| Show AT THE ACADEMY his lecture oratory and prophecy the usual large attendance at the regular fridae lecture at the B Y academy before the cal society was last evening by many ri tizana oat for the first time to the meeting of the society they will be regular attendants hereafter the number on the program was a eing piano selection by B F hodann lie waa heartily ee cored then E S hinckley presiding arose and aunon nied that prominent in the history of a country are its heroes and beabou of poetry one of these he was pleased to be able to in trounce foremost poet and historians his 0 F whitney j the lecturer advanced amid i and in a most prettily worded anil delivered ad dreta on thadea not thought upon much by the ordinary ordin arr person enter 1 bained and instructed his larne audience lor an houi and a half oratory poesy and prophecy ho said are turee gaid ilia the poet or think or within the man that makes the the orator speaks it the two may be combined in one person aa the reader who beet comprehends a book and can best give oat the thoughts and ideas of the author is next to the author so is abe poet or prophet who is aifred to ie ceide and give oat gods truths to mac kind nearest to god the speaker dearly defined abe dit brenco poesy and the art 0 verge making although rhyme and rhythm ia the medium most used by poets to ras yet the had seen the beat and poetry in prose in blacik verse in essays and even in hurriedly written newspaper artillea art islea every man is a poet and every pure true and noble thought is poetry every writer therefore and speaker ayery creature la last should be careful to atter only the truth for abe power of abo and abe gift to express it are god given attributes that should not be dafid weara born poet ewe make ourselves orators the orator will be full of burning intent more upon bis matter than upon his manner and aft will approach nearest to perfection who seeks simplicity and humble perfection as the orator who dellver ad tha on the mount was simple and the essence of poesy is in the t rather than in abe rhythm herbt ii only an art not poetry poetry is monical thought in all and in all creation there is egweet pore music the poet is be who bears and appreciates that music poetry is prophetic the difference between orators poets and prophets are differences of degree only oratory poesy and prophecy are god given graces and should be religiously cultivated guarded aud protected the eleasar carried bis audience in charmine earnest language on 10 dealza aud to know that through these gifts god communicates with his children bare below it A as a magnificent ad dress and during ais deliverance and for hours afterwards in thinking of it those who heard it were lifted high and away from the grovel iLK so common for us to encounter beso in both the thought and the action of every day life there were and climaxes of startling in the speech that spontaneous hearty though refined too sacred to be denied with unreasonable clapping of bands or other rude demonstrated the haa to be heard to be appreciated and realized professor lund in a vocal selection and encore closed the even inKa intellectually beneficial entertainment |
