| Show VIEWS OP of AN octogenarian an A wealthy brooklyn anro 0 clyla man mac who ith allm some dec de c med oprial kil mr james bell wordin accord i anz to a writer ter in a new york paper is i ono one of brook lyns most remarkable citizens reni ark able by reft reason sOll of ills his erudition ami in knour knowledge ledge on almost evory every subject under the sun by ids his wealth weal th which is to re potted to be fabulously great and by his youthful interest in current afra affairs irs althou although gli liui his years number nearly 3 he owns a handsome resilience residence or gands tract orect but hits hiis devoted devo teil many yours to travel and ami re as a result liis his lioubov is if filled with rai 0 paintings and bronzes can nets of jewels i wonderful organ built billt into iho drawing rovin roum and a librara i 4 f bausic and bools which is estimated a being worth over to read of mr cell bell s possession boll makes bebin like a character in fic tion so varied tire tho the abich ho be lias has 41 v dining his f lifetime li elinie he filpot not only is the owner 4 of a church although lie he does not believe in it but lie he also A owns an all island 1 cells bells ailand winch which is si situated twenty five miles milca below sew new jia ila ven anil and theio his summer honio JAMES BELL the owl 8 nest is lo 10 atell ile he haf also founded foun deol a town delleville belleville near detroit mr IT cell bell has always been po jessed of apparently wealth and lio lie lias has Che therefore hall had plenty of leisure time to devote to his favorito pi pastime study and research into initta r both ancient ind and modern ilis views on inai nago are very pronounced an article of his reading from analogy I 1 10 lo do not cot gee BOO why madriago marri mar riago aso should be ae exempt from the vici which attend busink ab affairs or that tile failures fui lures iu in it blound far outnumber the sue cesse but abis fact is by no ineada a disbar Lit ement of marriage just im as ral lures in ili busi business nets are no golass ili general in ia bu baines biM ines De are to liali calculations or too sanguine views too loo much credulity or la in human nature for precisely the same naico marriage marr lago Is in liali tonce cli moio likely lo 10 be a failure sir mr bell lias has no love for john calvin and his doctrines and aal lias has declared declare his hostility bostil iky in ill print but lie ho also asserts that 1 I have never in ny my life written a word against religion indeed I 1 ata am the last person in the voiad to do 10 so I 1 merely venture to speak my objections to the confounding of religion on anat with I 1 i mere i ignorant borant beliefs alie antiquity of thesa does not in my eyes confer any merit upon them I 1 reject with a i feeling ol 01 perfect security religious beliefs as well as ancient astronomical beliefs why should I 1 accept the mosaic astronomy or the ptolemaic system I 1 respect both six thousand years from their period the principle of was discovered progress lias has been made mada in 1 omy am ain I 1 to force myself to believe that progress canno cannot be made inada in religious ideas surely nr t I 1 ignorance norance may lie be the mother of devotion but bat devotion is not religion otherwise the say sav ap s african humbling himself before his fetich of colored rags is as pious and religious as any of the saints of the tha calendar the L bas le ic ligion of ci creeds beds anil and professions of faith in my view leads in directions that eventually undermine religion charity is lost sight of bigotry fanaticism and merciless cruelty take its place instead of religion behold hypocrisy arid and the of contending factions eager to gain adherents one of the old gent lemans great fad i is is music and his collection of compositions of each bach beethoven Beetho vrn mozart schubert and other celebrities v i large the catalogue of it is in six volumes folio of COO 00 pages each there i is music of all nations of all times ancient and modern there are over 1200 pieces ot of irish music at least CUO of Sc huberts and so on in spite of sir mr bells pronounced views on many subjects he bo is a delightful entertainer and witty an afternoon passed in liis his library is like a visit to some condei ful world of books and his residence is is a mine of art treasures and vaI valuable curios from ill all parts of the world |
