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Bellefonte, Pa., February 18, 1927.
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INPRESSIONS OF PARLIAMENT.
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He was a phenomenal power in elicit-
ing and organizing the charity of his
congregation. Though composed of
comparatively poor people, with per-
haps not a rich man among them, un-
der his inspiring guidance they not
only sustained the expenses and inci-
dental charities of his vast church
but supported, by themselves, a hos-
pital and a Lay College that sent out
as many as seventy missionaries a
year.
From the Tabernacle in the morn-
ing we went to the City Temple
‘Church at night to hear the man who
was the Henry Ward Beecher of
London. There are two good things
in this world—a good speech and a
good painting. It is difficult to say
which is the better of two. In many
respects they are similar. A true
painting is no servile copy of exter-
nal nature but a sketch of the painters
own ideas. So with a true speech.
The orator, just as the painter, must
accomplish the embodiment of original
conceptions. He must bring out inner
thoughts in bold relief and beautiful
harmony. To do this he uses words
as the painter uses oils. In fine, he
must be an adept at word painting.
We have dwelt upon this analogy only
to emphasize the fact that the strong-
est impression made upon our mind
by the celebrated Non-conformist
preacher, Rev. Joseph Parker, was his
remarkable power of word painting.
And yet the City Temple Church with
many adverse surroundings, located
in the heart of the business district
.of London, could not be filled at every
service, Thursday noon and twice of
a Sunday by the attractions of a mere
word painter. Men do not go into the
wilderness to see a reed shaken by the
wind however unique it may be. They
follow the teachers of Christianity
Tow as they did the first great Teach-
.er—for the miracle of the bread. And
yet the manner in which a minister of
the Gospel uses his great instrument
is a matter of just and great moment.
Every sermon Jesus delivered is dis-
covered to be a prose poem, rhythmi-
cally embellished with natural pictures
vivid as any that were ever flashed
upon the screen. This element of
power the Temple preacher possessed
in a marked degree. His artistical
skill was very great in combining
words to produce the precise effect.
And this also—the use of light and
shade, a la Rembrandt—was very
perceptible in this preacher’s oratory.
Contrast abounded in the discourse
and one idea was so set over against
another so that both stood forth in
vivid, almost painful distinctness.
‘One part lies in deep, dark gloom
while the other gleams and glistens
in the glad, gay light. Thus the pic-
ture of completed thought stood out
before you with a distinctness that
admitted of no mistake and with a
vividness that consented to no forget-
fullness.
But Mr. Parker’s highest excellence
consisted not in artistical skill, in the
handling of his tools in an accom-
plished way of doing his work. It was
-skill used to some purpose—and that
purpose the, most important in this
world—the impression of truth. And
it was the whole truth for which he
wrought, the truth in its entirety, not
garbled parts of it, not one-sided
views of it, but the truth so far as
possible in comprehensive and har-
monious whole. He was without
doubt, the most accumenical preacher
of the English world in his genera-
tion, apparently engrossed in the
grand work of not only making men
truer but making them broader and
more wholesome thinkers. Sectional
issues and petty organization received
little attention and defense at his
hands. Life is too short, the issues
too tremendous to admit of spending
it in unproductive efforts. Sin and
error are too firmly intrenched, too
strongly armed, too determined in
battle to allow of petty skirmishing
at the outposts. It is not a time for
.dallying when the pitched battle is on
and there is no other battle cry but
“Victory or Death.” Such a concep-
tion gives earnestness without which
no man can powerfully impress his
fellows.
Besides this large hearted. earnest-
ness there was a pointedness about
his pulpit performances which declar-
ed him not only to be fighting, but
fighting something. He took aim ‘be-
fore he fired and rarely failed in “hit-
ting the bulls-eye.” No shooting in
the air by him or firing like the com-
mon soldier at random at the word of
command but like the Kentucky rifle-
men of the Revolution, he picked out
some epauletted officer among the er-
rors of the day and laid him prostrate
before his steady aim and fatal fire.
In illustration of this the theme of the
preacher, on the day of our visit to
Temple Church was, “Ingersoll An-
swered.” In a unique and masterly
introduction the preacher contested
the qualifications of such a man as
Robert Ingersoll to answer the chiefest
questions of a thousand years. The
spirit which approaches so solemn a
question could not properly be one of
such humor as to provoke in the audi-
ence “laughter,” “loud laughter,”
“roars of laughter” and the like.
“Great questions should be considered
in a spirit worthy of their gravity.
