | large and representative audience. in cluding q number of prominent Con- | federate veterans
 The lecture was preceded by a short organ recital by Mrs. William Gus
 sen. seated on the pulpit platform with
 the speaker of the occasion were Rabbi ! NJ Newfield, M. V. Joseph and Dr. ]. H. Phillips. Superintendent of pub- {, lie schoois. The rabbi in a few gra-
 cious remarks extended the hospitality
 of En1anu -El congregation to the peo-
 pie of Birmin gham and he wished it understood that the temple was to be
 not only a place of prayer, but house where everything making for moral, civic and social improvement would be
 in order.
 pr. New field presented pr Phillips, who made a happy little address and then in turn introduced Dr. Jones. | Those who had heard the distin guished preacher and lecturer in years
 gone by II ust have been agreeably sur prised to find him looking not a day older but if anything younger than when he Last appeared in Birmingham
 He was iE excellent form. with figure erect, voice strong and sympa thetic and mind fresh and vigorous, and, as ever. informed with the spirit of love. | pr. Jones is d master of English, and | his appreciation of Lee was clothed in phrases of surpassing eloquence. The | speaker, as a boy served three years n h!a1 ion md n.f fr.f
 of many hard fought battle. His DOT trayal of the great soldier was mas | terful in Us keen insight and it's deli cate. touches. Sketching Lee as the mill | itary hero and telling the story of his
 early Virginia environment, he de- | scribed him as a clean minded, large | hearted. and deeply religious man,
 measlrinlg up fully to St. Paul's idea | of a gentleman.
 pr. Jones told of Lees mental struggle when in 1861. declining the
 commandership of the union army he
 decided tc be loyal first of all to his beloved Virginia. But al great as Lee was a mil tary commander, Dr. Jones appraised him as a greater hero after AppomattoX. He was the man above all l others who conquered defeat. Four years Lee was. said Dr. Jones, the chief figure in the Confederate army but the last five years of his life he was the civilian educator and 1t was then hat he appeared far greater. Dr. Jones told of Lees far
 reaching work for good--work that meant building up the character of southern youth. In the course of his lecture Dr. Jones recited with moving effect, Father Ryan's poem, "The Con quered Banner" and "rhe sword of Robert Lee" He told a beautiful story of the young prisoner and his flute the boy who had fought under the Con federate flag. It was Sidney Lanier
 afterward the noted musician and the south's great poet.
 In closing his lecture pr. Jones drew lessons from tho life of Lee who was at heart man of peace, lover of nature an6 lover of his fellow man. | These lessons were along peace lines I--international peace. He said he was engaged in waging war on war He grew singularly impassioned in his
 protest against armed conflict between
 nations and against the costly arma-
 ments that the people were taxed tc maintain.
 Nearly everybody in the audience re-
 mained to shake hands with Dr. Jones
 and tell him how much they enjoyed | his lecture.