Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-01-31

NOTED CHICAGO CLERGYMAN De.
LlvERS FINE ADDRESS AT HIGH
5cHooL, ON ENGLANDs GREAT:
EST STATESMAN.

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While II was not an overly large au-
dience-due to many counter attrac-
tions--that heard DR.. Frank GunEau-
lus deliver his famous lecture upon "A
Study Of the Life OF Gladstone, it was
highly appreciative one; each man
and woman of whom will always cher
ish the occasion when they were af-
forded an opportunity of sitting thru
such an elegant discourse with the
noted Chicago divine as tho speaker,
at the high school last night.
His memory, rich with fund Of inti-
mate knowledge of Britain's greatest
statesman, vocabulary and phrasing
ability that knew no bounds, manner
isms OF the finished public speaker
and magnetic personality that az
tracted people to him. DR.. Gunsaulus
literally held the audience in the palm
Of his hand, as they listened to his
word pictures of Gladstone and the
life that made his existence upon this
mortal plain so spectacular and his
torical.
That Gladstone was among the fore
most OF men was the firm belief of Or.
Gunsaulus. He said he was the great.
est statesman of the nineteenth cen
tury During his address the speaker
said in part:
There are four portraits which any
student of Gladstone must see and
study and interpret before you know
Gladstone.
First, Landing at Liverpool, in the
Walker Art Gallery. This portrait is
in marble. 1t is white and cold, and
Is Of o young man OF four and twenty,
whose portrait 1t is. Gold as crystal
white 1t is, the very embodiment Of el-
oquence. The very toe Of his boot
seems to be eloquent The artist has
brought out every detail Of his char
actcr which was brought out in his
youth and continued down into his
old age.
When | saw Gladstone he was
more than so. and to me seemed the
most fascinating and imperial |. OF old
r;en. As one stands looking 1T tht
portrait one realizes that this is the
embryo Gladstone, the real Gladstone
Is to come. This is the promise o!
what is to come.
The word overcome means cons
over, and the greatest and loftiest
thing that man has to overcome is
lis own personality Those OF us
who have studied history of statesmen
tftentimes have failed to see that the
history was the history of Statesman.
ship. Gladstone had much to nver-
come before he could rise to the saga-
citv and self-control noticeable in his
later life, and which made VIM. Glad
.ione the unsurpassed statesman IF
the Nineteenth Century You and |
have to overcome our ignorance, our
own personalities, just as Gladstone
cIerCame his, He passed thru Ok
ford the most brilliant Of scholars, the
most triumphant, was wonderful stu
dent of French.
Il speak to those Of you who have
the temptations of scholarship the
temptations that come to young man
or woman of this type. are those ap-
Iealing TO his power, his ability We
see Christ coming up out of the water
and his Fathers voice saying, Thou
ar, my beloved son, in whom ! am
well pleased. When the soul Is salts
fed well pleased, there is the Satanic
force driving into the wilderness
tlese forces come to the man Of pow
/ er Satan never tempts on the side
OF weakness. He always says, thou
Canst II thou wilt He always pays a
/ tribute to the young mans power
I Thou cans't make these stones bread
/ look like loaves. A temptation tt
build the Kingdom on something ma
torial Satan tells the truth, Christ
could have made bread out of the
stones. tell the truth as he does some
times, but the Son OF God knows thai
lis Kingdom is built on something
more lasting. more divine than ma
terial things. and he turns on Satar
and says Man shall not live by breat
alone Every great man is tempted
by his power, and may be ruined by
his power,
"Thp history Of orators ia not tn,