Clowns and mockers are never con-
sulted on grand occasions. And so
for myself I must positively decline
the aid of any man who answers the
gravest questions of my heart with
jibes and sneers, with puns and quirks
and seeks to turn my agony into a hy-
pocrisy and my sin into an occasion
for the display of his own powers of
ridicule.” It is quite imposible at this
date to give from memory any ade-
quate idea of the incisiveness, the
point and power of the preacher’s an-
swer to the irreverence of Ingersoll.
PARLIAMENT.
It is seldom the case that Parlia-
ment sits so late as the August of our
visit but the prolonged session of
1881 furnished an unusual opportun-
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ity for the visitor to witness the de-
bates. Respecting the architecture of
the English House of Parliament,
there is little originality and an excess
of ornamentation. The lofty Gothic
walls, the formidable towers, the vast-
ness of the proportions, the sombre
color, deepened by volumes of smoke
from the manufactories, the gilded
angles of the huge cupolas lighted up
by the rays of a deeply veiled sun, all
this would leave on the mind a strong-
er impression were the building to
erown a hill as our Capitol at Wash-
ington instead of standing as it does
on the low ground of the Thames em-
bankment and suffering by contrast
with the finished glory of Westmins-
ter Abbey and the massive grandeur
of the Foreign Office on Pall Mall
And yet, above the impression of
every other building in London is the
undefinable grandeur of the Parlia-
ment House—the grandeur of the sov-
ereignty it represents which has been
so great by the consent of ages. What
one admires most is not what meets
the eye, but all that is thought and
done under those vaulted roofs, the
extent of English liberty, the prog-
ress which nothing interrupts, the
prestige of a race that has known how
to protect its rights from the uni-
versal serfdom into which all others
fell in the 16th century when absolute
despotism prevailed.
It was with special pleasure that
we entered the House of Commons
under the Premiership of Gladstone.
On a former visit, Disraeli was in
power. He drew men in his train by
the force of his remarkable genius.
His policy was dramatic, full of polit-
ical coup de etat which dazzled and
oft alarmed the English mind. An
“Adventurer” he was called at home
and truly his schemes were. very fear-
some. Not long could he have bullied
Europe and meddled everywhere with-
out involving England in war. Glad-
stone was a slower but safer man,
seeking ends by scrupulous and sur
rather than by revolutionary means.
More than any statesman in English
history, he represented the power, not
of trickery but of Conscience in poli-
ics. To arrive at ends no matter
what the means was Disraeli. To
arrive at good by means of good,
to rule human nature by ideas
rather than compulsion, to govern a
people as conscience governs an indi-
vidual, awakening in them by the
voice of duty, a nobler political mor-
ality, never to sully a great cause by
a crime not even for the palpable wel-
fare of the country—this I take it
was Gladstone and the only saving
principle of politics in any land.
The Land Bill for Ireland was pass-
ing its final reading during our visit.
It was easy to perceive as one of the
first impressions, talk is at a discount
in the great debates for such a stum-
bling, stuttering, hemming, hawing
lot of speakers ithas ever been my
lot to listen to. English parliament-
arians speak slowly and conduct their
arguments with many a painful pause
that would be scouted by American
auditors. Glibness is of much less
worth to a member of Parliament than
capacity for work. Oratory as we
idealize it is unknown among the
King’s benches. Even John Bright,
the greatest of English speakers; talk-
ed in slow and measured phrases un-
til he arrived at his peroration which
was written and pronounced with
some spirit. Gladstone was a mechan-
ical talker dependent for his impres-
sion upon his thought rather than pas-
sion. He would not have been regard-
ed as an eloquent but a very able man
in America. His genius consisted in
a collossal ability for work. The
Land Bill for Ireland was a master-
piece of constructive ability covering
the whole field of the rural and social
economy of Ireland in comprehensive-
ness and minute adaptation of means
to end turmoil and displaying qualities
seldom combined in cne intelligence.
It was a stupendous, almost super-
human effort to cure the woes of Ire-
land. Obstructions and difficulties re-
sisted its passage until even the Pre
mier’s opponents acknowledged its
passage to be the greatest feat of a
long and illustrious career. Months of
uninterrupted sittings were occupied.
The campaign through Scotland, clos-
ing with the Lord Rector’s address to
Glasgow University, was deemed a
physical and intellectual exhibition be-
yond parallel. But the endurance of
Gladstone through that Parliamentary
session, his address and patience, his
flexibility and firmness, his unsleep-
ing vigilance wnd his unfailing re-
sources of logic and rhetoric constitut-
ed a wonderful example of powers
ripened to their completeness and per-
fect use. “Grew old with me” says
one of Mr. Browning’s heroes, “the
best is yet to be the last of life which
the first was made.” Fit expression
of the life discipline which fitted the
noblest statesman of English history
for the great achievement which the
Parliamentary session of 1881 chron-
icled.
