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Show i EMERSON A! HIS FRIENDS THE THEME Dr. I tier's Lecture on the Work of a (iii'led Preacher and Writer. Unity hall held another sood-slied audlenco lust venlns, when Rev rtavlri t'ttor of Denver gave B lecture on 'Emerson and Ills PrlSndS." It uh a KhOlSrly lecture nnd one filled With appreciation of ths clftsd preacher and writer Of a generation ngo. l)r. Otter began his hcture hy an allusion to Sli Mutlhew Arnold s l-lt to this country the -.ear nltir Knu-rs-ili's .leuth. In 1M: when he ssid that Emerson was no philosopher, that he was not a great poet, that he wns not B great mitef, but was (he Mshd of those who would live In the spirit Reveled in Philosophy. "Emerson." wild Dr. t'tler. "reee.i in nil philosophy, hut re-Id to none strongly; was In-capalile In-capalile of exin-iunillnK nny . learlv Rut I who say this hold It such freak dn.unatlon that It amounts to praise. To be helpful to men It ems Just as well to hiri hack and fortb bS tween tphitual and material conceptions of things, and to convey practical wisdom In epigrams epi-grams that stlns like rlih -halls where they strike and sererate like seMs where they fall. Whnt Emerson Did. "This was what Emerson did and Arnold's happy final .stlmnte of him as a friend and helper of those who would lle in the spirit makes him to me more truly great than to have enthroned htm beside Plato, the god-InttiXicatSd god-InttiXicatSd Splnnzn 01 the SUbllRWly self-centered Goethe. 'Emereon was of such gentle spirit and calm demeanor that they who deplored his radleall-n vet loved him as a man and were charmed by his utterances even whore they feared th-Ir Influence on somebody olse. It Is strange how often we fear the effect on somebody some-body else of that which feeds our own soule with the bread of life. Always a Preacher. "George William Curtis sold of him: "He was an Iconcclist. Indeed, but without n hammer, who took from the'r niches In the churches the stntues of the gods so gently Hi i' li . I ir .1. : f woi -hip ' Always a preacher, he preached with Tnoet effect to the preachi rs. the younger half of them, and at last through them to the people of all this land, though In his modesty he never knew It. "When Dean Swift went back to England after visiting this country he Is reported to have said that In all the discourse ho heard In Amrlcs. whatever the subject and whoever who-ever th" preacher, the sermon ws by Ralph Waldo Emerson Emerson Will Live "That Kmcrson will live- end be helpful through another eentur. I have no doubt His teaching Is poeltlve. healthful optimistic It weokens no one. dls.-.-.urag. no one It uplifts up-lifts an 1 makes glad. Emerson stands among the pr.iphcts and aecrs of the world, not among the pt1est!i and a ImlniMrntors of those things ertabllshed Emerson was n SOWSf who went forth In the sunlight with a hupp - ni 1 1 . not like Millet's Sower.' under clouds of gloom, and where lie went the smite eleo gTew. SS well as the seeds that he scattered. Hall nnd farewell! Serene and Vautlf'tl Dead and gone for twenty years, as men Idlv Say. but walking the earth even yet In the cool of the day and In the sunlit heights " Informal Reception. After the lecture, which wea ver gieatly enjoyed by the large audience, an Informal recaptlOS sru held In the church parlors, when the old friend of Dr. L'tter were given nn opportunity of apending social hour with him Many who were members :nd workers In the church In the days when he was Its psator were there, and the hour or two were delightfully passed Dr. Utter eses this morning for Denver oxer the Denver A Rio Grand He had been Invited to return here early in December for a brief stay, when It wna hoped he would b aide to preach agsln at t'nlty church, hut he Mnda thai it will be Impossible fnr him to sccept the Invite t ion |