Before departing from London, I
joined the promenaders of a late after-
noon along Rotten Row. Often on like
occasions had I seen Princess Alex-
andra alone in the back seat of an
open barouche, shaded with a gay
parasol held with a long gauntleded
hand and two or three of her children
fronting her upon the forward seat.
Rarely was the Prince of Wales, after-
wards Edward VI seated by her side.
She was fairly tall, refined and beau-
tiful of face with the light Scandina-
vian complexion and with perhaps a
too elongated neck which was always
encircled with a narrow black silk or
velvet band clasped with a single
jewel. Upon this occasion returning
from a constitutional, I paused oppo-
site St. James Palace arrested by the
manifest stir among the double file
of soldiers, ordered to “Attention” as
they guarded the entrance. The
great gates were swung open and the
State Carriage with Prince Edward
and Princess Alexandra, the King and
Queen of the Hellini with their chil-
dren, swept in preceded by postillions
and drawn by four splendidly capari-
soned horses. Little did I think,
standing opposite, that I, a plebean
American had at that time in my
home across the sea a daughter, Cath-
erine, who would later be welcomed
as a guest in the palace of their Ma-
jesties of Greece, be a preferred mem-
ber of the Queen’s dancing set and
that one of those lads would be a re-
jected suiter for her hand. It is a
pleasure to add that though she might
have been a Grecian of no mean de-
gree she preferred to remain an Amer-
ican and chose for her partner a fine
upstanding Naval officer. Gentle read-
er, pardon the gratification of the
writer over his narrow escape from
the dubious honor of being the fath-
er-in-law of a King!
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A Literary Curiosity.
The following remarkable compila-
tion is by Mrs. H. C. Dunning. Each
line is a quotation from some stand-
ard author and represents the resuit
of years of laborious search among the
voluminous writings of thirty-eight
poets.
1. Why all this toil for triumphs cf
an hour?
92. Life’s a short summer, man’s a
flower.
2. By turns we catch the vital breath
and die—
4. The cradle
nigh!
5. To be is better far than not to be.
6. Though all men’s lives may seem
a tragedy.
7. But light cares
mighly griefs are dumb,
8. The bottom is but shallow whence
they come.
9. Your fate is but the common fate
of all;
10. Unmingled joys to no man here
befall.
11. Nature to each allots its proper
sphere.
12. Fortune makes folly her particu-
lar care.
13. Custom does not often reason
overrule.
14. And throw a cruel sunshine on a
fool.
15. Live well; how long or short,
permit to heaven;
16. They who forgive most shall be
most forgiven.
17. Sin may be clasped so close we
cannot see its face—
18. Vile intercourse,
has no place.
19. Then keep each passion down
however dear.
20. Thou pendulum betwixt a smile
and tear. ’
21. Her sensual snares led faithless
pleasures lay,
22. With craft and skill to ruin and
betray. ;
23. Soar not too high to fall, but
stoop to rise—
24. We masters grow of all that we
despise.
25. Oh, then, renounce the impious
self-esteem!
26. Riches have wings and grandeur
is a dream.
27. Think not ambition wise because
’tis brave;
28. The paths of glory lead but to
the grave.
29. What is ambition? ’Tis a glori-
ous cheat—
30. Only destructive to the brave
and the great.
31. What’s all this guady glitter of
a crown?
32. The way of bliss lies not on beds
of down.
33. How long we live, not years but
actions tell—
and the tomb, alas! so
speak when
where virtue
34. That man lives twice who lives |
his first life well.
35. Make, then, while yet you may,
your God your friend,
36. Whom Christians worship, yet
not comprehend. |
37. The trust that’s given, guard, |
and to yourself be just, |
38. For live we how we can, yet die .
we must. |
The lines are contributions from:
(1) Young, (2) Dr Johnson, (3) Pope,
(4) Prior, (5) Sewell, (6) Spencer,
(7) Daniel, (8) Sir Walter Scott, (9)
Longfellow, (10) Southwell, (11) Con-
greve, (12) Churchill, (13) Rochester,
(14) Armstrong, (15) Milton, (16)
Bailey, (17) Trench, (18) Somerville,
(19) Thompson, (20) Byron, (21)
Smollet, (22) Crabbe, (23) Massinger,
(24) Cowper, (25) Beattle, (26) Cow-
per, (27) Sir Walter Deverant, (23)
Gray, (29) Willis, (30) Addison, (31)
Dryden, (32) Francis Charles, (33)
Watkins, (34) Herrick, (35) Wm. Ma-
son, (36) Hill,
Shakespeare.
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